In their heads lack of mineral supply from 0.0 because all the miners cant mine anymore will make prices rise.
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Try to close your eyes and continue your standard day to day routine. Only use your ears. What would you feel?
Now imagine that this stays forever and you will never see with your eyes. You have ears and this should be enough.
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I actually do use my ears. I dont see the point of local chat.
Because I dont bug out and piss myself first sign of other players.
I use ears to time my responses and hear when things come on grid etc.
Local doesnt mean diddly squat when I have to run a gate camp.
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Interesting. So you have read this text with your fingers?
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If you want to throw the context of your own analogy into the toiletā¦sure
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Not all of them, but Iāve seen plenty that are exactly as you just described.
I used to run an alpha tribe on ARK and all we did was master the low cost high reward style of play. And if lost a months worth of work in a baseā¦
Oh well.
Sad to see such calcified cretinsā¦like zombies floating around null whining if they lose any work.
Used to play D2 tooā¦ Hardcore.
Like a man. With a hairy chest should
This has to be the most retarded analogy Iāve seen in a while. You still have plenty of ways to use your eyes to make your krabbing safe. Such as, looking at your d-scan, or looking at you corp/allianceās intel channel.
Removing local has not made you blind to anything, itās only forcing you to make actual efforts to gather intel. If youāre too lazy to hit your d-scan or your alliance doesnāt have the logistical capabilities to run their intel on scouts rather than relying on local, then itās no one fault your own. Wormholers have been undocking to PvE in multi-billion bling cruisers for a decade, and you donāt hear them whining when they get themselves blown up. What are you afraid to lose? A T2 VNI? lol.
Really shows why this game has been stagnating so much though, this āletās all farm in our safe corners until the next time weāre told to push F1ā mentality is the antithesis of what EVE is supposed to be about.
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Well, not to put too fine a point on itā¦Yes. Previous to the blackout, you could clear a system with a T1 frigate as long as you were not blue to them.
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Hey! I have a billion isk to burn up, which way to the nearest blackout?
Over the last few years, CCP development has more and more favoured activities that require less player-to-player interaction, where everyoneās wallet booms and thereās not enough bust.
Rorquals became way too OP, Citadels proliferated with no good mechanics around their destruction, capitals and supers proliferated due to the excess wealth in minerals and bounties.
This change matters because itās the first sign that CCP are willing to head in the direction of an environment and set of mechanics that favours things exploding again.
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God forbid theyād let this game become WoW. I mean. Can I lose anything in WoW if I even try?
What happens if I drop it on the ground does it even despawn?
To evaluation if an experiment yields positive results one has to listen to the micro level from a diversity of playersā experiences. I do not own dreads, supers or titans but hopefully my perspective is equally important.
I started playing Eve Online approximately one year and five months ago, and investing in the game slowly. I still consider myself quite novice to the whole Eve experience. With it I am taking my time by skilling up different specialisations on a variety of alts (a fair number of omega accounts but without applying skill injectors). For new players out there, skilling up slowly provides one with a patient but robust game mechanic training.
Given that hi-sec is a very boring place (very repetitive pve), I moved to null-sec as soon as possible. Funnily enough the alliance I form part of provides more content than the developers. Now this event Null Local Blackout is forcing me to regress to a lower sec. Umbrella or not it has become extremely dangerous to earn isk through salvaging, subcap ratting or even mercoxit mining.
For the time being, my reaction to this āloreā event is neutral. I adapt to the changes by selling those ships which I will not be using - I wonāt feed my ships (sorry hunters). The liquid isk will be partially invested in more pvp ships to defend my home, after all, I love pvp. At the same time two of my alts are subbed towards mining and industry specialisations and so in the long run if local will remain as it is they wonāt be retained. I prefer unsubscribing two accounts then leaving my corp/alliance.
I leave it up to CCP to evaluate the impact of this change in all itās totally. Thumbs up for the effort; shows that this game is truly continuously well invested upon.
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You know thatās the whole idea behind the game, right? Your alliance is one of the few doing it right.
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Well plenty of folk who either didnt want to rent or were prevented from it did those things in Null before this, when it was safe for the kulaks and unsafe for the interlopers.
Maybe check out their techniques.
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Indeed!
Or you could just be smart about itā¦ Find a decent ādead endā system held by your alliance, park a scouting alt in a cloaked ship on the only gate in the system, remove all sound on this client except environment (crank it up to max).
Voila, as soon as someone enters the system you will know. You can then warp off whatever ship you are using for pve, even a BS will have time to align and warp before a whaler can D-scan and warp to you.
This will also require you to collapse wormholes that pop into your system (or scout them as well). Collapsing wormholes is easy though, itās simple mathematics (subtraction of mass) and can be done in 15 minutes solo (on two accounts), if you have the right ships with the right fits.
Or you could also just bait people and kick their ass, since you apparently ālove pvpā.
Thatās the point of a sandbox. We donāt rely on DEVS telling us how to play and what to make our goals. No need for an expansion once or twice a year with some terrible grind clown content weāll gobble up anyway because weāre addicted to the carrot on a stick type of game play.
We provide our own content, we create our own goals, WE decide what the next step is. All they have to do is create and maintain the framework that allows for this all, and restricting us as little as possible when it comes to any sort of player interaction.
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Yes gate camping has become my thing and hi-sec ganking.
Is actual work while we play a game for entertainment.
Some here dont seem to get that with their entitlement.
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