Jonny Monroe
Unlicensed Medical Professionals
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Posted - 2013.07.10 09:57:00 -
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Infinity Ziona wrote:i don't want to offend anyone but I have a great dislike of MMO players in general. in my experience they tend to be dysfunctional toxic individuals. even the odd ones who don't outright annoy me I try to avoid doing stuff with.
I PLAY MMOs to compete against other players, MMO does not mean exclusively playing with, it can mean playing against. Unfortunately CCP and many EvE players don't appear to understand that.
A very quick look around these forums confirms your first statement about MMO players. EVE is in my top 5 list of worst game communities, alongside XBL and youtube.
On the topic at hand; I play small corp play with my friends - Missions when we need to buffer the wallet and lowsec roaming when we don't. However, I find myself with more time to play than them (I work form home) and as a result I do a lot of solo play.
The thing about solo content in EVE is there isn't any. Everything you CAN do as solo is designed to be done better by groups. There could be a number of reasons for this; either CCP doesn't want any solo content, is afraid what true solo PVE content might do to the economy, or just can't be bothered to properly balance it. Mission running is one of the more common solo activities, but because it can be done in groups they have to balance around that, both in difficulty and reward. Would I like to see some special missions with Unstable Acceleration Gates that self destruct after one use, enforcing solo missions that are properly balanced to provide a challenge to the solo player and not the group? Sure. But it's CCPs game and if they don't want to support that playstyle they don't have to. Like any business, if you don't support a specific type of customer you won't have that customer for long. CCP know this, so they've obviously considered the potential gains/losses of supporting solo play and decided against it. Which means that solo players are either a significant minority or are happy with shoehorned content not really designed for them. I don't have the data to say which it is, but I suspect the latter. |