EVE General Discussion

Guess that kinda nailed it for me personally :)

They're fixing all the stuff that's been broken for a long time and slowly rolling out new mechanics. That's been the plan and its working so what's the problem?

Shrug.....the cartels have made it abundantly clear that the solo player / casual player has no place in their game.
And CCP beancounters seem OK with that loss of subscriptions as those players are driven from the game.
Guess the cartels convinced CCP that the loss of that segment of the sub base will be replaced with someone else, or more alts.

So whatever, the relentless attack on high sec will continue, until it is a total wasteland, and anyone that can forced into serfdom for the cartels will be, and the rest gone from the game. There will be of course a 3rd segment that will remain in high sec until the bitter end and it is removed from the game, or perverted into something else.
I doubt anyone knows precisely what demographic breakdown between those 3 groups is, especially CCP. The cartels expect there are a lot that they can drive into null sec serfdom, or maybe they are doing this just as the ultimate grief move.

But it is irrelevant. The path is set, and has been for a long time now.

i'd like to take this opportunity to assure the 'solo' or 'casual' highsec player that their needs and desires will be catered to once our General Redistribution of Player Resources has been fully completed by our inner circle of secret game designers. most will not even notice the transition as they begin working for the League of Nullsec Alliances

That would take imagination.

Did I say there was a problem? Another guy with mind reading skills?

It looks like CCP are renovating. A overhaul of science and industry was long due. I'm looking forward to no longer needing 100 clicks to install my jobs. My hope is that they continue in this regard with the rest of the game: Missions, mining, another iteration on exploration/hacking, COSMOS, factional warfare, incursions and last but definitely not least sovereignty. There is even hope, they extract and replace the POS code. Maybe change moon mining? Bound to create an uproar for sure.

For the moment and immediate future, I feel CCP is hoping to retain a majority of their player base by eluding to futuristic plans they hope will eventually play out. But...

- How many players will leave if they were hoping their subscription money was helping World of Darkness along?

- How many players feel CCP is not capable of doing anything more than just ship adjustments and other trinkets?

- With the world economy being what it is, how many players that used plex as a means to an end feel it becomes a grind each month if its in game "costs" keeps rising?

- How many players will drift off to try the next "Eve killer" and though chances are great it will not kill Eve, these players decide to pursue other entertainment values and not return to Eve?

- What hook will CCP use to try and entice a brand new player (and not another alt) into playing a ten plus year old game?

- What carrot will CCP use to try and entice their veteran player base to stick around for the next big shiny?

- What is the player base threshold for patience per each step of CCP's future master plan that might stumble and be delayed, altered, or outright cancelled?

- From a financial point of view, can CCP survive with just Eve as their main source of income?

Perhaps I am borderline "doom and gloom", but if CCP announced they are shutting the servers down at the end of this year, I would not rant and rave, but remember the good memories. Personally, I've become detached from Eve as a game, and as a community. I have not reached that "I don't give a damn!' stage, yet... And for me, idling my subscriptions is a very cheap form of entertainment - thus why I have not bailed. How do I see the future of Eve? I think CCP will cater further to their core, "fanatical" fan base: those players that ~live~ for Eve. Any new players or those on the fringe will be told there is enough content for them to play; but the biggest, bad ass "toys" will only be available to those with excessive means of gathering resources and with an unhealthy amount of time wrapped around a video game.

But I could be wrong and CCP will catch lightning in a bottle again...

That's not so much the problem really.

Player interaction is fine, if there's a player to interact. When finally, after days of trying to get in contact, you get a reaction from one of these alts in one of those alt corps owning the poco on that planet you'd like to operate on and you manage to make a deal, two days later another alt corp blows up the poco and takes the planet.

Once they're done, they're offline and don't read mail like the previous owner and all you do is just start over.

You do this a couple of times and for the sake of your sanity start to wish Goons would take over all Highsec.

I think we will start to see a roll out of new stuff as we get closer to the star gates. They need to repair lots of things that were left unfinished, and broken, and in some cases you can get new fetures and game play from them, that will be like a new area. For example, PI, its very primitive, and seriously needs an overhaul. What ccp said it would be and what it is are so not the same. They could spend time fixing that, and in the process this would allow them to upgrade it to a more meaningful and enjoyable feature that could also allow for a stronger tie in to Dust and give us a reason to actually WANT to use Dust mercs.

Right now, PI is a click fest to get passive income. I have 6 alts running plants, and it takes me anywhere from 1-2 hours of clicking, flying, and moving crap around to do PI. Its annoying as hell. And Desperatly needs to be reexamined. If they could reduce the clicks even more, it would make a huge difference.

Looking at say WiS could add new features and gameplay as the 'fix or expand' on it. This is not adding a new feture just increasing and correcting one that already exist. Hell fixing PoS' will add new gameplay.

I think we will see a huge shift, ala Apocacrypto, arguabily eves most successfully content addition to date, once the star gates are able to be built. But to get there, negelected old stuff needs to be repaired.