Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Have CCP build a time machine and create WoW before Blizzard.

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Eve does not cater to all mmo players. Open pvp servers in most mmo's to include wow not exactly max capacity. Not a bust on wow or people who only like pve (edit) per se...people like what they like, blizzard gives em what they want and both live happily ever after.

well the larger the player base the greater the income and like wise the larger the budget, I would hope that'd accelerate eve evolution?

While I agree that it would be nice to see some more new fodder pilots, I think that if it becomes too many, it will be too much... There is a delicate balance between great gameplay and large player base.

One game that had it right at one point. Star Wars Galaxies, tried to pull in to "WoW crowd" ended up killing the game, undergoing such extreme changes that it became a different game entirely...I'd much MUCH rather not see that happen to eve too. In order to pull in more people, you need to make eve user friendly for unintelligent people. As it stands right now, a lot of the "problem" bunch are weeded out due to the games intricate complexity...

To a new player, or the misinformed player, Eve is a Dry game, boring, and are the image of spreadsheets with fancy graphics. While in some ways, they are correct, it isn't that bad.

The thing about eve, is that starting solo? Its almost unheard of. You pull in friends, and they enjoy the game more, because they get to participate in the group aspect.

For the solo player, the "Hardcore" mode of loosing your ship, active scams that instill a fear to trust, it just isn't easy to get into eve. With a group, you have someone you can trust not to back stab you. The best way to get new people is by word of mouth, giving them trials, and ACTUALLY involve them in activities.

Word of mouth has always been the greatest form of advertisement, and group outings improve morale as well as allow small corporations to grow.

At any rate, Don't fix what isn't broken. Lest you break it.

I do not think it is possible anymore. Even if you come up with EVE 2 with all modern mmo quality of life features, mmo genre in itself seems to be losing its grasp. Atm MOBA games seem to be pulling people with quite staggering numbers: "As of July 2013, LoL had 32 million active monthly users and Dota 2 had 4.8 million active monthly players, while Heroes of Newerth had 2 million.".

32 million LoLers, I dont think Blizzard reached even half way to that with "most popular and successful mmo of all time.".

Unless CCP comes with totally new, drasting and mindblowing concept of mmo genre that is never seen before, I dont think it will pass over WoW player base. Not because of game but because genre is becoming bit "meh".

PS: and no, I think EVE is only mmo with time based skill learning.

The fact eve beeing a sandbox does not appeal to anyone. I experience it myself from time to time, that I just want to sit back and get entertained by some story I play trough. This turns out really realxing to me flinging some fireballs or putting virtual bullets trough some pixelheads.

Luckily eve is a game you can set asside for some time and try new things and you don't really fall behind. You just pause.

I wouldn't like to have it any other way.

We could always create the air of a WoW-friendly universe. Maybe even give them a challenge mission to Old-Man-Star to re-live the struggles of Darieux (read more).

I'm sure that many would love that :)

eve only has 35 players all with 500 accounts each..lol


to be bigger than wow, we would need to get rid of having to "earn" money, get rid of loosing ships from pvp and make it towhere its more a game and not a simulation.

at that point, i would stop playing.. =\

I would say, it would be nice to see EVE say with an online total running more like 50-75k verse the current 20-35k players.

WoW at its Hight had like 13 million accounts. And from the short time I've been in the EVE world. that many people on one server would really cause some cramps. And us ladies DO NOT like cramps. :D

CCP could do a few minor changes (possible lose of short term $) that allow players to do more. Like drop the duel skilling system via plex. open it up, so u can skill all three characters per account. and add in some nice UI character swapping features. So u can easily Play one toon, and swap to the next for things like mining or mission running. But not so useful for say pvp or fleet wars. This would in effect allow each player to increase their production or mission running abilities which then turn into, increases amount of isk coming into player hands, which should increase the over all economy in EVE.

More people with more ability to craft, mine, farm what. Though some say that with more production you over run the whole
Supply and Demand of economy, but I think promoting the ability to not be limited to only one toon at a time would draw people in. More people for gankers to bank. More people to buy things as well as sell things.

It would all take work. EVE would never run well with more than 100.000 on at a time, unless the world was expanded, in such a way that it would double or triple the size of EVE.
To many people makes High sec to crowed, which then pushes more people in to low and null sec which then just ripples into all kinds of problems.

But anyway. CCP will decide. And I like the more open PVP of EVE. WoW open pvp servers sucked b/c u had people who where way more powerful tea bag'n u all day long. At least in EVE u die, and normally the jerk moves on to other fun fish bait :D

I don't know if it still exists, but there was one called Perpetuum. I think it used a similar engine to EVE