Local Comms Blackout - Discussion Thread

Eve was a good game until some douche bags decided to make PVE mandatory

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Like a recon ship

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exactly, like a recon ship =P

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Actually dude, you’ll probably be better off as a small corp with the changes. Small corps can survive better in jspace many times because of the lack of local.
People can’t just jump in and assume you have no-one on to defend. They have to scout you out and case the system a LOT more. Which gives you time to notice, and rally. And I’m going to put a foot out there and say this might actually shake up null a bit in a way that some of these renting empires will shrink a bit because they have to have warm bodies to scout and provide intel, so they’ll shore in their borders. A small corp often only controls 1-2 systems anyhow, and won’t need many members to hold that. As they grow they can expand a bit more organically without botting/RMT empires being in the way (at least until they make better bots).

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Combat recons are d-scan immune. If only combat interceptors could be d-scan immune since losing nullification.

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but mah spodddd!

Without them, who will build your ships? Who will supply the materials for it? Who will provide the fuel for your structures? What will it do to alliances taxes that fund SRP?

I think you’re ready to know the truth - they have their own alts for that, if needed. And with less competition, it means less time needed to sustain pvp without having to use SRP.

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You should elaborate and explain it to the other duders in null. You sound like a nulli-not-bear :smiley: Which is refreshing.

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CURSE TIME!!!

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or an opportunity to go pvp and frag nerds that can’t see you coming and don’t have time to form their cap fleets to just drop on you. Gives you even a few more minutes to finish the job and get out.

It sounds like it now requires live communication through the system via scout pilots.

For BOTH sides of this argument, laugh while you can, CCP will clearly keep screwing over all players as long as it increases their income. They no longer give a crap what the players think, they just want money… and when enough people QUIT, they’ll just shut down eve for good.

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So we get some more MMO-like action ? Now we can do Mining Raids in 0.0 with scheduled Timers, which ofc are pretty intresting for Roaming fleets for the Carebear Haters. So its content created.
Instead of deleting the titans with the drifters, we create something that feels like the deep hole that space is and should be. Too bad the Player Base will loose a third if this goes permanent.

Good lol die multiboxers die

I don’t think you get how business works.

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this doesn’t make any sense. but ok dude. You’ve clearly lost your mind.

Those damn drifters have been wrecking the chat channels for months.

Jita local has been taken down dozens of times.

Why wouldn’t the bastards hit null too. We’re lucky they haven’t disabled our game launchers.

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See multiboxers control their own fleet of pilots.

An non multiboxer is a pilot who is controlled via a fleet leader.

As entertaining as this can be is only I can see is that the PVP pilots are only crying as they cannot affectively go whaling like some good ole pilots who can do it right. Yes I have been caught.

I keep thinking back to the comment about the new player retention about 90% do not return to the game and you really got to ask yourself why. there are many reasons.

Something like this I am not too sure if i will stay if this black out lasts too long. as a builder i depend on my PVP team to do their job and i also like local to know when I also need to go fight or go intercept someone coming down towards us.

I only see this driving more people away then retaining them as entertaining as this can be

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It’s also used by attackers. Jump into enemy system, instant intel, you know how many people are in the system ready to defend. Botters instantly see you and run away. Guys watching Netflix instantly see grey/red and run away.

If you play the game, you’ll still notice dcan and warp away safe. And I won’t know if you’re still in system, docked up, cloaked in space, or ■■■■■■ off to another system. So I leave, hunting more, and you live.
The retard next to you that AFK mines ALL DAY and doesn’t GAF watching TV or ffs, playign another game… that guy will die, and rightfully so because he’s not playing the game. He’s abusing a retarded mechanic.
Your last paragraph makes no damned sense whatsoever. chat doesn’t have a map. And you can’t access chat from the map for other systems…

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