16 year vet here. All the people bitching about this, what I call a “paradigm shift”, is the same kind of person that gets laid off from their job and sits around their house for the next 3 years collecting welfare dollars complaining about how the company they worked for was a piece of ■■■■ - they fail to realize that they’re just a small piece of a large picture, and that they failed to realize a change was taking place and to adapt to those changes. In my eyes, people complaining about the comms blackout are just complaining about a change to their simple play style, and any change, WHATSOEVER, would get the same kind of response. I agree that the 0.0 power blocs have it easy and are making too much money. I applaud CCP’s efforts to shake things up and throw a few marbles onto the floor to see what happens. All the people that unsub, if any, are just opening up room for someone else to fill, so ■■■■ 'em if you ask me.
Now try to synchronize it between 34 corps over 4 alliances speaking 3 languages, then pretend it didn’t leak. Welcome to null, it’s not just one system with all exits collapsed, gimmicky ■■■■ doesn’t work here.
Hi’s not on the CSM anymore. His term ended when they announced the new CSM.
And if adaption meant you had to kiss someone’s reproduction organ or waste disposal orifice, would you be proud of doing it?
I’d rather quit.
Yeah, and it takes so much for cloaky-campers to notice that naming scheme and copy it, right?
And he instantly got kicked by goon pets. Not surprised.
Ok, apply past tense to my posts, except for the goon part: anything that behaves like a goon, joins goon pets the second he gets on elite RMT leaks club known as CSM, is a goon until proven otherwise.
Good I hope you’re right. Because the game for years and years has had the hardest time doing anything the encourages small groups to thrive as compared to large groups. If you’re correct, it will be the greatest change in Eve’s long history.
Its a fail from my point of view, I wont undock in anything remotely valuable while the blackout is on and may not log in at all.
You completely lost me there. This change kills the small groups with no chance of comeback, definitely not encouraging one.
Read my comment again more clearly. I’m talking about dscan for bots.
Intel bots do that now . Don’t need a player .
Does this blackout work for NPC null or just for sov?
And if you don’t bot, like, say… me?
This is probably the dumbest idea you have ever had. Unless you are trolling people who whine about local. Now they can whine about broken V keys and strained finger tendons?
I will likely play something else in protest of this.
What? The CSM was announced on the 22nd. Jin left Init on the 5th. ‘Instantly got kicked’? Did he even get kicked, or did he decide to go off on his own the way he did before joining Init?
And he was on the CSM for like a year and a half before he left CVA, then joined TEST, then left TEST, formed [STMOP], had his new alliance collapse, and joined Init.
Honestly, educate yourself before you go getting every aspect of your accusations wrong.
Alliances pay for the bots. I don’t need them myself, they are already set up.
Pretty much only people with cap umbrellas will make money from the ore at that point.
I suspect you are forgetting that when the ore becomes more expensive, so do the ships, which means your isk buys you less, not more. As soon as they introduced Plex, obtaining isk by other means had substantially less value. Let’s be realistic, a person can get way more isk by working for $ in the real world and buying plex in the same amount of time as they would by mining/refining/selling it. So the “our ISK becomes more valuable” premise died a long time ago. Your average person can buy more ISK with one day of real world work than most people could ever earn in a month of legit EVE time.
I am an industrialist primarily. I like to build things T3s, faction mods, you name it. the more difficult to make, the more I enjoy it. That’s what I play the game for, not the kills. I mine and build my own ships, so the cost is minimal. Anyone in this game for any length of time doing mining has a stockpile to build from, so the people who it will affect/hurt the most is newer players. They tend to be the hunted rather than the hunters, and it might be fun hot dropping on someone, but no miner likes a surprise battle. Not that new players spend a lot of time in Null, but it definitely discourages them from exploring it/living there.
So this might seem like a good idea, but you still need people to shoot at, and less players means less income. Less income means EVE ceases to be profitable enough to continue. Then there is no place to hunt. I’m just suggesting there are more perspectives to consider here than the PVP element which EVE is already significantly biased towards.
The other comments about cowardice are uncalled for. Not everyone plays EVE to hunt other players, and if there were only pure PVP players in this game, there would not be enough subs to justify them keeping it online. Most of the changes this year have favored PVP. IF it doesn’t start swinging back the other way, there won’t be much of a game left other than a handful of people saying “I won EVE Online” as the servers shut down forever.
This is just an opinion, but I have watched EVE over more than a decade. It is definitely circling the drain, and if you don’t want to lose all your hard work, you might want to stop making PVP easier and easier for groups that already have a serious power imbalance.
I guess we will see what happens, but I don’t see this experiment as a positive one, and the longer it carries on for, the more likely I think EVE will end.
And if you are a member of a proper alliance that does not tolerate botting, instead of ex-goon one that does?
huh? I make the point it’s easy to use dscan for intel and has been done for many years by wormhole groups. You argue it’s hard to organize that on a large scale. I point out that’s a good thing it’s hard to do for large groups and will allow small groups to thrive for a change. You than reverse and say it’s bad for small groups making no argument whatsoever? Follow the logic…
Players in large groups are much more likely to play and pay longer. Pure PVPers take long breaks. short breaks. The depend on beating others online for something they need to be happy. Its not a fault. Eve must cater to the group bringing in the most money. And that is not your beloved small groups.