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eve is a pvp game. End of story.

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Uh... no. EVE is (supposedly) a MMOG that happens to HAVE pvp. The game obviously wasn't built around pvp, since ships take a lot of resources to produce. A true PVP-centered game is designed to get you back out killing again quickly after being killed (though perhaps with some penalty), while EVE makes losing anything bigger than a small cruiser painful unless you have a rich corp supplying you. A pvp game also tends to have lots of things to fight OVER, but in EVE the only systems with unrestricted PVP have very little to lay claim to. After all, if one system is camped then hunters and miners have many others to choose from. PVP in this game is ONE path, not THE path...

I'm not saying this is supposed to be a cute, fuzzy care-bear lovefest , but I'd say more people AVOID fights than look for them. That makes sense... someone has to mine, run agent missions for tools and BPs, and build things. Some people feel more thrill from playing the market or becoming a well-know manufacturer than they would from shooting down a hundred battleships. Some people actually ENJOY mining (I don't understand them either ). And some peole just say 'to heck with making ISK' and spend all their time chatting, exploring, or doing news reports for fansites. Personally, I avoid PVP simply because my corp is too small to mine megacyte and too poor (well, we aren't poor, but we're not rich either) to replace battleships frequently. Since PVP requires battleships or large numbers (which we don't have) I don't bother with it.

In short (oops, too late!) EVE was designed to allow groups of players to compete or ally with each other using economic AND military means. PVP is only part of the game, and it's no more important than mining, manufacturing, or the market. If ALL those parts don't work, EVE doesn't work.

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