Glad you explained your position further, though you can’t blame me for taking your rather hard quote as your wrote it.
That being said, the biggest drain on things built, such as ships-- is NOT, nor ever has been, ships exploding–it’s player attrition from the game. And I think that bring us back to close to the subject of the thread–for some of the things shared by this new player are also true for vets that just decide, for whatever reason, not to long on again.
So now you are stating a fact. Care to share that data or at least the methodology used to come to that concusion?
I’m not sure what the point is here. Sure, some assets are locked away from the economy if a player quits, but that is hardy an issue. This has nothing to do with the intended idea that everlasting conflict introduces a need for resources and gives the players who rather gather resources than take part in combat an active role in the whole picture.
Did you know that there are two missions as part of the Advanced Military Career Agent where the mission runners MUST lose their ship?
Players that lose their ship and don’t know what happened or don’t have the resources to replace it are missing the support of vets. More new players would get this support if corps were of a better quality (i.e. not lead by people that didn’t know what they were doing/were trying to exploit noobs or were made up of bob and his 20 alts.)
Just sayin.
No they are quite different.
What i find amusing however is how this little attempted jab at pvp’ers in the game has back fired.
What has a parasitic relationship with it’s environment? Prey.
What has a parasitic relationship with the environment in eve? Bears
I’m sure CCP took that into consideration when they compiled their data.
Also for one of those missions, the agent gives the ship to the player and tells them not to fit it up.
Well said.
I was very interested to see in a discussion on TIS that the three minute warp timer was mainly to stop the loss of new players who could not warp due to getting stuck on things. Interesting…
It is expected that gankers will just suicide scram. Little lost there.
Now when my orca gets stuck on a rock i only have to wait three minutes. Can go make a cuppa!
Can you go tell them that, because most of them are yelling that this is the end of freighter ganking as we know it.
And we don’t lose those new players either. A good cuppa, I think I will go make one.
Lol. Which thread is that in?
The one he made-up…
Did I say that was in a thread?
Ah so you DON’T have any proof of your claim…What a shocker…
He just made it up? I’m shocked!!!
Looking forward to your backing this up with numbers, or agreeing to it just being your opinion.
You mean like this helpful advice?
“It’s a MMO…go play X4 or My Little Pony if a story is what you want“
You are confused…that wasn’t advice but rather mocking. If you haven’t noticed this thread is total BS, right from the start…
But please feel free to white-knight it as you’re exactly what this thread needs right now…the floor is yours.
That is 100% speculation on your part.
Where is the whining happening then? Where am i supposed to tell the gankers it ain’t so bad?
“Hello, Mr. Pot. This is Mr. Kettle. I think you guys are going to absolutely hate eachother.”
I think the objection is to the negative connotation of “parasite” versus the neutral or even positive connotation of “predator”. I think that in some people’s minds, a parasite is a disgusting, vile organism that shares nothing in common with a majestic, powerful, beautiful apex predator that gracefully and powerfully exacts the will of God himself to mercfully dispatch the weak and infirm back to heaven . . . or something. Check this video out of a veteran playing with a noob:
HE THOUGHT IT WAS HIS MOM! LOL!!! But at least the “leopad” wasn’t a tape worm or e.coli.
^ Is this the mode of “play” you want EVE Online’s new players to engage with veterans in?