Could it make it so I couldn't dock in NPC stations? Looks like if I kill people in NPC corps it will lower my standing with their corp but that is a very small disadvantage correct?

Thanks for any insights.



Lips

The downside is that you get called a sociopath by well-adjusted, contributing members of society, and then CCP continuously nerfs your playing style.

The downside is that you get called a sociopath by well-adjusted, contributing members of society, and then CCP continuously nerfs your playing style.

All that CCP nerfs so far is hisec griefing. Which is no Piracy at all. Sure we suffer too due to mining barges change, but to be hornest a ship that costs 250m ISK shouldn't die to a single Thorax no matter what.

The downside? You might get a junk bounty rather than a nice one.

All that CCP nerfs so far is hisec griefing. Which is no Piracy at all. Sure we suffer too due to mining barges change, but to be hornest a ship that costs 250m ISK shouldn't die to a single Thorax no matter what.

Pirate's biggest advantage is our ability to adapt quickly. No matter what CCP do we will always find a way to play our style.
Yes some of us are sociopaths, but tell me that popping 500m ISK worth capsule and collecting a floating corpse to do funny things with later doesn't bring a smile on your face!

Oh, for ****'s sakes, another one...

Actually, by the classic definition of piracy, hisec "griefing" is very much piracy. (Well, you can't directly hijack someone else's ship yet, but check some of the exploits of Paul Clavet among others. There are ways, in a manner of speaking at least . Or at least, there were ways. RIP, ninja-salvaging, you served well and with unswerving "honour." )

Is EVE to remain a sandbox, or not?

Which is it, because you can't have both:

"You can free-PvP there, but hard-coded mechanics/rules forbid free-PvP here" =/= sandbox, it is a core element of a themepark, however carefully disguised.

EVE, being the simplistic, ****-poorly coded, and increasingly clunky game that it is at its core, would make a rather lame themepark, and in any case there are many games that do that far better out there already.

Could it make it so I couldn't dock in NPC stations? Looks like if I kill people in NPC corps it will lower my standing with their corp but that is a very small disadvantage correct?

Pirates are 75% of the lowsec population (the others are 15% of FW alts without guns, 5% of cyno alts and 5% of lost carebears).

You forget people exploring, doing PI, transporting goods, traveling between systems, etc.

Actually pirates only make up 75% of the average low-sec system population when they are gate camping.

You forget people exploring, doing PI, transporting goods, traveling between systems, etc.

Actually pirates only make up 75% of the average low-sec system population when they are gate camping.

I should have said "living in lowsec", it's not "passing by".

LOL

The 'hard coding' does not stop you from ganking someone in HS......

It is still a sandbox. All the coding is doing is adding meaningfull consequences to your actions in a 'control''ed and patrolled' space.

eg. if you are out in the middle of nowhere in a war and shoot someone there probably won't even be a question asked (null sec). If you are 'in the hood' of a downtrodden city then questions will be asked and penalties will be applied if you are caught in the act but after a relatively short period of time no body bothers about it but you may start getting a reputation as being bad (sec drops). But if you pull out a gun and start shooting in a city center then you will likely be hunted down and penalised/shot (high sec)

get over it and stop crying. And yes i'm a privateer and enjoy a good gank from time to time.

Looks like if I kill people in NPC corps it will lower my standing with their corp but that is a very small disadvantage correct?