EVE General Discussion

Yes and it has to survive by adjusting to the reality not staring at the past......

Beeing wiped out because of doing nothing would be sad......

Yup, at least to varying degrees. If you want to play EVE you are sending a pretty clear indicator: I want PvP. That meas you'll be competing against other players. And this competition can be via the market--e.g. a market trader. As a miner--you are trying to acquire resources vs. letting them go to other players (go to a HS ice belt to see this). Or in the more classic sense of getting in a ship and shooting others in LS or NS. Unless you are here to simply run missions while in an NPC corp in HS, most players are going to be competing with other players and thus engaged in PvP.

Focusing on just this. If this happens, you are doing it wrong, very, very wrong. The first rule of EVE is never fly what you can't afford to lose. This includes not just the ship and modules, but also the cargo.

So, suppose a player has a billion ISK. The above rule would indicate that this player should not buy and fit a ship where the total cost is 1 billion ISK. That is foolish and imprudent. Buy and fit a 100 or 200 million ISK ship. That way you can afford to lose 10/5 of them before you run out of ISK.

So yes, a freighter pilot putting all of his in game "wealth" in his charon and undocking is take a HUGE risk. Especially if the cargo value of that wealth is over 1 billion ISK. The answer is for the player to NOT do that. Not destroy the very core aspect of the game.

There's no evidence at all in your post to support either hypothesis ("nerfs good" vs "nerfs bad").

And as several other people have pointed out, it's highly unlikely any single minor matter like wardecs or suicide ganking is a major factor affecting in the number of subscriptions or active players.

Most new players' decisions to stay or leave will be based on their overall impressions of the game as they've experienced it. They'll hope for interesting activities, nice people to play with, limited "dead time", etc. And they will consider their necessarily limited impressions of the parts of the game they haven't directly experienced. Do they expect EVE to be interesting enough in the medium- and long-term to justify continued play?

Pretending it comes down to one or two minor factors is equivalent to suggesting EVE is a simple game ("Farmville in Space" perhaps?). But hardly anyone who finds their way to EVE is so naive. It's well known to be a complex PVP game with a high learning curve. And they enter the game knowing that destroyed ships are lost forever. But there's an important question any sensible person asks when starting any new and time-consuming activity: will it be worth the time it takes?

Wardecs deserve the focus they get not because they dominate the decision process, but because they reinforce the impression (not unjustified) that the game is strongly biased in favor of experienced, high ISK-income, well-connected, high SP players. Wardecs certainly look like CCP deliberately designed them to make it easy for experienced players in combat-effective Corps to make highsec hostile to rookies, before they've had a chance to learn the basics.

It's not a good message for CCP or experienced players to be delivering to rookies.

EVE's had its heyday. There will be no significant growth. The PCU has already been as good as it can get. The game can't be changed significantly - it'll always be a submarine simulator in space with spreadsheets, the interior of your ship and the station beyond your captain's quarters forever a mystery. It's a beautiful antique, you just have to like it for what it is.

i will! thanks mom

I'm used to people here making stuff up to support crazy claims (like your earlier post I replied to), but this is unusual ... you're making stuff up to demonstrate that you have no idea what you're trying to say.

For next time, here's a more efficient solution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

I am making up nothing, when it comes to risk in game you are an ignoramus.

dunno if this has been said already but the spike in numbers were most likely from players that were interested in a niche game but their mom got scared and was sent to live with their aunty and uncle in bel air.