Herculite
Hunters Agency
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2006.11.16 15:51:00 -
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I've been playing multiplayer online games since they first came out in the form of PVP muds. What very few of these places did then and this problem continues to this day is find a happy medium where pve meets pvp. Where carebear and pvper can find a nitch. Most were either frag fests, or made pvp so restrictive that there was no point in doing it unless you wanted to lose everything.
Eve is one of the ONLY mmpog that has achieved this happy carebear-pvp medium. This is what is so great about it. This is why its better than WoW, or EQ, or any mmpog to date. This is why a game with such horrible pve content (the missions are just awful and boring) is so good, because the player matter. PVP can't exsist without carebears, and carebears (the smart ones) know that its the pvpers getting their crap blown up on a nightly basis that is making them rich.
Now in my years, and I've been doing this longer than some of our playerbase has been out of diapers, of pvp gaming there is one type of carebear that I just can't stand. This is the carebear who plays the game, but for whatever reason can't seem to 'get' pvp, and can't even seem to figure out how to avoid it. I don't know if its being lazy, or stupid, or just missing some testosterone, but these types just can't figure out how not to get killed. Its a mental flaw, they can't think like a killer, so they are always the victim. You can see these guys in jita moving a billion isk in a t1 hauler without instas, you can hear them whine about gate camps in the forums, you can find posts about wanting to make 0.0 'more accessable' aka safe for them to do solo what they want to do. They want to take the game and change it to something they will like, even though it was never that game to start with. They don't want to adapt to the game (how hard is it to scout?) but want the game to change to fit their playstyle.
These are the carebears who, while a pirates best victim, will be the first to whine about it in the forums as unfair.
Sometimes the devs listen to these types, and its always a sad day.
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