Arcane Azmadi
Caldari
First Flying Wing Inc
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Posted - 2009.08.05 13:48:00 -
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Nephilim, you're arguing rather well and I appreciate the effort you're putting in, but you really don't understand the dynamics of EVE well enough yet. EVE is an MMO like NO other. It's a game of total freedom where you are allowed to do ANYTHING you can get away with as long as it doesn't constitute an exploit. Hacking someone's account and stealing all his isk is obviously not allowed, but swindling him out of his isk with a well-run scam is perfectly within the bounds of the law.
CONCORD are there to ensure you can't "get away with" unrestricted killing everywhere in the game. You might think the idea runs directly contrary to the aforementioned "total freedom" but you have to realise just how vicious the game gets out in 0.0 space (or even lowsec). Since losing a ship or clone in EVE carries genuine consequences (where most MMOs only hit you with a small exp penalty or possibly some equipment damage when you respawn), everyone fights to the death at every opportunity. If CONCORD were anything other than an absolute force it'd be the same as them being totally ineffectual, because at least some players would eventually beat them and be completely free of any consequences. This would be very bad.
You see, there is a group of players in the game called Goonswarm. EVE's Goons are the biggest MMO community in the world and play games for the purpose of ruining them for everyone involved- at least until they found EVE, a game perfectly suited to them, where virtually anything is allowed in the boundaries of 0.0 space. However, if they were allowed to rampage across Empire space, fighting off CONCORD on the way and crushing everyone they see, they would- because they could. They wouldn't need a reason, you couldn't negotiate with them and although it MIGHT be possible for someone to stop them, the damage they would do to the game in the meantime (yes, damage, it would render the game totally unplayable for many, many players) would be devastating.
CONCORD are not harsh for being invincible. In fact, they're a very generous way of defining what would be in any other game a "no-PvP zone". EVE has no "no-PVP zones", but CONCORD-controlled Empire space is as close as you're going to get. You can still be randomly killed by a ganking jerk for absolutely no reason, but at least the addition of CONCORD means it's going to be a suicide gank. You should be thankful, not complaining- without CONCORD it would be completely impossible for new players to join the game. No, I'm not exaggerating.
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