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Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
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Posted - 2012.03.23 13:37:00 -
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My thoughts are that I have been here since the game came out, and I can almost perfectly negatively correlate the amount of changes CCP made that resulted in a safer and less harsh gaming experience, and the rate of change in subscription growth.
In case you're bad at math, I will simplify: over the years CCP has made changes (such as the Privateer nerf, CONCORD buffs, etc.) that diminished the nonconsensual player interaction aspects of the game. At the same time, the ratio of new subscriptions to players unsubscribing has steadily decreased, and is now essentially a plateau. |
Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
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Posted - 2012.03.23 13:52:00 -
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Pedro Snachez wrote:They're called mercenaries. They will kill your enemies in exchange for ISK or services, and you can often fly with them to get some experience in PvP so you're not a sitting duck for next time. Give it a try.
There are many solutions to this problem other than whining on a forum.
You know, I've run a mercenary corporation for a while, and some of the worst clients, or should I say, potential clients, were carebears. They come to you, describe the situation, and when you lay out your terms, they are extremely surprised that there's a fee attached. "What do you mean, 'pay?'," they ask. "Doesn't it just cost you just 2 million to wardec them? Aren't you pvpers and want to pvp?" More often than not I know for a fact that it's not an issue of money for these people; a bit of research quickly reveals the terribly-fit faction battleships they routinely lose.
The problem with carebears is that they always want to get something for nothing. It shows in threads like these. |
Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
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Posted - 2012.03.23 14:05:00 -
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Aiden Andraste wrote:HURF BLURF HTFU GROW A PAIR BACK TO WOW CASUAL PUBBIE FGGT TRAMMIE NEWB CANT DEAL WITH IT OHGOD IM LITERALLY ********.
That's what all you newbie haters sound like. There is a huge difference between shitting on newbs for the luls and actively griefing the living **** out of them until they want to commit ritual sepaku for even knowing that eve online exists. The new player experience needs to be a bit more graduated from point a or "carebear invulnerable haven" to point z or "ahaha I made you biomass your toon cause you lost all hope of survival due to nonstop griefing and abusing ******, badly documented game mechanics."
Anything that keeps us in the middle of above mentioned a to z track is good for the overall game and provides more targets for everybody.
You do know that over-feeding is a thing right?
Don't confuse high-sec pvp with griefing noobs. Very few people grief actually-new players, and those who do aren't loved by the rest of the community. The bigger portion of high-sec pvp is done with profit in mind, and the 3-day-olds in the 1.0 system don't really make for good loot. However, when you're old and wealthy enough to do level 3 missions in your shield/hull-tanked Navy Megathron (with lasers!) and have three Hulk alts mining 0.9 Veldspar 18 hours a day, you're fair game. |
Destiny Corrupted
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
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Posted - 2012.03.23 14:17:00 -
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Stop deluding yourself. New-player griefing makes up a tiny percentage of the total amount of empire pvp (and is, byt the way, illegal in starter systems). These noobies have nothing to offer through their losses: their ships and items are near-worthless, and the T1 frigate killmails don't yield a whole lot of points on killboards. The majority of "griefing" is directed against older (but stupid) players who fly shiny ships and use shiny modules.
You're trying to blow a non-issue out of proportion. |
Destiny Corrupted
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Posted - 2012.03.23 14:27:00 -
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Ashley SchmidtVonGoldberg wrote:Destiny Corrupted wrote:Stop deluding yourself. New-player griefing makes up a tiny percentage of the total amount of empire pvp (and is, byt the way, illegal in starter systems). These noobies have nothing to offer through their losses: their ships and items are near-worthless, and the T1 frigate killmails don't yield a whole lot of points on killboards. The majority of "griefing" is directed against older (but stupid) players who fly shiny ships and use shiny modules.
You're trying to blow a non-issue out of proportion. This is so funny. Perhaps i should link the killboard. It was non stop in Deeperi of players looking for easy kills and noob corps. And so its illegal. Since when did that ever stop anyone in this game
You should stop equating the actions of a select few to the characteristics of a great many. It makes you look like a bigot. |
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