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CCP have painted themselves into a corner. For years they selectively bred a certain type of player base, and now they have to live with it as it slowly dwindles.

What would I want from Eve in the next little while?

Though switching to a hybrid release system (hopefully!) should slow down some of the growing bug complaints, there's more rotten in the universe of New Eden than the latest audio or UI hitches.

It's a series of broken (or indefinitely delayed) promises that keeps me being a squeaky wheel. If the 'little' things are neglected as long as some on my personal accounting list have been, how much trust can develop for the 'big' things in the future? I have not even been playing two years, and I remember enough forgotten 'we pinky promise to...' that would be startling for a company to give to their customer base, then wonder why fewer buy their product as neglect of that pinky oath goes from obvious to blatantly obvious.

Short list:
Where is the return of Region Description Flavor Text?
Where is the easy to find list of bannable exploits (refer to last Titan bumping debacle for reference reading).
Where is the streamlined user friendly Corporation window?
Where is an option to shrink down a bit more the Industry window screen hogger we now have?
Where is the formerly easy to read and understand Sov info that used to live in a button at the bottom of each system window?
Where are those customizable Overview Icons?
Where is the response to Dev feedback threads for Sisi other than silence and powering ahead anyways if the feedback is lackluster?
Where is responses to issues after any release, if it's been more than seven days since it went live?

Why does it come to outrage, bad words, and resentment to get things fixed in the game client since the new Support Ticket system is a timesink in being ignored for days, if not weeks?

I'll give you this, CCP. You've finally noticed something is going off the tracks in your interaction with your customer base. That admitting the fast track release schedule might not have been the most stellar of ideas. (HA TOLDJA!!!!!! sorry, had to.) Better, more timely, and less (ahem) attitude ridden interaction outside the game when operating from a customer service position will also assist. This Dev blog is titled, looking behind and looking ahead.

Perhaps catching up on some of those in the past issues will also help with the future looking healthy for you as a company, and us as a customer base.

And seriously, please do something about the Launcher eating itself on a sadly regular basis. If we can't get in to pew, when what player driven content can happen at all?

>Jeven HouseBenyo

You dont explain why you have such insane amount of fear for changes. Isnt it ideal that the game designers adjust ship balance when necessary? I made my plans years ago and still stick to those, still fly the ships always wanted, but now I can expect that they are actually useful and competetitive.

Or maybe you're just wrong? :)

Its sad to say it but CCP has been brain damaged ever since its fiasco with the introduction of Captain's Quarters. By introducing ambulation in such a poor form and enveloping it with the controversy of pay to win items in the halfhearted market, the outrage of such a useless and possibly totally unfair features into the game produced in the player base a very justified reaction of true an deep felt anger. CCP has been hamstrung ever since by the thinking that the EVE player didn't want to walk out into a huge gallery and pridefully show off there majestic ships. or simply interact with fellow players in a bar or their corps offices or even just on a promenade. They kind of know that players want this because that why we have dust. IF you have ever seen any of there expansion trailers there is always people that aren't in a ship. because that's what marketing needs to attract "PEOPLE" the problem is that they keep falling short of there promise. the promised a true sci-fi game with all the possibilities that that encompasses. but EVE is a simple game in that its just internet space ships. all the complicated mechanics that they create is only to support flying in a spaceship. that's all well and good I have had great times doing just that but that is a very narrow endgame. The dream that they were selling with every single trailer was an ambulatory character walking around doing stuff a human can relate to. Didn't we all come into this game thinking cool ill explore the universe with my big ship and blow away my friends but wasn't it a little disappointing when that stupid door doesn't open? why cant I walk inside my beautiful ship while its heading to the next destination.
Honestly I do want to hire some mercs and call them in to infiltrate that Titan take over its crew put them all into airlocks and wave at their frozen corpses as they fly into a star. while I then repair its engines and fly it back to my home system. Yes I do want to take a spoon and carve someone's eye out if I ever find them in front of me. and damn it but I do want to land my ship down on Caldary Prime and simply take a stroll and sight see. I want planets to be dangerous to ships that get too close. if they are from the wrong faction and could possibly bombard it from orbit. I dream of placing a house in some remote wormhole and just look at the sleepers tear apart newbies that didn't scope out the area first.

You know what, I definitely would like to just head straight at a star that hasn't been named, map its system, scan all its planets moons and asteroid belts and give it a name.

I love EVE. My sub has been solid for coming on 10 years and I don't usually post on forums but ITs direction is not what was promised and I don't see it being realized in many years from now if ever. EVE, Valkyrie, Dust 514 are all separate games that could make this the best single game ever if they would all be "one game" but sadly I don't think the will is there. The intention is, but not the will.

The first step would be to open that damn door!

Yea.

So many people go : "I quit because CCP does make null what the players want it to be"

And when you go "So what DO the players want null to be?"

They go : "Well I dont know. But I dont want it to be as it is now."

What? No. That's not what is going to drive conflict in the game.

Distribute valuable resources unevenly across New Eden. Make these resources extremely valuable. Stagger the amount based on sec status too--can even write this into the lore as "less and less heavily developed areas with less exhausted resources". Watch as players rush to exploit these resources. This drives conflict and content. Make living in null sec desirable to players and they will be drawn there. Make people want to deploy citadels in an area

I think the first place to spend attention on the medium term is npc null.

But that's not CONTENT! Unless I can breach into your trophy room and boobytrap it and kill you!

I am pleased by the level of effort to keep improving this wonderful game.

I am also interested is contributing content as an Industrialist and Master Miner I need new tools to defend my mining fleet.

It is not a good option to depend on other in the alliance for protection of a mining fleet for PVP is the main enjoyment of many players.

How can I offer ideas?

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you could say i never saw this coming, LOL@CCP