Yeah and then they caved in to the whiners.
EvE now has no future, it can’t because null needs fixing desperately but null will not allow it to be fixed.
Look you have your opinion and I have mine and mine is that EvE while still a good game is not one worth paying for.
If it does not it is maybe for the better. More often than not in the last months I have considered leaving as well but I stuck around because I have things to do, I have a nice, weird and somewhat active corp/loose group to play with. I work hard every day in EVE for more hours than it’s probably good for myself to achieve some things that I like to achieve, but CCP has been trying especially hard in the last few months to screw me out of my desires to play and pay.
At least it’s not like the 1%
Just sayin’
let the botting begin NOW. all kerbers log in. ■■■■ the pvp. right ccp?
Like a truly delayed local where people DO show up in the local pilot list but only after an amount of time tied to say… security rating or maybe system upgrades?
I was a fan of the Local Blackout, it made scouting in Nullsec roams really intense, hammering away on D scan and having to actually warp around the bigger systems to keep the fleet safe, rather than just glancing at Local and nopeing out of spikes.
I get why it made people feel insecure if they were mining or whatever, but frankly miners ought to fear people who are higher on the food chain, and not just have to keep one eye on Local whilst they tab out for hours on end.
Perhaps it’s just because I’m new to PvP, and local blackout is the only Nullsec I know.
And I do wonder, are they happy with what the data shows with regard to EVE’s population.
Who is whining now? 
More tears please - so delicious.
Someone needs to pay for CCPs expanses and thats obviously no you, despite your claims you’d keep the servers up by buying PLEX and selling them to NPCs for the rest of time. Forstnately CCP decided they still want an MMO instead of echo-chamber online and that means PVPers have to take risks if they want kills in well policed space.
Over the course of the blackout we’ve seen some substantial changes in player behavior and a massive impact on those we believe to be suspected of botting. The blackout has given us an incredible amount of data to review in terms of player behavior, sentiment and ability to adapt to rapid short notice changes.
pffft. Can you hear it? Can you hear the insult?
'Cause I can and it’s hilarious.
Problem with blackout was lack of balance. It was just switch turned off without any gameplay changes. With covert ops cloaks and cynos hunters were given not just advantage but pure domination and no way to counter it. They are immune to dscan (the only safety tool we had) and could come in big gangs unnoticed. GL farming in anything expensive (even fitted for pvp) if you get ganked by 30 Lokis who appear out of nowhere. It was bad because it gave no counter
Over the course of the blackout we’ve seen some substantial changes in player behavior and a massive impact on those we believe to be suspected of botting.
Just wow.
I’m not just sensing insult to actual players, I am sensing a lot of salt from Falcon because reality unmasked his dumb meme as total rubbish and now he is bitter because he can’t throw around “delete local” any longer without making a fool of himself.
You have as many counters as WH’ers… more since you had the ability to super blob.
The trick is to stop playing solo and realize you’re going to die… But since that was too hard CCP had to give you back your training wheels.
Shame, but even I’ll admit that it was perhaps too much to expect to see Null adapt to situations WH’ers have dealt with for years.
And WH is nearly empty so it’s pretty safe to do some activities there. Also what blob? For even Battleship u need just few Lokis and it will blow up before help comes. No cyno, no panic like Rorquals had and absolutely no intel which is the only tool subcaps have to survive anything coming for them.
Is pve boring? Yes. Is it promoting farming afk? Yes. Tackle those issues then. If u want free kills then wrong game btw. Hunting is trash isk dump anyway. EvE economy always lived off massive wars and CSM is just repeating itself with many good suggestions to make things more interesting.
where’s the apology, and the compensation for 66 days of lame play?
This is a big part of the problem these days. People can’t even imagine region defense that doesn’t rely on just sitting around waiting to respond to some ratter in distress. Any changes that hurt that style of garbage gameplay is dismissed because “how will I be able to save that Thanatos if I can’t teleport supercaps to him???”.
Part of that is people getting used to lazy mechanics like cynos. Part of it is the fact that space itself doesn’t mean ■■■■ anymore. It doesn’t matter if you’re 1 jump behind a choke point into your region or 30 jumps deep because BLOPs cynos and wormholes ignore the geography completely. Same with ansiblex gates and jump bridges. Choke points don’t mean anything, no gang can be properly intercepted, cornered or even tracked through space reliably.
At the Fanfest Berlin it was said that there was botting also during the blackout. Therefore a “Scout” is provided, who observes the gate traffic.
So true and fun thing is - I actually lose PvE ships even with local unlike 8 years ago. Back then we just had gatecamps in crucial systems and farming was perfect safe ( I was in Raiden then Intrepid Crossing). Never even seen red or neut in my local sys.
Now they roam my current home (Fountain) like rats and going afk is risky anyway but ofc unskilled hunters want free kills so they won’t stop bitching. When I go hunting then my gang provokes other alliance (hi Darkness) or we just go to lowsec. Around Tama there’s plenty of elite pvpers who actually shoot back
hrrrrrr…
just say that it was effecting your profits and say sorry
I am just a 3 months old pilot so I have no idea how much changes the game has gone through in the past 16 years and I can’t even begin to fathom the experience some of the oldest players have. Since I have been here, The Triglavian invasion and nullsec blackout have been the biggest changes. Now, while the loyalty of older players is important, I don’t think they would be willing to crack open their wallets to subscribe every month instead of just purchasing it with the virtual currency which they have in billions if not trillion(s).
Attracting new players is a viable source of income for CCP and we don’t just purchase Omega right away!! We stay and see if the game is worth our attention and time, too much of a risk factor will spoil the experience. You got to admit that most of us are not hardcore players who can stay online and mine all day long to make billions. If the game is enticing enough we will go for our first Omega and from the recruitment program we will also try to get our friend(s) to play the game and make them subscribe, that might get us through our second month even the third but we’ll have to again buy our Omega with real money for the fourth month and once every two or three months for atleast an year. Most of us will stay in the game and spend 100$ if we can make sure that we’ll be able to purchase our Omega without spending real money (most of the time) after an year of playing. Now enough of the real economics which I am not even sure works that way.
Nullsec exploration is a way that can make the above possible but the local blackout just makes it too easy for the gankers to target us and we’ll have to travel all the way from hi-sec to get ganked all over again. PvP should be challenging and those who adopt this style shouldn’t be whining that their target got away as soon as the latter saw the local. They are more like those miners they keep complaining about, sitting cloaked in a site to gank a helpless player.
Exploration, mining, PvE are all essential parts of the game. Without those you won’t get that Sabre to gank or that Avatar to fight wars. It can’t be all PvP, can it? And if you are so for PvP then work for it and get challenged by Orcas and Asteros, don’t just sit there cloaked and wait for your prey who has no idea that there is a predator!! Hunt if you like the thrill so much.
It might be my trauma of losing too many Asteros speaking but I think this evens the odds. And will attract new players and also those returning after a while.
One last question for our esteemed PvP players.
What do you think one should do while his/her industrial ship mines (BTW it is unhealthy to sit like a duck, staring at your PC screen for too long)? Go and gank explorers, I presume?