As Faction War/pirate player you might be able to guess, I don't really go for PvE. I used to, when I first started Eve Online I was a proper missioning-bear. But over time I have embraced the dark side and now am a full-time PvP'r. I'm even to the stage where I'd rather buy PLEX and sell on the market to get ISK to make cash for ships and ammo. I want to fight other players, not some computer controlled rat!
Last week we had an Incursion in our home constellation. Now these are a REAL PITA in low-sec. You have rats on the gate that scram, jam and hit hard. You have cyno jammers that stop you moving your caps about. They also put a stupid green filter on everything which makes space look ill. It causes issues with solo roaming in anything bigger than a destroyer and small gang fights on gates can go horribly wrong when these guys show up. And you know what, they are annoying for a whole week as nobody will run them in our area.............. as NOBODY CARES (including me)!
At the weekend, finally, the Sansha buggered off and all was well again.... until about 3 days later (yesterday) when the feckers came back! Two Incursions in the same location within days of each other. WTF?
Look CCP, can you keep Mr Kuvakei and his mutant zombies out of the Faction War areas as we really couldn't give a rats ass about them. Whilst zombies are very popular in modern day culture, so are gay sparkly vampires. Modern day culture can get it very wrong!
They are a major annoyance for us PvP types. If we were into PvE we'd all be null-bears farming sanctums in 0.0. Go have a look what's happening to the Incursion around the Nennamalia area right now, go on, have a look. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Nobody cares! We're in this area for the PvP, this is fight club! No rat is going to give you GF in local. No rat will cry tears when you blow up their ship. Low-sec is home of solo and very small gang (3 or 4), neither of which can be used for incursion sites.
Yes, technically we could get some fleets organised and run the Incursion to get rid of it faster but that would require a shed ton of PvE and I'd rather go play something else.
So far I've not seen the Incursion Profile move from 100%. Meaning nobody is running sites in either this incursion or the last.
This story-line has run its course. Can we have Mr Kuvakei turn up somewhere in a Sansha Titan, preferably on the Jita undock and preferably with a Sansha AOE doomsday that does work in hi-sec and close this incursions story-line down.
Or even better, lets have a stable wormhole open to the Sansha HQ system. Let those who want to PvE do so somewhere else, and let us Faction War yarrrrr-bears get back to doing what we want to do, blowing other PEOPLE'S stuffz up!
Let me review your point. You're complaining that someone unexpectedly inserted PVE into your PVP causing a disruption in your desired playstyle?
ReplyDeleteAlmost, my point is PvE (that nobody wants) is disrupting my playstyle.
DeleteNO offense, but your complaint has about as much merit as HS carebears complaining about unconsentual PvP. Now you simply know how they feel.
ReplyDeleteInteresting point, but not one I fully agree with personally.
DeleteIf a large alliance suddenly appeared in my home system and started camping the gates, and IF I moaned at that (lets face it, this entry is a moan) then THAT would make your HS carebears/unconsentual PvP point.
But it's not players, its not emergent game-play, its CCP's content in the sandbox.
Although I'm calling it a night, I just logged on to check, still 100% to Mr Kuvakei after a couple of days. Nobody here is bothered. All it is doing is arsing lots of people off.
Hire some mercs to clear up that Sansha problem of yours then. :)
DeleteHeh I think Anom's point is a little more valid than you are giving it credit for, but that may also be because I find idea of unconsentual PvE amusing.
DeleteThat said I can see the logic in not spawning them in FW zones.
Wrong Drack, Anom 11:21 is correct in his comparison. HS carebears complain about pvp because they don't want to pvp where-as you are on the other end of it, you don't want PvE but are getting it.
DeleteI like your writing.
ReplyDeleteYou should be slapping CCP up the head to make the incursions more fun again, ie, un-nerf them a bit. Then maybe you'd have some incursion nuts in your system that you could potentially shoot at.
Minimum size 10 fleets but, you know, I'm sure you guys could work with that.
Space is harsh, hard, cold and deadly... If other people have to 'deal with' (IE put up with) your preferred "I getta yarron from blowin up your shit!", then you need to 'deal with' (IE put up with) it when 'opportunities' for other playstyles are intruduced...
ReplyDeleteJezuz man, I really like your blog, I really like your writing style... I never took you for a whinybear. HTFU, it's EVE.
On the third hand... I can't say as I have ever seen hide nor hair of even one little ol' Sansha rat in W-space... ever... ahhhhhh... =]
As I said above, it's the NPC vs Player that is my moan (and I'm aloud one once in a while!).
DeleteIf Lock brought the fleet below and started camping the gates and ignoring blue status then that would be "OK guys, game on!". But computer controlled NPC's.... meh!
It's a sandbox, not a theme park. NPC's shouldn't stop us doiung shuff, players should :)
Don't worry Drack, your sufferings are avenged.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sotfkb.com/index.php/kill_related/733579/
What the hell were they doing in that gang? It makes no sense?
DeleteAny chancew you guys can swing around and spank Mr Kuvakei whilst you're at it ;)
They were running incursions ofc ...
DeleteBut yeah, we're not rly in a carebearish mood ourselves :)
Yeah but who takes a 10bn ISK faction BS gang into low-sec with no backup or logistics?
DeleteEvery intel channel within 20 light years will be going "Hang on a sec guys...." and "It's got to be bait! But wait, the systems cyno jammed?"
:)
This man needs to HTFU.
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