Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2010.07.25 05:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Neo Omni
After 2 years of play, IÆve been trying to narrow down the one thing that throws a wrench into my EVE experience, and why I feel re-subbing for another year is not worth it.
Here it is: The bounty system is broken.
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The bounty system in this game is so severely broken that the ôcriminalö element has flourished to the point of imbalance.
The criminal element flourishing has nothing to do with the bounty system being broken.
If you want to put a price on a certain person's head, the best way to achieve your aim of inflicting economic harm upon them is to hire a mercenary to do the job for you. Then you just have to figure out whether the mercenary actually inflicted economic harm on your angst-focus or not.
Perish the thought that in a game based on a community of PvP players, you'd have to start asking questions such as "who do I trust".
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There is absolutely no deterrent to keep you from going to the ôdark-sideö of EVE.
EVE Online is billed as a PvP game. If there was no ôdark-sideö there would be no PvP.
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The very things that CCP advertises and promotes about EVE are care-bearish in quality, but the actual game is not. The whole ôplayer run economyö is treated like someoneÆs bastard child with little to no improvement expansion after expansion.
Someone should send Iceland the memo that economics is not PvP game. Did you know that the UK used anti-terrorism laws to sieze assets of Icelandic banks?
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Where is the central EVE bank? Where is the EVE stock exchange? Only CCP can monitor these things. Player run equivalents will always be subject to fraud.
Your "fraud" is the other guy's "awesome scam".
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For example, there is nothing in-game that warns you to the possibility of not being able to dock at a player-owned outpost when accepting a PUBLIC courier contract.
There are numerous warnings about this in the introductory material. Check the series of guides on the EVElopedia starting with "Your first days in space."
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Gate camps themselves are a complete joke, and the only way around them for the non-combatant is to find alternate routes if available, or wait until the pirates get tired and log off.
Or fly a blockade runner, or hire some mercenaries to break the gate camp, or pay the campers for right of passage, or send in a decoy alt flying a supertanked bestower, or any number of other tricks that you might have up your sleeve if you use your imagination.
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PS. Given the hardcore fanbase with the ôeyePhoneö mentality (ôshut-up and take my moneyö) and Dev-Alt character posts, I expect a lot of flack for this post (or it being locked æcause the truth hurts), so flame away.
You know that your argument is paper thin, and you're setting up the universal counter-excuse that anyone who disagrees with you is a fanatical CCP supporter.
So you put a large bounty on someone, only to have him claim it by blowing himself up with an alt. Nobody uses bounties for the purpose of encouraging someone else to blow up a pirate who was mean to you. Bounties are used by outlaws to make themselves look cool - they're the EVE version of huge gold chains and other bling.
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