KingsGambit
Caldari Knights
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Posted - 2009.03.13 00:28:00 -
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Edited by: KingsGambit on 13/03/2009 00:37:50
I've been haunting OOP unsure what to do with my subs for years now.  Haven't properly played since just after Shiva was launched. I was quite a dedicated player till that point, but I absolutely hated the way CCP implemented player-owned structures, T2 manufacturing and the changes to research and so on. I've kept my skill training up on my two characters this whole time, but never had the passion back again.
I occasionally check other forums and chat in-game for a time and hear stuff about nano-nerfs this and new T2 ship classes that which I've never heard of. It was around the time that for me, the game's direction changed drastically in a way I really didn't like. Since then, none of the changes has been particularly great. I have no interest in capital ships, I wrote off getting involved in a POS cos they were so badly implemented and neither mining ice nor scan probes are particularly interesting either. I was so excited at the prospect of POSs that I was crushed by how they finally implemented them 
I did try a couple of level 3 missions before the new year, to try and dust off my madskillz...after hours of working out what rigs were and why my old setup no longer fitted when I know it used to, I had to try again...went out in a Crow, came back in a pod.  Those NPCs are a lot tougher...my Prophecy soon sorted them out...at least that ship still works how I remember!
Until Shiva the game was fun and interesting, after that, to construct anything was so much hard work that even a former number-junky like me gave up. I'm don't like the way PvP works in Eve, though I've never really done the whole alliance/0.0 stuffs. And lastly, probably the main reason, at the time, I became a victim of my own success. I did quite well in the T2 lottery and became a well known manufacturer. My mailbox was a mess, I got convoed all the time and I became chained to the factories and labs.
And now I'm not sure how things work anymore. From what I understand, battleships can't do a thing about frigates, my beloved Interceptor class no longer does what it says on the tin, missiles are (unbelievably) even worse than ever before. I detested the changes they made to caldari ship bonuses about 2 years back which I thought VERY unfair (the kinetic dmg bonus only...defeats the whole object of using missiles and no other race has that restriction on damage type)....sigh...too many things wrong.
I have subs with WoW and CoX which I occasionally play and enjoy, but I don't think Eve can ever be as good as it used to be. Jump clones (why 24 hours!!!???), neural remapping (why annually???) and FINALLY skill queues (why 24 hours from now, and not when skill itself finishes???) are great (I suggested the last back in 2004), positive changes, definitely good for players, but not enough of themselves I think. CCP always give something great, then are so heavy-handed with restricting it it's only barely any use.
I think if I did start to play again, I'd leave my empire life behind (but in-tact) and just get involved in some alliance 0.0 warfare as an Inty, BC or BS pilot. It looks like it could actually be fun if I can get over my hate of losing a ship and all its fittings. (I don't care about the money, but the time and effort to build/acquire/fit). Maybe one day, if I can find a corp who won't take me only for my industrial skills and/or BP collection. If I never look at a Miner II again it'll be too soon 
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