EVE General Discussion

....to get you to re-sub? If your like me and have played EVE on and off for years but something is holding you back...maybe you don't like recent changes. Maybe your waiting on your favorite ship to be re-balanced. Old game mechanics that you feel needs a re-work?

For me, aside from real life keeping me busy, the biggest thing keeping me from returning is the New Camera changes. Specifically, The lack of custom tracking position. This alone has ruined my situational awareness since I can no longer click on a target from the overview and have the camera pan around to my target to a custom location. Instead, the target is always placed center screen, blocked from view by my ship. If this one feature were added I would re-sub 2 accounts.

So what's your story? What would bring you back to EVE?

Maybe it's just me, but I'd guess asking people who'd quit if they're coming back would be a pointless question.

What I mean is, they quit, right? So why would they be reading this forum. And if they are reading this forum but not playing the game, they haven't really quit, have they? They're just taking a break.

Mr Epeen

Well... he's asking about alpha vets.

Those who subbed in the past, came back with Alpha clones but have not gone omega again.

It took less than a week for me to resub when I was in that boat... because I wanted to pilot my cool ships again. I guess I'm an easy sale.

A PC that does not overheat

It honestly took me finding the right corp, and a new mechanic I hadn't tried yet. I'm by no means a "vet" by experience, simply a "vet" by character age so it's not surprising I was able to find a niche.

That said, I think it really boils down to just flying with good people. I started out in 2012 in an almost exclusively drunk corporation. Did almost nothing except hi-sec mining/L4 mission running and salvage but we had the best time doing it because we just had fun. Everything almost always turned into a crap shoot but it was still some of the best times I've spent with the game.

Bottom line is, everyone has different play styles and everyone enjoys something different. Just gotta find your niche and enjoy the time you play. If you do that, it's worth the money.

I'm having some oddball issue with the GTX video cards (2 of them) and Windows 10 whereby without warning the system just reboots and it's related to the heat in the video cards. I lost Geckos to this.

In the beginning it was random and happened after a few days at a time, sometimes 1 week. After some big update last fall it happens within minutes of undocking every time. I last logged in as an alpha to move some stuff to give away and it was a race against time each attempt.

Researching this issue shows that the cards and Windows 10 conflict this way. Since I have too many other hats on these days it's on the back burner. Might replace the cards one of these days, or maybe the whole system. No time for games anyway. I can come in here and shitpoast randomly and that's about it.

I have played on and off since 2006 and even during off time I always drop by the forums to see whats going on.

I'm in that boat. For me what would need to happen is a shift of focus at CCP. For years they've been heavily focused on making nullsec alliances make the news. If they showed any signs that they were interested in the experience of the individual pilot that would get me interested. If they actually followed through, I'd be sold again. Now I just dabble on the forums and in help chats for a few minutes a day. There are more worthwhile experiences to be had elsewhere (e.g. going for a 30 minute walk outside is far more appealing lately than 30 minutes of being undocked.)

this is what happens in every game, everyone wants a certain armor set or weapons, with a game as customizable as eve and the no lifers out there can get into doing something will spend days fitting every module on every ship that can do a certain job in the attempt to max it out and then we share that fit and the rest of the galaxy gets that fit for that 1 ship to do 1 thing.

I myself aim still upset thanks to the tengu vs drake wars of tengus getting 100kms with heavy missiles, so instead of nerfing the bonuses on tengu, they nerf heavy missiles in general making an all tank drake ineffective if something goes out past 60km I think

My answer might seem odd but I feel like I had to give in,

What got me to play again is listening to the in-game music on SoundCloud. (https://soundcloud.com/ccpgames/sets/eve-online-in-game-tracks), All I do at work is listening to music while typing data all day long.

I am still not sure if I will subscribe again or not, but having the possibility to train skills for free does sounds great.