Just looked at the topics on the forums and many threads have something in the lines of "eve is a pvp game, remove hi-sec, all miners must die, all carebears must be ganked, need force-undock module, etc" Basically if you aren't flying around trying to shoot at other people you are playing the game wrong and should just biomass yourself. I'm interested in where this is coming from. Obviously it mostly comes up for trolling purposes, but a great deal of people do subscribe to this notion and are unwilling to see past it and I would like to know why that is.

I play EvE because I like flying spaceships. I like how you can fit ships in EvE. I like the huge amount of ships and modules available and that there is actually a balance and everything is useful depending on the situation. I like that there is no end-game and no "best ship". I like the lack of safety, "no respawn" and that you can kill anyone and everything (supercap proliferation aside ofc). I like the way the economy works and that there is a history behind every piece of equipment. I like how EvE works, for the most part anyway.

Someone found a DED site and sold me the bookmark. I ran the site and got a mach bpc. I took all my bpcs to empire and paid a guy to move them to a factory station. I had to avoid many people that were out to get me soon as they saw me. Someone had to mine the ice to fuel my carrier. I then got on my alt and bought some minerals in Jita. Someone had to make the ships to mine the rocks to get those minerals and move them to jita and then list them where they eventually end up in my hands. I then paid another guy to move the minerals to my factory station because there were 7 wardecs on me. After my ships were ready they were sold. Perhaps one of them is in low-sec hunting other people, one might be in an incursion fleet as this post is written and I'm sure that at least 2 are busy shooting red crosses in lvl 4s. Eventually they will die, but hopefully not before bringing either wealth or glory to their owners, reduced to a wreck which might live on as a piece of a rig that I myself might buy one day. I think this is beautiful. Why people see this game as only the assisting in the destruction of things is beyond me.

And this PvP that many hold in such high regard isn't even that good. I like reading about all those 2k man blob fests, but I still know that it's a bunch of F1 monkeys with only a few people doing anything skillful. So small-gank... erm gang warfare. Well most of those fights are ganks. Most fights have the outcome decided before the fight begins and if it's not favorable all effort is made to avoid the fight. Most of the time PvP in EvE boils down to a bunch of running around and then a little bit of shooting. It's fun to do sometimes, but it doesn't exactly stand out as something great. The closest thing to a fair fight in eve are the alliance tournaments, but such an arranged arena style combat has no place in the sandbox and thus can be ingored.

PvP can ofcourse be fun. Dropping a bunch of bombers on someone is funny. Being on the receiving end however is not and I can totally relate to the unfortunate victim. For me blowing stuff up just for killmail's sake falls short of having a good time especially if you factor all the time and effort it takes to get it done. The pace and balance of it all is not enough for my liking to elevate it above the other things you can do in this game.

If you compare EvE to something like quake, dota or starcraft you will need to admit that an encounter in those other games will require way more skill then your average skirmish in EvE. And incidentally the more people you have the less skill you need. For pvp I like those games way more. I love getting the perfect rocket-plasma-rail combo in quake, I love a perfectly timed combo in a dota teamfight and I like they way I placed my units in starcraft as they destroyed the other guy's army without me having to worry about someone not aligning or flying out of rep range. With all these and more options why would I waste my time on EvE pvp when in the same time I could get way more good fights from any of those other options that I enjoy more?

I like spaceships and spreadsheets. I would like for someone to explain why I'm playing the game wrong. Oh and there isn't any butthurt in this post. Many will try to prove otherwise, but most of the losses on this toon are from flying drunk or bad cynos so nothing to complain about.

I'm really interested why one activity (pew pew) is so overwhelmingly favored that anyone not of the same mind set and favoring something different deserves ridicule. Anyone got an answer?