Barrad Dex
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Posted - 2008.10.28 17:33:00 -
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Don't know how typical I am or not. But I do know I am a valued customer for CCP. I've played Eve for a little over a year with my husband. Between us we have 9 accounts and that's some alright money. Certainly not the most certainly not the least. We like to mine, scout, invent, manufacture, run missions, sell things etc. Until recently we were purely Empire. And we enjoyed the game, except the mission running needed a lot more variety pep, and decent writing. I can guarantee you that we did not make billions of isk in mission running level 4's. Or anything for that matter. We were in lovely corporations, little drama, great people, informative, friendly, sociable. We did ops together, we trained, we had goals, we chatted.
Now we're in a 0.0 alliance. We are dipping our feet into it, a few POS's a little pvp training. And its fun. But so is High Sec. I want high sec because it makes sense economically and politically and role-play wise. (Healthy Societies do not exist very long in perpetual warfare without a stable area for social cohesion) and because its a good place to do low risk mining and enjoyable missionrunning and has resources and places to sell stuff. And I'm glad there is low sec and 0.0 for the different game that is there.
Seems to me if you got rid of Empire you get rid of choke points, strategic lanes, larger markets for minerals, ships etc, you cut down on communications and exchanges. Getting rid of safety in high sec gets rid of a lot of reason to fight pvp in 0.0 when you look at the big picture (as opposed to your personal habits).
Some people seem to forget that when there is a war on not everybody in the war can, should or wants to be on the front lines. War machines only happen when you have a much larger population behind it that isn't fighting. People mining, building, selling and investing. If high sec went away, so would I and 9 accounts.
It doesn't have to be us vs them
It doesn't have to be 0.0 vs Empire
It doesn't have to be pvp vs carebears
Half the game at any given time are in Empire for various reasons and various fun. The game is realistic in having that space and I believe that CCP is intelligent in giving people as many options as possible, unless of course they only want pure pvp (which, wouldn't be EVE then). I would not trade one for the other personally. I hope they keep improving high sec and mission running there and I hope they keep things interesting for 0.0 too. If they do both, they'll keep me.
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