EVE General Discussion

There are 8031 systems in Eve, 7801 are accessible to players. 75% of the population lives in highsec (1090 systems). Nullsec has a few population clusters but, for the most part, it is empty. We don't need more systems - we need more reasons to visit the systems we have.

Walking in stations is essentially a new game - if you implement it, you have to provide things for people to do and ways for their avatars to interact. It can be done but it's a lot of work and it adds nothing to the core gameplay. CCP spread themselves too thin and got burned - I don't think they'll make that mistake again. You'll notice the new structures don't have captains quarters. Visiting the planet surface is in the same category - essentially a whole new game that adds nothing to core gameplay.

CCP introduced industry teams a while back and removed them because they weren't working. I think this concept should be revisited. Players could recruit and train industry teams or ship crews that grant a small bonus that grows as the teams gain experience. They should be tradable through contracts and either die or drop as loot if their ship/structure is destroyed.

Regarding the PI, I would like a little mini game to enhance and build your factory site. You'd start off with a factory and be able to build up population and facilities. Eventually you'd have a town etc. Nothing fancy -I would not want SimCity or anything, but a bit of progression/ability to grow something permanent would be nice.

'Population'.

This isn't LV-426 where your colonists are country hicks going to the frontier hoping to strike it rich with no knowledge of whether there are any rich mineral veins to exploit.

What you are doing in PI is scan the planet for rich resource nodes, drop down your high tech extractors and factories and support structures and get to work. Your colonists do not bring families. Your colonists are employees who are here to keep the machines running and nothing else. Your colonists are here on contract terms and will go home to their families once contract term expires. No 'build up population' here. You just bring in what staff you need for whatever equipment and machinery and facilities you add to your colony. Once the planet ceases to be profitable, you will tear down the colony, cancel the contract and the colonists will all go home.

This, basically. Maybe 10% of people are in null as it is. Most systems are empty 100% of the time. Explore the space we have. Or better yet, get out of empire completely and live in wormholes. You can find a completely empty system to call home (out of the 2500-ish wormhole systems) in maybe an hour, and have fresh, random space to explore daily.

Why add new space when there is an area over twice the size of highsec that isn't used by most of the players as it is? Push them to get out and explore and build.

First, I would like to say that I am pretty hyped about EVE. I have been playing on and off for last seven years, and I have always came back to this game. The unlimited possibilities are mind blowing. Calling it a game is a little like comparing to Monopoly or Clue, which does not capture the depth of this game. However, like everyone else, I see some room for expansion.
A few things I wouldn't mind seeing in EVE.

1. Larger EVE Universe. I would love to see a newly discovered null sec Empire regions added to the EVE Universe that players have to conquer from some pre-existing newly discovered empire.

2. I think Planetary Interaction could be filled out by perhaps being able to visit your factory and perhaps even doing some exploration on the planets surface. I really see some potential for some ground vehicles or perhaps even some ships that could enter the atmosphere of planets. The graphics of EVE are so awesome, I would love to be able to explore so ancient ruins on a planet's surface or submerge understand to see ancient space ship. Anyways, it would be interesting.

3. I would also be interested in exploring the ideas of crews. In the EVE fiction is it pretty well established that capsuleers are the pilots of these great ships, but that there are also crews that maintain and obviously do something for the ships. We could have another mechanic involving crew modifiers, crew bonuses and so on.

4. And the dreaded WIS. Walking in Stations, which was supposed to have stripper poles and gambling. I still think WIS could be added to the game. I would still like to see it.

1. Larger EVE Universe.

3. MORE complexity in an already complex game? Come on! Besides, in lore, all these modules are supposed to be automated and what crew capsuleer ship has are usually delegated to maintenance work. Keep the gears greased, the bolts fastened and all. Modules being automated is a very large part of why capsuleer ships perform much better with heightened response times and everything as compared to baseliner ships.