Drethon
Gallente Selinir Industries
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Posted - 2007.08.27 17:08:00 -
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It is most unfortunate that you lost something you found important but I think changing the game to prevent non-consensual PVP would ruin the core of the game.
Now I'm not just another pirate who wants to blow everyone up. I'm trained up to use a Hulk, Occator and L4 Dominix. I'm producing a majority of all Gallente equipment up to Cruisers and working on Battlecruisers and running missions hard to get standings to open up a hi-sec POS.
I've only engaged in combat in my Brutix once against a ore thieving Raven and got my tail thoroughly handed to me before I managed to dock at the station with 10% hull left (whew). I have enjoyed every ship I have lost in PvP (and usually been thoroughly ****ed loosing them in PvE). I DO NOT want to see hi-sec be made perfectly safe.
Every ship loss has been an opportunity to learn from my mistakes and annoy the heck out of the pirates when they cannot catch me. Since I lost my last hauler nearly six months ago I have not lost a ship in PvP, this includes my Itteron IIIs I run missions though low sec with (17% hull on docking one time). Had a great time making a trade run through low sec in my blockade runner with a CBC chasing me though four systems and not managing a lock on me.
Any time I haul something more expensive than 20M (except ore) it goes in my blockade runner or my T2 tanked Dominix. If I were to ever haul anything worth more than 1b that didn't fit in my Dominix I'd probably send it by courier with a deposit equal to the goods or hire a merc crew to escort me and make them give me a deposit returnable upon safe delivery.
If I want to play a game where I cannot loose I'll go play freelancer or some other off line game with easy mode on. I want online play to be a gamble so that when I accomplish something, it means something. If I don't want it to mean anything, I don't care if the results are persistent.
So to sum up my thoughts, I don't run anything on my own in Eve that I'm not willing to loose. If I'm not willing to loose something, I will run it with insurance so that if it is lost, I can recover it. If it is something that is not recoverable, there will be lovely storage throughout Eve of all my fancy stuff that will never leave a station.
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