Sorry for being insensitive and pointing at the elephant in the room, but if PVP isn't a choice you make but a choice others make for you - as I keep hearing it - then my comparison is quite accurate.

I posted this entire thread because I'd like to hear suggestions and counter-proposals to the issue I presented. Some people in this thread however do not want to discuss, they want their opinion to be the one true and only way of playing the game. Talking to such people is a waste of time, because the only thing you possibly get back are insults. See the post above.

No, I presented an issue and asked for ideas how to fix it in the best way possible and gave my own ideas. If you think that those are flawed feel free to add your ideas, because that's what a discussion is about. Saying "All you did is bad!" and giving no counter-proposal then waiting for one single person to come up with better ideas is crying.

Why there is an issue? Because stealing the one loot item required to complete is a flaw in the system. The loot ninja in question is actually actively going for the mission item to prevent the player from completing the mission for whatever fun he might get out of that. There is no profit intention, it is just harassing people. Now if you are optimizing your ship to complete the mission - obviously - and he optimizes his ship to steal the mission specific loot, then he will win at least most of the time.

So if a single person is capable of making mission completion impossible for many people by a single act, it is the same flaw as when a single alliance was capable of removing T2 ships from the game. CCP corrected it and I hope CCP will correct this flaw as well. It's ok if he can have all the rest and loot and whatever, but the player should at least be able to complete the mission.

There is currently no PvP. I know that he has a PvP fitted Machariel with remote rep backup and I need a fleet to kill him. That's for once outside of my abilities right now and for second not worth the trouble. So I - and many others in my situation - ignore that guy, or warp out immediately if there is a mission item required, since you won't get that before him which makes completing the mission a waste of time. Effectively as much PvP happenes as with smart-bombing a shuttle warping in on a gate: none.

A good solution would allow me to actually fight back without having to call in a group of friend to do that for me. I in my ship want to be able to shoot that guy in the face, then see who wins or looses. But currently the system is favoring the attacker so much, that doing that is suicidal. He is better prepared, because he prepared for PvP and I did for mission. He has his friends/alts already right there, I would have to call them, then probably wait for hours till he strikes again. And on top of that Eve has become a universe, where a fully fitted Machariel for PvP no longer costs a billion ISK, but 8Gé¼. So if he happens to be rich outside the game and I am not, then he can just thrown Machariels at me till I suffocate in them.

There are several flaws in this system right now that prevent PvP from happening, and I'd like to find ideas to change that so PvP can actually happen again.