OP, i'm sorry you've decided to leave eve, but i think you've missed a key point of this game. if some group or individual ganks you, team up with other people and go after them. that's the point of a MMO - to work in groups. in doing this, you'll not only have back up for pvp, you'll learn more about the game and it's intricacies and in the process, meet some entertaining folks.

as far as the whole "i'm a noob and can't compete" argument, it simply does not hold water. a brand new pilot can train skills that will make him/her viable in combat in a few days. this avatar is 4+ years old and i spend a lot of time flying frigates and tackling - because it's fun!

i would urge you not to give up, but try and find a group to work with. you could always join us.

Think of it like this...Ever arrest a guy red-handed who then spent the entire ride to the pokey blaming everyone but himself for getting busted?


Same diff here, only EVE GD is more like the naked guy high on goofballs, standing in the middle of the playground, screaming about the Goonspiracy after copiously wetting himself.


Ohh, and you get to clean the NAVY COMET out afterwards.

I'm done with this game. I've already transferred several billions in assets to another member of BNI who was just about the only tolerable person I've met on this game so we can skip the "can I has your stuffs" replies.

People love to announce they're leaving Eve, and I'm happy to join the club. The skill training queue in this game is about the most foolish implantation I've seen in an MMO. To achieve reasonable revenge against those who repeatedly gank you, you just have to hold off for a year until you have the skills to fly a ship of moderate caliber against those who go after you. I finally realized that waiting a year was not worth it. I don't mind PvP games, I've enjoyed them when they're about skill or done in a balanced environment. Eve provides the opposite of a balanced environment and one gets sick of never being able to punish people who agress you for no reason. I also don't really consider ganking my industrial as I put through low-sec or what not as "PvP" so much as "Pv." I figured no big deal, I would train blockade runner. Then I realized I had to spend a month training that and that's a month I can't dedicate to combat skills or anything else. That's right, I have to give CCP $20 and wait a whole month just to make my character capable of running away.

It's a very creative business model, honestly. You prey simply on the hope that things will get better and one day, two years later, for doing nothing at all but paying CCP $15-$20 a month, you too can be effective in PvP which most companies work to ensure is plausible for players in the first place.

Oh well, I don't really have anything constructive to say. I was playing X3 Albion and I realized I was having fun playing a game... And then I remembered that I used to think playing MMO's was also fun, until I started playing Eve, and then I was just playing because I wanted to make the jerks who make the game so frustrating to play pay. However, after careful consideration, I realized that, not only is it really not worth waiting around for a year for, it's also a huge waste of real life money that I could be spending on MMO's that don't suck by being unwilling to reward active playing of the game.

At least I can take solace in the fact that CCP called you all evil when they named the Eve Gate after, well, Eve. I tend to agree with them - I've never played a game that really brought out the worst in people in a video gaming environment.

Meh... I don't like how you people design characters. They all look like **** supersoldier Silvester Stallone wannabes.

has Hello Kitty already been mentioned?

Well, since you mention it...

Well, this happens to everybody at some point. The trick is to maximize the fun/frustration by blowing, killing and gathering the most ships and tears with the lowest investment. See, ganking an exhumer of 200m with 10m worth of catalyst is so funny!

You win the math fail of year award if you think 4 million SP has a chance against 20 million. But maybe you're just a complete dumb dumb.

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