DeaconBlues wrote:
Lowsec, hell - if they can get away with it, they'll gank you in anything up to 1.0!
Tried EVE, didn't care for the fact that it's basically crafted to encourage player griefing. You can't get anything valuable until you enter at least 0.5 security space (security grades run from a high of 1.0 to a low of 0.0), but if you enter 0.5 with anything less than a fully armed and equipped battle cruiser, you might as well just hand over your lunch money to the first attack craft that happens by.
I want to engage the other players on my own terms, not be forced to endure the presence of people I would otherwise find hateful just so I can survive for longer than a few minutes at a time. In WoW, I have the option of doing almost everything solo. Sure, some of it requires that I be at a ridiculously high level relative to the monsters (don't run around in the Blasted Lands solo unless you're at least level 55), but fortunately that's not difficult, especially if you create a Death Knight (where you start at lvl 55). I can join a PUG (Pick-Up Group) to run a difficult instance, or even join a guild (and even then, most guilds don't mind if your major interaction is dropping off excess crafted gear and/or loot in the guild bank), but I don't HAVE to. Unlike EVE, where you'd best find yourself a good corp at the earliest possible moment, or your capsule is going to spend more time awaiting pickup in free space than attached to a ship.
i agree with the above
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