Jimmy Gunsmythe
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.23 23:21:00 -
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Suddenly Forums ForumKings wrote:Facts are, hi sec is an echo chamber where people who have never been to, or have had limited experience in, low/null talk about how dangerous low and null is. And because these ideas are never balanced with realistic feedback, this fear of the unknown festers and evolves into an insurmountable obstacle.
The trap is thinking that with just a slightly better ship or just a few more skillpoints that this obstacle will go away, but the massive amount of FUD spread by hi seccers creates a moving goalpost. No matter how far you advance, you can always find a further goal.
That's not a tar pit to some, that's called a plan of action. Only fools rush in. Now, the exception is almost always the one who has a group of friends already out there, willing to show them the ropes, guide them and try to keep them free of explosions that pull a ship from under the nulnoob. In the past, i have played out in nulsec, but I wouldn't move out there until I felt comfortable doing so. If you want to call the a tarpit trap, feel free. But some people are not willing to become easy killmails, which I suspect is a small reason behind all this.
Suddenly Forums ForumKings wrote:Avoiding the Tar Pit
- EVE Lifts Those Who Lift Each Other - Get a buddy, in fact get as many buddies as you can. This is not a game that rewards flying solo, so don't try to play it like that. This is not a game for people who don't want to work together. This game rewards cooperation and teamwork over phat l3wtz.
- Knowledge is Power - Instead of sitting in hi sec in ignorance, try learning some of the game mechanics that the pirates intend to use against you. If you honestly believe that jumping into a gate camp is an automatic death sentence, then you are doing it wrong. You can empower yourself by learning the traps they expect you to fall for and avoiding them.
- Don't Commit All At Once - You don't need to move your noctis and golem to lo sec to get into lo sec. You should start small, with cruisers and stuff. And try to get a team when you do commit. Once you get the feel of your region you can start bringing in the bigger stuff. Actually, you will find that for most PVP the bigger stuff isn't even that great!
- Don't Demand Changes to Ecosystems You Don't Understand - If you are willing to admit you've never lived in lo/null, don't suggest changes to those systems! This will only serve to make you look like a fool to those who actually do live in those places and are not stuck in the hi sec tar pit trap.
Remember above all that the first step to lifting yourself is to lift each other.
1) This is a sandbox game. Sure, it may say MMO, but nowhere in MMO does it dictate that those players have to play with one another. Buddies are nice, and there was a time when I played with friends. But when i started working two jobs, I barely had enough time to play. My buddies went one way, and I went another. Besides, this is also a game that proudly enspouses the phrase "Trust No One", so that kind of works against it too.
2) There have been relatively few instances where I have inadvertantly found myself smack in the middle of a gatecamp and survived. One was the teasing of the dogs on the nulsec side of EC where I spent an hour jumping into nul from Torrinos and burning back to the gate before I went poofy, just to do it again. I lost three frigates and a pod or two that night, but it was for kicks and giggles. The other times were due to incompetence on the part of the campers along with my preset warp-to BMs and a stealth bomber. Otherwise, yeah, it is damn near a death sentence. From my own experience being the gate-ganker, the only way people survived those camps was if our FC said to let them go. If we didn't get that command, it died, simple as that.
3) I do agree with the sentiment of not commiting all at once. It's always good to keep a nest egg handy in case you need it if your move turns sour down the road.
4) Or changes to ecosystems that you take no part in. I'm looking at those who meddle in the affairs and mechanics of hisec but do not partake in hisec. You are just as guilty as those who meddle in the affairs and mechanics of lo/nulsec but take no part in them. The phrase, "Mind your own gods damn business" springs to mind. Another is "Attend only to your house, and let your neighbor tend to his". I think that's gotten too hard for those who need to be in control and dictate every little minutae of every player's experience. Those are the ones lacking the most control. This is also known as "Your game is not the only game, otherwise CCP would have built it like that and it WOULD have been the only game".
Let's speak reason though...all these 'echo chamber' inhabitants you speak of...they probably number about 100 on the forums, yeah? I think that is a pretty liberal estimate when referring to individuals who post in threads such as these. Of that, half would be alts of those who either troll or have an agenda and use reverse psychological methods to attempt to get those agendas fulfilled in some way. The ones that are left are either the ones who want their hisec to not be nerfed into the ground or people who try to see the point of view of all involved. Your so-called echo chamber is borne of a chicken little mentality, a reverse play on fear to further damage what little is left to do in hisec. Even some nulsec denizens take what you are saying with a grain of salt.
Might I suggest that you attend to your own house and allow others to attend to theirs? Most people whose mains are in hisec really just don't care what happens to lo/nulsec. They just don't want those who don't play in hisec, or even care about it, to have a say in how they choose to play in it. That, my friend, is a fact.
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