Originally by: Dimitry Kalashnikov

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I'm now closing in on my third year of EVE. I've done piracy for most of those years and for some of that time I did 0.0 PvP. I have experienced every type of PvP that EVE has to offer. I now find that EVE PvP is in a steady decline in my own opinion. Note that this thread is an OPINION thread. Now that my resume has been bared to you all, let me voice my concerns.

Now before I continue on, as I read over my thread I realize it really does seem like a whine, and maybe on some level it is, but truly it comes from exasperated concern for a game that I love so much.

To properly express how I now feel about PvP is difficult at best. I feel it is no longer for the skilled as much as it is a war of monetary supremacy. I remember months ago when my corporation would take on insurmountable odds in T1 Cruisers through pure tactics and intelligent fittings. Today I find this all nullified. Nowadays this is what PvP has been in MY eyes. What I'VE seen.

Consider this scenario:

I jump into a system. People recognize me as a threat and dock. I'll travel as far as 20 systems from home, with the same result. I am a very fast scanner, but by the time I'm in warp to a belt I find the person has already left.

Feeling defeated I head home, on my way home I'm scanning and find a ship in a belt. Lets say a Hurricane. I jump in and tackle him. Giddy with PvP ecstacy I begin to rip into his ship. Local will LITERALLY swell by 10-20 and I will be swarmed in a second. I find myself neuted, ECMed, webbed, scrammed and getting shreded apart.

Well good game to them, they set a trap and I fell into it. I give them nothing but kudos. So I continue on my way at least happy that I got to shoot something. So I grab another ship and continue hunting. Another 20 jumps, AHA! I find a ship! I attack the ship, lets say its BS of some kind.

It tackles me back and its attacking. Local does not swell. Instead a cyno is dropped and a [Insert Carrier or Mothership here] is on top of me. What hope is there?

Now the above story has happened to me on MANY occasions, not in that sequence mind you, I've just taken all my greivences and made a little story out of it, but typically thats my life with PvP. I am not a bad PvPer, I have A LOT of experience PvPing but this is ridiculous. You wouldn't believe how many motherships or carriers have cyno'ed in on top of me. Mind you this is all low sec.

Either everyone docks, they blob you, or they jump motherships on top of you. These days its all about money and numbers. Now im positive some would-be PvP "professionals" are going to come tell me of their amazing experiences in PvP, well guess what, I've had them too. I've fought against incredible odds and won, but a good fight doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.

Now there are people out there that can't relate to this. Maybe it doesn't happen to them. Well count your blessings. Maybe I'm just unlucky, however I don't like the direction EVE is taking IN MY OPIONION (see above). The blobs I can handle, the docking I can handle. The rich guys in carriers I can't. Carriers are great support ships and I have no problems with their existance. However their implementation and viability in small-time PvP is ridiculous. The fact that people can BLOB in CARRIERS in LOW SEC is absolutely absurd, sitting on a gate invincible with 5 carriers invulnrable to everything except other capital ships is absurd.

I really don't know what can be done about this. Maybe nothing. I won't say to restrict them to 0.0 because I've never flown a Carrier before so I don't know the other uses people have for them in low sec. I understand that this DOESN'T always happen and its not a HUGE deal for CCP to deal with right now, maybe its not a huge deal at all, but I just feel I should voice some sort of concern.

Bring da flames.

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