In other mmorpgs, players are forced to group up and cooperate to achieve their goals


Conclusion: Daddy's boy rich kid with 500$ a week allowance gets to dominate you in EVE 1v1 until you get competitive with your wallet.

Many intelligent people understand this about EVE and stay away.
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Fact: Unlike other pvp mmorpgs, EVE's controls are simple enough and required interactions are low enough that simultaneously controlling multiple accounts is much much easier to do.

Conclusion: Daddy's boy rich kid with 500$ a week allowance gets to dominate you in EVE 1v1 until you get competitive with your wallet.

Solution: Require more input from the user. Requiring some degree of aiming or charge bars with timing requirements in combat would go a long way to improving the reputation and game play of EVE.

Logic dictates EVE is a pay to win game.

Conclusion: Daddy's boy rich kid with 500$ a week allowance gets to dominate you in EVE 1v1 until you get competitive with your wallet.

Fact: Unlike other pvp mmorpgs, EVE's controls are simple enough and required interactions are low enough that simultaneously controlling multiple accounts is very easy to do.


This creates an environment where multiple accounts are highly preferable to gain an edge over an opponent. The advantage of more accounts is compounded exponentially by the hard counters that are possible in pvp, such as E-war, Neut/Nos, RR etc.

In other mmorpgs, players are forced to group up and cooperate to achieve their goals because it is nearly impossible for them to play more than one or two accounts simultaneously and efficiently. In EVE, you don't need to find another buddy to fill that tackler role or neut role for you because you can just easily, or even more easily, use one of your alts to fulfill the role perfectly.



Conclusion: Daddy's boy rich kid with 500$ a week allowance gets to dominate you in EVE 1v1 until you get competitive with your wallet.

Many intelligent people understand this about EVE, and the fact that you can easily convert cash to ISK, and stay away.


Solution: Require more input from the user. Requiring some degree of aiming or charge bars with timing requirements in combat would go a long way to improving the reputation and game play of EVE.

I think I have found your problem

And, fwiw, multiboxing is very common in other games, even to the point of multiboxing raids.

That's a pretty odd conclusion. After all, if it's a 1v1, the money put in no longer matters

In other mmorpgs, players are forced to group up and cooperate to achieve their goals

Understand this isn't your typical mmo. It's not fair, it's not easy....that's why we like it. While I agree having alts for boosting, scouting, etc... is very convenient, it isn't required to succeed at pvp.

And trust me, the first time you gank the **** out of that boosted, falcon 5 account using douche it will all be worth it:)

Multi-boxing is nowhere near as common in other MMORPGS as it is in EVE. This is because of the extreme advantages and ease with which it is done in EVE. Anyone who plays EVE could tell you this.

So? Even if you changed all of Eve's mechanics to make multiboxing less practical, the existence of the PLEX system would still technically make it pay to win. However, as others have pointed out, paying RL money doesn't give you anything (isk or other accounts) that can't be achieved without paying RL money.

So you're suggesting that we change Eve mechanics and gameplay fundamentally at great expense to CCP to solve a problem that most people don't think is a problem to satisfy people that don't play Eve anyway. And on top of that, even then it wouldn't solve your stated problem.

I'm not looking at it backwards because I included what you just said in my post.

Try not to be so clueless and understand we aren't talking about 1 ship vs 1 ship.

I understand the knee-jerk reaction to this. But what the status quo auto-objectors are saying is "I don't want EVE to be more appealing and require more skill to play"

I understand the knee-jerk reaction to this. But what the status quo auto-objectors are saying is "I don't want EVE to be more appealing and require more skill to play".

People stay away because of the skill system, spreadsheets, and the "Tell your ship what to do instead of flying it" interface. Most of them don't even know about the Schizophrenic model.

Also, anything an alt can do, a player can do better, it just takes social skills most "soloists" don't have and CCP is merely catering to this lucrative market (as anyone would).

This creates an environment where multiple accounts are highly preferable to gain an edge over an opponent. The advantage of more accounts is compounded exponentially by the hard counters that are possible in pvp, such as E-war, Neut/Nos, RR etc.

In other mmorpgs, players are forced to group up and cooperate to achieve their goals because it is nearly impossible for them to play more than one or two accounts simultaneously and efficiently. In EVE, you don't need to find another buddy to fill that tackler role or neut role for you because you can just easily, or even more easily, use one of your alts to fulfill the role perfectly.