You may be asking yourself many questions about how BATTLE-FORGED can solve your Casual PvP needs better than other avenue's in eve. For example the folks over at http://rvbeve.com have been running a controlled war for several years now, and quite successfully/ Their setup is larger, and lends itself to larger warfare, where we want to focus on the more casual story driven combat experience.
Here is how i compare the Battle-Forged Community , and the needs fulfilled in other current more mainstream game play groups.
I am a busy man, full time career, three children and wife with (not busy, but full schedule) some weeks i can only get on to eve, very casually, like 0-3 hours every other day, but i average a pretty consistent 2 hours a day, if i stay up when the wife goes to bed, which i do. I have 5 and 6 year old eve toons, these characters are long time vets, i have been playing a while now, so money, resources and game style are not things I am lacking. one of my characters (the oldest) is a jack of all trades, pretty skillled at just about everything, but not particularily special at anything. lots of industry, science, combat n stuff, flys caps, but only one race, does reasearch for all kids of stufff and invents alot. The other is a combat vet, highly specialized, a very specific set of skills.
What am i to do in my 2 hours of time?
Living in Zero: things either happen to fast for a casual player, or too slow, for weeks at a time there will be nothing to do but rat and mine... (not why i play eve) or grind money in some other way. OR there is a constant barrage of CTA's space invasions, endless blobs and raging epeen sov warfare 24 7 for 3 months straight. That is well and good for those of you that are hardcore, and have the time to commit but the sheer logistics of keeping my characters in the right region, let alone the system, when i play 2 hours a day,. is enough to send me back to empire till the war ends. Its fun, but its not Casual, and don't anyone who is holding sov say otherwise.
Life in Low: Sure, lowsec has a certain appeal to the casual pvp'er the problem is different than in null, in low sec you have problems with logistics, if you are not willing to pay out your nose for ships and fits, then you can keep it up for a little while, but frankly, people with the same dedication as those in null are in around in low, they are commited to controlling, and enforcing their space, they have hugeish blobs that bounce around or are at least encountered frequently in 10-25 man groups. So much so that the casual pvp'er would be mad to fit anything big and slow, restricting all the good fights to frigates, cruisers and occasional bc's (casual , but not fun)
FW- faction warfare is like life in low sec, but in blobs, if you join the FW in a corp of 1-5 people you will either always just miss the fight, or get rolled over by the enemy fleet. there is some good stuff going on in FW, but it isn't any more casual than low sec roaming, or wormhole excursions, you have to work hard at it ,and 2 hours is barely enough time to get you to where your heading in back. Its saving grace here is that the systems don't change, you can always have ships in the nearby systems and it will keep your logistics safe and happy.(Fun , but not very casual)
No, casual pvp is hard to find, most of us have had to find it in the griefing industry. there is a good chance to find a jet can miner inside 4 jumps of wherever you logged off in empire, and a 50% chance the guy will shoot at you if you do it. Mission salvaging, can flipping, hauler bashing, hulkageddon, these are all an outlet for this Niche. but not what i want to do with my time, i just want the shooting. losing a ship, is better than spinning it.
We don't want to claim sov, and have to deal with that, we don't want to have to sweat over logistics, spin ships while we wait for blue's to jump stuff around with capitals or freighters, we don't want to have to log on just to babysit alarm clocks or owe allegiance to people we cant actually support with our time. We just want fun, significant PVP.
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