Like all the other forum warriors, you just don't get it.

I and many others have explained it countless times, and you guys just CHOOSE not to get it. That makes it your problem.

You play your game, I'll play mine. Why is that such a hard concept for your forum warriors to grok?

Because they're both the same game.

Can't wait for the highsec rebalance expansion.

Honestly the problem is that if so a blob will burn down your home eventually. If only because boat saw a structure and had a fleet of bored drakes.

I sincerely hope you see the monumental irony of what you just said, Goonie.

Confirming goons were never the underdog

Because they're both the same game.

This is so funny it's bordering on pathetic... If you don't like the way people are playing this game, quit demanding they play it YOUR way, and go build your own intarwebs spaceships game.

Oh, that's right: you don't have 1% of what it would take to do that, so you try (and fail) to play the part of playgound bully. Keep up the good work, Nerdy.

Because they're both the same game.

Correction: It's the same non-linear progression game. Goals are free to be chosen and pursued, including relaxation and solo play.

Tear collection is not a valid way of enjoying yourself. Such people should be reported to CONCORD for immediate... oh wait, not if they're not in highsec, opps

Is your vast empire really all that interested in taking and holding a non-contiguous dead end pocket with a Syndicate-esque truesec? It'd be more trouble than it's worth to project power into it. Might be a step up for some growing corp that's looking at expanding from piracy or FW though.

Tear collection is not a valid way of enjoying yourself. Such people should be reported to CONCORD for immediate... oh wait, not if they're not in highsec, opps

Just for the record there is no step up from faction warfare. FW is the upper echelon of PvP players. Moving to nul from FW low-sec is like dropping out of Havard to attend your local community college with 150 students.

In many of the defensive cries from hi seccers attempting to justify that hi sec is balanced I've been seeing a recurring theme: "I won't go to nullsec because I don't want to help build your empire. I want to build one with my RL friends."

"I won't go to nullsec because I don't want to help build your empire. I want to build one with my RL friends."

This is the epitome of the fundamental misunderstanding hi seccers have about the nature of this game. It is based on 3 incorrect assumptions.

1. I Am Special - Nobody is special. Everyone is a worthless until proven otherwise. Your value is solely what you bring to the community.
2. EVE is Relaxing - EVE has never been relaxing. It has been about hard work and commitment. You might have fun, but it will take a lot of work to get there.
3. EVE is About Small Gang / Solo - EVE has never been balanced around small gang or solo, and this has never been pushed by any of the advertising. In fact the opposite is pushed.

So what do you resort to? You resort to blaming the evil nullseccers for all your problems and talking about how unfair it is that you might lose, or that setting up your 5 man alliance in the middle of Deklein won't work, or that you got blobbed. Then when that doesn't work you cry about how important it is to be a "casual gamer".

The definition of casual gamer seems to be pretty flexible these days. I didn't know grinding missions or ice mining for 14 hours a day was casual.

Anyway, the nerf will happen. Summer is coming.

Except a drake blob has usually 250+ players. And when there's multiple blobs, it's much larger.

Well, you certainly weren't there. I remember when BoB was going to own all of null and the goons were losing, and everyone was crying about the evil BoB hurting the game. I remember when BRUCE controlled Fountain, Syndicate, Cloud Ring, and Outer Ring and could project much further than that.

I remember when the Russians had an unbreakable hold on the Dronelands. I remember when the enemy had the classic doomsday (area of effect 75k damage) and 14 titans to hotdrop on us.

I remember being in the NC and fighting for survival against the hordes of foreigners (and NC dot).

We fought and won against the entrenched power blocks, you can too.

Because they're both the same game.

No.. no they're not. The point of a sandbox is that you can play many different games in it.

EVE is About Small Gang / Solo - EVE has never been balanced around small gang or solo, and this has never been pushed by any of the advertising. In fact the opposite is pushed.

Again I don't think nerfing hisec is the answer to your prayers your looking for o.O alot of people will just unsub and that's about the jist of it....

Maybe if large null sec alliances started looking at themselves and thought how could we make our territories more appealing to attract activity in the form of industrialists etc. More industry would encourage production and would stock up empty stations where the average PVP'er could buy their ships, ammo, mods etc... This would then encourage more PVP encounters that everyone craves if not just general activity in these empty null sec systems!! I'm obviously just hypothesising, it's up to these players to do something off their own backs to provide solutions. Using the old chessnut 'nerf hisec' is just wearing a little thin if not boring!!

It's not the players in hisec that are at fault but the players that already live in nullsec who are at fault....

Jena o/