EVE General Discussion

This would be cool, not just to do, but to watch.

I'd love to try FW, bounty hunting, COSMOS missions, and the epic arcs. Alas, all those aspects of your game are broken. I was also interested in T2 and booster production, but gave up because they were overly complicated and the necessary work stands in no relation to any possible rewards.

And then there is small gang PvP. "Small gang" as in less than twelve ships total per confrontation. I don't do it because it's just as fruitless and frustrating as solo PvP. Roaming for three hours only to spend thirty seconds either mercilessly ganking a weaker target, or being blobbed to death is just not my idea of fun.

It's true many of this guys posting have no Idea whatsoever about what they really want new, but I can assure you they can tell you pretty much what they don't want, you could probably start there and iterate on what your next planning would focus on, new features trying to throw sand at users eyes to forget momentarily about what they don't want ? or actually fixing what they don't want (or change it into something they would embrace or at least accept to work with).

I could write alot about MMO's and Internets and Users, but you know pretty well alot other more significant people than me already have books about it, therefore I can't quite figure out what's your intention by this thread, if it's real feedback gathering, or just a means to point the finger at someone saying something witty as "See see, they don't know wth they want, why should I oblige ?"

Anway, I'll instead oblige as someone with always good intentions as I am (until proven otherwise), I would like to try in EvE:

- Incursions, I didn't try that yet because the groups running them are very elitist, the simple thought of a noob at it (although I can fly pretty much everything well below sub cap with 45mil+ sp's) just any question about it would label you as a noob and as a liability, and since my corp isn't rly into it, I can't run it with them, I don't want to leave corp either, as my friends are there obviously.

- Wormholes, would like to give it a go, again, too much of a hassle, not that I think it should be less hassle, the risk/reward should remain, it's just something I would like to try, I haven't, but I don't think it should change apart from some glaring issues wormhole dwellers know better about than me.

- Feeling important sometime, you know, right now living in null sec it's all about 50+ ships vs 50+ ships, that rarely distinguishes someone's feats, apart from a good or bad FC, the rest, were just guys listening and following orders blindly, it's boring, get's boring, and with the lag fest (see my posts today about it) it doesn't get more pleasant at all, besides, it's damn boring, new primary, target, shoot, dead, new primary, target, oh man, dead before lock, new primary, it's boring, it's terrible, I so much rather skirmishes than this sov batling routine where personal skill might come into the equation and your own experience, where you know, you can feel important. But this doesn't end in PvP alone, I could continue about this on several other aspects of the game, Faction Warfare, you get a title (or you did when I was in FW) awesome, and what ? I quit faction warfare for 2 reasons, blobs, and I could not generate enough income to support my losses, wasn't worth it, I have no idea if the issues remain, probably should listen to who knows what's wrong, and try to make it better.

My view of what should be changed/added/new features, well, that's always going to be biased in my personal view of the game, even if I try not to be and think of greater scheme of things, everyone will be the same, it's the game designers job though to provide fixes, changes, new features according to what the players consider urgent, not us.

more frigates options , more frigate surviability...

A change into capsuleer story since we had incarna

I'd just keep most the expensive corp stuff in a hanger/wallet division that most people can't access.

They should have divisions in corp Industry and research jobs as well (If they don't already ).

That way, if someone takes everything they can get, it'd only be 1/6th or 1/7th or even less if you keep most the isk in a separate division just for saving.

Quite some time ago someone posted a good idea how to make low sec interesting again:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=368761&page=1#3
tl;dr: only frigates may attack other players in 0,4 or lower and with each decline in security level, the next bigger ship is allowed to attack.
I really love this idea. Could use some minor tweaking, though, so that stealth bombers for example count as battleships (since they use battleship size weapons)-- otherwise 0,4 would be a deathrap of cloakies for everyone who enters.
I would suggest that additionally the total number of fleetmembers in low sec is restricted (like, maximum10).
Small scale gang warfare should be the defining feature of low sec, huge cap battles should be restricted to 0.0

spent an hour typing up long thought out post regarding FW, hit preview, lost all my work, so heres a sort version,


fix FW:

plexxing mechanics are more hide and seek and warp out with stabbed, untrained alt in frig that it causes no rewards for a player to kill or the owner to lose.

meaningful occupancy (not station docking rights denied, that would defeat the casual nature of FW, unless assests were magically moved to a nearby accessable station..)

allow alliances to join, if any alliance wants to hotdrop/bridge in FW lowsec theyll do it anyway. Too many people want to stay in their corp but also want to join FW, give incentives for corps of newer players to enlist since they may not have a pimped out t3 to solo FW level 4's, or at least make it more obvious to newer players how they can benefit from being in FW (besides the obvious pew pew)


Oh, and **** the new forums and losing my work...........................

Agree completely

I'd like to fly Gallente without ending up as a stain on somebody's hull.

I'd like to do any pvp outside of hisec without being dropped by supercarriers.

I'd like to give orders to my drones without them going haywire.

And while I'm at it, I'd really like to spin my ship.

Hop into some noob ship with CCP Prism X and teleport to somewhere way down south. Set a route to somewhere way up north, preferring unsafe routes. Then I'll go to the forums and post my intentions and select parts of my route.

I sacrifice my pride in this manner as it is my hope that people will scoop up my frozen corpse for gloating rights. Gloating rights they will have to fight tooth and nail for as I will immediately update the topic with the location of my demise as well as with the name of the scallywag who took me out. He will thus become the next target in this morbid chain of "Tag!" while he possesses my body or until it is destroyed.

But I'm pretty sure we have rules against this as, in the end, someone might end up with a unique item after Dev interactions and that's not cool. Besides, I can get the entire EVE Community against me by posting something stupid.. so I don't really need to do this.