James Lyrus
Lyrus Associates
Enuma Elish.
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Posted - 2008.01.07 21:29:00 -
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 Originally by: Thorek Ironbrow
Originally by: Pennwisedom
There is non-combat PvP.
The market I guess is non-combat PvP isn't it? Never really thought of that. But in general, PvP means killing over players.
No it doesn't.
Player vs. player.
Anything that is, by it's nature, competitive.
You mine, you're competing for ore (in 0.0 you're even fighting over it)
When you're ratting, you're competing with everyone else ratting (and wars are fought over quality ratting territory)
When you're running a POS, you're competing over a scarce resoure.
When you're undercutting someone on the market, you're competing with someone else's industrial efficiency.
When you're hauling, you're competing against other haulers. And you're also possibly making warfare possible in the area you're hauling to (Some 0.0 regions have terrible markets - large profit margin to be had there, and at the same time, no ships hampers combat capability and ability to replace losses)
When you're exploring, you're exploiting a finite resource which other people might want to make use of.
When you're manufacturing, you're supplying ships to people, and that may well mean their ability to wage war is increased, simply by having supplies.
When you're doing invention, you're competing for a finite supply of datacores, decryptors and metamodules, and competing to minimise your overhead.
When you're researching, you're competing for lab space. (thus making running research POSes economically viable)
In fact I'd go as far as to say it is ONLY missionrunning which is non-competitive. (Well, unless you counter server performance as a finite resource to be exploited I guess).
And maybe icemining, but that's only because the ice belts are VAST quantities of resources, so there's plenty to share.
This is of course, in addition to the obvious 'fly ship, kill other players'. But don't underestimate the amount of PvP in getting that T2 fitted, T2 ownage machine assembled and in the field in the first place. Better equipped, after all, means more fights go your way.
TL;DR: Yes
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