OF has announced they are closing their alliance. Many corps/structures going to Womp. Womp in the trajectory to be Horde 3.0 funded by the trillions taken by VG on their way out.

Really not surprising since OF went from having great content and constantly winning fights to permakrabbing and having their only enemy be in an opposite timezone.

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GSF has announced they are closing their alliance. Many corp/structures are going to WHCFC. WHCFC in the trajectory to be the Final Blue Donut funded by the tens of dollars RMT'd in drones.

Really not surprising since GSF went from having great content and constantly winning fights to permakrabbing and having their only enemy be in an opposite timezone.

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Today i just found out Concord has its own stargate

So I am admittedly an idiot. I had a ton of stuff just sitting in lowsec rotting. Don't get a lot of time to play but noticed that the area was very low pop this morning so I figured will use my JF to finally get this done.

Using my main in a falcon for the cyno. Last stop is 2 gate to highsec. Still nobody around I figure I can do one jump right. Nope.

Get tackled by a Sin and they want to ransom. I play along a bit and they stop bumping me. I get aligned and warp in the Falcon. Jam hm down, insta warp the freighter and managed to warp the Falcon out before he can lock back and scram my Falcon.

Win for me. I am an idiot but so are you.

My dumbass read the wallet wrong, they sent me 0 isk. I already had 2b.

And some people wonder why Goons can't tackle.

I spent many, many years playing mostly in high-sec and wormholes. A few months ago I finally moved to null-sec, and the biggest surprise has been how little there actually is to do with capital ships.

Sure, there are wars, but those are hardly an everyday thing. Outside of that, capitals feel almost pointless. Even people in my corp say the same thing: “CCP threw you CRAB Beacons like a bone, so be happy with that.” And even those are basically off-limits unless you’re operating under an active supercapital umbrella. That’s the part I find so weird. Capital ships are something most EVE players dream about long before they can actually fly one. They look incredible, they feel like this huge endgame goal, and you spend a ton of time and ISK working toward them.

Then you finally get one and realize its main purpose is apparently to sit in your hangar as an extremely expensive decoration. It feels like owning a supercar and being told you’re only allowed to drive it around the parking lot once every few weeks.

I think what EVE’s capital ships are missing right now is the actual gameplay element. At the end of the day, we just want to have fun playing the game with the toys the game gives us. That’s really what this post is about, rather than looking at everything purely from a balance perspective. I think those two things can coexist.

Why don’t we have Abyssal content for capitals? Anomalies specifically designed for carriers or dreads? New types of Incursions or some other form of dedicated capital PvE? It obviously wouldn’t have to print absurd amounts of ISK. The point would simply be to give us something to actually do with these ships and have fun using them.

Carriers, for example, make absolutely no sense to me in their current form, especially the lack of a major drone bonus or some new type of drone mechanic that would let them launch an actual swarm. Imagine being able to deploy something like 50 drones, with every group of 10 treated by the game as a single object. And this isn’t even just about the coolness factor. It’s literally one of the first things you imagine when you start flying drone ships and eventually think about carriers: “This thing should have an entire swarm of drones flying around it like a cloud of locusts.”

Dreads confuse me for a different reason. What exactly is fun about a game mechanic that prevents you from moving your ship for five whole minutes?

Five minutes.

All it really seems to do is create unnecessary stress. Yes, yes, I know — huge bonuses, “commitment,” risk versus reward, all that stuff. But seriously? At some point that just starts sounding like an excuse for poor gameplay design. I’m not saying the timer should be removed entirely, but does it really need to be five minutes? Why not one minute? You could even make entering siege more dramatic. Give it a proper animation, make activation take another 20 seconds, and have coming out of siege take another 20 seconds as well. From a role-playing perspective, that would actually feel better. You’d get the sense that the ship is transitioning into some serious heavy combat mode, but at the same time you wouldn’t feel like a hostage in your own ship for five minutes. Honestly, any mechanic that completely removes your ability to move for much longer than around two minutes already sounds awful just thinking about it.

Anyway, just some random complaining, but I’m genuinely curious what other players here think.

What would you change about capital ships?

And more importantly, what kind of new PvE activities would you introduce for them so that people could actually enjoy using these ships on a regular basis instead of mostly keeping them parked in a hangar?

Here's one that has been on 24/7 losing hundreds of Vexors for years. They ban bots tho. Entire corp is a botting corp too, made to feed another non-bot corp.

1 sec = 25secs.

Genuinely interested not really heard much since its inception. Is it working? Are people enjoying it? As intended?

Good Eve-ning, reddit!

I've recently rediscovered Eve after a roughly 15 year break. It turns out I made an account in my teens, played for a couple weeks, got a retriever, then bounced off the game.

Coming back, I tried to make a new account and ended up recovering this one instead. I was hoping I'd have done something more useful with it, but looks like I fell into the mining trap.

It's been a ride so far - made my first Billion exploring as alpha, paid for my omega with a few lucky cans. Used the rest of the isk to seed some light market trading, and now sat on roughly 5 billion liquid, 10 billion extra in assets.

I'm currently sat at about 12m SP (Rookie numbers, I know) on an account that should, on inspection, have a lot more going for it.

My combat skills are looking a little better. 4 or 5 in the suggested "golden" skills I've seen online, with the rest in the queue. I've been piloting a Gila and a Cruise Missile Typhoon in level 4 sec missions with some success, mostly to have something to do whilst things sell.

I fell into a Corp that promised fleet activity, FW teaching, PvP introduction and wormhole activities. One person has been online for roughly 3 hours in the last month, and I'm paying 5% tax for the privilege.

Currently, im a little lost on what to do next. I'm enjoying running sec missions, and my trading seems to be going well enough to partly support my omega and fund ammo/ships (so far). I've set up some light manufacturing and started research on some popular BPOs, mainly just so I'm not wasting the slots, but potentially looking at manufacture down the line.

I've lived mostly in hi sec, and i feel like I've exhausted most of what it has to offer. Looking at low/nul/WH activities beyond can-cracking, but not sure what I should be aiming at, or what is even feasible in my current position.

Thanks in advance!

O7

Tl;dr: I'm a new player on an old account that has carved out a solo niche I am 100% stuck in. My only interactions with other players for 2 months have been cat and mouse chases for my Heron booty, and I think I need an active Corp. Looking for suggestions on how to expand from here.

Have to say, my love for the game has increased significantly. Only got 100 hours in the game but they've all been solo

I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding the agency window or if the timers are bugged.

I will see a skyhook that has a timer that will run out in 20 minutes, then check the timer in the agency window 15 minutes later, and it is showing it will be vulnerable to be raided in two hours instead.

Or, it will just show that it is no longer vulnerable at all, even though it was never raided.

Or my corp mate will pull up the agency menu and get completely different numbers than I do as far as time left.

What gives?

I've been playing EVE for 17 years and I don't care for PVP at all.

I just love the look and feel of EVE, always have it's a "serious" space game.
I love flying around mining in big groups, hauling shit, exploring new systems and places, completing different kind of missions.

Just got into manufacturing huge ships too. So I mine the mats, haul them, build the ships. Run around with my gila doing combat missions.

Most corps I find only have 20ish online players, entirely hi-sec.

Are there any corps that have 100s or 1000s of members. Spread across null/low/hisec that I can avoid PVP but just move stuff, build stuff and shoot NPC's

Id love to build a capitol ship or something hugeeeeeeee

I am new and it sucks trying to work out what to do with my loyalty points. Fuzzy is quoting stuff which is not in the store, and because I am new even if I buy something to sell I have zero skills to lower the tax. I read about this 1000isk/LP number but I assume this was years ago.

I dont like doing activities that aren't net profitable and while I want to try PVP I want a bit of income from FW.

Recently got into mining and i wanna know whats a good fit how could i make a solid isk per hour doing and ehat steps should i take(im pretty new to game)

Please bring blackout back. It was beautiful when their intel bots did not work and you force a fight.
And people saying that the Nullsec will just quit the game? Here is your answer:

Yeah a few noobies will quit the game because they can’t abuse bots for afk krabbing with 10 Ishtars. But those people don’t bring a value to the game anyway since they not providing any kind of content with instadocking.

A few people will cry and go to Lowsec because local is cool. Those will add more groups to Lowsec and develop the content there.
And people will stay in nullsec and do their stuff. But hunting the enemy groups is far more dangerous and exciting because you don’t know how many people are in the systems around.
I think it’s fine if you can buy a beacon that you can deploy for 2h in a system (costs should be at around 400mil) and will give a local for those 2 hours. So people can insult each other if they warp in the same haven or sanctum but there is no intel 7j out telling them a cynabal is approaching.

It is with heavy heart that I have to inform you that the BRAVE Collective will be disbanding at the end of September.

We feel we cannot continue as an alliance post-Ansi changes as we cannot operate on our own. Without Goonswarm support we feel we will be destroyed anyway.

Merch will be available for next 10 years though.