That’s a terrible analogy. The “COs” spend 90% of their time preventing bad behavior. They constantly search inmates, cells, and common areas for drugs and weapons. If CONCORD actually acted like corrections officers, gankers would be spending most of their time dodging searches, stings, and random patrols, not camping trade lanes waiting for easy targets.
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CONCORD is like the traffic cameras on the interstate. If I drive some cars off the road, a few weeks later I’ll get another ticket to ignore.
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They’ll get you a year later when you go to renew your tags…
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Aiko is a princess, you can’t charge royalty with crimes.
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Eve Online is complicated and as brutal and unforgiving of mistakes. The latest major war between the The Goons and the 'Horde. Gobbins misleadership and bailing at the last moment. The 'Horde is almost certainty going to be reduced in size.
But PVE, mining, and trading exists because even in a full on PVP game as this one is. There should always be more than one way to play. Mining might just get a little more interesting. As always Eve Online is a sandbox game where you decide what the end game, if there is any.
Eve Online is a game that takes a mindset. Being a self starter, willing to take risks, and willing to own the consequences of your decision, both good and bad. If one can not get behind any of that.. A player is not going to last.
This is where the crux of all this is. Many gamers want things easy. A quick dopamine dump and move on. Eve Online is a marathon and not a sprint. That is something that most new players do not seem to realize. It PVP with the capital letters. With only an agreement to not blow a player that is under 30 days out of the sky. But nothing to stop it from happening. Just an understanding that CCP will land on someone that does do it. But not stop it from actually happening in the first place.
For those that whine about the PVP or hate the PVE both are legit game styles. With an understanding that PVP is going to happen at some point. Whether mining, mission running, hauling, exploration, or abyssal running. PVP is going to happen everyone loses ships at some point.
At the end put on your big boy or girl pants and play. Own the consequences of your actions and decisions. Be willing to take risks. Be a self starter. Decide for yourself what you want to do. How you want to get there. There is no real wrong way to play. Just ways that some people may not like or understand why you have that playstyle.
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You and I both know that’s asking an awful lot out of today’s players.
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Marie Antoinette?
She was no longer a queen at that time. Basically the royal family were imprisoned by the revolutionaries (which was illegal, but morally righteous). About a month or so later the monarchy was abolished and the French Republic proclaimed. Louis XVI was subsequently executed (which was now both legal and morally righteous), followed by Marie after her trial, about a year later (which of course was also both legal and morally righteous).
What matters is she was no longer a royal by the time she was charged with a crime. Royals can’t commit crimes, so the country had to become a republic before her wicked husband and her could be formally charged with the horrific abuses they’d inflicted on the People.
This has been an entirely unbiased political sperg. Thank you for listening.
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What a load of nonsense.
When you first join EVE, you don’t get permanently assigned as ‘miner’ or ‘PVE player’ or ‘hauler’. You choose to be whatever you are in EVE. Nobody is forcing you to make the choice you do. Therefore the entire ethos of you being a ‘victim’ is complete and utter BS….as all the people who are allegedly victimising you had exactly the same choices to make.
EVE is a game where you end up just exactly where your skills and your own choices leave you.
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It is not Concord’s job to proactively look after you. That is 100% your responsibility.
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Tldr; the end result was the former princess was beheaded.
That switch got flipped.
Only after she was deposed.
Miners have tried to depose James 315 and his rightful successor Aiko Danuja, صلى الله عليها وسلم, for well over two decades now, and have very little results to show for it. There are two very prolific blogs about it, if you’re interested.
Suffice to say I don’t expect Aiko to be deposed and charged with a crime any time soon.
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The fact that Princess Aiko can enforce her claim in the spirit of “might makes right” goes a long way to support her piratical supremacy. Yet it is the recognition by other polities that make her claim a legitimate sovereignty. My Order for example, recognises her standing and style.
Anyone can declare themselves Royal if they have the arms to defend that claim and convince their neighbors that they are not going away so they might as well get used to treating.
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I never said it was. Read it again.
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As long as its called high sec and still allow PVP you will get complaints.
It’s like selling a heater that produces cold.
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You’re right in that at the root of the ‘problem’ there is a communications issue.
Combat is so abrupt and destructive that there is no room to ask why, or reason out what went wrong and where an individual might improve. That in itself weeds out a lot of potential growth.
Yet, at the end of the day I prefer ‘The Princess’ recruitment strategy over your corruption of design principle.
I agree. High sec creates an expectation of safety, and players naturally compare it to real-world places where valuable assets attract heavier security.
Think of the diamond district or the Vegas Strip. When an area is full of wealth and activity, the security presence scales up, not down. That’s why people assume that high-value traffic lanes in New Eden would be the most tightly controlled space.
The label “high security” suggests the same logic, so the mismatch between the name and the mechanics is where a lot of confusion starts.
High Security is a Baseliner designation. You are not the first Capsualeer to be fooled into thinking that their rules apply to you after death.
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Assumptions are the mother of all f-ups, especially in combat.