Dog Pants wrote:Wait, are you saying Eve isn't a good game?
Basically, yep. But there's nothing better, making it the best of a bad bunch.
It could well be embittered old veteran syndrome kicking in, but I don't enjoy eve anywhere near as much as I use to, partly because of changes to game mechanics, partly because of how the playerbase evolved. Remeber how near enough 3 years ago a completly disorganised 5punkorp (♥ Friz) went out to 0.0 and farted about for well over a year until IAC and co blobed us into submission?
That's basically what's happened to all of eve. If you want to achieve anything anymore, you need 70,000 friends willing to back you up, or else the person who's lawn your pissing on will bring his 70,000 friends, and irregardless of how skilled you are you'll lose because of lag and numbers.
No-one really achieves shit in empire, only now there's powerballs roaming around chunks of low-sec making small gang warfare there much harder. There's still ways and means (Usually involving droping 4-5 carriers, or about 7-8 bil in hardware on the hostiles), but afterwards all you've done is inflate your epeen for no real gain (These powerballs usually have shit fittings worth fuck all). Same story in 0.0, but the powerballs there are usually well fitted, and droping carriers there is an open invitation to have someone drop a dreadnought fleet on you.
Then you've got CCP catering to all the crybabies on their official forums dumbing down PVP some more so your only one realistic viable way to PVP is though use of numbers. Days of small corps using specific tactics to defeat a numerically superior but tactically inferior horse are well and truely numbered.
Mostly I just long for the days of eve where people gave a rats ass about their reputation and didn't try to pull every dirty little trick they could think of. I remeber years ago, pulling a log-on trap would get you heavily villified by the playerbase at large and instantly blacklisted for any of the major PVP corps, which mean if you ever wanted to swap corps you were going to really strugle to find a decent corp to go to. These days it's the norm to use boarderline exploits. Alt spies are rife and you can usually guarantee hostile alliance leaders are going to know more about the inner workings of your alliance than your average grunt because someone somewhere decided their forum access was worth isk to said hostiles.
Only real reason I still have an active account if to keep in touch with people. I've not really played all summer, and I really can't see that changing anytime soon, especially with war open beta a week away and launching in 2 1/2 weeks
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