EVE General Discussion

Its not often that words fail me but...

I don't get what the big f***ing deal is here...

I simply buy PLEX with RL money and use it for toon utilities or to stockpile cash and make a fortune, like I'm doing now.

Hilmar alt detected.

Hmmm that would make sense actually.

What's sad (to me) is that when I first heard about opportunities, what I THOUGHT they were going to be was a form of small scale/solo PvE content that replaced static missions/agents/hubs. Basically like a form of mini incursion/dynamic event where every few hours various new opportunities would open up in different constellations/region that would encourage people to 1) roam around, 2) try new activities, and 3) interact with other people.

Like some kind of mini event pops up in a constellation where you have to scan down things, hack exploration/relic sites, do some combat anomalies, mine some stuff, maybe build some things, do some hauling, etc. And if all those little mini-tasks were completed within a specific timeframe then everyone who participated would get an LP bonus. Ideally with some basic free-form cooperative elements that reward multiple people in the same site hacking/mining/blowing stuff up because they get it done faster, but not so difficult that any actual organization is required or that people end up shooing folks away because of accidental competitive/greed elements.

Basically just like incursions but faster, smaller, somewhat less harsh, and designed to encourage people to try all the various facets of EVE while cooperatively roaming around bumping into each other, thus facilitating player interaction. Rather than being parked solo in mission hubs ignoring everyone, alone in your deadspace pockets, which is the part of mission running that is toxic to the game. Say what you will about incursions, the reality is that the specific nature of that PvE content actively encourages player engagement with other players, and carebear or not that's a HUGE benefit over the solo/isolated nature of mission running.

But alas, that's not what they did with it :(

EDIT: Just to elaborate a bit because it starts to sound a bit warm/fuzzy the way I described it... no reason the opportunities couldn't include plenty of PvP things too (even in HS) in order to really get people experimenting. LIke a mini-task of "3 ships must be lost in duels at the sun within 20km of NPC xyz for his entertainment" or "various pilots must spend a total of 30 mins (aggregated) in space with a suspect timer in order to help CONCORD calibrate their doodads and widgets in system W" or "at least 3 destroyer or larger hulls must be exploded to criminal timers to distract CONCORD from whatever shenanigans the pirate faction promoting this mini-event are trying to do), etc. And then new players in their frigates can go "oh.. what's a duel? suspect timers, how do I get one of those? ganking, wtf is that?" etc.

That's too complicated. Can you break it down?

Another benefit of having a second account - train two pilots at the same time versus one at a time on the same account. Sure you can now buy training for two on the same account- but it actually costs more than a second account's subscription. Even using PLEX to sub the 2nd account is more costly (around $20 regardless) than just subbing a second account.

I also believe the 3-pilot account as it stands is still better than more pilots on same account because it makes you really think about choices and planning for those pilots. I'd rather see more of this than "disposable" alts which plague many other games already out there currently.

Holy poop...I swear to Christ Almighty, I actually feel dumber from reading this! Please just burn it with fire and kill it before it figures out how to procreate!

You want to pay once for more slots so you can have the benefit of two accounts with out the associated cost that everyone else has to pay.

LOL