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Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:55:00 -
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It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP? |

Jenn aSide
STK Scientific Initiative Mercenaries
1870
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:56:00 -
[2] - Quote
This will end well. |

Marlona Sky
D00M. Northern Coalition.
3723
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:57:00 -
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You have a problem with PvPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP?
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Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
2136
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:57:00 -
[4] - Quote
You're wrong. I wrote some true EVE stories! And no, they're not of the generic "my 0.0 alliance had lots of 0.0 fleets and took a lot of 0.0 space" sort. Check them out here:
https://truestories.eveonline.com/users/2074-destiny-corrupted |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:58:00 -
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Marlona Sky wrote:You have a problem with PvPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP? Yes.
Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No. |

arcca jeth
Dark Alliance Dark Empire Alliance
189
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:59:00 -
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it doesn't matter how many skills you got when you are ECM'd, just sayin |

baltec1
Bat Country
6569
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Posted - 2013.05.22 19:59:00 -
[7] - Quote
30 minutes into EVE and you be the guy who tackles a dreadnought.
One week into EVE and you can be in a logi ship and loved by your freinds.
2 weeks into EVE and you can be the guy who just ganked a hauler with a billion in the hold.
And so on.
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Ager Agemo
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
305
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:00:00 -
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Basil Pupkin wrote:Marlona Sky wrote:You have a problem with PvPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP? Yes. Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No.
My month of January proves you are wrong.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=600165&m=1&y=2013
damn I never noticed my ratio of kill deaths its so lame @.@ 50% :( gotta work on fixing it... |

Red Wolfstrike
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:00:00 -
[9] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
Try flying condors. My main has 1.2 years of SP and I'm wreaking up 2005 players with them. |

Hernan Johuihen
Zero Atmosphere Unclaimed.
32
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:01:00 -
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hehe |

Murk Paradox
Red Tsunami The Cursed Few
369
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:02:00 -
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Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
Miners with 30mil SP dying to 1 week old catalyst pilots beg to differ, "I say tomato, you say tomaCCP BAN ALL TOMATOES THEY ARE HARASSING ME I WANT TOMATO FREE HIGHSEC."-á -TheGunslinger42 Proud enforcer of the Code, see [url]http://www.minerbumping.com[/url]-á for details. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:02:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:30 minutes into EVE and you be the guy who tackles a dreadnought. And dies to his friends, proving my point.
baltec1 wrote:One week into EVE and you can be in a logi ship and loved by your freinds. Unless you mean T1 logi who's so laughable that nobody shoots him, no.
baltec1 wrote:2 weeks into EVE and you can be the guy who just ganked a hauler with a billion in the hold. Hauler would have ~2 hours to get some help against 2 weeks old.
|

floating in space
University of Caille Gallente Federation
30
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:03:00 -
[13] - Quote
Good post OP but needs something like "clicking on boxes takes no skill" and maybe "eve PVP is like playing tic-tac -toe with an enraged nerd" |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:04:00 -
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Killing maks in a fleet of 7 people, really, how does it make me wrong? |

Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8380
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:04:00 -
[15] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No. Yes you are more SP != win in PvP, it = more choice of ships to PvP in, for example player x has 100 million SP spread all over the place but only 5 million in frigates, player Y has only 5 million SP in frigates , if they're both in identical ships with identical fits then there is a 50/50 chance that player Y can beat player X, because 95 million of player Xs SP are completely irrelevant to the ship he's flying. HTFU
I eat your hatred for breakfast, then wash it down with your tears. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:04:00 -
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Murk Paradox wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP? Miners with 30mil SP dying to 1 week old catalyst pilots beg to differ,
No pvp sp against some pvp sp. Not an exception to "more SP wins" formula. |

floating in space
University of Caille Gallente Federation
31
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:05:00 -
[17] - Quote
also, remove killboards |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:06:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No. Yes you are, more SP != win in PvP, it = more choice of ships to PvP in, for example player x has 100 million SP spread all over the place but only 5 million in frigates, player Y has only 5 million SP in frigates , if they're both in identical ships with identical fits then there is a 50/50 chance that player Y can beat player X, because 95 million of player Xs SP are completely irrelevant to the ship he's flying. HTFU
More SP = better ships = win. They won't be in identical ships. Never. |

Onomerous
Shockwave Innovations
92
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:06:00 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:This will end well.
Dang... I agree with Jenn |

Aida Nu
Nu Industries
59
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:06:00 -
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Whats the name of your main? So we can check out the loss that made you come here and cry?
Or are you still mad about this one? http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11134460 |

Danni stark
344
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:07:00 -
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Basil Pupkin wrote: Not an exception to "more SP wins" formula.
yes it is.
you can't just pick and choose which situations it does and doesn't apply to just because some one proved you wrong. Ice Mining Skill Plan. |

Makoto Priano
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
444
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:07:00 -
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In this thread:
OP wants gudfites with e-honor. |

rswfire
Firesworn Firesworn Nation
80
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:07:00 -
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Basil Pupkin wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No.
Yes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAz0aWEzpw http://www.firesworn.com/index.php?/topic/69-about-firesworn-nation/
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Leper ofBacon
Benzene Inc. Incendia legio scientiae
11
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:08:00 -
[24] - Quote
When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:10:00 -
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Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers.
Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying.
Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts. |

Aida Nu
Nu Industries
59
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:12:00 -
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Basil Pupkin wrote:Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying. Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts.
You have no clue what you are talking about. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:13:00 -
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Aida Nu wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying. Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts. You have no clue what you are talking about.
It's so simple and so annoying that you don't need a clue. |

Leper ofBacon
Benzene Inc. Incendia legio scientiae
11
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:15:00 -
[28] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:
Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying.
You will never understand this game or any game. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:17:00 -
[29] - Quote
Leper ofBacon wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying.
You will never understand this game or any game.
There is nothing to understand here. "You don't have that SP heap? Lol noob, automatic defeat forever." |

baltec1
Bat Country
6571
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:17:00 -
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Basil Pupkin wrote:baltec1 wrote:30 minutes into EVE and you be the guy who tackles a dreadnought. And dies to his friends, proving my point. baltec1 wrote:One week into EVE and you can be in a logi ship and loved by your freinds. Unless you mean T1 logi who's so laughable that nobody shoots him, no. baltec1 wrote:2 weeks into EVE and you can be the guy who just ganked a hauler with a billion in the hold. Hauler would have ~2 hours to get some help against 2 weeks old.
And now we know you have done none of these things.
|

Captain Tardbar
NEWB ALERT
408
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:21:00 -
[31] - Quote
It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent. "Entitlement" is a euphemism for "I hate the way you play and it makes me cry like a baby". If you fantasize about being immoral it means you enjoy being immoral deep down. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:24:00 -
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Captain Tardbar wrote:It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent.
Need SP for best ships. More pilots = more SP = naturally, win. |

Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
2136
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:24:00 -
[33] - Quote
OP how about I roll a new character and train some basic skills, and we fight? You can use whatever you want. I wrote some true EVE stories! And no, they're not of the generic "my 0.0 alliance had lots of 0.0 fleets and took a lot of 0.0 space" sort. Check them out here:
https://truestories.eveonline.com/users/2074-destiny-corrupted |

Captain Tardbar
NEWB ALERT
408
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:26:00 -
[34] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent. Need SP for best ships. More pilots = more SP = naturally, win.
Well if we are talking about collective numbers then yeah, but what the OP was saying is that pilots with the most SP win all the time.
100 day old characters in frigs can beat a 5 year old character in a battleship. "Entitlement" is a euphemism for "I hate the way you play and it makes me cry like a baby". If you fantasize about being immoral it means you enjoy being immoral deep down. |

Drachiel
Mercury LLC
23
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:28:00 -
[35] - Quote
Hohohohohohoho. No. I killed a daredevil in a tech I frigate the other day. |

Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
4018
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:28:00 -
[36] - Quote
OP, show us on the doll where the naughty blob touched your ship. Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings? |

xttz
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
88
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:28:00 -
[37] - Quote
This thread is the best troll.
And by best I mean worst, of course. |

Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon Drunk 'n' Disorderly
699
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:29:00 -
[38] - Quote
You are just very VERY bad in this game. This is all.
"Also, your boobs " -á CCP Eterne, 2012
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Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:29:00 -
[39] - Quote
Captain Tardbar wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent. Need SP for best ships. More pilots = more SP = naturally, win. Well if we are talking about collective numbers then yeah, but what the OP was saying is that pilots with the most SP win all the time. 100 day old characters in frigs can beat a 5 year old character in a battleship.
Bring enough of them to outmass his SP, and sure, why not?
Eugene Kerner wrote:You are just very VERY bad in this game. This is all. Of course I am. No SP = bad. It's just hard to do anything about it. |

CompleteFailure
Polaris Rising Gentlemen's Agreement
34
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:32:00 -
[40] - Quote
OP, you have no idea how wrong you are. Check this vid from Scaurus's live stream a few nights ago:
http://www.twitch.tv/themittanidotcom/b/405319686
Scaurus is a highly experienced PVPer who has been around for quite a while. At about the 1:57:00 mark, he accepts a challenge from a corp mate of mine, Dash Ing, who merely wanted to give him a good fight for the audience. Dash is about 3-4 moths old. This fight is a Merlin vs. an Incursus, a pretty fair 1v1 matchup.
As you see in the video, Scaurus all but has the fight locked down...but OH ****!! I BURNT OUT MY GUNS!! The fight went to Dash, who in a very Gentlemanly display, decided to let him go when he got through the Merlin's armor. Just goes to show, even experienced pilots make mistakes, and very inexperienced pilots need only take advantage to turn the tide.
Stop whining, get a clue, and HTFU. |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
850
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:33:00 -
[41] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Need SP for best ships.
"best" is relative, as everything else in this game, xcept stupidity, which is so absolute that it delves into the absurd. [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Rhea Rankin Nolen
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
1
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:34:00 -
[42] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent. Need SP for best ships. More pilots = more SP = naturally, win.
No SP will save you from a guy with better piloting skills and better knowledge of game mechanics.
You can always buy the most pimped SP char on the bazaar, but if you're a n00b, you're a n00b.
piloting skills > skill points
|

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:35:00 -
[43] - Quote
CompleteFailure wrote:OP, you have no idea how wrong you are. Check this vid from Scaurus's live stream a few nights ago: http://www.twitch.tv/themittanidotcom/b/405319686Scaurus is a highly experienced PVPer who has been around for quite a while. At about the 1:57:00 mark, he accepts a challenge from a corp mate of mine, Dash Ing, who merely wanted to give him a good fight for the audience. Dash is about 3-4 moths old. This fight is a Merlin vs. an Incursus, a pretty fair 1v1 matchup. As you see in the video, Scaurus all but has the fight locked down...but OH ****!! I BURNT OUT MY GUNS!! The fight went to Dash, who in a very Gentlemanly display, decided to let him go when he got through the Merlin's armor. Just goes to show, even experienced pilots make mistakes, and very inexperienced pilots need only take advantage to turn the tide. Stop whining, get a clue, and HTFU.
So a single mistake due to lazyness is enough to keep it in your memory for ages, just cuz I BROKE THE MORE SP TO WIN RULE ONCE, SEE?!
Lame. Just one case of the iron rule violation? Just ONE? You don't sound so convincing. |

Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
2136
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:36:00 -
[44] - Quote
Destiny Corrupted wrote:OP how about I roll a new character and train some basic skills, and we fight? You can use whatever you want. Op you haven't responded, so I just want to reiterate that this offer still stands. I wrote some true EVE stories! And no, they're not of the generic "my 0.0 alliance had lots of 0.0 fleets and took a lot of 0.0 space" sort. Check them out here:
https://truestories.eveonline.com/users/2074-destiny-corrupted |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:36:00 -
[45] - Quote
Rhea Rankin Nolen wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent. Need SP for best ships. More pilots = more SP = naturally, win. No SP will save you from a guy with better piloting skills and better knowledge of game mechanics. You can always buy the most pimped SP char on the bazaar, but if you're a n00b, you're a n00b. piloting skills > skill points
Except piloting skills are skillpoints. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:37:00 -
[46] - Quote
Destiny Corrupted wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:OP how about I roll a new character and train some basic skills, and we fight? You can use whatever you want. Op you haven't responded, so I just want to reiterate that this offer still stands.
It is pointless, formula would just get proved again, and the lowest thing on my wishlist is ANOTHER proof of it. |

ian papabear
North Eastern Swat Pandemic Legion
109
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:38:00 -
[47] - Quote
I said this before and i will continue to say it, SP is not a determining factor in pvp. yeah itll help with your deeps, tracking, speed, etc, but what really matters is tactics. Back in the day before the cane was nerfed I would fit my 425mm shield cane with two neuts and take on ANYTHING up to bs, my cane at the time put out nearly 1k dps, i would take on tech3's and aboslutely abolish them .
anyway, the point is, know what you are doing and you can participate in pvp no matter how low skilled you are.
as far as content goes, PVP is driven by the players, not CCP, it is up to you and I to build ships and fight each other. all these nullsec/highsec/lowsec fleets fights are driven by players who want to control space/regions/areas that CCP doesnt care about. if you want to pvp then go out and fight someone, blow this or that guy up becasue he called you a douche, or go fight him because you dont like his alliance tag, or jsut fight him,,,, just to fight him . again, its up to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNReV76PtqM |

baltec1
Bat Country
6574
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:38:00 -
[48] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:
Except piloting skills are skillpoints.
No piloting skills are piloting skills. SP has nothing at all to do with it. |

Prince Kobol
760
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:39:00 -
[49] - Quote
The OP has so much its actually quite sad, I fear for our butthurt friend that he might do something like go back to wow |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:40:00 -
[50] - Quote
baltec1 wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
Except piloting skills are skillpoints.
No piloting skills are piloting skills. SP has nothing at all to do with it.
Whoever has more SP wins. Winner is said to have more piloting skills than the loser.
So either they're the same or very closely related. |

Gnaw LF
AQUILA INC Verge of Collapse
413
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:40:00 -
[51] - Quote
0/10 - left dissapointed |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:41:00 -
[52] - Quote
ian papabear wrote:I said this before and i will continue to say it, SP is not a determining factor in pvp. yeah itll help with your deeps, tracking, speed, etc, but what really matters is tactics. Back in the day before the cane was nerfed I would fit my 425mm shield cane with two neuts and take on ANYTHING up to bs, my cane at the time put out nearly 1k dps, i would take on tech3's and aboslutely abolish them .
anyway, the point is, know what you are doing and you can participate in pvp no matter how low skilled you are.
as far as content goes, PVP is driven by the players, not CCP, it is up to you and I to build ships and fight each other. all these nullsec/highsec/lowsec fleets fights are driven by players who want to control space/regions/areas that CCP doesnt care about. if you want to pvp then go out and fight someone, blow this or that guy up becasue he called you a douche, or go fight him because you dont like his alliance tag, or jsut fight him,,,, just to fight him . again, its up to you.
What's the point of getting into a fight you have no chance to win due to lack of SP? |

Dyphorus
Volition Cult The Volition Cult
20
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:41:00 -
[53] - Quote
Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
|

CompleteFailure
Polaris Rising Gentlemen's Agreement
34
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:42:00 -
[54] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:CompleteFailure wrote:OP, you have no idea how wrong you are. Check this vid from Scaurus's live stream a few nights ago: http://www.twitch.tv/themittanidotcom/b/405319686Scaurus is a highly experienced PVPer who has been around for quite a while. At about the 1:57:00 mark, he accepts a challenge from a corp mate of mine, Dash Ing, who merely wanted to give him a good fight for the audience. Dash is about 3-4 moths old. This fight is a Merlin vs. an Incursus, a pretty fair 1v1 matchup. As you see in the video, Scaurus all but has the fight locked down...but OH ****!! I BURNT OUT MY GUNS!! The fight went to Dash, who in a very Gentlemanly display, decided to let him go when he got through the Merlin's armor. Just goes to show, even experienced pilots make mistakes, and very inexperienced pilots need only take advantage to turn the tide. Stop whining, get a clue, and HTFU. So a single mistake due to lazyness is enough to keep it in your memory for ages, just cuz I BROKE THE MORE SP TO WIN RULE ONCE, SEE?! Lame. Just one case of the iron rule violation? Just ONE? You don't sound so convincing.
This is just one example, yes, but it happens ALL THE TIME. Older players tend to get overconfident against newer players, and quite often it gets them killed.
And no, SP does not equal piloting skill. One allows you to fit and fly the ship, the other let's you fly it competently. Again, as in the vid, letting that experience and skill lapse can cost you the fight. I'm sorry you simply haven't figured out how to do it, but that is the reality. |

ian papabear
North Eastern Swat Pandemic Legion
109
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Posted - 2013.05.22 20:43:00 -
[55] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:ian papabear wrote:I said this before and i will continue to say it, SP is not a determining factor in pvp. yeah itll help with your deeps, tracking, speed, etc, but what really matters is tactics. Back in the day before the cane was nerfed I would fit my 425mm shield cane with two neuts and take on ANYTHING up to bs, my cane at the time put out nearly 1k dps, i would take on tech3's and aboslutely abolish them .
anyway, the point is, know what you are doing and you can participate in pvp no matter how low skilled you are.
as far as content goes, PVP is driven by the players, not CCP, it is up to you and I to build ships and fight each other. all these nullsec/highsec/lowsec fleets fights are driven by players who want to control space/regions/areas that CCP doesnt care about. if you want to pvp then go out and fight someone, blow this or that guy up becasue he called you a douche, or go fight him because you dont like his alliance tag, or jsut fight him,,,, just to fight him . again, its up to you. What's the point of getting into a fight you have no chance to win due to lack of SP?
the same way a police officer is thrown out into the street after 6months in the academy, to gain experience, get a feel for the job, adapt styles and learn ways to handle situations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNReV76PtqM |

Rhivre
TarNec Invisible Exchequer
149
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:44:00 -
[56] - Quote
Poop.
If you wanted to say, fly T2 fitted cruisers, you need 10m SP....if you want to fly T2 frigs, then another couple of mill
This gives exactly the same SP in that ship as if you had 100m SP overall.
You can get a T2 fitted frig with a few million.
As others say, all you get from extra SP is a wider choice of ships, which is nice if you want it.
You can have 100m SP, but if you have little pvp experience, and you go up against a newbie who has spent all his time throwing ships around in PvP, and you have a buffer tank on.....you can, and will (eventually) die to their frig.
"You need moar SP to do PvP" is as valid as "You need moar isk to trade", as in, it isn't
Sure, if you want to fly a Black Ops / Titan / [ Insert BIIIIG ship here] then you need SP, but, hell, you can get into a fitted widow with around 20m if you specialise. YMMV but, I am 24d out of my Widow fitting with 24m SP, and thats because I took a minor detour into trade training.
You are confusing "skill points" with "skill", which comes with practice. |

ian papabear
North Eastern Swat Pandemic Legion
109
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:44:00 -
[57] - Quote
anyone who says SP is a determinant factor in pvp is bad and should feel bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNReV76PtqM |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:44:00 -
[58] - Quote
Dyphorus wrote:Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP. |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
850
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:45:00 -
[59] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:baltec1 wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
Except piloting skills are skillpoints.
No piloting skills are piloting skills. SP has nothing at all to do with it. Whoever has more SP wins. Winner is said to have more piloting skills than the loser. So either they're the same or very closely related.
ok I have industry maxed out, science maxed out and I lose to a 5mil SP character in a destroyer.
man I must fail quite hard since I wasn't able to kill a decent destroyer pilot in a noobship and all that SP! [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Bi-Mi Lansatha
Tactical Universal Research and Development Omnium Libertatem
153
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:45:00 -
[60] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP? As a an 8 month old player, I will say this... bullshit.
How many skill points do you think you can put into a ship class and support skills before you max it out?
|

CompleteFailure
Polaris Rising Gentlemen's Agreement
35
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:47:00 -
[61] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP.
Saying it over and over won't make it any more true, just stop. |

Komen
Capital Enrichment Services Existential Anxiety
185
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:47:00 -
[62] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying. Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts.
So what you're really upset about is that you'll never catch up to my 140+ mil skill points. Anyways older toons do die to younger all the time. Your lack of any real PvP experience is proven by your whine. When you actually get a few years under you and figure out how SP actually works, you'll probably have forgotten you wrote this thread, which is good, because you'd be awful embarrassed by your youthful, uninformed ramblings. Eve PvP has as much to do with knowledge of the game, and even ability to improvise given unexpected situations, as it does with the character's SP progression.
Do please keep crying, though. Sweet, sweet youngling tears. |

Lexmana
953
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:48:00 -
[63] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Dyphorus wrote:Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP. You are stating this things as they were facts. They are not. If you stick around for another week or year or so (your milage will vary) you will likely know what I mean. There is alot more than meets the eye at first glance in EVE. That is a fact (and you can quote me on that). |

Dub Step
Death To Everyone But Us
94
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:50:00 -
[64] - Quote
Feel free to spend several billion on a 100m sp + titan pilot and find out just how wrong you are. You are still going to suck just as bad as you do at the moment.
What matters in PVP is knowledge. |

Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
4167
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:51:00 -
[65] - Quote
I've seen a lot better trolls on the subject.
5 noobs in frigates with 10mil skill pts. total between them.
vs.
1 vet in a BS or Maurader with 100mil skill pts.
=
Dead vet.
Or to put it another way, remember way back when Shrike lost a Titan, took one away from one of this people to replace it and then turned around and lost that one the next day?
The gentleman that uncloaked the first Titan and enabled the kill was a sharp eyed young man in his first week of play. I'm not just talking about the character he was on, I'm also talking about the player himself.
It's been said before, there are lots of people that share your opinion of what it takes to be succesful in EvE combat. You'll find them conveniently listed as death mails filling every killboard you care to check, regardless of the number of skill points they have accumulated.  To carve a successful niche for yourself in EVE you need to be able to out sell, out produce, out fight,-á out run, or out wit your competitors. If you can do none of the above, your only option is to complain on the forums that somehow you are at a disadvantage using the exact same tool set-áas the rest of the player base. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:52:00 -
[66] - Quote
Lexmana wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Dyphorus wrote:Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP. You are stating this things as they were facts. They are not. If you stick around for another week or year or so (your milage will vary) you will likely know what I mean. There is alot more than meets the eye at first glance in EVE. That is a fact (and you can quote me on that).
You can tell how old this account is, don't you? I though this before and it has been proven and proven again. More SP always wins. |

baltec1
Bat Country
6578
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:52:00 -
[67] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:baltec1 wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
Except piloting skills are skillpoints.
No piloting skills are piloting skills. SP has nothing at all to do with it. Whoever has more SP wins. Winner is said to have more piloting skills than the loser. So either they're the same or very closely related.
They are not related at all. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:54:00 -
[68] - Quote
Ranger 1 wrote:I've seen a lot better trolls on the subject.
5 noobs in frigates with 10mil skill pts. total between them.
vs.
1 vet in a BS or Maurader with 100mil skill pts.
=
Dead vet.
Was he even online at the moment?
Ranger 1 wrote:Or to put it another way, remember way back when Shrike lost a Titan, took one away from one of this people to replace it and then turned around and lost that one the next day? The gentleman that uncloaked the first Titan and enabled the kill was a sharp eyed young man in his first week of play. I'm not talking about the character he was on, I'm talking about the player himself. It's been said before, there are lots of people that share your opinion of what it takes to be succesful in EvE combat. You'll find them conveniently listed as death mails filling every killboard you care to check, regardless of the number of skill points they have accumulated. 
As I said, accumulation of SP is pointless, because everyone is accumulating them and you can't catch up, ever. So, the only thing left for lower sp people is to ask "When eve is getting PvP?" |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
853
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:54:00 -
[69] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Lexmana wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Dyphorus wrote:Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP. You are stating this things as they were facts. They are not. If you stick around for another week or year or so (your milage will vary) you will likely know what I mean. There is alot more than meets the eye at first glance in EVE. That is a fact (and you can quote me on that). You can tell how old this account is, don't you? I though this before and it has been proven and proven again. More SP always wins. so a character having about 60mil SP just in science and industry will be able to beat a guy in a cruiser and 1/3rd of the SP?
I'd say good ol' chap, you be trolling, or you be stupid.
better yet, that means that me, with over 150 mil SP will be able to beat a titan with my mining barge!
HAH REVENGE OF THE CAREBEARS TAKE THAT! [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Lexmana
953
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:56:00 -
[70] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Lexmana wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Dyphorus wrote:Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP. You are stating this things as they were facts. They are not. If you stick around for another week or year or so (your milage will vary) you will likely know what I mean. There is alot more than meets the eye at first glance in EVE. That is a fact (and you can quote me on that). You can tell how old this account is, don't you? I though this before and it has been proven and proven again. More SP always wins. I am sad to see that after a couple of years you haven't learned much. But, as I said, your milage will vary. Maybe you just need a few more years to understand the game ... |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:56:00 -
[71] - Quote
Grimpak wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Lexmana wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Dyphorus wrote:Strategy and tactics win in EVE. The right ships, fit in the appropriate manner, the right amount of ships, engaging as needed in a given situation. SP beyond the basic requirement's to properly fly/fit your ship of choice are irrelevant.
How many of my 25-30 mil SP do you think mattered to the bomber I @$%# on last night in my 4 mil isk Tristan last night? A simple fit that a new pilot could train into, and afford to fly, within a month.
Once you get to the basic requirements you need to beat a guy, he gets the basic requirements for beating your beater. The process is infinite and you're always getting the short end of this stick, if you have lower SP. You are stating this things as they were facts. They are not. If you stick around for another week or year or so (your milage will vary) you will likely know what I mean. There is alot more than meets the eye at first glance in EVE. That is a fact (and you can quote me on that). You can tell how old this account is, don't you? I though this before and it has been proven and proven again. More SP always wins. so a character having about 60mil SP just in science and industry will be able to beat a guy in a cruiser and 1/3rd of the SP? I'd say good ol' chap, you be trolling, or you be stupid.
You may compare pvp xp as well, with the same result. More of them wins anyway.
|

Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8381
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:57:00 -
[72] - Quote
Experience and knowledge > SP. Skill points are not a prerequisite for winning in PvP, knowing what your ship can and can't do, how to use that ship to its greatest effect are much much more important than some arbitrary SP total.
I eat your hatred for breakfast, then wash it down with your tears. |

E-2C Hawkeye
State War Academy Caldari State
195
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:57:00 -
[73] - Quote
Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:57:00 -
[74] - Quote
Lexmana wrote:I am sad to see that after a couple of years you haven't learned much. But, as I said, your milage will vary. Maybe you just need a few more years to understand the game ...
Formula of win is so simple there is nothing left to understand, and yes, it's outside of reach of anyone who's not a vet. |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
854
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:57:00 -
[75] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote: You may compare pvp xp as well, with the same result. More of them wins anyway.
you're dealing in absolutes here, ergo you imply that a player witth a gazzilion SP will be able to kill a titan in a mining barge. [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Komen
Capital Enrichment Services Existential Anxiety
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:59:00 -
[76] - Quote
What an amazing killboard you have. You truly are knowledgable about this game. Your 0-1 record has clearly imbued you with a perfect grasp of thi...okay, I can't keep a straight face anymore.
Let's see your main. Show us your actual character, not your forum trolling alt. |

Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
4168
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:59:00 -
[77] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Ranger 1 wrote:I've seen a lot better trolls on the subject.
5 noobs in frigates with 10mil skill pts. total between them.
vs.
1 vet in a BS or Maurader with 100mil skill pts.
=
Dead vet. Was he even online at the moment? Ranger 1 wrote:Or to put it another way, remember way back when Shrike lost a Titan, took one away from one of this people to replace it and then turned around and lost that one the next day? The gentleman that uncloaked the first Titan and enabled the kill was a sharp eyed young man in his first week of play. I'm not talking about the character he was on, I'm talking about the player himself. It's been said before, there are lots of people that share your opinion of what it takes to be succesful in EvE combat. You'll find them conveniently listed as death mails filling every killboard you care to check, regardless of the number of skill points they have accumulated.  As I said, accumulation of SP is pointless, because everyone is accumulating them and you can't catch up, ever. So, the only thing left for lower sp people is to ask "When eve is getting PvP?" Of course he is online twit.  You really DON'T know anything about things work in EvE, do you... including how skill points work and how many actually apply in any given combat situation. Perhaps you should do some research on the issue, if only to make your painfully transparent trolling a bit more believable. To carve a successful niche for yourself in EVE you need to be able to out sell, out produce, out fight,-á out run, or out wit your competitors. If you can do none of the above, your only option is to complain on the forums that somehow you are at a disadvantage using the exact same tool set-áas the rest of the player base. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 20:59:00 -
[78] - Quote
E-2C Hawkeye wrote:Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink. Killing a barge is no different from mining. No surprises, no counter-attack, and you can do afk miner ganks just as miners do afk mining. Why would someone consider it a kill is a mystery for me. |

Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
4021
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:01:00 -
[79] - Quote
Confirming that pilots with 100mil SP and full faction set implants die just as easily as untrained bare clone forum alts.
SP means almost nothing in a game where there is a counter for almost any ship. I have killed BCs in an Incursus and ive watched in horror as people have gotten under my guns and pecked me to death. Ive seen pilots with 8 years of SP and full slaves die to a single dramiel pilotted by a 6 month old toon.
In eve there is a counter to almost every ship. Pilotting skill doesnt depend on SP, it depends on knowing what to fly, how to fly it and when to fly it. Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings? |

baltec1
Bat Country
6579
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:01:00 -
[80] - Quote
E-2C Hawkeye wrote:Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink.
How about this gem? |

Aida Nu
Nu Industries
67
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:02:00 -
[81] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:E-2C Hawkeye wrote:Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink. Killing a barge is no different from mining. No surprises, no counter-attack, and you can do afk miner ganks just as miners do afk mining. Why would someone consider it a kill is a mystery for me.
Your brain is a mystery. |

Komen
Capital Enrichment Services Existential Anxiety
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:06:00 -
[82] - Quote
Aida Nu wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:E-2C Hawkeye wrote:Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink. Killing a barge is no different from mining. No surprises, no counter-attack, and you can do afk miner ganks just as miners do afk mining. Why would someone consider it a kill is a mystery for me. Your brain is a mystery. Sick burn. |

Rhea Rankin Nolen
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
2
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:07:00 -
[83] - Quote
baltec1 wrote:E-2C Hawkeye wrote:Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink. How about this gem?
Duh..clearly Marlona had more SP! 
|

Bi-Mi Lansatha
Tactical Universal Research and Development Omnium Libertatem
154
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:07:00 -
[84] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:... More SP always wins. With 10M skill points (6 months) you can virtually max out all skills need for a Caldari Navy Hookbill. A player with 80M has no more ship advantage than you do... neither does one with 200M skill points.
There is an upper limit to the effect skill points can have on any type of ship.
|

Evei Shard
174
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:09:00 -
[85] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:E-2C Hawkeye wrote:Maybe he doesnGÇÖt consider killing mining barges as valid pvp. If he doesnGÇÖt then I would have to agree. Others would not. Opinions are like arse holieos...every one has one and they all stink. Killing a barge is no different from mining. No surprises, no counter-attack, and you can do afk miner ganks just as miners do afk mining. Why would someone consider it a kill is a mystery for me.
You seem to come up with a lot of excuses as to why the situations provided here by other players are invalid to your lamenting of PvP.
I could bring up a particular instance in which I added T3 battelcruiser to my main's killboard, but I'm sure if you saw the e-mail you'd invalidate the whole thing because the Oracle was a PvE setup, am I right?
You are either trolling, or just don't belong in Eve. There is no "perfect" battle scenario in Eve. When you undock, you are accepting the possibility that you will die. Said death is very often brought about not by the skill points of the pilot against you, but by the *number* of pilots you are against. It may not always be blob warfare like some claim, but often times it is 3v1, 4v1, or 5v1. 2v1 is lucky, 1v1 is a lottery moment, especially if your ships are even remotely close enough to get into that mythical issue of skill points being the determining factor.
tl:dr Eve will never fit your narrow view of "fair" PvP, because Eve is not fair. Profit favors the prepared |

baltec1
Bat Country
6579
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:09:00 -
[86] - Quote
Rhea Rankin Nolen wrote:Duh..clearly Marlona had more SP! 
Makes you wonder why badgers arnt killing more. I mean, I know of at least two battleships that have died to iterons. |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
854
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:13:00 -
[87] - Quote
baltec1 wrote:Rhea Rankin Nolen wrote:Duh..clearly Marlona had more SP!  Makes you wonder why badgers arnt killing more. I mean, I know of at least two battleships that have died to iterons. yes, where are the badgers killing titans? [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Scatim Helicon
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1890
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:16:00 -
[88] - Quote
I keep veering between "must be a troll, he can't be this dumb" and "this is Eve-O, of COURSE he could be this dumb". Titans were never meant to be "cost effective", its a huge ****.-á- CCP Oveur, 2006
~If you want a picture of the future of WiS, imagine a spaceship, stamping on an avatar's face. Forever. |

Whiskey Leo
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
0
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:21:00 -
[89] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
It is only real PvP when you win  |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
854
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:22:00 -
[90] - Quote
Evei Shard wrote:tl:dr Eve will never fit your narrow view of "fair" PvP, because Eve is not fair.
maybe he's one of those that carries a tank of honour in his ships.
[img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Barbelo Valentinian
Justified Chaos
359
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:22:00 -
[91] - Quote
Dub Step wrote:Feel free to spend several billion on a 100m sp + titan pilot and find out just how wrong you are. You are still going to suck just as bad as you do at the moment.
What matters in PVP is knowledge.
Absolutely spot-on, IMHO.
Which means that in an odd way the OP is right - people who have been playing longer do have an advantage, of sorts. But he's wrong that it's in terms of SP. It's in terms of knowledge built up over years of playing, making mistakes, trying again - getting info from people you play with, experimenting, etc.
That cannot be had by a newbie. SP per "flying something well" is hard capped. A newbie can easily reach that cap for small ships. The newbie will never have the knowledge and experience - that's what corporations are for, so the knowledge and experience can be shared and learned.
But that's just how it should be in an MMO.
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Murk Paradox
Red Tsunami The Cursed Few
372
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:25:00 -
[92] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:baltec1 wrote: [quote=baltec1]One week into EVE and you can be in a logi ship and loved by your freinds.
Unless you mean T1 logi who's so laughable that nobody shoots him, no.
But t1 logi's are fun as hell now!
You'd be surprised what a gang of all logi could do. "I say tomato, you say tomaCCP BAN ALL TOMATOES THEY ARE HARASSING ME I WANT TOMATO FREE HIGHSEC."-á -TheGunslinger42 Proud enforcer of the Code, see [url]http://www.minerbumping.com[/url]-á for details. |

Bischopt
Arbitrary Repossession
90
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:28:00 -
[93] - Quote
I get the feeling everything's been covered already but I'll weight in on this issue anyway because I feel strongly about the OP's possible stupidity and definite wrongness.
Let's start with an example: You're in a buffer tanked, ab-fitted (relatively slow) frigate, when suddenly a fast kity frigate shows up and starts warp disrupting you! The fact is, even if you've got a 2003 character with an insane amount of SP, you're gonna die to the kiting frigate because you cannot hit him at all while he's orbiting you outside of your optimal range (and falloff). He can hit you just fine from there and kills you. Your using a '03 character with several hundred million SP. He's using a 2011 character with maybe 20 million SP. He completely destroys you because he's got the right tactics for the fight.
Quote:You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
This is an easy one. My main is an '09 character and I've done pretty decently. I'm in the top 1k on battleclinic and the people in my neighbourhood know me, if not personally, by reputation (no, I'm not bragging. I think I'm actually pretty **** at pvp)
SP has very little to do with one's success at PVP. You just suck at it. |

Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
509
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:32:00 -
[94] - Quote
Barbelo Valentinian wrote:Dub Step wrote:Feel free to spend several billion on a 100m sp + titan pilot and find out just how wrong you are. You are still going to suck just as bad as you do at the moment.
What matters in PVP is knowledge. Absolutely spot-on, IMHO. Which means that in an odd way the OP is right - people who have been playing longer do have an advantage, of sorts. But he's wrong that it's in terms of SP. It's in terms of knowledge built up over years of playing, making mistakes, trying again - getting info from people you play with, experimenting, etc. That cannot be had by a newbie. SP per "flying something well" is hard capped. A newbie can easily reach that cap for small ships. The newbie will never have the knowledge and experience - that's what corporations are for, so the knowledge and experience can be shared and learned. But that's just how it should be in an MMO.
So it wouldn't hurt to rebalance the skill trees and reduce all benefits from every skill by 50%. I think thats a great idea. To be honest I would remove all skills that increased combat ability so that people were fighting on a more even field. It would make Eve a lot more exciting if it was an even competition skill wise.
-áKick ass soundtrack and Eve Pewpew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvc4KljpRGI |

Murk Paradox
Red Tsunami The Cursed Few
373
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:35:00 -
[95] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Murk Paradox wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP? Miners with 30mil SP dying to 1 week old catalyst pilots beg to differ, No pvp sp against some pvp sp. Not an exception to "more SP wins" formula.
Exactly why the typical "sp = win" is a terrible mentality.
"I say tomato, you say tomaCCP BAN ALL TOMATOES THEY ARE HARASSING ME I WANT TOMATO FREE HIGHSEC."-á -TheGunslinger42 Proud enforcer of the Code, see [url]http://www.minerbumping.com[/url]-á for details. |

Lady Areola Fappington
New Order Logistics CODE.
247
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:36:00 -
[96] - Quote
I remember this exact same post from OP, bout a month or so ago.
As been said, PVP is about equal parts player skills and knowledge, and EVE mechanic SP. The only place where raw SP is the pure determining factor is in stuff like manufacturing and trading. Don't worry miners, I'm here to help!
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Wacktopia
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
518
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:41:00 -
[97] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
There are some valid points you could make about EVE PVP but more SP being the root of succes is just not one of them.
Winning by overwhelming numbers, perhaps. Having huge amounts of ISK, yeah maybe. Looks like the yellow quafe shirt is more popular than I thought ;) |

Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
509
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:43:00 -
[98] - Quote
So why are SP's so important to people then? People filp out over the idea of not having +3 or +4 learning implants in nevermind the results of clone death. SP total just seems to have so much weight for something that really doesn't matter. -áKick ass soundtrack and Eve Pewpew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvc4KljpRGI |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:44:00 -
[99] - Quote
OP, before you get thrown out on your ears for being a massive troll, you should read this, this, and this.
In short: SP does not work the way you think it does. You assume that it scales linearly. It doesn't. You assume that all SP is always relevant. It isn't. You assume that SP is all that determine stats. It isn't.
You also assume that there's a strict GÇ£bigger is betterGÇ¥ progression in ships and equipment GÇö there isn't. Welcome to a paper-scissors-rock game. If you keep getting beaten, try not choosing rock every time.
Corey Fumimasa wrote:So why are SP's so important to people then? It's important to some people, most likely because they are in that frame of mind where they're always chasing the next big thing, and/or where the main draw for them is character progression. Both are often tied to SP. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Whim Aqayn
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
27
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:45:00 -
[100] - Quote
I agree with the OPs sentiment that PvP should depend on monocles. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:48:00 -
[101] - Quote
Whiskey Leo wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP? It is only real PvP when you win 
It's only real PvP when each party has a chance. |

Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
2144
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:48:00 -
[102] - Quote
Corey Fumimasa wrote:So it wouldn't hurt to rebalance the skill trees and reduce all benefits from every skill by 50%. I think thats a great idea. To be honest I would remove all skills that increased combat ability so that people were fighting on a more even field. It would make Eve a lot more exciting if it was an even competition skill wise.
I'm not wholly against skills simply acting as a prerequisite differentiator, though in the case of EVE it's probably way too late to make such a change.
But even then, though the OP may be a troll, people like him do actually exist, and they'd find something else to whine about. They always do. I wrote some true EVE stories! And no, they're not of the generic "my 0.0 alliance had lots of 0.0 fleets and took a lot of 0.0 space" sort. Check them out here:
https://truestories.eveonline.com/users/2074-destiny-corrupted |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:51:00 -
[103] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It's only real PvP when each party has a chance. GǪso like in EVE, then, and completely unlike most other MMOs.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

bbb2020
Carebears with Attitude
51
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Posted - 2013.05.22 21:51:00 -
[104] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying. Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts. First: Nice trolling.
Still, this (the highlighted part) is where you're wrong as nobody can train a skill higher than lv5. If a 5 year old player has trained Minmatar frigate to lv5 and you do the same, you are both (SP wice) eaqually good at flying that ship. Granted, he will have have a lot of other skills that help him fit his ship better but he can still only train those skills to lv5, so eventually you will catch up. In the mean time, you might still be able to beat him as pvp in Eve has little to do with SP. It has all to do with knowledge. The Knowledge of how to pvp in Eve style.
This mean knowing how to use the tool (ship) you have at your disposal to hit your opponent at his weakest point. Knowing about fall off, transversal, kitting and a bunch of other stuff. Knowing when to fight and when to run and most importent - how to manually pilot your ship in relation to your apponent.
Think most players that come to the forums and complain about, not being able to pilot the ships personally (from the bridge) and want Eve to be a game where you do "dogfighting" type of pvp, has the same hole in their knowledge about what makes Eve pvp tick.
Sure thing, he might have better skills than you and have better modules on his ship but rest assure, that do NOT mean he knows how to fit his new ship or how to use it in a pvp situation.
Don't give up. Try and try again and everytime - learn from your experience. Learning in a personal matter (not SP wice) is what makes a good Eve player. |

Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
509
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:51:00 -
[105] - Quote
Tippia wrote:Corey Fumimasa wrote:So why are SP's so important to people then? It's important to some people, most likely because they are in that frame of mind where they're always chasing the next big thing, and/or where the main draw for them is character progression. Both are often tied to SP.
So reducing the effect of skill increase by 50% would be a good way to mitigate any power creep which has occurred. Players still have the same SP and can use the same gear. -áKick ass soundtrack and Eve Pewpew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvc4KljpRGI |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 21:57:00 -
[106] - Quote
Corey Fumimasa wrote:So reducing the effect of skill increase by 50% would be a good way to mitigate any power creep which has occurred. Players still have the same SP and can use the same gear. Mu. That has pretty much nothing to do with what I said. In fact, what on earth are you talking about?
Also, by design, there is pretty much zero power creep with the EVE skill system.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu Curatores Veritatis Alliance
509
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:03:00 -
[107] - Quote
The OP was saying that he had been "out skilled" in combat. I was just thinking that if the advantages of skiling up were reduced a bit then he wouldn't be so outgunned. For instance say every level of gunnery gives 5% increase in damage, if that was reduced to 2.5% then The OP couldn't complain about how much damage the other guy did because they are a bit closer in effective DPS. -áKick ass soundtrack and Eve Pewpew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvc4KljpRGI |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:14:00 -
[108] - Quote
Corey Fumimasa wrote:The OP was saying that he had been "out skilled" in combat. I was just thinking that if the advantages of skiling up were reduced a bit then he wouldn't be so outgunned. For instance say every level of gunnery gives 5% increase in damage, if that was reduced to 2.5% then The OP couldn't complain about how much damage the other guy did because they are a bit closer in effective DPS. No, he'd complain just the same because the causes for his assumed problem still exist (wellGǪ they exist in his head, not in the game). That's the problem with fantastical claims based on nothing but assumptions and ignorance.
The simple fact of the matter is that the OP is wrong and refuses to actually check whether any of what he believes is true. The solution to that problem is for the OP to realise facts and stop being wrong, not to arbitrarily change the game for no good reason.
Let's have fun with numbers: -+ 553 DPS and 23.2k EHP can be had for 8M SP -+ 648 DPS and 23.7k EHP can be had for 34M SP (same ship and skills as above, just more SP). -+ 1106 DPS and 46.4k EHP can be had for 16M SP (same ship and skills as above, but 2v1).
Conclusion: OP isGǪ let's be very very charitable and just call it misinformed rather than what it really should be called if we were being honest. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

iskflakes
460
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:17:00 -
[109] - Quote
SP is irrelevant, ISK is irrelevant, skill is irrelevant, only numbers count. - |

Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
594
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:22:00 -
[110] - Quote
Can't say I disagree with the OP. But then I think EvE's counterintuitive formula is what makes it somewhat successful as a PvP game.
The biggest fears in other PvP games are "Pay to Win", "Gear Gap", and large disparity in SP (XP) levels between new and old players, where new players will never catch the old players. EvE embraces all of these.
The reason I think the formula is successful is because, contrary to what people say, hardly anyone really wants a fair fight. This thread has so much content it may be 'Thread of the Year' and it is only January.
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Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:24:00 -
[111] - Quote
bbb2020 wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying. Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts. First: Nice trolling. Still, this (the highlighted part) is where you're wrong as nobody can train a skill higher than lv5. If a 5 year old player has trained Minmatar frigate to lv5 and you do the same, you are both (SP wice) eaqually good at flying that ship. Granted, he will have have a lot of other skills that help him fit his ship better but he can still only train those skills to lv5, so eventually you will catch up. In the mean time, you might still be able to beat him as pvp in Eve has little to do with SP. It has all to do with knowledge. The Knowledge of how to pvp in Eve style. This mean knowing how to use the tool (ship) you have at your disposal to hit your opponent at his weakest point. Knowing about fall off, transversal, kitting and a bunch of other stuff. Knowing when to fight and when to run and most importent - how to manually pilot your ship in relation to your apponent. Think most players that come to the forums and complain about, not being able to pilot the ships personally (from the bridge) and want Eve to be a game where you do "dogfighting" type of pvp, has the same hole in their knowledge about what makes Eve pvp tick. Sure thing, he might have better skills than you and have better modules on his ship but rest assure, that do NOT mean he knows how to fit his new ship or how to use it in a pvp situation. Don't give up. Try and try again and everytime - learn from your experience. Learning in a personal matter (not SP wice) is what makes a good Eve player.
That is obviously wrong, since SP allows better ships for enough years to call them EVER. Knowing when to fight and when to run is very simple. Compare SP. I know about falloff, traversal, kiting, and a bunch of other stuff. It doesn't help against severe SP deficit, which was proven over, and over, and over. The best you can do with all that stuff is to escape the higher SP opponent, and that is hardly a win, because he has to do nothing and you got to be universally better prepared to simply avoid loss. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:28:00 -
[112] - Quote
Nexus Day wrote:Can't say I disagree with the OP. But then I think EvE's counterintuitive formula is what makes it somewhat successful as a PvP game.
The biggest fears in other PvP games are "Pay to Win", "Gear Gap", and large disparity in SP (XP) levels between new and old players, where new players will never catch the old players. EvE embraces all of these.
The reason I think the formula is successful is because, contrary to what people say, hardly anyone really wants a fair fight.
Screw fair. At least give me a chance. I've never seen a single chance to beat higher SP player is a combat situation (I refuse to call barge ganks, blob ganks, and gate camps PvP). |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:30:00 -
[113] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Except piloting skills are skillpoints. No, there is a LOT to proper skill. There is a ton of things to think of and keep track of when entering into a fight (things like radial velocity, slingshot maneuvers, spiraling in, optimal/falloff, among others...).
There are obvious cases where a single low SP pilot WILL defeat the higher SP pilot almost all the time. An assault frigate noob vs. a tier 3 battlecruiser being one example.
But in many more cases the result may be open, as far as ship-type/fit vs other ship-type/fit goes. In these cases both SP and actual piloting skill play a role. In some cases piloting skills > SP. Let's say a frigate fight between a longpoint-kiter and a scram/web-brawler. In such a case piloting skill will trump SP anytime. If the kiter (maybe a Navy Slicer) just hits orbit, he'll lose if the brawler can pull off a proper slingshot maneuvre. Has nothing to do with SP, just with skill. Now if the kiter pays attention he'll switch to manual flying at the proper time and make sure the range initially doesn't grow and (once the brawler executes the turnaround), will immediately reverse vectors.
In other cases SP > piloting skills. Let's say two similiarly fitted buffer-tanked brawling cruisers duking it out. But even here there is a lot of room for error, or even just more kill, depending on the weapon systems in use. It may very well be possible to reduce tracking enough (fly under the guns) by manually orbiting close (<500m).
Also, beyond a few M SP, frig and cruiser fights are practically equal by default. Any dozen million SP beyond that won't help the older char anyway. |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:32:00 -
[114] - Quote
Reserved. (double post) |

baltec1
Bat Country
6581
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:34:00 -
[115] - Quote
Corey Fumimasa wrote:The OP was saying that he had been "out skilled" in combat.
He has never been in conflict. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:35:00 -
[116] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:That is obviously wrong, since SP allows better ships for enough years to call them EVER. GǪexcept that you don't need more SP to have GǣbetterGǥ ships. In fact, you can have fewer, and worse ships if all you have is more SP.
Quote:I know about falloff, traversal, kiting, and a bunch of other stuff. It doesn't help against severe SP deficit, which was proven wrong over, and over, and over. Fixed. Outflying, outgunning, and generally out-killing people with higher SP is done on a daily basis. Largely because a sever SP deficit doesn't matter much GÇö the game mechanics ensure this.
Quote:Screw fair. At least give me a chance. You already have it. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Lexar Mundi
DYNAMIC INTERVENTION ORPHANS OF EVE
46
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:35:00 -
[117] - Quote
I would have given you a 2/10 on the troll O-meter but it seems there are more gullible people than i thought. That bumps you up to maybe a 7/10 on the troll O-meter. |

Shao Huang
University of Caille Gallente Federation
234
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:37:00 -
[118] - Quote
I remember very clearly the moment when I realized that regardless of how many birthdays I had I was never going to catch up to my older brother. This seemed like an incredibly poor way to run things to me at the time. Granted I was 5. I soon realized that this might be rectified should he die. Though frequently angry with him, I decided formulating plans along these lines might not be the best idea.
I think there are many games that provide an even playing field, immediately and in every occurrence of the game in terms of mechanics. Arcade fighting games are an example of these. They are usually pretty short games, played repeatedly, until that becomes intolerably boring or a new one replaces them.
Like when I was 5, I experience something about the frustration of having toyed with this game when it first came out, having been unable to continue it that time, and now wanting to play... Hence finding myself with the constructed illusion of 'being behind' as if someone else had done all this to me.
Though some aspect of the condition is true, I think it is a false impression. It relies on a few assumptions that seem iffy to me. It constrains the notion of PvP to a one on one, ship to ship conflict... Like an arcade game. Being a noob and all I could be wrong, but this does not seem to me at the center of what EVE is about.
I also wonder about examples of MMO's where the OP thinks this condition about which OP is complaining does not exist? Often an MMO will introduce a new 'race' or class as part of an expansion which is designed to allow new players to 'catch up' in some way. The very first EQ expansion was intended to do this. Of course this pissed off the established player base. There were others who simply played the new 'races' and classes and beat up on new players anyway. My own experience is that such moves usually dilute the game and begin a kind of horrible regression of challenging play in the game. For the most part I think what then OP is complaining about exists in all other MMO's. Because they usually have level caps, it is encountered in lesser and different ways.
I also think what the OP is suggesting is simply not true. Go sort through the Belligerent Undesirables site. One of the things you will find is many examples of BU players spawning new alts and at just a few weeks into the game reeking havoc. Some of this is awoxing and such, but there are also examples of very low SP alts simply tearing through a variety of higher SP, superior ship opponents. It is interesting. It is based on that the player has a vastly superior understanding of the mechanics and such things as piloting.
Additionally, I suspect there is an SP threshold where my investment in ship to ship skills starts to flatten out in terms of in-game effect. Skills start to be about command ships and very specialized roles, etc., etc. It would be interesting to see this plotted. These specialized roles, meant for fleet doctrines and such, do not function the same way in single ship to ship conflicts. If true, this means we get more effect per SP early on if we are not imagining fighting our Frigate against a T3 ship and such, and it is therefore possible to 'catch up' to some extent.
I simply assume that I am now always at a disadvantage and that this is not likely to change greatly. In that disadvantage I fear the experienced pilot over the SP pilot. OP could test this out by using the CCP mechanism fully in place for this. OP could simply go buy a high SP character in the bazaar. The cost represents the amount of time that the seller has invested (and which the buyer has not). OP could then take out their shiny new SP monster and would presumably win almost every fight. Presumably they might see some difference, but if you scour the forums you will find examples of people who have done this who are mightily confused about how they possibly could have lost in some situation. You have to look for a gap between their SP and knowledge of the game, represented by the questions they are asking. Private sig. Do not read. |

Minmatar Citizen160812
The LGBT Last Supper
198
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:37:00 -
[119] - Quote
SOOoooo...what did you loose?
And can I have your stuff? |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:37:00 -
[120] - Quote
Lexar Mundi wrote:I would have given you a 2/10 on the troll O-meter but it seems there are more gullible people than i thought. That bumps you up to maybe a 7/10 on the troll O-meter.
Knowing it is trolling doesn't mean you do not answer. There are newbie-lurkers who'll get the wrong impression if troll isn't properly debunked. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:38:00 -
[121] - Quote
Karsa Egivand wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Except piloting skills are skillpoints. No, there is a LOT to proper skill. There is a ton of things to think of and keep track of when entering into a fight (things like radial velocity, slingshot maneuvers, spiraling in, optimal/falloff, among others...). There are obvious cases where a single low SP pilot WILL defeat the higher SP pilot almost all the time. An assault frigate noob vs. a tier 3 battlecruiser being one example. But in many more cases the result may be open, as far as ship-type/fit vs other ship-type/fit goes. In these cases both SP and actual piloting skill play a role. In some cases piloting skills > SP. Let's say a frigate fight between a longpoint-kiter and a scram/web-brawler. In such a case piloting skill will trump SP anytime. If the kiter (maybe a Navy Slicer) just hits orbit, he'll lose if the brawler can pull off a proper slingshot maneuvre. Has nothing to do with SP, just with skill. Now if the kiter pays attention he'll switch to manual flying at the proper time and make sure the range initially doesn't grow and (once the brawler executes the turnaround), will immediately reverse vectors. In other cases SP > piloting skills. Let's say two similiarly fitted buffer-tanked brawling cruisers duking it out. But even here there is a lot of room for error, or even just more kill, depending on the weapon systems in use. It may very well be possible to reduce tracking enough (fly under the guns) by manually orbiting close (<500m). Also, beyond a few M SP, frig and cruiser fights are practically equal by default. Any dozen million SP beyond that won't help the older char anyway.
It is ridiculous to assume higher SP and lower SP players will be in even remotely equal ships. Since when 25 million SP if "few M"? By the time lower SP maxes cruisers, higher SP will max every possible cruiser killer combination. You just don't stand a chance against higher SP unless a terrible mistake is made, and you cannot force that mistake to happen. Which means your chance to win by skill is 0%, which means SP just dominated the scene. |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:46:00 -
[122] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It is ridiculous to assume higher SP and lower SP players will be in even remotely equal ships. Since when 25 million SP if "few M"? By the time lower SP maxes cruisers, higher SP will max every possible cruiser killer combination. You just don't stand a chance against higher SP unless a terrible mistake is made, and you cannot force that mistake to happen. Which means your chance to win by skill is 0%, which means SP just dominated the scene.
You seem to have the notion that bigger ships are always better. This is not the case. I can give you many examples of smaller ships being vastly superior to a larger ship type in combat.
any assault frigate > tier 3 battlecruisers actually, almost any combat frigate > tier 3 battlecruisers
assault frigate > most battleships (unless drone BS) any combat frigate > long-range battleships (unless drone BS)
many T1 cruisers > long-range battleships / tier3 batltecruisers with long range weaponry (e.g. Vexor > artillery tornado/tempest)
I could list more such combinations. The ones above mostly rely on the insufficient tracking of the larger guns vs. smaller targets (also their inability to escape due to being slow). There are other such combinations that rely on other factors (range and speed, ewar, etc.)
This is also the reason that many high SP pilots never stop flying frigates and cruisers (the new T1 cruisers rock), let alone battlecruisers. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:47:00 -
[123] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It is ridiculous to assume higher SP and lower SP players will be in even remotely equal ships. Exactly. So why are you? Because that's the only way for your claim to be even the slightest bit close to true (and not even then does it account for what player skill can do).
Quote:Since when 25 million SP if "few M"? Since, oh, 2004 or so.
Quote:By the time lower SP maxes cruisers, higher SP will max every possible cruiser killer combination. GǪand the error Gǣlower SPGǥ does is to max cruisers when it's an immense waste of time and effort to do so compared to what you get.
Quote:You just don't stand a chance against higher SP unless a terrible mistake is made, and you cannot force that mistake to happen Yes you can. That's where player skill comes in.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.22 22:48:00 -
[124] - Quote
Karsa Egivand wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:It is ridiculous to assume higher SP and lower SP players will be in even remotely equal ships. Since when 25 million SP if "few M"? By the time lower SP maxes cruisers, higher SP will max every possible cruiser killer combination. You just don't stand a chance against higher SP unless a terrible mistake is made, and you cannot force that mistake to happen. Which means your chance to win by skill is 0%, which means SP just dominated the scene. You seem to have the notion that bigger ships are always better. This is not the case. I can give you many examples of smaller ships being vastly superior to a larger ship type in combat. any assault frigate > tier 3 battlecruisers actually, almost any combat frigate > tier 3 battlecruisers assault frigate > most battleships (unless drone BS) any combat frigate > long-range battleships (unless drone BS) many T1 cruisers > long-range battleships / tier3 batltecruisers with long range weaponry (e.g. Vexor > artillery tornado/tempest) I could list more such combinations. The ones above mostly rely on the insufficient tracking of the larger guns vs. smaller targets (also their inability to escape due to being slow). There are other such combinations that rely on other factors (range and speed, ewar, etc.) This is also the reason that many high SP pilots never stop flying frigatse and cruisers (let alone battlecruisers, which rock).
I said better ships are better, not bigger. And better ships take months to simply get into, not to mention do something in them. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:50:00 -
[125] - Quote
0/10
Unless you don't get the silent hint, I will tell you straightly - whatever you troll is going to get thoroughly ignored. |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:51:00 -
[126] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:I said better ships are better, not bigger. And better ships take months to simply get into, not to mention do something in them.
A battleship can be an awesome ship. But if I get a chance to catch one in a cruiser (best with tracking disruptor), I'll jump at it.
A vexor is neither bettor nor worse than a tempest. It depends on the situation and fitting of both to decide who has the better chance of winning. It almost doesn't matter in what ship you undock, there will be counters to that. Counters that a charcter with less SP can also fly.
Sometimes this rock/paper/scissors game doesn't leave much room for skill (real piloting skill or SP). Sometimes it'll be close, then both will matter. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 22:57:00 -
[127] - Quote
Prove it.
Quote:Unless you don't get the silent hint, I will tell you straightly The only hint so far is that you're impervious to facts and figures; that your claims have no basis in reality, mechanics, game history or anything; that you have no argument other than "nu-uh!GǥGǪ
GǪin other words, the only conclusion is that you're a troll. But that's ok, because you'll serve as a proxy for the poor newbies who are unfortunate enough to genuinely believe the counter-factual nonsense you're spewing.
Quote:I said better ships are better, not bigger. There are no GÇ£better shipsGÇ¥. All harder-to-train-for ship can be readily beaten by easy-to-train-for ships. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:03:00 -
[128] - Quote
Tippia wrote:Quote:I said better ships are better, not bigger. There are no GÇ£better shipsGÇ¥. All harder-to-train-for ships can be readily beaten by easy-to-train-for ships.
Quoted because Tippia said in a nice and concise fashion what I have been writing novels about. ("practice", i guess ) |

Captain Tardbar
NEWB ALERT
410
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:05:00 -
[129] - Quote
Tippia posts make me fear for the end of intelligence in humanity, but makes me cheer because they'll only be 25 years left of it before everyone starves to death in the shopping line at Wal Mart. "Entitlement" is a euphemism for "I hate the way you play and it makes me cry like a baby". If you fantasize about being immoral it means you enjoy being immoral deep down. |

Baali Tekitsu
Sirius Fleet
1
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:09:00 -
[130] - Quote
Daaaamn cracka look Art how this 1y old PUNK is CRUNCHING all dem bitches 1337 solo **** outnumbered n stuff http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=1366100 |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
856
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:19:00 -
[131] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote: and you cannot force that mistake to happen. Which means your chance to win by skill is 0%
ok now, who the hell killed your multibillion pirate battleship with a T1 frigate?
it has to be that, right? [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:21:00 -
[132] - Quote
Karsa Egivand wrote:Tippia wrote:Quote:I said better ships are better, not bigger. There are no GÇ£better shipsGÇ¥. All harder-to-train-for ships can be readily beaten by easy-to-train-for ships. Quoted because Tippia said in a nice and concise fashion what I have been writing novels about. ( "practice", i guess  ) A version that you can't misread as easily: "All harder-to-train-for ships can be readily beaten by a well chosen easy-to-train-for ship."
Wrong. All harder-to-train-ships beat all but maybe one easy-to-train-ship, and having a free choice of harder-to-train-ships to kill you higher SP will dominate without effort. |

baltec1
Bat Country
6583
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:23:00 -
[133] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:
Wrong. All harder-to-train-ships beat all but maybe one easy-to-train-ship, and having a free choice of harder-to-train-ships to kill you higher SP will dominate without effort.
So how did a dram die to a badger? |

Grimpak
Midnight Elites United Federation of Commerce
857
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:26:00 -
[134] - Quote
baltec1 wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
Wrong. All harder-to-train-ships beat all but maybe one easy-to-train-ship, and having a free choice of harder-to-train-ships to kill you higher SP will dominate without effort.
So how did a dram die to a badger? and this was back in the days when drams were quite... powerful. [img]http://eve-files.com/sig/grimpak[/img]
[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right |

Karsa Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
186
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:33:00 -
[135] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Karsa Egivand wrote:Tippia wrote:Quote:I said better ships are better, not bigger. There are no GÇ£better shipsGÇ¥. All harder-to-train-for ships can be readily beaten by easy-to-train-for ships. Quoted because Tippia said in a nice and concise fashion what I have been writing novels about. ( "practice", i guess  ) A version that you can't misread as easily: "All harder-to-train-for ships can be readily beaten by a well chosen easy-to-train-for ship." Wrong. All harder-to-train-ships beat all but maybe one easy-to-train-ship, and having a free choice of harder-to-train-ships to kill you higher SP will dominate without effort.
This is wrong (obviously so) and you never reply to all the examples given. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:38:00 -
[136] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Wrong. All harder-to-train-ships beat all but maybe one easy-to-train-ship Prove it.
Quote:having a free choice of harder-to-train-ships to kill you higher SP will dominate without effort. One problem: you don't have free choice.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8382
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:40:00 -
[137] - Quote
The more I see of the OPs posting the more I'm convinced that, he's either a troll, a little bit special or both.
I eat your hatred for breakfast, then wash it down with your tears. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:41:00 -
[138] - Quote
This is obviously right. Must I repeat it for you?
Basil Pupkin wrote:All harder-to-train-ships beat all but maybe one easy-to-train-ship, and having a free choice of harder-to-train-ships to kill you higher SP will dominate without effort. |

Luna Q
Rep-X Hashashin Cartel
469
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:43:00 -
[139] - Quote
you are stupid, & should feel bad. Quit now & give all your stuff to people that have learned to EvE. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:44:00 -
[140] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:This is obviously right. Prove it.
Quote:Must I repeat it for you? No, just prove it. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Vordek Rei
House of Praetor R O G U E
2
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:46:00 -
[141] - Quote
Arguing with Basil Pupkin is dumb, when we can test it.
I will pay for all the costs associated with such an event (duel) or Duels, rules are simple.
Standard Frigates, Destroyers or Cruisers, with standard fittings.
No named/officer/etc or LP store mods. Just run of the mill items.
Make sure you don't have too many implants, max value of 25 mil in total.
Rules are simple - when you fight Basil Pupkin make sure you can prove with that you have fewer SP than him, or prove it in such a way that its very likely that you do.
I will pay all* expenses for this event. - I will only pay for destroyed items.
Just wasted +700 mil on a face plug, think I can spare a few millions of isk for the laughs. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:47:00 -
[142] - Quote
Luna Q wrote:you are stupid, & should feel bad. Quit now & give all your stuff to people that have learned to EvE.
I've invested too much to quit. I wish I could ruin EvE for everyone, but it seems Odyssey will do well enough. Eve brings nothing but regret to anyone who lost the chance to register earlier. |

Invisusira
The Rising Stars The Initiative.
164
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:49:00 -
[143] - Quote
ITT:
OP confuses "skill" with "skillpoints" Core Skills - train em up train em up! |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:50:00 -
[144] - Quote
Vordek Rei wrote:Arguing with Basil Pupkin is dumb, when we can test it. I will pay for all the costs associated with such an event (duel) or Duels, rules are simple. Standard Frigates, Destroyers or Cruisers, with standard fittings. No named/officer/etc or LP store mods. Just run of the mill items. Make sure you don't have too many implants, max value of 25 mil in total. Rules are simple - when you fight Basil Pupkin make sure you can prove with that you have fewer SP than him, or prove it in such a way that its very likely that you do. I will pay all* expenses for this event. - I will only pay for destroyed items.Just wasted +700 mil on a face plug, think I can spare a few millions of isk for the laughs.
This is indeed a situation where SP can make less of an impact. But it's so unreal and impractical, which destroys the value of experiment completely.
Invisusira wrote:ITT:
OP confuses "skill" with "skillpoints"
Since you win with skillpoints, skillpoints are skill. |

Vordek Rei
House of Praetor R O G U E
2
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:51:00 -
[145] - Quote
Well well then if you don't want to play my game I will force you, enjoy you new bounty.  |

Rhivre
TarNec Invisible Exchequer
154
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:51:00 -
[146] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:
I said better ships are better, not bigger. And better ships take months to simply get into, not to mention do something in them.
No, actually, at varying points in this thread you have made various claims.
Texas Sharpshooter
Or maybe
Special
Your claim was "Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping."
You then clarified to say "Oh, I meant 1v1, cos duelling is pro"
Then you claimed that given the same ship, a player with 100m SP would beat a specialized char with fewer SP. "Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception." ""You don't have that SP heap? Lol noob, automatic defeat forever."
Then you confused Skill in PvP with SP: "Except piloting skills are skillpoints." "Whoever has more SP wins. Winner is said to have more piloting skills than the loser.
So either they're the same or very closely related."
Now you are claiming that the problem is that "better" ships require more SP.
So your current argument is "I should be able to get this seasons arena gear and skills at level 1"
finally:
"I said better ships are better, not bigger. And better ships take months to simply get into, not to mention do something in them."
I respectfully disagree. Sure, if you want to be in null, maybe you need some big huge scary ship that takes 6 months...but then, do you think it is unfair that a 1 day old player cannot fly in a L4 missionboat?
My PvP alts take 2-3 months to finish training usually, because for me, the "best" ship is the one I like flying...for a new char, those months taking training for a T2 frig/cruiser/whatever are time gained throwing cheap ships around.
As mentioned before, you are welcome to buy a high SP pvp pilot as a new player, hop into the ship, and see if your SP gets you very far against a player who has actually been shooting stuff, and losing ships and learning from their mistakes.
The bit you miss that takes the time is the experience gained when you make a mistake. THAT is the part you want to skip.
If we all had equal SP and equal ships, we would still not all be equal at PvP and this is what is bothering you. |

Invisusira
The Rising Stars The Initiative.
164
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:52:00 -
[147] - Quote
ITT:
OP learns to use a dictionary Core Skills - train em up train em up! |

Shao Huang
University of Caille Gallente Federation
236
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:54:00 -
[148] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:[quote=Luna Q]
I've invested too much to quit. I wish I could ruin EvE for everyone, but it seems Odyssey will do well enough. Eve brings nothing but regret to anyone who lost the chance to register earlier. And there is the actuality behind the attempted rhetoric. Based on this OP would have a very different view had they somehow not 'lost the chance to register earlier'.
Sometimes this emotional response is called envy. Historically speaking, it usually doesn't work out too well. Perhaps this thread will have provided something therapeutic or cathartic for the OP such that they do not have to live with the fairly well documented effects of contextualizing ones actions based on envy. Private sig. Do not read. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14347
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:54:00 -
[149] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Eve brings nothing but regret to anyone who lost the chance to register earlier. Prove it.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:56:00 -
[150] - Quote
Shao Huang wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
I've invested too much to quit. I wish I could ruin EvE for everyone, but it seems Odyssey will do well enough. Eve brings nothing but regret to anyone who lost the chance to register earlier.
And there is the actuality behind the attempted rhetoric. Based on this OP would have a very different view had they somehow not 'lost the chance to register earlier'. Sometimes this emotional response is called envy. Historically speaking, it usually doesn't work out too well. Perhaps this thread will have provided something therapeutic or cathartic for the OP such that they do not have to live with the fairly well documented effects of contextualizing ones actions based on envy.
What can I do, envy aside, if I'll never have enough skillpoints to be "good"? Nothing. |

Anubis Joringer
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:58:00 -
[151] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote: Since you win with skillpoints, skillpoints are skill.
If you'd added a smiley or a "QED" at the end of this it would have looked indistinguishable from a spot-on parody of your posting. Satire is dead and you have killed it. Monster.  |

Slutvana Khorkina
University of Caille Gallente Federation
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.22 23:59:00 -
[152] - Quote
This entire thread is everyone making statements of fact and OP saying "nuh uh". I feel like I'm watching the Eve version of the Argument Clinic sketch. "Imagine the kind of stories people would read about EVE if the carebears got their wish. 'In EVE Online, some people mined. They arranged their mining lasers, and then they did something else for several minutes. Sign up for your free 14 day trial now!'" -- James 315 |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:00:00 -
[153] - Quote
Anubis Joringer wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote: Since you win with skillpoints, skillpoints are skill.
If you'd added a smiley or a "QED" at the end of this it would have looked indistinguishable from a spot-on parody of your posting. Satire is dead and you have killed it. Monster. 
I'd kill a lot more things if I could, but I don't have enough SP to. |

Invisusira
The Rising Stars The Initiative.
164
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:01:00 -
[154] - Quote
ITT: OP tries to invest SP into forum posting Core Skills - train em up train em up! |

WhiteGhostBear
The New Lunar Republic
14
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:02:00 -
[155] - Quote
Back in 2009, T'Amber ran a "Sisters of Eve" contest. It was kind of a Red vs. Blue kind of deal, except your character could be no older than a day or two when the contest started. This put everyone on even ground SP-wise.
Well, during the competition things were really quiet, so I decided to fly up to Rens with my week-old character in an Incursus of all things and look for trouble. There was some guy in a rifter looking for fights near one of the undocks and I decided "what the hell, it's a cheap Incursus with junk modules."
So I took the can, started the right, blew the other guy up. Note that this was back in 2009 when the Rifter was generally regarded as the champion of frigate combat, and the Incursus, eh, not so much. Not only was the other character quite a lot older than me, but he was fit with T2 gear on top of it all.
His fit was bad, his piloting was worse, and I ended up carrying the loot home.
Skill Points do matter to an extent - you can track a little better, do a little damage, turn a little better - but everything else is vastly more important. Positioning, the fit of your ship, situational awareness, manual piloting, etc., etc. High skill points only allow you to better make use of your piloting abilities.
And, really, any character that has trained up combat skills for 3-4 months already has 80% of the mechanical effectiveness of someone who has been around longer. That extra 20% is easily compensated for by simply being smarter than the other guy.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure the OP is just trolling the forums, but just in case he is not:
I will be happy to buy for you 10 T1 frigates of your choice, complete with PvP fittings and ammo, if you promise to join Faction Warfare or RvB for a week. I suggest the Merlin these days - it's a beast and easy to fly. |

Vordek Rei
House of Praetor R O G U E
2
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:03:00 -
[156] - Quote
WhiteGhostBear wrote:Back in 2009, T'Amber ran a "Sisters of Eve" contest. It was kind of a Red vs. Blue kind of deal, except your character could be no older than a day or two when the contest started. This put everyone on even ground SP-wise.
Well, during the competition things were really quiet, so I decided to fly up to Rens with my week-old character in an Incursus of all things and look for trouble. There was some guy in a rifter looking for fights near one of the undocks and I decided "what the hell, it's a cheap Incursus with junk modules."
So I took the can, started the right, blew the other guy up. Note that this was back in 2009 when the Rifter was generally regarded as the champion of frigate combat, and the Incursus, eh, not so much. Not only was the other character quite a lot older than me, but he was fit with T2 gear on top of it all.
His fit was bad, his piloting was worse, and I ended up carrying the loot home.
Skill Points do matter to an extent - you can track a little better, do a little damage, turn a little better - but everything else is vastly more important. Positioning, the fit of your ship, situational awareness, manual piloting, etc., etc. High skill points only allow you to better make use of your piloting abilities.
And, really, any character that has trained up combat skills for 3-4 months already has 80% of the mechanical effectiveness of someone who has been around longer. That extra 20% is easily compensated for by simply being smarter than the other guy.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure the OP is just trolling the forums, but just in case he is not:
I will by happy to buy for you 10 T1 frigates of your choice, complete with PvP fittings and ammo, if you promise to join Faction Warfare or RvB for a week. I suggest the Merlin these days - it's a beast and easy to fly.
I gifted him a 50 mil bounty - that way we know he will get some experience, perhaps some skills.
|

Jack Miton
Aperture Harmonics K162
1886
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:07:00 -
[157] - Quote
This thread is all sorts of special. Do go on. |

Rhivre
TarNec Invisible Exchequer
155
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:09:00 -
[158] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:
What can I do, envy aside, if I'll never have enough skillpoints to be "good"? Nothing.
Bored now.
This is just a variation of your 1.5 month old post on griefing, only then it was flying a bestower which got violenced.
Personally I think it is unfair that I cannot fly an orca, because well.....Mining Director V...involves training some mining related stuff. Also, I would like a nightmare, but I need more SP for it, this is not fair, because I could be wtfpwning stuff in L4s instead of doing L3 drake missions.
Finally, I would like Tycoon V, and standing 10 with both faction and corp for my market orders. This is clearly an advantage to people who like doing missions, as it takes time to get these standings, and I can never hope to get there, especially with my aversion to missions.
I suspect it is not skillpoints which are stopping you from being good  |

Orravan
Beautiful Losers
6
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:10:00 -
[159] - Quote
Why exactly does people keep responding to a troll clearly feigning to be unable to understand :
> that higher skillpoints only mean a wider choice of ships ; > that there's no "best" ships in Eve, as it all depend on your fitting strategy, your adaptiveness, and your knowledge of your opponent ; > that in 10 years there's been enough examples (read : thousands each day) of "low" SP characters beating old vets, thanks to an appropriate and well thought response to the threat, nullifying the claims of the OP ;
?
So far, over 50 people sucessfully trolled. Let it die. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14350
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:10:00 -
[160] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:What can I do, envy aside, if I'll never have enough skillpoints to be "good"?. Anything you like. GÇ£EnoughGÇ¥ skillpoints is something you've chosen to define and limit yourself by GÇö it's not something the game does. In fact, the game does the exact opposite: it ensures that it is inevitable that you will get the SP you think you need.
GǪthe problem is that by deciding the be defeated at every turn, you never manage to learn the player skills that will actually keep you alive.
Quote:I'd kill a lot more things if I could, but I don't have enough SP to. Is it more than 1M? Then you can. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Vordek Rei
House of Praetor R O G U E
4
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:12:00 -
[161] - Quote
Orravan wrote:Why exactly does people keep responding to a troll clearly feigning to be unable to understand :
So far, over 50 people successfully trolled. Let it die.
Well that's the beauty of EVE-Online, here we get to punish the trolls in-game when they don't use alts. Nothing beats the sound of squishy corpse going all crisp in the void of space.  |

chatgris
Quantum Cats Syndicate Samurai Pizza Cats
523
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:15:00 -
[162] - Quote
Focus your SP for about 8 months into support (for one of armor or shield) skills and one racial frigate (with one weapon type) (get everything to 4 except where needed for T2, get the quick skills to V), and you'll be pretty much end game pvp ready for frigs and dessies. |

Komen
Capital Enrichment Services Existential Anxiety
187
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:20:00 -
[163] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Shao Huang wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:
I've invested too much to quit. I wish I could ruin EvE for everyone, but it seems Odyssey will do well enough. Eve brings nothing but regret to anyone who lost the chance to register earlier.
And there is the actuality behind the attempted rhetoric. Based on this OP would have a very different view had they somehow not 'lost the chance to register earlier'. Sometimes this emotional response is called envy. Historically speaking, it usually doesn't work out too well. Perhaps this thread will have provided something therapeutic or cathartic for the OP such that they do not have to live with the fairly well documented effects of contextualizing ones actions based on envy. What can I do, envy aside, if I'll never have enough skillpoints to be "good"? Nothing. So if this game isn't PvP, and that's important to you, why don't you quit?
Seriously. You won't listen to reasoned arguments from veterans who try to explain your logical fallacies, you won't reveal why you're on this tirade of vehement 'older chars always beat younger' ranting. You're just stubbornly repeating the same thing. Saying it's so, don't make it so. You've come to this final conclusion and you are correct in that you will never, ever, catch up in SP to more veteran players.
So quit. Go already. CCP isn't going to change a formula that's worked quite well, and the rest of us are smart enough to know that SP is one variable in a complex equation of ship, modules fitted, and battle-tested tactics.
I repeat. Quit. End your character, hit that biomass button, and go play some counterstrike source or whatevs floats your boat.
Tippia might miss you (tippia loves to argue with trolls) but the rest of us shan't notice your passing. |

Shao Huang
University of Caille Gallente Federation
238
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:21:00 -
[164] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:What can I do, envy aside, if I'll never have enough skillpoints to be "good"? Nothing.
Basil- this is in fact an amazingly useful question! It is also a stupendously difficult question. It seems there are several ways to answer it and in fact many are included in the thread. The most consistent answer seems to be that we (because I am a noob and so actually in the same condition) might need to think about the entire game and what it means to be 'good' in a very different light.
If you can read back in the thread (and the many other similar threads in the forum from new players) there are a lot of specific pieces of advice... All sooooo much better than any advice I could possibly offer.
I would say for starters though, actually take that guy up on his experiment, even though as you say it is completely artificial. Why take him up? 1- it will constitute your first successful scam. \0/ (one way people play that has nothing at all to do with SP) 2- it is likely to be great fun to do and this helps dissolve envy since it places your attention on what 'is' instead of what is 'not' 3- you will meet people and make enemies! Very important in EVE and again something that does not require skill points, but has many advantages 4- make him spend the money.... Try to make it cost as much as possible for him! Figure out how to do that exactly. Heck, cheat by getting other players to make it last and him have to replace ships until he is broke or quits. I am sure he will thank you for the opportunity. Remember, no good deed should ever go unpunished in EVE!!!! :)
After you have done this, regardless of what the experiment proves or not, revisit your relationship to the problem you have raised.
This is all that comes to mind about the immediate, but my guess is that if you do something like this, even knowing it cannot possibly 'fix' the condition you (and I) are suffering, other things will come to mind... Heck... You could design your entire EVE experience around attempting to punish those high SP bastards through as many devious ways as possible having nothing to do with the SP axis of the game... Do this for a while and soon you will find that you have enough SP that someone else is envying you.... For example. It's kind of a relative thing, ya know.
There are lots of people with better suggestions... Some useful, some perhaps... Erm.... Not so useful, but very colorful. Private sig. Do not read. |

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14350
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:25:00 -
[165] - Quote
Komen wrote:Tippia might miss you (tippia loves to argue with trolls) but the rest of us shan't notice your passing. Nah. Plenty more is the sea under the bridge. 
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Komen
Capital Enrichment Services Existential Anxiety
187
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:31:00 -
[166] - Quote
Tippia wrote:Komen wrote:Tippia might miss you (tippia loves to argue with trolls) but the rest of us shan't notice your passing. Nah. Plenty more is the sea under the bridge.  You optimist you.  |

Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8382
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:33:00 -
[167] - Quote
Fun factoid for the OP, 99% of the posters in this thread could roll a new alt and be able to kick a much older pilots arse within a month or two, in your case, I think a week or two of skill training would be more than sufficient to hand yours to you on a plate regardless of what you're flying.
Please do everybody else a favour and bugger off back to whatever hole you crawled out of, you are either trolling or clueless about Eve, either way you're a bit of a prat.
I eat your hatred for breakfast, then wash it down with your tears. |

Basil Pupkin
Why So Platypus
4
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:41:00 -
[168] - Quote
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Fun factoid for the OP, 99% of the posters in this thread could roll a new alt and be able to kick a much older pilots arse within a month or two, in your case, I think a week or two of skill training would be more than sufficient to hand yours to you on a plate regardless of what you're flying.
Please do everybody else a favour and bugger off back to whatever hole you crawled out of, you are either trolling or clueless about Eve, either way you're a bit of a prat.
I'm not clueless about eve, it's just eve is clueless about pvp. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have any. As I said, i'm not going to quit - too much invested to just dump it. But eve is extremely boring contentless game, so I gotta find a way to enjoy it. Which is near-impossible without player interaction, which in eve is extremely poor. |

Hessian Arcturus
S.W.O.R.D. Navy
108
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:43:00 -
[169] - Quote
OP, I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. What I have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop trolling this thread now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Actually I lie, even if you stop, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. Let's you be my little project  It's human nature to want to explore. To find your line and go beyond it. The only limit, is the one you set yourself. |

Grath Telkin
Sniggerdly Pandemic Legion
1561
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:43:00 -
[170] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Fun factoid for the OP, 99% of the posters in this thread could roll a new alt and be able to kick a much older pilots arse within a month or two, in your case, I think a week or two of skill training would be more than sufficient to hand yours to you on a plate regardless of what you're flying.
Please do everybody else a favour and bugger off back to whatever hole you crawled out of, you are either trolling or clueless about Eve, either way you're a bit of a prat. I'm not clueless about eve, it's just eve is clueless about pvp. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have any. As I said, i'm not going to quit - too much invested to just dump it. But eve is extremely boring contentless game, so I gotta find a way to enjoy it. Which is near-impossible without player interaction, which in eve is extremely poor.
LOOK AT ALL THE REASONS THIS GAME SUCKS, but you're not going to quit.
That would make you an idiot.
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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
14351
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:46:00 -
[171] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:I'm not clueless about eve Your posting suggests otherwise, since nothing you've said in this thread applies to EVE. Maybe to some other class/level-based MMO, descendent from the obsolete D&D school of character progression design, but not EVE, because EVE does not work that way.
Quote:eve is clueless about pvp. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have any. GǪaside from in every part of the game.
Quote:As I said, i'm not going to quit - too much invested to just dump it. Also untrue, as your posting so far proves. You have nothing invested in it because if you did, you would have been around for longer than the four hours it takes to realise that none of your assumptions hold true.
Quote:But eve is extremely boring contentless game, so I gotta find a way to enjoy it. Have you tried PvP or some other form of player interaction? EVE is shock full of both (in fact, it's pretty much the entirety of the game). GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |

Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8382
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 00:51:00 -
[172] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote: I'm not clueless about eve, it's just eve is clueless about pvp. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have any. As I said, i'm not going to quit - too much invested to just dump it. But eve is extremely boring contentless game, so I gotta find a way to enjoy it. Which is near-impossible without player interaction, which in eve is extremely poor.
Obviously you are, player interaction is what Eve is all about, without it you may as well be playing a single player game.
Now tell us once again how SP=Win, because obviously you are right and the rest of us are wrong .
I think you may find yourself living in interesting times in the very near future.
I eat your hatred for breakfast, then wash it down with your tears. |

Setaceous
Nexus Prima
86
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:52:00 -
[173] - Quote
Tippia wrote:Komen wrote:Tippia might miss you (tippia loves to argue with trolls) but the rest of us shan't notice your passing. Nah. Plenty more is the sea under the bridge.  One of my WoW guilds was called Under the Bridge. Made up exclusively of players that had taken forum bans for trolling and off-topic. |

Sebiestor Primarch
Storm Dancers Shadows The Explicit Alliance
2
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:57:00 -
[174] - Quote
Late 2011 player checking in, no problem in pvp. Guess it's just you. |

Arduemont
Rotten Legion Ops
1486
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Posted - 2013.05.23 00:59:00 -
[175] - Quote
My last four kills.
Me and one friend killed a gang of 6 others (two escaped). Two of the gang had older characters than both of ours combined. We killed one and the other escaped. Don't believe me? Check my corps war report in game. Thanks
/endthread. "In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." |

Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8382
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 01:16:00 -
[176] - Quote
Arduemont wrote:My last four kills.
Me and one friend killed a gang of 6 others (two escaped). Two of the gang had older characters than both of ours combined. We killed one and the other escaped. Don't believe me? Check my corps war report in game. Thanks
/endthread. Facts and valid examples have no place in the OPs world, our efforts are wasted upon him.
I eat your hatred for breakfast, then wash it down with your tears. |

Ryuu Shi
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
40
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Posted - 2013.05.23 01:24:00 -
[177] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Fun factoid for the OP, 99% of the posters in this thread could roll a new alt and be able to kick a much older pilots arse within a month or two, in your case, I think a week or two of skill training would be more than sufficient to hand yours to you on a plate regardless of what you're flying.
Please do everybody else a favour and bugger off back to whatever hole you crawled out of, you are either trolling or clueless about Eve, either way you're a bit of a prat. I'm not clueless about eve, it's just eve is clueless about pvp. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have any. As I said, i'm not going to quit - too much invested to just dump it. But eve is extremely boring contentless game, so I gotta find a way to enjoy it. Which is near-impossible without player interaction, which in eve is extremely poor.
Sounds like you're a clueless scrub with an ego issue thinking you're better than others only to die a horrible, horrible scrubbie death. Eve has awesome pvp and is an awesome game so STFU and biomass, oh and enjoy the extra bounty on your head  Ganking miners has gone too far. Ganking is wrong, and bad. There should be a new, stronger word for Ganking like badwrong or badong. Yes, Ganking is badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of Ganking, gnodab. - Said no-one, ever. |

Lady Areola Fappington
new order logistics CODE.
247
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Posted - 2013.05.23 01:25:00 -
[178] - Quote
OK, this is for the one newbie who might be reading this thread, and doesn't understand what we bttervets mean by "SP don't matter". SP gap is actually an argument I hear from non-EVE players as a reason to not join. Here goes.
Each type of ship you fly is going to have a cap on which skills are effective in flying it. For example, you're flying an active shield tank autocannon frigate, then only the skills applicable to active shield tanking and autocannons will apply. An older char my have training in, say, missiles and armor tanking, but those skills won't really help in flying the active shield tank autocannon frig. Level 5 is Level 5 in a skill, no matter if the char was created a month ago, or 10 years back.
More SP gives you more OPTIONS on what you can fly or use. Specialization versus generalization. After 6 months, you may not be able to fly as many ships as my 7 year old main, but you'll likely be able fly the subset of ships you specialize in just as effectively as I can.
OPS argument is absurd for the following reason. Take two chars born on the same day. Char A starts training gunnery, Char B starts training industry. By OPs logic, Char B will never be able to compete with Char A, because Char B started training a non-combat skill, and is now in a deficit. Don't worry miners, I'm here to help!
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Alexa Coates
Federation Navy Assembly Group LLC
587
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Posted - 2013.05.23 01:28:00 -
[179] - Quote
2010 char here, i can't pvp to save my life.
op you're ******** go back to wow That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter used by carriers. |

Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
4090
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 01:33:00 -
[180] - Quote
baltec1 wrote:30 minutes into EVE and you be the guy who tackles a dreadnought.
One week into EVE and you can be in a logi ship and loved by your freinds.
2 weeks into EVE and you can be the guy who just ganked a hauler with a billion in the hold.
And so on.
1 month into EvE and you can be the guy emptying your alliance hangars  Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
Twitter channel |

Domanique Altares
Rifterlings Point Blank Alliance
135
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Posted - 2013.05.23 01:34:00 -
[181] - Quote
ITT: OP suffers the debilitating effects of Toxic Shock Syndrome. You got to change that thing out regular, OP. |

Amielle Ozran
Cult of War University Cult of War
3
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Posted - 2013.05.23 02:12:00 -
[182] - Quote
OP:
You do realize that that big ships have trouble hitting small ships right
like here u are zipping around in a dinky frigate at a jillion miles an hour blappin away and sure it's not hitting hard but they cant even touch you because that's just how much faster you're going. |

ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Late Night Alliance
2508
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Posted - 2013.05.23 02:33:00 -
[183] - Quote
Velator vs Tornado
Granted... the Velator was piloted by a veteran player... but the Tornado pilot wasn't a [complete] scrub either. The fact that THIS is possible means that a newbie with enough experience (player-wise... not SP-wise) can pull off something amazing (the guy pulled off the same thing against an Oracle later on).
Also... copy pasting my standard Skillpoint rant:
- All skills cap at level 5. No matter how many years you have played the game, you cannot exceed that limit. And lower level skills (ex. [Racial] Frigate) are very quick to train relative to more advanced skills.
- (*this is the important one*) Only a limited number of skills affect any one ship, module, weapon system, and specialty at any given time. Ex1: Someone you are facing has about 20 million SP, but how much of that overall SP is actually combat related? He/she could be a HUGE industrial player with limited combat skills. Ex2: A veteran player has just trained up the skill Large Hybrid Turret to level 5. That skill in no way affects the skill Small Hybrid Turret and thus the veteran will be no better or worse than before at the frigate level.
- Getting a skill from level 4 to level 5 only adds on an extra 2% here, 5% there (exceptions apply). If you simply train up all the skills within a specialty to level 4 (which takes a fraction of the amount of time it takes to get those skills to level 5), you will find yourself flying at about 80 to 90% of the effectiveness of a multi-year veteran with those same skills in that specific specialty at level 5.
- Getting a skill to level 5 is supposed to be a painful train. Many players (yes, even veteran ones) opt to avoid doing it and instead train up other skills to level 4 (again, because it's faster).
- Ships and weapons have been balanced against one another. Ex: A battleship can potentially instapop a frigate... but the frigate can fly very fast, making it difficult for the battleship's weapons to track, especially at very close range... then again, the battleship can deploy drones to deal with the frigate... and the frigate can shoot the drones down... however the battleship might have a Large Energy Neutralizer fitted to nuke the frigate's capacitor power every 24 second... in which case the frigate could use a Small Nosferatu that sucks out capacitor from the battleship every 3 seconds... etc. etc.
- High tech equipment (ex. T2, Faction, Officer, etc) will not give a player "I WIN" abilities. It simply gives a player a linear edge at an exponentially higher cost. Ex: A group of two or three T1-fit frigates that cost about 500 thousand to 1 million ISK CAN kill a faction frigate worth about 50 to 100 million ISK... provided they are using the right mods in the right configuration and know what they are doing.
tl;dr...
- more SP is not indicative of a pilot's ability. It just means that the pilot has more options in what he/she can do.
- once you have your "universal" core and support skills at maximum the gap between you and an older player begins to narrow quite significantly. Change isn't bad, but it isn't always good. Sometimes, the oldest and most simple of things can be the most elegant and effective. |

Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
4169
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Posted - 2013.05.23 02:40:00 -
[184] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:bbb2020 wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Leper ofBacon wrote:When your character gets to that age and you are still getting ganked you will realise how bad you are.
The real decider is numbers. Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception. And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker. It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying. Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts. First: Nice trolling. Still, this (the highlighted part) is where you're wrong as nobody can train a skill higher than lv5. If a 5 year old player has trained Minmatar frigate to lv5 and you do the same, you are both (SP wice) eaqually good at flying that ship. Granted, he will have have a lot of other skills that help him fit his ship better but he can still only train those skills to lv5, so eventually you will catch up. In the mean time, you might still be able to beat him as pvp in Eve has little to do with SP. It has all to do with knowledge. The Knowledge of how to pvp in Eve style. This mean knowing how to use the tool (ship) you have at your disposal to hit your opponent at his weakest point. Knowing about fall off, transversal, kitting and a bunch of other stuff. Knowing when to fight and when to run and most importent - how to manually pilot your ship in relation to your apponent. Think most players that come to the forums and complain about, not being able to pilot the ships personally (from the bridge) and want Eve to be a game where you do "dogfighting" type of pvp, has the same hole in their knowledge about what makes Eve pvp tick. Sure thing, he might have better skills than you and have better modules on his ship but rest assure, that do NOT mean he knows how to fit his new ship or how to use it in a pvp situation. Don't give up. Try and try again and everytime - learn from your experience. Learning in a personal matter (not SP wice) is what makes a good Eve player. That is obviously wrong, since SP allows better ships for enough years to call them EVER. Knowing when to fight and when to run is very simple. Compare SP. I know about falloff, traversal, kiting, and a bunch of other stuff. It doesn't help against severe SP deficit, which was proven over, and over, and over. The best you can do with all that stuff is to escape the higher SP opponent, and that is hardly a win, because he has to do nothing and you got to be universally better prepared to simply avoid loss. Interesting, so what constitutes a "better ship"?
Is a battleship better than a frigate? According to you yes, as it takes more skill points to fly it.
And yet frigates kill BS all the time... solo. It's particularly fun in a Stealth Bomber, but even a damage oriented T1 frigate will do.
Is a HAC better than it's T1 counter part? Again, according to you, absolutely.
And yet we see the HAC lose in these situations on a regular basis, often to pilots that have less skill points (but superior personal skills).
There are many corporations in EvE that specialize in taking vastly inferior numbers (both in terms of number of participants and in terms of total number of skill points involved on either side) against much larger forces and ripping them to shreds... often while flying what are considered "inferior" ships.
You have somehow managed to claim knowledge of basic EvE combat mechanics, and in the same post make it painfully apparent that you don't have the personal skills to use them to your advantage.
To carve a successful niche for yourself in EVE you need to be able to out sell, out produce, out fight,-á out run, or out wit your competitors. If you can do none of the above, your only option is to complain on the forums that somehow you are at a disadvantage using the exact same tool set-áas the rest of the player base. |

Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
776
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Posted - 2013.05.23 02:41:00 -
[185] - Quote
Troll thread, obvious attempt to incite flame-war.
Come on, OP, did you even try?
3/10. Meta-gaming for carebears:
Whine on the forums like a little ***** until CCP gets sick of you and hands you everything you ask for just to shut you up. |

James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation RAZOR Alliance
5146
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 02:54:00 -
[186] - Quote
Biomass seems to be your only option, OP. -áMy (mostly boring) Youtube channel. |

Ernok en Brauhn
MotsuFleet Logistics
6
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Posted - 2013.05.23 03:02:00 -
[187] - Quote
OP, if it pisses you off so bad, uninstall EvE and go back to WoWland.
in the meantime.....just go away
thank you
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dark heartt
I Own Four Sheep Nyratic
309
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Posted - 2013.05.23 03:37:00 -
[188] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
What? I've seen characters made in 2011 winning solo in RvB. Your argument is yet another stealth let me buy SP for plex. Bienator II: "You can identify eve players by looking at their cars. Since they don't drive what they can't afford to lose." I play in highsec. |

Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
594
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Posted - 2013.05.23 03:55:00 -
[189] - Quote
Wow, just wow.
It seems like some players supposition is that SP doesn't mean that much. So false.
It is based on the false assumption that you are going against a bad. However two players of equal RL combat skill meet, one with 20 Mill combat SP and one with 1 Mill combat focused SP, who wins? Especially when those SP mean he has double the tank and four times the dps.
The training durations make EvE very unique for PvP games. Yes I can fully train into ONE ship and be at all 5's for all systems in tens to hundred's of days. While in other PvP games I can be proficient at ALL skills in tens of days, if that.
To the guy saying people don't train to 5 in skills, what are you smokin'? Some equipment or ships cannot be flown without 5's.
Like any game you can be successful in EvE right away. Unlike other games you have to rely on people being really, really bad to do so. Meanwhile there will be many good players with much more SP ready to hand you your ass while you spend years skilling up. This thread has so much content it may be 'Thread of the Year' and it is only January.
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SmilingVagrant
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1648
|
Posted - 2013.05.23 04:09:00 -
[190] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
Stop being bad at Eve. I have newbies contributing to my fleet daily, and some of them in roles that have been downright pivotal to our success. Just because you are utter garbage doesn't mean everyone is.
Oh and my 2010 character has dumpstered many an eve-vet. |

Cannibal Kane
My Little Ponies of the Apocalypse
1795
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Posted - 2013.05.23 04:27:00 -
[191] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
If the "more SP, Older Player" arguiment was true.
i would have a alot more losses. Don't be a moron.
"I saw him fight by the monument in Jita. -áHe flowed in his Machariel like a Shinto spirit, 800MM shells sprouting in his passing. -áHis hair flowed in the corona of his target's warp core breach. -áIt was truly majestic. -áAnd while everyone stared in awe I stole the loot and ran off.-áBecause I am like that." --áNEONOVUS |

Rordan D'Kherr
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
425
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Posted - 2013.05.23 04:29:00 -
[192] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
You must be new to EVE. Welcome and have fun with this game.
_______________________________________ Don't be scared, because being afk is not a crime. |

Arcelian
House of Praetor R O G U E
15
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Posted - 2013.05.23 04:37:00 -
[193] - Quote
-5/10
How did this idiotic post not get deleted for trolling? |

Charles Barkley II
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2013.05.23 04:37:00 -
[194] - Quote
IF YOU CAN'T SLAM WITH THE BEST THEN JAM WITH THE REST If you can't Slam with the best, then Jam with the rest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKQiZVBtu4 |

SmilingVagrant
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1649
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Posted - 2013.05.23 05:00:00 -
[195] - Quote
Charles Barkley II wrote:IF YOU CAN'T SLAM WITH THE BEST THEN JAM WITH THE REST
SHUT UP AND JAM GAIDEN |

Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon Drunk 'n' Disorderly
702
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Posted - 2013.05.23 05:45:00 -
[196] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Captain Tardbar wrote:It has nothing to do with SP, but rather who has the most and best ships.
That and FC's who aren't incompetent. Need SP for best ships. More pilots = more SP = naturally, win. Well if we are talking about collective numbers then yeah, but what the OP was saying is that pilots with the most SP win all the time. 100 day old characters in frigs can beat a 5 year old character in a battleship. Bring enough of them to outmass his SP, and sure, why not? Eugene Kerner wrote:You are just very VERY bad in this game. This is all. Of course I am. No SP = bad. It's just hard to do anything about it.
Man you got more than 50 mill...thats a lot more than I do.
"Also, your boobs " -á CCP Eterne, 2012
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Andski
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
7959
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Posted - 2013.05.23 06:07:00 -
[197] - Quote
The only engagement where combat-relevant SP is the chief determinant of the outcome is where you have a 1v1 in identically fit ships of the same type, without implants or boosters and using the exact same ammo. Oh, and both ships have to use the same ammo and may not move.
Since this sort of engagement doesn't happen, you're wrong
mine quotes from my posts at your peril, badposters
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Alexila Quant
Strategic Acquisitions Group Tactical Research Lab
61
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Posted - 2013.05.23 06:18:00 -
[198] - Quote
It appears I'm late to the QQ party. |

Nariya Kentaya
Always Negative.
601
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Posted - 2013.05.23 06:32:00 -
[199] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Basil Pupkin wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No. Yes you are, more SP != win in PvP, it = more choice of ships to PvP in, for example player x has 100 million SP spread all over the place but only 5 million in frigates, player Y has only 5 million SP in frigates , if they're both in identical ships with identical fits then there is a 50/50 chance that player Y can beat player X, because 95 million of player Xs SP are completely irrelevant to the ship he's flying. HTFU More SP = better ships = win. They won't be in identical ships. Never. right, because battleships can kill frigates so easily, assuming the frigate is ebing piloted by somoene half-competent.
but your right, if your figthing someone who put the EFFORT and TIME into skilling all of the appropriate items to competently fly a ship, then yes, he will and SHOULD win, the fact being, if you prepare yourself with ships fitted appropriately for the targets you want to engage, you cna and usually WILL win.
that means if your in a frigate, and want to kill cruisers, you dont fit for "lawl DPS" you fit for speed, so you can outmaneuver there guns and :pop: there goes the ship fo someone with a few million SP more than you. of couse, if they planned on ebing attacked by frigates and fitted 2 webs or something, then that is a legitamate counter to your setup.
More SP, does not mean more power, it means you have a wider variety of scenarios you are capable of fitting a ship for, i could have MILLIONS of SP in ECM but only some in gunnery, but if i'm flying in a scenario without ECM, i may as well not even bother shooting back against someone who chose to put points into guns.
in toher words, EVE isnt about numbers and which is higher (barring blob warfare in null), its about the most complicated game of rock-paper-scissors-dynamite-hacksaw-master chief-ninja you have ever played. |

Alex Grison
Grison Interstellar
325
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Posted - 2013.05.23 06:33:00 -
[200] - Quote
One time I did a pvp |

Garresh
Team Chicken and Waffles
207
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Posted - 2013.05.23 06:36:00 -
[201] - Quote
Actually to the guy who said a noob in an AF would lose to a battle cruiser, I disagree. If he's nos'd/cap boosted with a TD he can win pretty easily. There are some afs that are just great at fighting above their class. Not to say it wouldn't be difficult, but its totally doable. When some irl friends were a week old we did a 3 man rifter roam. Almost dropped a solo cane. We actually would have but then 2 pirate tengus unrelated to our target dropped in. This Space Intentionally Left Blank |

Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
9520
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Posted - 2013.05.23 06:38:00 -
[202] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
This is a popular myth cherished by people who are terrible at PvP - that if they just wait long enough, they'll magically become good.
1 Kings 12:11
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Liafcipe9000
Smeghead Empire
3017
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Posted - 2013.05.23 07:04:00 -
[203] - Quote
posting in a stealth "I'm leaving EVE, rageragerage madmadmad" thread. |

Ramona McCandless
Standards and Practices Petition Blizzard
12
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Posted - 2013.05.23 07:24:00 -
[204] - Quote
I have almost no skill points and can barely fly anything.
I have already amassed several hundred million Isk from "PvP"
I guess it all falls down to what your chosen battlefield is. "You designed these rules to trick me and it's not fair! I don't have anything left and might as well quit now..."-á-á-Authorized Pixel Distributor
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pussnheels
The Fiction Factory
1204
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Posted - 2013.05.23 07:26:00 -
[205] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP? actually you are so wrong in your assumption that the one with the most skillpoints automaticly wins
yes it is true that the person with the higher sp has a slight advantage , but overall the winner is the one who strikes at the best opportunity with the ship that is fitted for the occasion that is solo pvp and small gang
large fleet fights it depends on the FC , if he has balls your side wins so simple
and another thing PVP isn't soley about winning , it is a game afterall not a second job
and yes i am a awedul pvper myself , i hardly have any kills and some bad losses , but i still have fun
aslong the new launcher willlet me play I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire |

uglybast
Omicron Technology
0
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Posted - 2013.05.23 07:30:00 -
[206] - Quote
By original poster's logic we could create an endless source of pure energy.
All we need to do is find two pilots with the same SP put them in the same ship with the same fit and let them duel. They will orbit each other endlessly with neither of them dying. There's got to be a way of powering a small town with this perpetual movement. |

Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
645
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Posted - 2013.05.23 07:31:00 -
[207] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
Pretty sure you're completely wrong.
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Cipher+Jones+Holdings+LLC
From: Tommas De'Wins To: Cipher Jones Dude :) I got massives Basi hahahahahahaha |

Infinity Ziona
Cloakers
16
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Posted - 2013.05.23 07:41:00 -
[208] - Quote
I think this is a troll. But you are right in a way. To specialize does take time. If you want to beat a person in a 1 v 1 and you're a newb and they're a specialist in the ship they're flying, all thing being equal you will die.
Of course specializing takes time, so does leveling in every other leveling game, and this is a leveling game despite what people say.
However, given that 99.9% of pvp is group pvp, the leveling (sp) stuff is not that important. Of course if you're in a gang of newbies and you're fighting a gang of specialists (high skillpoint / experienced at EvE PvP) you're going to die.
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Domer Pyle
Northern Flemish Bastards Inc Yulai Federation
42
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:02:00 -
[209] - Quote
the problem with eve pvp isn't that "moar sp wins", rather, it's that people are too cautious. fleets tend not to engage each other unless they're certain they're going to win. this leads to hours of flying around, doing nothing because the other guys are bigger. this is boring. "Imagine if the bars to your prison were all you had ever known. Then one day, someone appears and unlocks the door. If they have the power to do this, then are they really the liberator? You never remembered who it was that closed you in." - Ior Labron |

Samillian
Angry Mustellid
222
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:08:00 -
[210] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
OP could you please explain what "real" PvP is by your definition.
Also since I am a 2009 character and like many in this thread have personal experiences that seem to prove your supposition wrong could you give us an overview of how you formed your conclusions.
Please include supporting evidence such as killmail links as well as links to any other material supporting your argument so we can make a more informed decision on the validity of your contention.
Thank you. NBSI shall be the whole of the Law |

l0rd carlos
Friends Of Harassment
441
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:12:00 -
[211] - Quote
9mio SP pilot (w/o thermodynamic skills) kills lots of stuff: Born Imbalanced German blog about smallscale lowsec pvp: http://friendsofharassment.wordpress.com |

baltec1
Bat Country
6594
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:29:00 -
[212] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:
I'm not clueless about eve, it's just eve is clueless about pvp. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have any. As I said, i'm not going to quit - too much invested to just dump it. But eve is extremely boring contentless game, so I gotta find a way to enjoy it. Which is near-impossible without player interaction, which in eve is extremely poor.
Given that you have never pvped that some rather clueless comments you are making. |

Jarod Garamonde
Action Bastards
219
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:32:00 -
[213] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
Wait.... what? Are you kidding me?
<--- This toon has solo-killed an 03 account. You know even less about EVE PvP than I do. "you can identify eve players by looking at their cars. Since they don't drive what they can't afford to lose."-á --áBienator II |

Terra Khashour
Pink Bunnies Cartel.
3
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:41:00 -
[214] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
I think you are just poor at pvp and thats all, i know ppl whit 3m sp that learn very fast and they killing in kite heron players whit 60-70m sp.
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Abraham Nalelmir
FATAL Warfare
5
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Posted - 2013.05.23 08:51:00 -
[215] - Quote
baltec1 wrote:30 minutes into EVE and you be the guy who tackles a dreadnought.
One week into EVE and you can be in a logi ship and loved by your freinds.
2 weeks into EVE and you can be the guy who just ganked a hauler with a billion in the hold.
And so on.
I can confirm this! Got a funny ******** story when I started and wanted to go PVP But I can proudly say now I'm the BEST in ECM because I can (almost) perma-jam a 10 years old toon and keep him pointed until my noobish 2 weeks old toons back up arrive and start chewing his armor or wiping his shields
It is sucks to have low SP yes, but when you focus that low SP in somewhere you can shine it it, then you might be better than 10 years old 450 million SP toon (if that ever exists)
just saying  Newbie?, want to shoot ships? see here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=169575 |

Sevastian Liao
DreamWeaver Inc.
65
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Posted - 2013.05.23 09:26:00 -
[216] - Quote
Truly, the 10m SP I have invested in Science and Industry has been an insurmountable advantage in frigate brawls. All comers were defeated - With Science! |

Kasper Elbo
Mercurialis Inc. RAZOR Alliance
0
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Posted - 2013.05.23 10:01:00 -
[217] - Quote
Ok.. I know lot of people has covered this subject now and all that can be said has probably been said already..
One thing I still remember from when I started playing eve back in '09 and were doing my first real pvp were the following scenario. I were in a drake in low sec, flying from belt to belt killing rats. At that point I had no idea what so ever about how to find fights and what to expect so I just assumed that I would run into someone sooner or later and then I could as well make some isk in the mean time. I did at some point meet someone and the ship I met was a frigate, although I dont remember which one specifically. This is where your thesis gets proven wrong. We were both pvp fit, and I managed to get scram and webs on the frigate so that I were able to control range. I died though but the frigate were in half structure. Only then I found out that I had forgotten to launch drones, which most likely would have killed the frigate before I had been killed. I dont know which of us had the most SP, but that doesnt matter in this situation, because of this:
1. Frigate had more SP: He killed me yes.. but what would have happened if I had remembered my drones? He would have been killed, so in that case it was my piloting mistake that killed me and I would have won if only I had more experience in using my ship to its full extent. 2. I had the most SP: In that case I think I've already pointed out that I were the one who died. I could have won if I had used my drones, but that was a piloting error and not a SP error. Now I know you will say that it just proves that if I had been using my ship probably and not broken your formula it would still be true, but what if he had been a better pilot then and made sure that he didnt get into my scram and web range and had been able to control distance and thereby limit the incoming dps from the missiles and drones? then he would most likely have won even if I too had made the better choice of using my drones.
No matter who had the most SP in this fight it was all decided by who made the worst mistakes. I did in this case but it was not my SP that limited me and made me die. It was my lack of pvp experience that made me overlook the fact that I could have used my drones. It was too his bad judgement of keeping a too tight orbit, that allowed me to pulse my mwd and get scram and webs on him. Nothing to do with SP.
I know most people have very similar examples of close fights where the outcome were decided by someones mistake at using their ship. that in itself proves your theory wrong. |

Jowen Datloran
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
480
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Posted - 2013.05.23 10:11:00 -
[218] - Quote
11 pages based on a troll. Pretty good.
Btw. OP, if it came to combat between you and me in PvP, I would bet you as the winner. Mr. Science & Trade Institute, EVE Online Lorebook-á |

Titus Black
Viziam Amarr Empire
28
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Posted - 2013.05.23 10:25:00 -
[219] - Quote
This account is from 2008 and I have 16m SP.
Problem OP? |

Akirei Scytale
Test Alliance Please Ignore
3227
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Posted - 2013.05.23 10:56:00 -
[220] - Quote
K:D is completely meaningless. TEST Alliance BEST Alliance |

LordSwift
Wrabble Wrousers The Rejects.
7
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Posted - 2013.05.23 10:57:00 -
[221] - Quote
I have over 100mil sp and i suck. so no your argument does not hold merit. its all to do with either numbers, how well u fit your ship and skill. Mal: "If anyone gets nosy, just...you know... shoot 'em. "
Zoe: "Shoot 'em?"
Mal: "Politely." |

Ka Minatu
Not Solitude Again Solitude Empire
0
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:01:00 -
[222] - Quote
Obvious troll is obvious :D
Btw even numbers are no valid criteria for winning, ask the 250 BS Fleet ****** up by arround 40 SBs  |

Bruce Kemp
Relentless Force That Escalated Quickly
41
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:13:00 -
[223] - Quote
Ah, it all becomes clear. 
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Muad 'dib
The Imperial Fedaykin Amarrian Commandos
988
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:17:00 -
[224] - Quote
specializing is the key.
3 alts, 3 main weapon types, 2 tank types
If you want to be amazing in every ship you need alot of sp.
to be good in one, you just need to focus!
simples!
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Le Badass
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
81
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:21:00 -
[225] - Quote
At 560k SP, I took down a much older char in an, admittedly shitfit, Typhoon. I was in a rifter.
Choosing your own fight and keeping it on your terms is much more important than SP. |

Akali Kuvakei
Imperial Shipment Amarr Empire
29
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:23:00 -
[226] - Quote
What you don't understand about pvp in this game is this. It's not about the sp as a whole. Because when you fly a ship. Your only using the sp in that ship,guns,mods,ammo,drones. Etc etc. at best most pilots are using say 5-9msp at any given time. So then pvp comes down to tactics,skill,calm under pressure and some. This defines pvp as a whole. CCP has captured pvp in its most raw and pure form, without the common pvp model most games use. I.e your theory of pvp. |

Octoven
Phoenix Productions Headshot Gaming
155
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:27:00 -
[227] - Quote
I know characters with olny 6 mil SP that have kicked the asses of many characters 40+ mil. Its not all about SP, most of the time its situational awareness, knowing who you can and cant fight. EVE is progressive, you are rewarded in time through more points to fly better ship...the same ******* thing in every other MMO...the more time that is put into it, the better the rewards.
What you are asking for is the ability to fight a 40+ sp pvp vet in a rifter with your merlin and 3 mil sp and be able to kick his ass 40% of the time....no.
If you know the game, know your ship, your abilities, and you are aware of some limitations, then you will find pvp is very much not a broken system. If you still feel it is, sorry but you are alone in that conclusion. About 90% of eve players dont think so. Noobs have their places in the great order of fleet battles. Who the **** are you to come in 30-180 day old toon and expect to get the GOOD positions in fleet because you think its unfair otherwise. You flippin earn your way into DPS and Command positions, they arent handed out. Unfortunately that means you wil die a lot doing logi and tackle. It is the way of things and if you don't like it, perhaps EVE isnt for you. |

Le Badass
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
82
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:36:00 -
[228] - Quote
The only thing I, personally, feel is missing in Eve is the ability to really use the "terrain" on grid, i.e. hiding behind asteroids/stations, etc, but I'm sure there are a lot of good reasons why this is a bad idea - And most likely a whole host of bittervets who will be delighted to have an opportunity to tell me how much of a scrub/noob I am for thinking that :D |

Regis Solo
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
16
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:48:00 -
[229] - Quote
I try PVP but I'm abysmal at it. I'll keep trying though.  |

Nessa Aldeen
First Among Equals
54
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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:00:00 -
[230] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.
Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.
So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?
RIght, I am going to assume your 100million SP is on Science and Indy and never actually pvp-ed when you had like 1million SP. I have had younger players kill me on ocassion, many less SP than I do. In groups, newbies are deadly and no matter wtf SP you have you will die.
Back in the day, my first kill was 4 mths in, and I was killing players 2 years into EVE. In conclusion, your conjecture is false and misleading. |

Julius Rigel
96
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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:02:00 -
[231] - Quote
50m points in frigates, and I still get bodied by some rookie in a cruiser with a point and a web who spent a week practicing actual combat.
That's why I stick to something I'm good at, like racing, rather than complaining about things that I could easily fix myself, such as learning to fight. Do YOU like to undock? |

Debora Tsung
The Investment Bankers Guild
139
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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:10:00 -
[232] - Quote
Basil Pupkin wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:You're wrong. No. Yes. :) There's nothing a million chinese guys can't do cheaper. |

Lord Ryan
Donkey Hats
793
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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:48:00 -
[233] - Quote
Eve Pvp isn't about Sp. It's about who has the bigger blob, neutral reppers and Dev alts.
Do not assume-áanything above this line-áwas typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
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Alice Saki
Suddenly Spaced Out Suddenly Spaceships.
52444
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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:51:00 -
[234] - Quote
Go Home OP
Your Drunk.
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Buhhdust Princess
Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships.
5589
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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:55:00 -
[235] - Quote
Le Badass wrote:The only thing I, personally, feel is missing in Eve is the ability to really use the "terrain" on grid, i.e. hiding behind asteroids/stations, etc, but I'm sure there are a lot of good reasons why this is a bad idea - And most likely a whole host of bittervets who will be delighted to have an opportunity to tell me how much of a scrub/noob I am for thinking that :D
lol, It would make sense to have terrain affect how the game works. But unfortunately, however realistic that might be, it would make the game suffer greatly. |
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CCP Dolan
C C P C C P Alliance
444

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Posted - 2013.05.23 12:59:00 -
[236] - Quote
Don't know how this lasted so long without a lock. Oh well, all bad threads must come to an end.
Locking this for ranting/trolling. CCP Dolan | Community Representative
Twitter: @CCPDolan
Gooby pls |
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