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Apparently we're not alone, as that post has gathered many likes in less than 24 hours.

Amidst the usual f* hiseccers/carebears/non PvPers posts, I can't see in this thread any other issue more serious than this one. EVE's population is growing older, not younger, wereas almost every bit of endgame content is aimed at consuming large chunks of time and commitment. Large chunks which people with a life probably should be devoting to something else, or can't devote to barely nothing, let alone a video game.

What can you achieve in EVE within a pomodoro? Try to answer that and worry if you really care about the game's long term prospects.

Also, keep telling people that they must lose forever the fruits of months of commitment for a few minutes AFK because their baby strated crying and you gonna succeed in pushing them into the arms of your competitors...

But there'd only be 10 to 15 people online after that.

The elderly "how do i babby with job?" demographic isn't the target of the video game industry anyway. Those people shouldn't be the focus of the development process. If the player base is growing older at such an alarming rate, then something is terribly wrong with that process, because the game is obviously not attracting younger players. In fact, it might be a sign that CCP is focusing on these older players, who are going to quit anyway simply because they're too busy to play games as they get older.

If EVE is dumbed down with autopilot features such as arena pvp and high-sec invulnerability in order to appeal to the "play while feed babby" crowd at the expense of the type of players that gave it long-term success, then it's going to be in a very difficult position, since the former won't notice, and the latter will be alienated.

It's like making soup out of a sandwich; neither the youngsters nor the old, toothless folk will be interested in the final product, albeit for entirely different reasons.

I hear that there's no local in wormholes. Why don't you go there?

Gates.


Let all ships go interstellar without gates and things will get very interesting.

I too want to transport as much stuff as I want, wherever I want, with total impunity.

I don't have some kind of personal vendetta against the idea, I just think that it's completely unnecessary. You can already utilize jump drives in low and null. Wormholes are incompatible with them for obvious reasons. That leaves only high-sec, where jump drives would be utilized solely for bypassing wars and suicide-ganks.

Besides, there's a slightly more interesting (and much more ghetto) way of getting into deep null areas without relying on jump drives. I'll let you figure out what it is.

Mind numbingly boring PVE content.

Take some friends, its much more fun.

And for true fun, bring along some enemies!