Xen Solarus
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Posted - 2012.03.12 11:31:00 -
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My opinion (opinions are all you're gonna get on this topic) is that its down to the long-standing difference of opinion between pvp players, and those not interested in pvp. You don't have to go far in these forums to find threads with these two sides.
There are those that play eve for the PVP. They love to see ships exploding, and more importantly, you crying about said ship exploding. They generally have been playing for a while, know what they are doing, and live in null or low-sec space. They're of the opinion that eve is a "pvp-only" game, and will enforce that opinion by blowing up your ship. 
Then there are the players of high-sec, who play eve because they get enjoyment out of the game by doing all the boring stuff. Hauling stuff, buying high and selling low. Industrialists with their pretty spreadsheets, managing production lines and making stuff. Pve players, doing boring missions over and over and over. And miners, watching their pretty lasers hit rocks and getting free resources [Gasp!, insert standard "They're not free!" rant here]. These players have NO interest in PVP
I've been playing since 2005, and always have been of the opinion that these two groups should be able to co-exist in eve. Afterall, who cares what you get from eve, as long as you are playing, and therefore, paying. Empires there to allow people to be safe while they get to grips with eve's MASSIVE learning curve, and slowly facilitate their movement into low and nullsec space.
I think now tho that this mechanic is broken. High-sec players don't have any incentive to natually move-on in the game, as those players that have already made the transition make it difficult for those that haven't. Suicide ganking is pretty standard now, and what incentive is there for newer players to make the leap into more dangerous space if they're already getting pwned in supposed safe space?
I've always been of the opinion that empire should be safe for those players that want to do the boring stuff, and have no interest in pvp. If thats what they get from eve, then good for them. Its certainly not what i enjoy, but each to their own. Its those players that enjoy pvp, and with their "pvp-only" game opinion, that feel justified in forcing pvp on those that don't want or enjoy it. And people that can't get what they enjoy from eve just unsub. Thats what's ultimately harming the continued growth of eve.
But voicing such opinions on these forums are likely to get the pvp-side of the formula bashing you. 
Personally, i don't see why they are so passionate about attacking those that can't and don't want to fight back. Don't they get enough pvp from null-sec space? Or is it that the players there shoot back?  |