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2015 was great... here's to 2016 being bigger and better!

EVE never fades, she just needs to keep sailing true north. CCP, thank you all for yet another year of awesomeness, meaningful events, drama, rage, disagreements, heated discussions, soul crushing defeats, glorious wins and above all an overarching respect for the sandbox and all its inhabitants. Even though we may not always voice it in the most constructive ways.

2015 WAS a GREAT year for the EVE Universe! It feels reinvigorated!

I can't wait until Valkyrie changes it all. If you guys can tie Valkyrie into the new Supercap changes and possibly manage to finish the spit/polish changes you have been making. You will see many new subscribers and happy vets for years to come.

To many more GUD fights.

o7

Looking at the results of Miss EVE Japan, it is evident that the Japanese community is full of trolls too...

(As a side note, two of my girls won their respective runs to become "Miss EVA Hispana". Winning a beauty contest is one of the weirdest things that happened to me in EVE...)

Yea 2015 was a great year,



Just look what they do, CCP really thinks that the fact that large alliances closing doors, is something worthwile to write on their flag. Like WE DID IT!!!!!1111111oneoneone

Well, if CCP continues with what they did in the past 14-16 months im pretty sure that next year they can just copy paste that sentence. And be proud that once more they were able to get rid of a lot of customers. Of course some of the people in those alliances that closed their doors, merged into others. But dont be a fool, everytime that happens be it a large alliances that closes or even a coalition. They dont do that for the lulz, for the most part there is hard work involved in running alliances and even more so in coaltions. And yes Alliances and coalitions have died and closed their doors ever since they were created.

But this time its a little bit different to what happened in the past. This time the alliances and coalitons closing their doors. Do that because they cant be arsed to quit their jobs in RL cause they have to invest a stupid amount of extra time to achieve the same in Eve they did yesterday without the extra time. And you can hate the big alliances and coalitions all you want, they are/were all filled with content creators. And while you could see them come and go ever since Eve existed. Nowdays those that i see leaving the house, wont come back anytime soon (if ever).

CCP wanted to come up with a new magic sov system that removes stagnation in Nullsec. And ever since that sov system was released, they literally in every patch worked the sov system to something no any sov holder in Dominion could even dream of.
Yes attacking sov doesnt require capitals or Super.. i mean that was the argument wasnt it? They were never required to do that, this was a downright lie from CCP and anyone involved in that process. You could ofc use supers to shoot ihubs/TCUs and Stations. But you could do the same in any other ship, it would just take a bit longer. I mean they nerfed the EHP on all structures and after that it was very feasible to shoot those structures in literally anything.. from bombers to battleships.

Ofc i takes a few minutes more to shoot an Ihub if you do that in cruisers, compared to what the same number of Supers need to do it. But it has been done a hundret times and it worked. So someone shot your structure and you the owner of said sov had to attend to the timer. And repair your strucrure.

Now in the new sov system, you can still reinforce those structures with anything but a frigate sized hull. With the difference that it really doesnt matter what you bring. So 1 destroyer can RF the structure at the same speed 200 Supers due. Cause there is a timer running down and there is nothing you can do to speed it up. Thats apparently a good way to make every supercapital pilot in a Nullsec Alliance/coaliton feel pretty useless. But ok, now with a few tweaks here and there on the sov system. CCP managed it that when I attack YOU and the timer comes out. YOU the owner.. well you dont even have to go there to defend it, if I do not show up to attack it again. It will "repair" itself over a (compared to how long everything else takes in eve) short period of time.

That right there IS the wet dream of any sov holder, yes the argument was that without it.. everyone and their mom can troll sov and what not. But wasnt that one of the reasons for that sov system? Stop stagnation, bring in some flow into nullsec?
Well it was, but everyone with a brain who was ever involved in sov holding in nullsec (and sorry that excludes every highsec or lowsec wannabe who thinks he knows how it is to run a show like that) knew from the start that you can come up with something like that. Cause there the same applies like it is for literally anything CCP does, they hope to **** up the big guys but in the end it hurts the smaller groups way harder. So they backed off and tweaked. And now we have a sov system that as easy to defend as you could ever wish for, from the perspective of Big allainces and coaltions. And all those of you who can somehow tell themselves that its great what CCP did, and that nullsec had a shakeup.. just look who owns the sov nowdays compared to before. Yes there are some smaller groups here and there, but if you check them up, most of them were almost in the same spot as before just in renter corps. And some are back in those renter corps living in the same space they lived in before.

So yea great year 2015 CCP, you introduced a new sov system and managed it to be worse then dominion sov, who could see that coming (little hint : everyone without their head up their asses)

PS: Get rid of fatigue, if you CCP by now haven't realized that Fatigue is the cancer that is slowly killing your game. Then i dont know what you guys have been smoking on that island.

Dear CCP,
thank you for giving us a year of amazing things.

Please continue to build the biggest, deepest and most violent, virtual universe ever.

New Eden is just a great place to live.


Happy New Year.

CC

Oh right. Because every single pocket of 0.0 is not carebearing like hell right now.

And yeah, let's be proud big alliances are dying one after another, until there are only 2 left and you can rename TQ CEVE 2. :)

Taking content from people to force them do what you think is best is surely easier, but giving them more content is what will actually be better for both the players and the game.

Big fights and big ships is what EVE has always been about and this what attracts new players. Whoever told you people care about logistic frigs or hilariously OP destroyers has lied to you. The result is below:

http://jestertrek.com/eve/players/eve-players-since2006-zerobottom.png

2015 was the year that you single handedly drove off hundreds of players by introducing the Entosis BS to the game. A load of crap that no one enjoyed, impossible to defend, not fun to do except to griefers... This one element alone was the downfall of one of the fastest up and coming alliances, Gentlemen's Club. That and jump fatigue took most of the fun out of the game just as I was Dread capable. Good job.

For those who are factually and quantitatively driven, 2015 was no winning year for Eve Online:

• The largest and most consistent drop in online players since the game's launch
• Average players online have dropped to the lowest level since 2007
• The most pervasive drop in new character creation since launch
• The three largest alliances have solidified their place and ubiquitously dominate the top of killboards, suffocating any other group's ability to rise up and challenge them
• Server and system performance continue to drop, now producing excessive time dilation with <300 man fights, while fewer players have systems that can support the application
• Dramatic reduction in visits and comments on independent eve-news sites
• Scandal, dysfunction and fraud rampant on the CSM and in the Alliance Tournament

(sources: zkillboard.com, eve-offline.net, jestertrek.com, alexa.com, evenews24.com, themittani.com)


You may dismiss me as someone 'resistant to change', but I supported CCP's efforts to reform jump range, sov. mechanics, structures and capital ships. However, these changes (and others) have decimated the player base and disenfranchised our most effective content creators without inspiring new ones. I was wrong, and so was CCP. It is time to admit your mistakes and take corrective action.


What I hope for in 2016:

• We need real options and tools for corporation and alliance management. The changes introduced in 2015 were weak. Give us options for democratic organizations that periodically elect their leaders. Give us better options for controlling and reporting isk flow. Give us in-game security/background tools. Give us out of game communication tools: a mobile app for pinging fleets, a turn-key forum solution, etc. IT managers for high-level alliances say administering alliance services is the fastest way to permanently burn out experienced leaders, these are the problems CCP should be addressing with new features.
• We need real market orders: limit, stop, market, trailing, etc; and in-game tools to better determine value, profit, etc.
• FIX THE RORQUAL.
• No more obsession with 'new things' - we don't need new NPCs, ships, skins, systems or apparel. We need the existing game features and mechanics to be in a state of continual improvement. CCPs efforts should be 100% focused on the 'little things', UI improvements, and performance issues that ALL players welcome.
• An end to never-ending 'balancing', and a new metric for balance that does not rely on usage statistics (people are not perfectly logical and ship/weapon choices are dependent on much more then their effectiveness - familiarity, appearance, training, tradition are major factors that you will never 'balance' away). Some tactics, weapons, ships will always be more popular than others, and that is ok.
• An end to the constant state of change, players should be able to take a break for a few months without returning to a game with completely different mechanics. This is a great game, you don't need to change it constantly, doing so only frustrates experienced players who come back to find their hard-earned knowledge obsolete. Chess would not be perpetually successful if the rules changed every few months. This game is capable of being as culturally significant as chess, but greater consistency is required to make it timeless.
• Stop advertising to existing players. We need new blood, but the only ads I ever see for Eve Online are on eve websites, I'm not sure how that is supposed to grow your customer base. CCP should advertise to college students, programmers, economists, traders and other markets that have historically been receptive of the product.
• Stop developing new products. Eve Online is a great game, capable of being much more popular, but if CCP continues to sink excessive energy and capital into developing new half-hearted intellectual properties that have limited commercial appeal, the core product will continue to suffer.
• Finally, I don't know how CCP is managed/administered, but I suspect that the time has come for a leadership change.

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