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Cassius Invictus
Thou shalt not kill A Nest of Vipers
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Posted - 2015.02.13 10:31:42 -
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I know this topic has been on the table several times. IGÇÖm pretty sure I started one myself (sorry too lazy to check ).
1) Anyway recently after ganking several poor farmers in null and wh I realized that whichever direction CCP plans to go with this notion (if it plans at all ;) one thing should be done regardless of anything:
PvE should require fits that would also work for PvP.
It means rats running away if not scramed, all-ewar warking on them and so onGǪ Details are less important than the general idea that the potential ganker like me should be aware that the pve ship is able to defend itself and I canGÇÖt just adopt tactic GÇ£IGÇÖll just run away if is too tanked" etc.
2) The other things I would like to mention here are the hi sec missions in general. Why on earth a new player who can bearly fly a single ship is forced to engage several factions rats who require different ships and different fits. On the other hand a veteran player with good standing towards agent mostly gets his race specific rats. Nice but when I play almost every ship in the game I can have a park of them for every mssion. A month old-player canGÇÖt.
And again facing different rats should prepare player for different types of pvp (I think burner missions are a good add on in this regard) using ewar, understanding pros and cons of different weapon systems etc. and it should be all explained while doing this.
3) Last but not least: in all our interest is that more new players come to EVE. So for gods sake can please make a tutorial that is both detailed, user-friendly and entertaining at the same time? I had a friend who really wanted to play eve but got lost on one of the first tasks in tutorial. Agreed maybe he was not to bright, but not many people are .
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Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2015.02.13 10:44:49 -
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First everything in eve is already pvp
pve can be done with pvp fits if they want to optimize and go for a fit that doesn't work for pvp then let them do it more reward more risk
as for number three they are working on it and why the hell did you make your friend do the tutorial rather than help him out yourself if i can do it for a bunch of newbs i don't even know you can do it for your friend.
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Paul Griffin
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.13 10:49:28 -
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I have also felt that this disparity of PvE and PvP setups is hurting the game and a simple change would simply be to be able to define two fits which can then be switched on the fly, with maybe a minute or two cooldown.
Not only would that make it so that PvE pilots wouldnt be sitting ducks for PvP but also make PvE more interesting to be able to change fits on the fly, depending on what you are doing. Such as exploration fits, combat fits, salvage fits etc.
A lot of MMOs have this so why not Eve? |

Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2015.02.13 10:50:51 -
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... bring a mobile depot?
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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Farsaidh's Freeborn
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:04:40 -
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People run missions in 'PvE fits' because they can. If players want that to change they should horribly exploit the holes in the fit by ganking missions runners embarrassingly (a bunch of venture taking down a BS with the appropriate drones for instance). Mission runners would rapidly change to a more PvP fit.
If players won't make other players change then why should CCP? |

Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:09:33 -
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Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:People run missions in 'PvE fits' because they can. If players want that to change they should horribly exploit the holes in the fit by ganking missions runners embarrassingly (a bunch of venture taking down a BS with the appropriate drones for instance). Mission runners would rapidly change to a more PvP fit.
If players won't make other players change then why should CCP?
everything but the rapid part is true i deal with a lot of new players and every time they are ganked rather than learn from ii they do some combination of rage or thinking it wont happen again so why bother changing anything
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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Farsaidh's Freeborn
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:19:16 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:People run missions in 'PvE fits' because they can. If players want that to change they should horribly exploit the holes in the fit by ganking missions runners embarrassingly (a bunch of venture taking down a BS with the appropriate drones for instance). Mission runners would rapidly change to a more PvP fit.
If players won't make other players change then why should CCP? everything but the rapid part is true i deal with a lot of new players and every time they are ganked rather than learn from ii they do some combination of rage or thinking it wont happen again so why bother changing anything
True enough...and I just realized that what the OP wants may well be happening with the changes to come from the circadian sleeper drones scanning us and those new Drifters coming in... |

Lugh Crow-Slave
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:27:23 -
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Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:
True enough...and I just realized that what the OP wants may well be happening with the changes to come from the circadian sleeper drones scanning us and those new Drifters coming in...
and at one point they would just attack you with no provocation but i haven't been able to replicate this on sisi the last few patches so idk if it was a glitch or if they don't want it to happen yet/at all
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Damjan Fox
Fox Industries and Exploration
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:35:52 -
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Quote:PvE should require fits that would also work for PvP. It means rats running away if not scramed, all-ewar warking on them and so on I agree with that. Make NPCs smarter and not immune to EWAR. Furthermore, PVE sites should be redone, in my opinion. It just doesn't make sense, that i can engage several battleships, battlecruisers and dozens of frigates at the same time in A SINGLE cruiser and win that fight. PVE sites should have far less, but more dangerous NPCs.
Quote:Why on earth a new player who can bearly fly a single ship is forced to engage several factions rats who require different ships and different fits. It's not that hard to switch out 2 or 3 hardeners, is it? You don't need a fleet of ships, to do all the various missions. One well fit ship is enough.
Quote:So for gods sake can please make a tutorial that is both detailed, user-friendly and entertaining at the same time? Yeah well, tutorial needs some work. We all know that. And CCP is working on it. |

Paul Griffin
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:46:33 -
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Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:... bring a mobile depot?
Get real. It takes one minute to activate one of those and then another X seconds to change fits. You will be deader than dead by that time. Mobile depot is great inbetween activities, not when you are being jumped and it takes 100m3 space which many ships cannot afford to spare.
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Paul Griffin
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.13 11:51:23 -
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Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:People run missions in 'PvE fits' because they can. If players want that to change they should horribly exploit the holes in the fit by ganking missions runners embarrassingly (a bunch of venture taking down a BS with the appropriate drones for instance). Mission runners would rapidly change to a more PvP fit.
If players won't make other players change then why should CCP?
Flawed argument. People use PvE fits for the same reason people use PvP fits, because that is what it is optimal for. To use a PvP fit in PvE would gimp your activities as much as using a PvE fit in PvP. It is a poor solution for a real problem.
And CCP are the developers of the game for which they are paid for. CCP should make changes to better the game, other players have no such obligation.
So what is really happening is that the vast majority of mission runners stay in high sec to avoid getting ganked by someone with a fit made for PvP, where as they are fit for PvE.
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Corraidhin Farsaidh
Farsaidh's Freeborn
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Posted - 2015.02.13 12:06:19 -
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Paul Griffin wrote:Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:People run missions in 'PvE fits' because they can. If players want that to change they should horribly exploit the holes in the fit by ganking missions runners embarrassingly (a bunch of venture taking down a BS with the appropriate drones for instance). Mission runners would rapidly change to a more PvP fit.
If players won't make other players change then why should CCP? Flawed argument. People use PvE fits for the same reason people use PvP fits, because that is what it is optimal for. To use a PvP fit in PvE would gimp your activities as much as using a PvE fit in PvP. It is a poor solution for a real problem. And CCP are the developers of the game for which they are paid for. CCP should make changes to better the game, other players have no such obligation. So what is really happening is that the vast majority of mission runners stay in high sec to avoid getting ganked by someone with a fit made for PvP, where as they are fit for PvE.
Flawed argument from yourself, the PvE fit would no longer be optimal if other people kept destroying a ship fit in such a way. Either bringing friends or a mobile depot or simply flying fit for PvP would become optimal instead.
As you say people are in hisec in PvE fits to avoid being killed by players fit for PvE. My point was that this actually makes it easy for those players who dislike this to do something about it. |

Paul Griffin
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.13 12:16:08 -
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Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:Paul Griffin wrote:Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:People run missions in 'PvE fits' because they can. If players want that to change they should horribly exploit the holes in the fit by ganking missions runners embarrassingly (a bunch of venture taking down a BS with the appropriate drones for instance). Mission runners would rapidly change to a more PvP fit.
If players won't make other players change then why should CCP? Flawed argument. People use PvE fits for the same reason people use PvP fits, because that is what it is optimal for. To use a PvP fit in PvE would gimp your activities as much as using a PvE fit in PvP. It is a poor solution for a real problem. And CCP are the developers of the game for which they are paid for. CCP should make changes to better the game, other players have no such obligation. So what is really happening is that the vast majority of mission runners stay in high sec to avoid getting ganked by someone with a fit made for PvP, where as they are fit for PvE. Flawed argument from yourself, the PvE fit would no longer be optimal if other people kept destroying a ship fit in such a way. Either bringing friends or a mobile depot or simply flying fit for PvP would become optimal instead. As you say people are in hisec in PvE fits to avoid being killed by players fit for PvE. My point was that this actually makes it easy for those players who dislike this to do something about it.
A PvE fit is optimal in PvE. Basically you are saying a PvE fit would not be optimal for PvPvE and that is obviously the case. However, fitting a PvPvE fit is not really viable and hence why many other games have created fits which you can seamlessly change between. I don't see that would not be possible in Eve, short of upsetting you old timers who don't want the game to change.
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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2015.02.13 12:23:16 -
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You mean like the Burner missions? That's a great success in "Make PVE more like PVP". Scrams are pointless, Prop-mods are pointless, you just need a tank, webs and ranged or close range weapons depending on the Burner. Or a Jammer to ECM the logi and raze down the DPS ship in the Team Burners. That is totally exactly like PVP.
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Raymond Moons
Parallactic Veil
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Posted - 2015.02.13 12:38:34 -
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The assumption that players would engage in PvP if they also used PvP fits for PvE is a daft one. Players that don't PvP are not likely to start just because the same fits are required for missions.
I agree it is silly that a single ship can kill a hundred red crosses, but this is a game, and grinding individual targets is boring.
Burner missions are almost what you are asking for, but since players know what they are engaging first, they can pick a ship with a favourable natural resistance profile, suitable speed and engagement range. They can even select the best ammo.
If mission AI perfectly resmebled other players and PvP fits were required to beat them, why then would someone go to PvP an actual player, where their loss mail would be published on a kill board hurting their epeen? |

Cassius Invictus
Thou shalt not kill A Nest of Vipers
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Posted - 2015.02.13 13:11:42 -
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Raymond Moons wrote:The assumption that players would engage in PvP if they also used PvP fits for PvE is a daft one. Players that don't PvP are not likely to start just because the same fits are required for missions.
I agree it is silly that a single ship can kill a hundred red crosses, but this is a game, and grinding individual targets is boring.
Burner missions are almost what you are asking for, but since players know what they are engaging first, they can pick a ship with a favourable natural resistance profile, suitable speed and engagement range. They can even select the best ammo.
If mission AI perfectly resmebled other players and PvP fits were required to beat them, why then would someone go to PvP an actual player, where their loss mail would be published on a kill board hurting their epeen?
Well I agree with you and generally people who think that some pilots will not engage in pvp no matter what and will sit and farm till they are ganked. That is all true.
But I also believe that there are many more people who have a psychic barrier which prevents them from engaging in PvP. One of the main reasons is that without a proper guidance (good corp) they have no way to learn PvP.
Unlike CoD or BF3 EVE is not a game where a low skill player can kill a veteran by a lucky shot. If u donGÇÖt know what you're doing in EVE you will die - period.
Therefore my proposal is for lifting the "psychic barrier" and making people more familiar with pvp. So it's more for "noobs" rather than "i will only o pve" pilots. Even if itGÇÖs for purpose of dodging ganks and not "hardcore pvp".
BTW. Burner missions are a little to much at the moment and are even hard for veteran players. But the direction is good, and burner missions show how much "normal pve" differs form them. |

Raymond Moons
Parallactic Veil
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Posted - 2015.02.13 13:48:07 -
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I think the mental barrier you mention does exist but it's a survival instinct barrier. New players don't want to die repeatedly, which is how they can actually learn to PvP. The current "advanced combat" tutorial tries to address that somewhat by making dieing an objective of a couple of the missions.
I think hard lvl 1 burner missions might be a way to encourage more PvP and help players get used to dieing but it might also scare new players out of the game. There is balance required there. |

Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2015.02.13 14:07:41 -
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Cassius Invictus wrote:But I also believe that there are many more people who have a psychic barrier which prevents them from engaging in PvP. One of the main reasons is that without a proper guidance (good corp) they have no way to learn PvP.
Unlike CoD or BF3 EVE is not a game where a low skill player can kill a veteran by a lucky shot. If u donGÇÖt know what you're doing in EVE you will die - period. That is a lie. Players like suitonia have repeatedly demonstrated how young players can destroy older players without problems, and you do not even need a lucky shot for that. They just need to watch proper guidance/information videos, ask pros and need to be willing to learn.
I, however, agree on that finding a good corp in EVE is a very special kind of torture. There need to be other ways to find suitable corps and to cut out the trash that's just after your stuff to screw you up. Also, people need to be made aware of people like suitonia or corps like Agony Empire, who actually and actively help newer players. CCP and more importantly the players need to put more effort into that than other useless crap, like the NES.
Moreover, if I was a younger player and would run these Burner missions to "learn PVP", I would take 2 things from that: All the players always web and scram you and I do just need to web them back and shoot them with some kind or weapon that reaches them. Moving around is overrated because they will just orbit me anyways so I do not need a prop mod either.
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Cassius Invictus
Thou shalt not kill A Nest of Vipers
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Posted - 2015.02.13 14:28:41 -
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Rivr Luzade wrote: That is a lie. Players like suitonia have repeatedly demonstrated how young players can destroy older players without problems, and you do not even need a lucky shot for that. They just need to watch proper guidance/information videos, ask pros and need to be willing to learn.
You contradict yourself. To be successful at PvP u need a lot of knowledge - you write it yourself. You canGÇÖt just win by hitting buttons randomly or using grande launcher like in FFS . Sure a young, BUT TRAINED player can defeat a veteran player but just proves my point. You need some sort of guidance to conduct P2P. Without it you will NEVER succeed - no intuitive behavior will help you. |

Raymond Moons
Parallactic Veil
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Posted - 2015.02.13 14:32:49 -
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Rivr Luzade wrote:
Moreover, if I was a younger player and would run these Burner missions to "learn PVP", I would take 2 things from that: All the players always web and scram you and I do just need to web them back and shoot them with some kind or weapon that reaches them. Moving around is overrated because they will just orbit me anyways so I do not need a prop mod either.
That is an issue particular to the current lvl 4 burner missions. I think lvl 1 burners would have to be something like T1 frigates with maybe T2 mods as a maximum. Then they wouldn't have the LOL-stats of the current burners that can scarmble out to 40 km's. T1 frigates with T2 gear would be a lot more like the type of PvP you might encounter as a noob. |

Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2015.02.13 14:58:04 -
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Cassius Invictus wrote:Rivr Luzade wrote: That is a lie. Players like suitonia have repeatedly demonstrated how young players can destroy older players without problems, and you do not even need a lucky shot for that. They just need to watch proper guidance/information videos, ask pros and need to be willing to learn.
You contradict yourself. To be successful at PvP u need a lot of knowledge - you write it yourself. You canGÇÖt just win by hitting buttons randomly or using grande launcher like in FFS  . Sure a young, BUT TRAINED player can defeat a veteran player but just proves my point. You need some sort of guidance to conduct P2P. Without it you will NEVER succeed - no intuitive behavior will help you. You get the basics in the EVE tutorials and more advanced info in the suitonia's videos or lessons in Agony, or even EUni. What he does in his videos and the ships he uses do not require a lot of knowledge. Keeping an eye on ranges, on weapons and a bit of behavior observation as well as checking resources to gauge your potential opponent before you engage is enough. I don't know how you define "young player", but in my opinion someone who's 2-3 months old is young. In that amount of time, you can watch a lot of videos and ask a lot of questions and experiment around a lot. Provided, you are really interested in PVP, everything I listed above can be learned in 2-3 months and refined afterwards. Some level of information is indeed necessary, but in order to murder another player's T1 frig with your own frigate, is not as complicated as you make it seem. Missions that teach you to to react on some predefined patterns, however, do little to nothing to achieve that. In contrast, what is lacking these days are people willing to teach other players how to PVP, how to avoid PVP, how to get out of PVP, how to do things properly and those trying to make other people aware of PVP. To my knowledge, most players, however, these days are only interested in easy kills, lols and "gudfites". Teaching other players how to properly PVP would just bereave them off their basic content generator. A cheers for the Sandbox. 
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elitatwo
Eve Minions Poopstain Removal Team
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Posted - 2015.02.13 22:23:26 -
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Cassius Invictus wrote:... It means rats running away if not scramed, all-ewar warking on them and so onGǪ Details are less important than the general idea that the potential ganker like me should be aware that the pve ship is able to defend itself and I canGÇÖt just adopt tactic GÇ£IGÇÖll just run away if is too tanked" etc...
Cassius, ewar works on all NPCs, always. And there is no rule that prevents you from ratting in a pvp boat. Depending on what you are ratting, you might need to make some adjustments but ratting is there not to teach you pvp but to make you isk.
No imaging how you would your isk if NPCs would always run away from potential harm and asteroids would 'cloak' themselves so they cannot be mined.
There you go you just killed EVE.
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Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
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Posted - 2015.02.14 03:24:01 -
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There is a very solid and proven reason why PvE and PvP fits are so radically different, unless you change the very nature of one or the other of these activities there is no way you will ever get one fit to work equally well for both. As a mission runner I would like nothing more than to be able to efficiently run missions while using a PvP fit, alas that does not work now and it is not likely to change any time soon.
Yes you can use a PvP fit for missions it just takes about 4 or 5 times as long. Warp in take damage, warp out and repair, repeat as many times as needed to complete the mission. In the mean time I sit and tank the damage laughing hysterically at their antics and wonder when they will learn that you cannot efficiently run missions in a PvP fit.
On the other hand and across every ship class my low EHP and high dps active tanked ships would quickly melt in a PvP engagement and there in lies the hassles for mission runners. Before you roast me over this the answer is yes this is the way it should be and I am comfortable with it, ganks are just one of the risks we face.
Now let's move to the whole silly notion that people would be more likely to participate in PvP oriented activities if their ships were properly fit. No doubt there are some that would do this, it is my opinion that the vast majority of PvE players would not because the whole PvP style of game play hold no interest for them. So simply accept that there are different play styles in this game, participate in those you enjoy and allow others to enjoy their favorites. |

To mare
Advanced Technology
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Posted - 2015.02.14 04:06:09 -
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i think more than PvE that need PvP modules it would be better if they introduced some kind of PvE that can be done with PvP ship isk/hr effective.
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Celthric Kanerian
Ascendance Of New Eden Workers Trade Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.14 09:55:24 -
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Cassius Invictus wrote:IGÇÖm pretty sure I started one myself (sorry too lazy to check  ).
Smartass. |

Corraidhin Farsaidh
Farsaidh's Freeborn
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Posted - 2015.02.14 12:22:09 -
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To mare wrote:i think more than PvE that need PvP modules it would be better if they introduced some kind of PvE that can be done with PvP ship isk/hr effective.
My gila would be enormously effective in isk/hr terms if I chose to run missions in it and it is not fit for any specific PvE rats as I explroe for combat anoms instead. It all depends on the ship. |

Tasya Ffod
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.14 13:19:12 -
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The rules of eve
Rule 1 : Never fly what you can't afford to lose.
Rule 2 : Never tell anyone else how they should play eve.
Eve is a sandbox. If pve players want to play as pve player then they can. If you want to gank them you can.
The only time CCP should, and do, interfere is when something is broken. PVE fits are not broken they are just what you don't want to see
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Raymond Moons
Parallactic Veil
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Posted - 2015.02.14 13:48:57 -
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Tasya Ffod wrote:The rules of eve
Rule 1 : Never fly what you can't afford to lose.
Rule 2 : Never tell anyone else how they should play eve.
Eve is a sandbox. If pve players want to play as pve player then they can. If you want to gank them you can.
The only time CCP should, and do, interfere is when something is broken. PVE fits are not broken they are just what you don't want to see
He isn't trying to tell anyone how to play Eve. All players start out in PvE with the tutorials, so some helpful transition to get players into PvP isn't a bad idea, it's just very difficult to implement. |

Syn Shi
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.14 14:26:39 -
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If you want to pvp why are you hanging in hi-sec?
Only change here is you need to fight other pvp players instead of going after pve players and then claiming there is an issue.
Only issue here is your choice to avoid fighting someone wo will shoot back. |

Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation The Kadeshi
1221
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Posted - 2015.02.14 14:37:53 -
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Raymond Moons wrote:He isn't trying to tell anyone how to play Eve. All players start out in PvE with the tutorials, so some helpful transition to get players into PvP isn't a bad idea, it's just very difficult to implement. Then why implement something that players themselves can take care of better, more efficient and in a more realistic fashion? Effort? 
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