Nam Noissim
Red Lobsters Unilateral
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Posted - 2011.10.27 01:18:00 -
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Why do I stay out of 0.0? Simple.
1. The meta game: If you want in a corp, you have to give your full API key most of the time so that someone can:
- Read all your messages and look for you spying
- See all your assets and tally their worth to see if you have ill gotten gains
- See how much money you have to see if you've stolen it from someone or given it away
- bla bla bla.
No one needs to know that I have a single missile in XD-34Q. Or where i have caches of ships. Spying is a huge problem for corps, and I understand that. I am NOT saying this is an issue CCP can or should fix, I am simply stating it as a fact. I do not wish to participate in the meta game. I do not wish for an attacker to know exactly what I can and cannot fly and fit. I do not wish to be spied on in real life for the 'safety of the corp'. It's a social problem and it is, by far, the biggest thing keeping me out of both WH and 0.0 space.
2. 0.0 drama: Again, a social issue that CCP can't really address. People will be people, and they will make mistakes I view as foolish.
3. Insecure cash flow without *lots* of friends. Let's face it, if you wanna take on dreddit, goons, PL, the russians, etc, you need a LOT of friends, because they have a lot of members. Moreover, if you just want to take a system in the middle of the drone regions, someone will see you on dotlan and come kill you *just* to take what you've got. In WH space, they can try this, but because they have 24 hours to kill you, more often than not a POS with stront in it is a sufficient deterrent. Or at least it was when I was doing WHs, maybe attackers have gotten more persistent. The ability of a 1,000 man army to come crush a little 10 man group is just frustrating. I'd be happy to join an alliance or something similar, but see problems 1 and 2 when it comes to why I don't.
tl;dr: People problems keep me out of 0.0. It's sandbox game, and the lowest common denominator makes leaders so edgy (and I cannot say unjustifiably) that the several hundred bad apples ruin it for the rest of us. |