DEATHB1RD
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Posted - 2010.07.07 19:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Miyamoto Isoruku
ITT: Carebears whining about having to take a slight risk to do L5s.
Thanks to CCP designing the game such that ship fittings for missions or any form of pve are super easy fodder for pvp fitted ships, the risk is neither slight, since your billion isk pve ship is going to be toast every time, nor are the L5 mission rewards anywhere near compensating that risk.
Another slap in the face of part time eve players, who can't put in the continuous presence to be in a 0.0 alliance, where at least we get rewards worth the risk in the high level plexes.
AND, I might add, Alliance owned 0.0 is far safer than scummy low sec. Most any intrusion shows up in an intel channel, long before anybody gets to your system. So, as soon as you're in a large alliance, you got a fat income with much smaller risk than you'd have to shoulder in low sec L5's
CCP wants to promote people playing together, but it looks more like they hate people who want to just play alone for a couple of hours between work and kids. But I think its stupid to drive them from the game.. For one thing they're paying customers, and for another, EVE only works cause there's lots of people playing in different ways.
Running L5 missions with an additional gang of pvp fitted ships for protection of the expensive pve hardware certainly isn't feasable, the reward vs time equation barely works to split up between 2-3 pve people.
So with Tyrannis we get a repetitive-strain-injury inducing click-fest with PI, while they take away the only challenging, hence more fun missions. Cause I gotta say, I can't do L4 missions, I fall asleep... Not that ratting in 0.0 is any better, I fall asleep to that too, unless I watch TV the whole time I rat, which increases the chance of getting caught in a pve fitted ship. So I guess the extreme sleep inducing boredom of isk grinding was purposely introduced to increase the chances of roaming gangs catching something :P
EVE's main problem is the discrepancy of fittings between pve and pvp, that is so extreme, the pve fitted guy will always go down in flames unless the pvp fitted guy doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
That alone will be the reason to leave, when I find some other sci-fi game one day.
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