My corporation Existential Crysis spent a fair amount of time out in Null security space during the Blackout, the thing that struck me the most was the fact that the pilots that continued ratting and mining after Blackout was implemented were adapting very quickly and on the most part successfully.
They utilised mobile warp bubbles to slow down the incoming threat of hostile scouts a few systems back from heavily ratted systems combined with cloaked watchmen on gates waiting for gate fire. They would spot you even if you where travelling in a covert ops frigate.
They perfected masking techniques to counter Hunters mining Dotlan npc kill data. In some cases they would predict and prepare to bait and counter what they knew was about to happen (a good content generator)
My point is simply that it was weeding out the weak and lazy and breeding a more hardcore null dweller.
Also making the main argument pro local in Null totally invalid.
Alas the direction Blackout was taking us has now hit a brick wall due the the weak and lazy voting with their wallets. A cowardly act that is symptomatic of a lazy mans personality type. Shame on you.
So what now for this once glorious game EVE Online as it spirals further into the abyss of stagnation?
Capsuleers who came back with hope will leave, and the ones who quit without giving Blackout a chance will return, bottling will increase and CCP’S bottom line will crawl back to its unimpressive levels. Of that I have no doubt.
People have said that EVE is dying over the years, Perhaps It died long ago only to be continually shocked back into life on the operating table briefly, only to slip back into its coma like state.
For me I will stick it out to the bitter end do my best to adapt. But I fear the end is near.
They stopped paying for a game that was no longer “fun” for them. While the word “fun” isn’t written anywhere on the box, those players believed this sci-fi MMO should contain “fun” each according to a personal definition.
I know a couple quitters, I could not talk them down, despite 10+ years in game.
btw, we can’t reach 10,000 posts in the 2nd blackout thread, if folks keep making new threads.
creating a blackout without introducing any type of counter tool whatsoever was a slap in the face. You may consider spamming d-scan l33t content…I don’t think a lot of people agreed.
Blackout may still be going on had CCP spent any time whatsoever prepping and discussing the changes with the community.
Turds, like any organic material, can be come petrified.
Petrified Turds are called coprolites and are now as stone, having over eons exchanged carbon for silicon (more or less).
Like any rock, corporlites can be cut, tumbled, and polished.
So with enough time and effort - you too can polish a turd.
According to that corp’s killboard, you were off worse after blackout had been in action for a while. You got fewer kills, longer downtimes between kills in days (not hours) and the overall value didn’t increase. I am not sure why you think the blackout had a positive impact on your corp.
Furthermore: You can polish a turd. It is really simple: Do not implement memes in a game and do not use memes as your development basis. People like Falcon are the worst possible people for a comprehensive and good development. They sperg nonsense just like reddit does without any care for consequences. This turd called “blackout” would have been much better received if it was part of an overarching strategy that contained this blackout as well as changes to ISK making that make people less of a sitting duck ready to be slaughtered. And it should not contain the necessity to press Dscan every 2 seconds. My keyboard’s enter key experiences material fatigue from the thousands of key strokes during that time.
Also: How about you stay in null sec and keep making it dangerous? I find it comical that your corp only started to go into Null sec after the Blackout started. Before you did nothing but spank T1 ships in Hek. How about you do your share against the things that you lament in your first post? If there are more people out in space and hunting, the space that is supposed to be dangerous will be dangerous. With or without local.
… in other words, you and your corp were too scared to go into null when players would have known you were there… LOL!!! And the Blackout made you feel like better hunters than you really are… BWAHAHAHAA!!
botting is a problem but blackout is not a solution to this. If ccp dont know solution for bots and automation i suggest asking pearl abbys how to ban all this kind of activity from game.
You can also compress many Turds, in to one large, solid Turd. Then dry it out, apply some Epoxy Resin and once you polish that, it will look very glossy.
Yes, you can polish a turd. No, you don’t need to add epoxy. And no, you don’t need to wait over geological time either. But a degree of drying and sifting is often involved.
One technique is the Japanese art of dorodango which was used with a number of animal scats on Myhtbusters to prove the point that you can, essentially, polish a turd.
The dorodango technique involves both compression and spherical shaping. Technically, this compression is only for initial shaping, with finer and finer sifts used to fill in final surface faults before polishing. Other than for aesthetic reasons, a flat surface could probably be used with maybe less compression but more “filling” required? Either way, an example of adapt and improve. And, perhaps, a metaphor for the shining turd that some people perceive null sec blackout to be?
