You know, I read somewhere that eve-o is the only MMO out there that has consistently shown a rise in subscribers each year.

Having a real job and life makes paying for something like this easy. The fact that I can skill up passively is just a plus.

New Eden is not always about having fun, it's about building things and destroying things together.
It might be a sad waste of life to play games by yourself all day, but I'm spending it with half a million other people, and IMO time spent with friends is never wasted.

Well said.

I didn't come to New Eden to play someone else's story. I came to make my own journey, to forge my own path with the tools of the game. The friendships and rivalries I have made here count for something. I've met and traveled all over the world and hang out with plenty of my friends and their families, with New Eden being the common bond between us.

Dust and EVE are strong, emotional games to me. I have been through long droughts, and found oasis few and far between, but those moments of gaming, those singular, powerful conflicts and revelations have been experiences greater than any other game I have ever played or enjoyed.

The people make the games, and the games are the people.

imo

Agree with you, I come to play my story, not someone elses.
Having to absolutely join a corp to enjoy the game does not allow me to do this.

To make this constructive...
EVE needs to protect non-corp players from the assholes that infest the community.

Typing this from phone atm. So I'll be back to elaborate more on what I mean.

To make this constructive...
EVE needs to protect non-corp players from the assholes that infest the community.
I.E. if I have not joined a corp. I'm not interested in pvp.

Because I realize that life is to short to keep reading the same book or playing the same game over and over and over again.
Especially when there's new books/games being released every week.

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sorry, I have to bust out the >implying.

>implying this is the only space MMO
>implying this is the only game with a skill or point cap
>implying you have to grind more than you want to
>implying that this is the first MMO to employ timesinks
>implying you're not allowed to take a break from the game
>implying you won't accumulate SP when you do take a break
>implying this game has a subscription fee


>implying you've experienced what this game has to offer having NEVER left your NPC corp.

"Ikomari-Onu Enforcement 2013.02.13 09:28 to this day"

No other corps in the employment history.



There's lots of protections. In fact, in a NPC corp you're better protected from any possible abuses than being anywhere else. The thing is, its just not as interesting, and there's not quite as much to do (although there is a lot, at least in Eve). So show me on the doll where the evil player corporation touched you.

You know, I read somewhere that eve-o is the only MMO out there that has consistently shown a rise in subscribers each year.

You're taking a little too much interest in my history with this game.

Let me make it a littler easier for you. I've put a grand total of about 40 days into EvE. Stopped playing that the moment I realized its nothing but greifers camping low-sec.

I've put a grand total of 2 games into Dust. Stopped playing that the moment I realized they modeled it after EvE.

Now, I'm not saying EvE is completely bad. Only certain parts. Such as what I just described.

Basically. The reason you only have Half a million people contributing to your little fantasy world, is because CCP is too lazy to regulate the PVP side of things. And I don't mean a complete lock down on PVP. Some unregulated PVP is fine. And that entails the Backstabbing within Corps, etc.

But...as in my case, I'm still learning the game on my own time, completely disinterested in the PVP until such time that I am ready.
That's to say... that I will eventually get involved into a Human Corporation and partake in PVP against other Human controlled Corporations in the future. But until I make the commitment to join a Human Corp.... I don't need random assholes greifing me, just because I entered a low-sec area of space.
And they got nothing better to do than to camp that particular entrance. That is not an enjoyable experience for me. Nor can I imagine it being enjoyable for anyone else who is new at the game and still figuring out what "path" I want to take.
And I want to figure out that "Path" on my own. I don't want or need the advice of other people telling me what the "Meta game" is, because then there is no point in me playing the game anymore if I have to follow someone elses advice to "Enjoy" it.

An MMO with unregulated PVP is nothing more than a haven to promote assholes. Your basically giving a green light to say, it's completely OK to ruin someone elses enjoyment of the game (especially newer players) which is exactly what happened to me. It's not fun to waste time grinding for something just to lose it for no other reason than, I entered a low-sec area of space.


In other words.....
Just a little regulation on PVP would go a LOOOOOOOOONG way.
I would probably still play EvE if CCP wasn't so ******* lazy in that regard.
And no..... what is currently in place with the high-sec vs low-sec, isn't even close to what would be considered regulated.

Regulated in EvE would mean....
Unless Player A is part of a Human Controlled Corporation, they cannot initiate an attack on another player, nor be attacked by another player.

Simple. Effective.

And it makes PVP more in line with what PVP should be. Players who have consented to that aspect of the game. Instead of the greifing contest that EvE currently comes off as in which.... newer players are chased away because of it...

IE. If greifers were put in check... your Half a Million userbase, would probably be 5x times bigger. You, would have beaten World of Warcraft.

Oh, but.. I forget.... The average mentality of an EvE player is in line with keeping the population smaller so they can somehow feel special about it. Which....makes no ******* sense whatsoever.

And I fully understand that this is the Dust Forum. But I also understand that currently.... The only people playing Dust.. are Diehard EvE fanboys ....
....the perfect audience for me to put my point across too.






I know what you're all about to say. This opens the door for Spies to infiltrate your systems. There are solutions to that.. But as I said. CCP is too lazy to bother. It's easier to just let the greifers run amok.

dear sir eos,

if the devs of 514 built the game based on YOUR guidelines, you'd still find something to whine about. nerf this, nerf that, SP takes too long to accrue, i want a respec..............so instead of starting another one of these threads, why don't you just contribute to one of the hundred other threads just like this one.