
Gabriel Blade
Amarr Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2009.09.23 18:25:00 -
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Carebear Commentary
- I have 49 million SP
- I play solo
- I have never left my starting NPC corp
- I stay in my NPC corp because that's what a cost benefit analysis tells me to do
- I would really like it if a cost benifit analysis told me to leave my NPC corp
- This tax doesn't change my cost benifit analysis
Earlier this year I interviewed with a corp that I had researched beforehand. They were a mid sized corp that seems quite good at what they did (wormholes), and the CEO I interviewed with seemed like decent guy. I didn't wind up joining the corp because I couldn't guarantee that I would play on any regular basis. I was upfront with them about this and there reluctance to recruit me is completely understandable. Since I am a casual player and can't guarantee any regular play schedule it's going to be very difficult for me to join any serious corp (I wouldn't recruit me if I were them for that reason). So that restricts me to more casual corps, likely in high sec space. That's fine as a casual corp is probably best for me at the moment, except for one thing.
Once I leave my NPC corp I lose my protection from wardecs. In principal I'll have the protection of my causal corp, but the people in it will probably just be folks like me with little to no PvP experience and hence unable to fight effectively. In a serious corp the protection would be much more significant, and of course I could learn from the players with good PvP experience. However, a causal corp is likely to get crushed by whatever corp wardecs it. So what exactly is my motivation for joining the wardec'ing ecosystem where I'm likely to be prey rather than predator? My answer is of course not much, especially since a casual corp is unlikely to be able to provide me with money making ability above and beyond what I can make in an NPC corp (a serious corp might).
Faction War originally seemed like a great way to get my feet wet in PvP. Sure I'll likely get my ass handed to me initially, but at least my team will be roughly equally balanced with the other. I have no problem dying a lot as part of the PvP learning process, as long as my side has a chance of winning. So what's the problem? Faction warfare destroys your faction standing with the opposing faction, and as far as I understand that's pretty much a permanent thing. While that make perfect sense from an RP point of view, having the cost for trying out PvP be effectively a permanent ban from an empires space doesn't seem smart from a gameplay perspective.
Summary
- Serious corps don't want me cause I'm a casual player
- Joining a casual corp makes me freshmeat for wardec'ing corps
- Faction war leaves me permanently barred from an empires space.
So what am I going to do. For the time being I'm going to continue with my carebear ways because I see no other viable option for a casual player like me. Once the winter gets here and I have fewer other real life activities and more time to play EVE I may try to commit to a regular play schedule that would be acceptable to a serious corp, but that depends on a lot of real life issues.
Anyway, just thought I'd post this to give people a sense of what the mentality of a casual player is. I don't object to the NPC tax, I understand the motivation behind it. I can just tell you that it will in no way motivate me to leave my NPC corp. A very high tax might (50+), although I'd much prefer to see faction war or casual player corps made more appealing than NPC corps made less appealing.
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