there is still plenty of subcaps around ratting in esoteria, just look at zkill. Of course you’ll now say they are all dying and not very smart people. But well, if you have actually logged in you would see that lots more of camps is ongoing which keeps most of the ganks out, or safe at least time to safe the miners/ratters. Also lots of baiting is ongoing.
All in all it seems that even ratting in subcaps is still worth it if you play together with other people, and most of the actions which are successful used don’t even need capitals at all.
yeap after the blunder of local chat, which was never fixed, then it was the ban blunder then its the blackout blunder. 2018 and 2019 have not been very nice to CCP
They are in roller coaster of terrible decision making.
Personally I have had a ■■■■ week in Eve. I live in Delve/Querious as a solo player. I randomly lost a ship to a rat incursion, no big deal really and in theory could’ve happened anytime, but has never happened to me in 14 years. 3 nights I went roaming for a fight and couldn’t even find anyone, literally hours of my life wasted while I wandered about Dscanning saying repeatedly “there’s lots of people playing where the ■■■■ is everybody?”
I only started pvping recently and part of me actually thought the blackout might be a good thing long term but it has killed pvp in my area. Usually each week, someone will bubble camp a gate near me at some point in the week. This increased to 3 bubble/gatecamps this week and none of them were up for long and I couldn’t get a fight, even in a ratty t1, as they kept running away. So the situation is that the blackout has encouraged some people to nervously try some pvp stuff that’s new to them, that’s good, but shouldn’t their corp be encouraging /training them in those activities anyway.
The only people I’ve seen this week are my neighbours that live in null and are part of large corps, all the randoms have disappeared. It’s been a very strange and frustrating week which I blame totally on the Blackout.
Well done CCP you’ve stopped any noobs from ever coming to null on their own on random trips and made solo pvp just that bit further out of reach for a lot of players .
And thanks CCP for that other “RMT” thing you just had on the other day. I got my self 5 of those packs so I can add 10 chars on my skill-farm for 3 months. Soon don’t even have to log in to get “iskies for my toonies”. So they say this is not a “pay to win game” right So much winning here
edit: I might log in with those chars to get that extra 650,000 skill points per char to grab. Thanks CCP!
edit2: oh I totally forgot that to get those “free” skils you don’t actually need to login into the game just into the menu, Thanks!
If you’ve been roaming Querious, that is part of the issue. Querious Fight Club is pretty dead. I’ve got a few sleepers in Querious and most of the locals remain docked.
I doubt I will stick around should it get permanent, definitely not if current balance issues it creates are not addressed. As it stands now, subcap pve has been eradicated, and caps are only usable if you spam them enough to deter under-bloc-tier supercap droppers, which my group can’t do, especially in the condition of no mining to replace losses.
You do understand that subcaps that got on zkill are no longer ratting in esoteria?
A very safe bet, isn’t it?
How does that help against covert nullified stuff again?
Baiting is not mining/ratting, it’s just sitting there staring at people staring at rocks, how long can you keep doing this before getting fatally bored? How many groups actually have manpower to do this in any significant capacity, when smaller groups required all hands mining to build a single cap per week?
No, not worth it. No amount of people would save you from a blops drop, unless the whole fleet is following you to each site, meaning you all get peanuts. The only exception is umbrella space, that can titanbridge defenders on top of anything semi-instantly, which Esoteria is.
Subcapitals in nullsec don’t get much more than subcapitals in hisec. Being able to use caps is the whole point of being in nullsec, and capital is not something replaced easily, meaning within current meta outside umbrella they can’t be used.
I don’t think so it has just been different I have been playing since 06 and have stopped and started a few times now. Each time has had its frustrations but I always found a rhythm and managed to have fun.
This is the first time I have ever been legitimately angry at the decision making and at the need of others to force there preferred way to play on everyone else just so they can wave their imaginary e-peen.
you will be suprised, but you can rat decently in a bait vni or similiar ship. Even the tick % doesn’t drop by a huge amount. In Groups you don’t even need all of them in pvp fits, just enough to hold the target down until the cavalry arrives.
It seems that not all people are as smart as you, and most systems have either not a covops cyno 24/7 active or at least not drop as soon as you start doing something there.
But i heard some weird people actually just countered these by own nullified covert ops as soon as they saw that there is someone active, and just killed them and got spacerich through the loot.
But thats definitely fakenews. Nobody ever in eve had the idea to actually do something else then docking up when hostiles come in their space. Only retards would do something which could justify the risk vs reward.
Yeah, i like how you checked zkill and analysed the kills. It is completly true that everytime some hunter in test died it was because they titanbridged a whole fleet on it.
True, another excellent analysis. The math shows clearly that a covetor in highsec makes the same money in null, if both mine veldspar.
