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.

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.

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.

Did. I also fully understood the dangers, knew exactly where I was going. I had spent 40 days in low sec areas. It was time to see what the "REAL" game was like.

And as I said.

What I saw was players who

Attack first, ask questions never.

It was 1 giant douchbag circle-jerk.

"Be the Villain" they advertise for this franchise.

Sometimes, to be more successful, you have to think about more than just a "Group" of players and think about people who don't have YEARS TO DEDICATE to the game. I'm already what... 7 years behind? What makes you think a new player is gonna pick this up and stick with it knowing such information. That's why after 7 years you still haven't broken 1 million. Awesome game btw. Just horrible execution. You built it for the worst part of the internet.

Basically....

New Eden Population = Youtube Trolls = Gltichers on Console FPS's = Campers/AFK'rs/Team Betrayers/Douchbags/etc.

I guess I should be thankful. That's Half a Million less of you ruining other games.

Oh please go on

For being the ONLY space MMO out there.... says alot.

You'd think with as unique as it is, being the only Space Simulation MMO on the market, it'd be doing better than it currently is.

No other game offers such a huge Space Simulation MMO.

So, when you feel confident in trodding along with a small but consistent user-base (This includes Dust and EVE). Don't.
Because you could be doing .... SO MUCH BETTER.

And I think you all know the reasons why you are not.

1. A Game Community built around the idea of being assholes to each other with phrases such as HTFU.

2. A Giant worthless timesink grinding mechanic designed to make you spend as much time as possible waiting to get to the cool stuff all while charging a monthly fee.

It's really not a thinking mans game to be honest. It's a.. I have no life kind of game.

A Real thinking man, would see the timesink for what it is.
A greedy attempt to get you to subscribe to that monthly fee and keep you there for as long as possible.

Is there a reason you must dedicate your life to one game? Is there some kind of reward to say that you've played a single game for 50 years?

Hell over the past 20 years, I've played hundreds if not thousands of games.
You know why?
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.

But I'm gonna waste money subscribing to a game that makes me wait weeks just to train 1 skill up 1 level.

It's pathetic.

Props to you CCP for suckering em in. Can't blame em though really, You are the only Space MMO out there.


That is all. Have fun thinking you are cool and elite because you play such a worthless game.

If they had dumped 10m isk in my account that would **** me off even more than them blowing me up.
What you don't realize is that guy pretty much pissed on you after shitting on you. You're just to dumb to see it.
He saw you as a charity case. Well? Are you?

I don't think you understand.

I never played Ultima Online for the very fact it had nearly unregulated PVP.
Runescape.... uhhhh.... NO!
I've dealt with these kinds of games before. They are, all the same.

You play, for the sole purpose that one day, you can take your advantage and camp at a bottleneck to the "Good Parts of the game" use it against someone at a disadvantage,( usually an extreme disadvantage) for the sole purpose of pissing that random person off.

IE. You play so that one day you can just start greifing other players.

Most News Bulletins coming out of your game, are a testament to this fact.

This game is advertised based on that fact.

I pity all of you.

An intelligent man would be able to earn enough isk to pay for a plex and fund his Dust 514 soldier without paying the monthly fee and far less effort before his free trial is over.

What is your issue with this:

New player.
Unable to participate in PVP or be attacked by other players until....
They join a Human Corporation or attempt to start their own.

Once they do..
They are forever from that time forward flagged for PVP across the entire account.
Even if they disband the Corp or leave, they are still flagged.

Like I said. it's not that I don't enjoy PVP,. But don't force players into until they are ready.
They signal when they are ready when they join a Human Controlled Corporation.

Once a player is ready, it's not like them creating an alternate character resets that, unless they are lame enough to buy a secondary account. Which I'm sure alot of you do for other purposes. (You're lame btw)

You still get to keep your sandbox.
New players can play the game and join in the "Meta" when they are ready.
Greifers are forced to pick on someone their own size.
New players can at least experience more than just a slight step up from Tutorials to see if it's worth it.

Right now the amount that is seeable, before you start getting ganked...is not enough for me

"But... that will kill the Realism of the game..... duhr"
A game shouldn't aspire to be that real. Seriously.

If you need reality.. You should just turn around.....

Right now.

Yes, you.

Turn your chair around and see what's behind you.

That's reality.