Originally by: Duff Man

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Edited by: Duff Man on 18/05/2007 02:55:20
I'm an Ex-Carebear, now PvPer that has been reading the multitude of posts over and over again, and I'm starting to get agitated with what I'm seeing here.

Therefore I felt it necessary to come here and shove my opinion into all of your faces in a superior tone like I know everything blah blah blah. So in point form here it is:

1) Carebears. OMG many of you have lost the plot...
By far the most common argument I have seen from many of you is that suicide ganking should not be possible. That being in high sec is your g*d given right to be perfectly safe and that even if half of the galaxy decides that you should be popped in high sec that it should not be possible. It is this attitude primarily that is having the PvPer types shaking their heads and wanting to troll and flame you.

2) PvPers / Gankers - Wow, just wow...
The most common argument from you lot is that everything is absolutely fine, nothing needs to be changed, "you got popped and now you're whining on the whorums" kind of attitude. Well, really what else could be expected from you? Common theory among many of you is that because you guys are "cooler", "l337", and because you can come on the whorums and exercise your e-peen in public by flaming one of the idiot carebear types I mentioned above, that this makes you right.

3) Some things as I see them.

-To the Carebears - High sec should be much safer than low sec, but not completely safe. CCP have stated again and again that one of EvE's driving principles is Risk vs Reward. By that argument alone, if there was ZERO risk in High Sec, then there would also be ZERO reward. Which as we all know is not the case.

-To the PvPers / Gankers - This Risk vs Reward thingo I mentioned applies to you guys as well. Any one of you who would look me in the eye, and tell me that popping a freighter in high sec using 13 Dominixs that are all T1 fitted, and FULLY INSURED is balanced Risk vs Reward, is either legitimately stupid, or lying. Simple.


"So what needs to be done? Oh wise one Duff Man"
-Give Freighters slots. The idea that every freighter you set your target bead on always has exactly the same setup (Lackof in this case), goes against the grain of everything else in this game. Consistency fellas... If you want to stop Freighters using cargo expanders, then prevent them using cargo expanders in their low slots...

-Nerf whatever it is that makes a Dominix THE SHIP, and basically THE ONLY SHIP to use for this activity. When you have a situation where there is 1 ship type, used by everyone engaging in a specific activity, virtually 100% of the time - Something has gone wrong and balance has gone out the window in that instance.

-Insurance for Condokkened ships.
If you get blown up breaking the law in high sec space, being popped by the authorities you should not get a nice fat insurance payout for it! No comparisons to RL, none of that crap. If you get popped doing something which is 100% going to result in the destruction (Suicide) of your ship your ship you should not get an insurance payout for it. I know I know, its not enforceable for PvP, low sec etc etc. It IS however, enforceable for ships that get popped by concord.

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Introduce a new warning popup that comes up specifically when the action that you are performing will result in a concord response. "Doing this will result in the UNINSURED LOSS OF YOUR SHIP, are you sure you want to continue?" - Or something along those lines anyway.

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