EVE General Discussion

Years back (in 2008) there was a system introduced called Alchemy. It allows players to replace one moon mineral type with another in a reaction. Simultaneously, it created a bottelneck on a particulary R32 named: Technetium. While in the past R64 were the moons to own, it shifted to this R32. Before the alchemy changes even hit Tranquility, massive warnings from concerned players were given; ingame and out of game.

These R32 "existed completely in one distinct region of the game". The result of this massive isk injection, practically given to the lucky space inhabiters, combined with the poor sov mechanics led to a super capital arms race. The more supers the more moons you could capture and defend. With each moon equaling a mothership (16b) a month and having close to 200 in 1 region, it was a recipient for 0.0 geopolitical disaster.

As a result, certain powerbocs grew exponential. Small alliances were defenseless subjected and 0.0 stagnated in the big blue donut. As the butterfly affect is stong in EVE, even today, 6 years after, the consequences are still present.

The source damage got fixed two years later but on a personal level, integrity in ccp neurtality for certain playergroups has been compromised so much, that i simply didnt took eve seriously anymore. I stopped playing, withdrew all my activities and said: **** you eve. The general concensus in all of my corporation, in my alliance, cointained all the same attidude. I became a very disgruntled customer. And i still am! Pixels are pixels but thinking about the lost time; represented by effort and emotions; that hurts when they are flushed trough the toilet on such a way.
The rules of customer satisfaction sais that it is harder to turn a disgruntled customer back into a satisfied one, than just turn a new fresh customer. But what if the new customer pool is only soo limited and most choisen advertising way of eve, by playing customers is by word of mouth?

Im problay going to far now, just some sunday ramblings of a old old eve veteran who's post get probaly trolled away on his grammar errors. Reminding him on his technetium warnings post's, which are hilarius given the fact it all came true.


The point: Now the responsible developer finaly left eve, i would like to raise the question; why so late?
Years of potential growt has been ruined!

If everyone who missed a market opportunity would go into a rant these forums would be useless in a day.

All this.. for a late as **** "I told ya so!"....

"groonscale gate" incoming?

I recall that it was the goons themselves that said tech needs to be nerfed ...

Technetium was a symptom, like many other symptoms.

Why it took so long to fix? CCP never had a vision for EVE. It should have been a good thing. We create our own vision of it but CCP made a mistake. They proved to us that there is a wrong way to EVE and that our visions were not up to their standard and would be ignored.

Blob up, suck at EVE or go play WoW.

The last thing i heard was that alot of tech isk got spend in the purchasing of T2 bpo's by those alliances. With those nerfed into the ground, i guess a good ISK sink was created to get atleast some isk out of the markets. Too bad the lone empire puppies lost like 70% of their invested isk with the devaluation

^^ Example of someone who doesn't know what an ISK sink is.

Grr Tech

GRRR32