You have to go after the set of assumptions by disrupting the patterns such a player expects. What you have to go for is much more meaningful. In truth the damage you can do to your enemy will likely be spread out among the alliance members. The way you destroy such a target is not by the amount of spaceship pixel money you can knock out. Simple, reliable and if you know what to look for, predictable. He has a self-conceptualization of himself forged through his experience in the game. And he has a particular pattern and set of assumptions when he logs into Eve. He’s not necessarily good, or bad, he just is. He exists in Darkness, Northern Coalition, Goonswarm, Initiative etc. Whether his side wins or loses he did it together with his friends and that’s just fine for him. Although he was only one small part of the contribution, “he was there” and those moments will always be with him. No, he may not be the most impressive PvPer but he regularly joins the coalition fleets. Or maybe he’s got a fleet of Jump Freighters he uses to provide logistics for his alliance. He trustfully mines and builds things for his corp. Maybe he’s not the most important person in his corporation, alliance, or coalition, but he’s a reliable guy. Sure maybe the game is getting a little old, but so is he, and his friends are there along for the ride with him. An enduring universe where he can be like that sci-fi character that first hooked him into the genre. After all these years he still logs into Eve Online because it gives him something nothing else can. He’s been into Sci-Fi for most of his life: Star Wars, Star Trek, Serenity, Blade Runner, and now maybe the Expanse. He loves his wife very much despite the agro she gives him in the middle of a fleet. He has a job in IT straight out of college or perhaps some military service.
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