A New Beginning

So, you like playing Eve-Online ?

Is it because you like to shoot stuff, getting the kill is fun yes ?

Does that include shooting guys who don't want to PVP ?

Care Bears or industrialists who play the game for the mining and building stuff or trading ?

They have the right to play eve too don't they ?

Who said they had to be PVP'ers to Play Eve-Online ?

All games, just like real life have risks, the ganker can sneak up on you at any moment, social misfits or someone enjoying their freedom to act in a way they could never get away with in real life. That's the fun behind immersing one self in the virtual world so as to get away with the actions and activities we could never experience in real life.

Now think about this, If you where to go onto Face Book or Twitter, choose an individual or individuals and continuously harass them, troll the life out of them and generally make their lives a misery to the point they couldn't continue to use those social media sites....

Would you be allowed to get away with it ?

Wait, the ganker rarely bothers the same guys more than once, a couple of times in rare circumstances. Surely this doesn't relate to them.....that may be correct.

War deccers, now that's a different matter.

Many war deccers will declare war on corps who have no experience or no interest in pvp. Corps with new players with low skills and no experience. Forcing them to take the only option available to them and that is to stop playing till the war dec is finished.
What then ? A new war dec, same guys or different ones, maybe two together.

How does our player deal with this one....that's right.....he stops playing again till the war dec is over.

Are you now seeing a pattern.....how long is this guy going to put up with this....Alpha or Omega no difference.....if he can't enjoy his game he is going to quit. FACT !

And they do Quit, I know, I've been playing now for 12 years and the numbers of guys I've Known who have stopped playing for that reason alone is phenomenal.

Even Players that join with PVP as their career path are not going to be skilled enough for several months to be able to defend themselves in a war situation. No amount of enthusiasm is going to overcome the boredom of being station bound or being unable to play due to a wardec that could potentially last for weeks.

Me? doesn't bother me, I have 4 accounts, always one of them in a situation where there is no war, so not a problem for me to play.

Not quite the same for "Joe New Guy" though is it, or the guy who doesn't want to, or is unable to pay for multiple accounts.
So why is CCP sponsoring activities that are driving a large proportion of their customer base out of the game.

But the war deccer corps and alliances will complain if you try and change it. The bullies will always complain that they have the right to beat up on the new guys or the nerdy guys or those with different interests to their own, just for their own pleasure.

That is ok is it ? .... No ?

So what are you going to do about it.

Thats income that CCP will lose or isn't going to see, it's also a lot of potential lifelong friends and corp mates that we will never meet or see again, gone, Just so some bullies can have their fun.

OK let's look at this a bit more carefully, EVE-ONLINE is a very diverse game that needs to satisfy a great many people and in many ways it does. On the Empire War declaration it falls down.
The new solo players are protected, but as we all know, few players enjoy playing solo permanently. Eve's strength lies in it's team play. So the new player needs to join a Corp / Alliance where he can play and learn alongside other players. It's at this point he/they become vulnerable to wars and we could lose them. There is also the situation where a war dec runs continuously week after week....yes it does happen....my record is over 6 months.....crazy isn't it. Well you can imagine how many guys gave up and left the game during that period from my corp alone.

we need an invulnerability system where a corp or alliance can only be wardecced a set number of times in any time period. wardec maximum of one week, then grace period before any more wardecs can be declared unless mutually agreed between parties. Suggest one war dec per month then no decs at all until the new period. Plus get out of jail facility...fixed payment to Concord ( bullies don't get a dime) to declare the war dec void. This should make the bully boys think again before they go wasting their isk declaring war on easy targets. Shouldn't effect the pvp corps they can carry on fighting their wars to their hearts content. The Industrials, traders and PVE'ers can do their thing in relative safety as was originally intended within the bounds of High Sec Empire.

Over to you CCP

Time to start backing "all" your players instead of just the ones with the biggest voices.