Praxis Astra
Smiling Friends Social Club
Hearts And Minds Alliance
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Posted - 2011.09.19 22:14:00 -
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Interesting that many players of EVE do not even know that economic PvP exists.
To the player who actually sees the game as a whole, industrial players are just doing economic pvp. The marketplaces are a snake pit where they'll cut your throat for .01 ISK. If you can't produce military ordinance faster and cheaper than the opposition they are a big step closer to winning.
I've see the effects in nullsec of overlooking this nagging little detail. Prices soar. People get more and more cautious about losing their ships in the face of the simple truth that they can no longer be sure that there is a replacement waiting in the marketplace. A vicious cycle ensues where loss of logistic pipelines leads to lack of CTA participation leads to more loss of logistic pipelines. This is in fact exactly the kind of situation that our competition management services are geared to start and cultivate.
When I hear a military pvp player making his case as to why his version of the game is more important, or the industrial player holding forth about how they'd have no ships if it wasn't for him and blah blah blah, I'm delighted if its opponents spouting this ego aggrandizing and pointlessly divisive nonsense, and impatient and worried if its an ally wasting my time and energy with this.
Of course you are superior. So am I. But CCP doesn't think so. They designed a game with not just one but three kinds of pvp: economic and military, but also counterintelligence. We train our agents to distract, confuse, and conceal this truth from the leaders of enemy organizations at every opportunity.
You wonder how people intelligent enough to play the game at all allow themselves to fall for such arrant foolishness. Then you remember the section in the Neurotechnicon about self importance, and how ego out the wing wang enables you to ignore any yin yang in its service. Then it makes perfect sense.
Praxis Astra
Master of Assassins and Punctuality
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