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Posted - 2013.02.05 03:32:00 -
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Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:People here make the naive mistake of believing that removing PvP evasion chances will somehow force / "entice" (via penalites) players to adapt and do it.
It has not worked for low sec, it's terrible game design to force or penalize players in subs based MMOs. I've played a number of MMOS both imposing "no retreat", "no escape", "penalties" or multiple of them at the same time and they ALL spectacularly failed.
People who don't want to fight, won't. Period. You can make them sit in a station, you can make them disband a corp, stay in NPC corp, form 1 men corps, join stuff like decshield and so on. But in the end they think: "I am paying for a game, who are you to force me to have no fun and be slaugthered, in a game where being spawn camped has also harsh consequences".
This makes those players believe they are entitled to decide (because they pay a sub) whether they accept a fight or not. And they WELL know that if someone in EvE attacks you is because they prepared super-mega extra overhelming odds anyway.
So, have fun nerfing this and that, in the end you'll just get station sitters and ultimately quitters. Like in every single PvP MMO that attempted this route.
But, you don't really comprehend do you... War is Hell. Typically throughout history, when it comes to Warfare there is at least 1 side that does not want to fight... but wasn't given the option. If I can get a group of cowards to huddle up in station for a week while I mine out the belts in their home system... I win! If I get them to Drop Corp, and it failscades..... I Win. If the EmoRageQuit over it.... Welcome to EvE Online... HTFU or go play another game.
There are Alliances in this game that are powerful, and resilient in this game because of the practice of using neutral alts in NPC corps to maintain a supply line. You ultimately wear down an opponent thru attrition and cutting off resupply. That's why German U-Boats in WWI were sinking freighters left and right in the North Atlantic... they were interdicting resupply to Great Britain. If you are growing tired of that big Blue Donut in Nullsec, and are frustrated at the MoonGoo Monopoly, then you must also recognise that you MUST cut off the supply lines in order to weaken them. They Own a stand up fight, you will never have a large enough sub-cap fleet to come out of Highsec and defend against the Supercap Blob, so you have to be able to cut their logistics. That takes being able to Wardec those NPC assets. Yes there will be innocent people hurt... eggs get broken... collateral damage happens in War.
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