In essence Gevlon's point is that the "fun" of dropping a disproportionately large force on a smaller force at any arbitrary point on the map at any arbitrary time will lead eve to it's death.

He's not wrong.

The "fun" of the large blocs is unsustainable. Don't believe me? Just look at all of the mewling on these forums from those same sov players bemoaning a lack of ~content~ over the past nine months.

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Spitting in the wind, man. Spitting in the wind.

Look at it from a line members perspective:

Your make isk in your afktar with ease. Things are good.
Your favorite FC takes out a fleet, and all you have to do is listen and push a couple buttons. Things are good.
You and your 200 buddies just popped some 20 man frigate gang. Things are good.
You lost your ship to some ~1337 Pvpers~, your alliance replaces it. Things are good.

None of those entities take all of their friends across the map to leverage their disproportionate force for "fun".

Although one of those entities has been on the receiving end of the "fun" suppository for quite some time now, in a "game preserve".

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So because we have a close knit community that means the people in charge run big rmt operations and that we all want EVE to be yet another theampark?

Funny, your block [Grr Goons] seem to think just by breaking up the big power blocks your lives and EVE will be all sunshine and rainbows, and we will all be holding hands singing kumbaya.

Most of his statistical data is misused, it's selectively presented in a light that makes it fit and support the thesis. And, just like a tabloid, he uses the claim of 'data' (misrepresented data, but DATA) backing him up to fool people into thinking it's all legitimate.

Off the top of my hat? He claimed that Powerpoint Coalition was an independent pirate group focused solely on disrupting ratters. While even the powerpoint itself outlined "sov targets and moons" as one of the major goals of their campaign.

He also mixes up terminology - a good instance would be chalking every case of a CFC present on a CFC killmail as an Awox, then claiming "rampant awoxing" among our ranks. Most of those "Awoxes" feature battleships hitting each other with smartbombs (especially when ratting - then they do rack up a significant amount of damage over time which winds up on the lossmail. The smartbomb damage in those cases especially is not a big factor due to hardener setups).

Finally, his method of "filtering" (de-whoring) killmails is very much flawed as it does not present the whole picture of a killmail. Many ships vital to a kill don't even register using that method (HICs on a super - it's pretty normal for a super to be tackled by hictors, but most of the time hictors don't fit guns. Their infinipoints, if used, register for 0.0% damage so by his logic - they don't register. Similar situation for logistics and ECM.)

(EDIT: I could go on - probably write my own blog about how Gevlon is wrong about a lot of things. But those are just a few things I came up with off the top of my amazing hat.)

So to be clear, you were impressed that Gevlon bought data available for free from zkillboard, analysed it badly and came to conclusions which the data can;t possibly represent, then you read on to his post about how video games shouldn't be fun and that CCP are removing fun from the game which he believes is a good thing, then you decided to post a wall of text about it here?

The answer to you're question is no, I will not be unsubbing because of the nerf since nothing will really change that much for null blobs, but CCP need to get to grips on what makes a game entertaining otherwise they will lose me to Elite Dangerous. Doing pretty much anything in eve is tedious and boring, not exactly what makes a game good.

Eh, it's ultimately inconsequential. I'll change it to "Wow! Noticed by a forum pro! I can retire."