Unfortunately, you’re probably right. CCP added clone tags because they were scared that the people who pushed PvP content would leave if they didn’t get to both eat their cake (illegally attacking targets), but also get to have their cake too. (Still being allowed into high sec with zero downside afterwards.)
They likely decided that the gankers leaving would result in a bigger player base drop than the number of people who leave the game because they got ganked.
Which is kind of stupid, because even if they did remove tags, the sheer volume of multiple alts and multiple accounts makes the Outlaw penalty nearly a non-factor.
Yea, I’m not a fan of hot dropping. I think jumping/bridging should have a 10~15 second spool up to it, and it fails if the cyno dies. No instantly teleporting 30 Redeemers onto a dread, ripping its capacitor out in two cycles, and then melting it before defenders can even land on grid to contest.
Why are you all crying about ganking? CCP is ganking everyone with their alpha / omega gank. new players have to spend a fortune to play in hisec because they dont have skill to even think about pvp then are baited into mission running as income which causes them to buy blingy fits which naturally get ganked. If there is any bich at all it should be the extortion of funds by greedy devs. It’s not like any of the old school players have to pay a dime to play, so really the risk reward is all risk for new players, all reward for old ones. This is the real issue that eve has. NOT GANKING.
That’s not true. New ships are cheap. New missions (level 1 and two) are easy and only require cheap ships that are easily replaced. New players need skills for the better ships. They can’t just hop into a battleship or an Exhumer on day 1. No new player can unless that player already wants to drop a fortune on the game. Skill training is a way bigger hurdle for new players than gankers.
The problem is that this game punishes new players. No one tells new players what fits to use. They have to learn that on their own. Either that or they have to go google it. Hell, look at these forums- this is one of the most toxic forums I’ve ever been on. The only good info is found on the internet.
Of course, the best fits require their own skills. Being able to fly a fancy ship means nothing if you haven’t also learned the skills required to put the right mods onto it.
Well, before I stray too far from the point, new players need corps. Good corps with good people who will guide and train them. Good luck with that! They don’t need to spend a fortune. They just need to not skill up to a fancy ship and think they’re invincible.
Well, I bet thats exactly what ccp would say, avoid the obvious debate at hand with a misdirected response, true new players need cheap ships and fill a role in a corp. I have stated that over and over in other forums, But that was not the issue, the issue is new players are financially punished with omega. if your suggesting new players dont need omega well it will be hard to plex like everyone else with 5m sp on 1 toon. therefore back to the original statement, new players are financially punished while old players sit back and dump on them for free basicly.
My proposal, remove plex from ingame, or remove omega and have items for sell ingame that can only be bought with plex. alpha omega is a financial pyramid scheme, everyone knows it. RMT and the people it attracts kill games. change my mind.
New players aren’t punished with Omega. Do you think this game is free? It costs money. All MMOs cost money. It’s not a punishment. Someone has to pay the bills- pay developers, pay the power bill, buy, maintain, and replace computer parts, etc…
That’s not a punishment. Do you think CCP wants to pay all of that while not making any money off of the product?
If old players want to play this game all day every day and do nothing but make ISK so they can buy PLEX let them. It gives me someone to sell PLEX to. Their slavery is my ISK.
I already stated in this thread what would I do if tags gets removed, It solves nothing really, well bunch of gankers would simply quit which is probably your true agenda, but the hardcore ones like me would just workarounded it and farmed it up in null and swap the gank fleet anytime they hit the treshold. In the end, you would still see me ganking 24/7 without stop and you would still complain that there are no consequences because you don’t see them.
Btw yesterday I transferred 3b worth of clone soldier tags from Jita to Jan. Was I risking anything or still not?
I never implied not making money, If you cannot grasp the concept of what I am saying I will explain it, new players have to pay for plex to omega, there is no way a new player can feasably plex ingame like someone with 20 alts been playing 20 years. New player buys plex, sells for isk to buy ships because they are new and have no way to afford nice things, old players rat in null, buy plex on market and sell irl to other players, or buy plex to plex accounts. very easily I might add, THAT IS WRONG, that borderlines fraud and pyramid scheming. say what you want, but everyone should have to actually pay for omega or none at all and make items only available in store, I would never suggest ccp go broke, I would only hope they get rid of the current pyramid scheme thats happening and drawing actual criminals into the game with hopes of making money IRL by extorting new players.
the master of pvp market bots is not pvp, well, I think it might be if your a programmer, but chat gpt doesnt make you a programmer, so really, skynet is pvping or nvpc? I cant even explain your type of gameplay, why are you here numbers?
lol, listen I get it, you make good money, you understand the scam perfectly well and employ it, thats great for you, but it is unfair. especially to new players who actually pay for things with real money.
It’s just un-cool, it’s not roleplay it’s a job, that is not good for a gaming community. It isnt your fault either, ccp allows and actually promotes it.
saying alpha/omega has nothing to do with ganking in hisec is the most obvious pleeb statement yet, hi-sec ganking is a perfectly plausible and fun style of gameplay, there are many aspects to it that are very beneficial to the game, but not everyone does it for the lols and fun, some do it for rmt which is a negative side effect of plex as in-game currency, one of many like awoxxing and people that are not even here for the fun just the money. Who will bear the brunt of it? ofcoarse the new players buying plex in store and funding the plex market in-game.