Pinaculus
The High and Mighty
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Posted - 2011.12.09 03:07:00 -
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I played this game for a pretty long time having seldom left high-sec. I made my first trip, as a noob, to low-sec and got caught at a belt in my Navitas and podded.
I made my second trip to low-sec as a still noob mission runner. The mission took me to low sec, and some people waited for me to finish it before they tackled my slow Domi, blew it up, and podded me. I had no real idea why I was dying so easily, so I started reading about the mechanics and how PVP worked. I realized that the people that live in Low/Null are prepared for group PVP. They know the fits, have the alts, have the friends, know the territory, and have every advantage they can ahead of time. They have to. They're fighting other people like them.
I then realized that I didn't know what I was doing, and didn't have friends to teach me, and didn't have money to pay for alts (and eventually PLEX), and I didn't have the time to grind for ISK just get it blown up in PVP. So I avoided it like the plague.
But EVE is very boring without PVP. So after I got enough knowledge to at least not be bewildered by every defeat; to at least know WHY I was getting killed so much, I joined a low-sec corp that was inviting at the time. I've found them to be very laid-back people that have studied how to PVP in EVE because it's what they like doing.
But I stayed in high-sec for so long because I knew that to leave would probably be suicide. I knew that I didn't have any upper hands, so I decided not to bother. If you can win, but it's a long shot, it's called a risk. If you can't win because you don't have a clue it isn't a risk anymore. It's just stupid.
I'd guess that a lot of people stuck in high-sec are there because they don't know how to PVP, and they don't want to get their face pounded in while they learn. Others are just not interested in fighting other people for fun. I mean, there's usually no profit in it. What's the point? Some have done the PVP thing enough to have gotten bored with it, but still like chatting w/ people and hanging out in EVE. And still others are too stupid, ignorant, or time-starved to be able to do anything more creative and risky than warping to the thingy and F1ing the red crosses.
It doesn't really matter. There's stuff to do no matter where you go.
I know sometimes it's difficult to realize just how much you spend on incidental things each month or year, but seriously, EVE is very cheap entertainment compared to most things... If you are a smoker, smoke one less pack a week and pay for EVE, with money left over to pick up a cheap bundle of flowers for the EVE widow upstairs. |