Sidrat Flush
Caldari
Life is Experience
New Eden Hardware Emporium
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Posted - 2009.07.14 12:24:00 -
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Interesting topic as usual, but I would rather touch on what makes a person not enjoy PvP combat in the first place.
I believe it's because Eve allows you a choice and progression at your own rate. So if you're not introduced to pvp early on you'll enjoy the missions, the income, the building stuff, possibly mining, even more likely trading. You could train all the skills you like but if you don't find out you could be using different modules for a better effect you'll stick with what you know and what (for lower agent missions) works. Only when you go to level 4 missions will a person need to learn how to fit their ship (damage/rate of fire mods or shield recharge or cap recharge, or in a few cases some of them combined) to keep the tank on their ship stable.
If that player has had to go to low sec and has been ganked at a gate or in a belt, and thus the first experience in pvp has been in a non-pvp fitted ship against multiple oponents (or one uber pilot with extreme targetting abilities) and would either make that person go totally anti-pvp OR give them the first buzz of pvp and they'll start to learn that but at the detriment (not that I complain) of their non-combat pvp activities.
That is I believe a general outcome for a player New to Eve, there's people long established people who's had the taste of pvp and can't stand it.
It's not a bad thing it just is. Like ice mining. The term carebear however is over-used to mean industrial character when in reality it could be a term used to a pvp pilot who hesitates or doesn't fit the ship for purpose.
As it is, I believe combat pvp requires a certain state of mind. Sure make the rats in all the missions more dynamic so that you have to fit a web/scram/painter and even an eccm module too, but it won't change the attitude to combat pvp that individuals have, unless Isk can be made more certainly than mission running, but I think if that happens it's gone too far in the wrong direction.
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