This is what you know from your vast experience I guess?

i can't speak about HIS experience but my own experience gives the same result: you DON"T have people soloing in BS these days. When you see "solo" BS it is always supported by couple of "neutral" logis

i can't speak about HIS experience but my own experience gives the same result: you DON"T have people soloing in BS these days. When you see "solo" BS it is always supported by couple of "neutral" logis

O ok, so yea, people are afraid of losing.

I get it, in a game where people claim they're better than other games because they play a game that revolves around risk, they're afraid to take them.

Got it.

NoBalls Online

So since everyone is afraid all the time because they think everyone else is going to cheat by bringing in others, no one is willing to take a risk as a 1v1 pilot in an expensive battleship.

Which means that when it does happen, it becomes a spectacle. So it comes down to since everyone is weak and afraid, none of them are willing to stand on their own and man up.

EvE has turned into an excuse factory where instead of coming up with reasons why you should do something, you spend all day coming up with reasons why you should not do something.

Man up. Or are you afraid of losing some pixels?

Now if you want to solo in a battleship take something like an Abaddon to Hek and ask for a duel in local. People will take you on. The local crazies make so much from ganking the SOE mission runners at Lanngisi they are dueling in throwaway battleships and battlecruisers all the time.

See scipio, that's the problem with you. Even though my message is perfectly valid, you feel that you get to discredit it because of the person it's coming from.

Some day, you'll be good at the internet.
Ttoday is not that day.

Do you even have a clue what you're talking about?

OHhhhh Yyyyeaaa

Are you questioning my having a clue because you don't feel it's right that I question your manhood because you're afraid to take risks in a video game?

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EvE has turned into an excuse factory where instead of coming up with reasons why you should do something, you spend all day coming up with reasons why you should not do something.

Man up. Or are you afraid of losing some pixels?

Are you questioning my having a clue...

This coming from the individual that acknowledges he can't even fly a battleship...

Are you questioning my having a clue...

I'm not questioning it at all.

No need to question it. The truth of it is on plain for everyone to see.

This is just another thread that had a simple question and answers were provided and then you came in to take it in a whole new direction to peddle your hatred for everyone else is game and try to win the forum.

The forum can't be won. Sometimes threads can be just simple questions with simple answers. Every thread doesn't have to become something else to spread your rubbish through.

You do realize that you're addressing a quote I directed to someone else right?

K cool, pip pip cheerio

As has already been written in earlier answers.

Lack of risk taking is not the reason for that though.

... it's perfectly viable to reach the conclusion that it doesn't happen because people are afraid of taking the risk.

personally i don't care about reasons. i just state the fact i see.

With your limited experience, lack of knowledge and general attitude towards everyone else, it's not only viable but also pre-determined.

However, in cases where you can't actually add anything of value to the original question, there is no need to use the thread as a platform to push your hatred for the community.

There are already enough threads each day that provide you that platform.

You do realize most T3's are worth much more than the average battleship? And plenty of people solo in T3's.

The problem with solo battleships isn't one of cost, it's more the fact that most are big, unwieldy ships not suitable for solo-pvp.

Having said that, I always enjoyed getting raped in HS by Loren Gallen in his Mach 'back in the day'.

...the fact that there COULD be tons of 1v1's in battleships happening all the time, yet it's not because people are too afraid to take the risk.

Thank you, you finally got it.

The lack of larger class solo is not because people are afraid to take the risk.

It took a while to get there, but you seem to understand now.

/thread

What can we do as a community to foster an environment where people aren't afraid to take risks and are willing to man up and fly those battleships solo looking for other solo battleships to fight?

Should we promote honor? Should CCP offer some kind of incentive for taking risks, like spotlighting the aftermath of their adventures with EvE news reports, leading to some sort of notoriety for those who prove they are willing to take on daunting challenges that the majority of the player base proves it's unwilling to do?

What do we, as a community need to do to increase the frequency of solo battleship pilots flying without help in hostile space looking for a fight to prove they're better and braver than everyone else?