EVE General Discussion

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/328490/EVE-Online-The-Jesters-Lament.html

Most interesting read, can't judge how factual it is though. However, it appears that there's a long term goal to push Eve to a point of stagnation in order to break it badly enough that CCP will have no choice but to fix it, or let it die.



You see this? This is why they suddenly are so concerned about mythical "daytrippers" mining ABC in wormholes and want ABC removed from them. This is why they want ice removed from high sec.

Small wheels in a long term plan, not to benefit Eve, at least in the short run, but to push their agenda. The real question is... these are Goons. Are they really ultimately trying to save Eve, or is this the ultimate Goon Eve agenda... to bring it all crashing down and laugh as they transfer to their next MMO victim?

All they want is attention. And since they got themselves in the CSM, they got real gluttons for it.

Nothing to be taken serious.

Quite a few work at CCP and in high positions for game direction etc. So CCP trolls itself now?

0.0 embargos moon minerals not ABC ore for this plan you nitwit

They did that even before any Goons worked for them. Its kind of their SOP.

They have two choices, burn it all to the ground (much more entertaining I must say) or conquer and/or establish a game wide win where no one is left with anything to do but sit idly by and pray CCP breaks the stalemate.

The former option, one that is near and dear to my heart as the plan I would go for given the opportunity, is not possible in today's EVE because not enough people would agree to it.

The latter, can be foisted upon the player base by anyone with enough clout and power. What is stopping them? If they do not do it, DRF will.

I say let them, we can all both hate and cherish the fact that they are on the one hand attempting to willfully ruin the game for the rest of us and on the other hand calling CCP's bluff on whether or not CCP will wake up and smell the coffee before it's too little too late.

I know I for one, rather dislike the idea of being on the receiving end of what may or may not be their grand design, but the game will indeed be better for it, if the plan succeeds. If they fail, the game goes down with them and they have made a new name for themselves in a most bombastic way.

If they are using game mechanics to do this then by all means take it to the moon. It will be an interesting ride for sure.


Slade

embargoing abc would be a pain in the ass

we simply embargo technetium, where we can easily check who owns what moon, and suddenly you can't make t2 ships (even after a tech nerf), or we embargo prom, or whatever is easiest to monitor

ice is much easier to control, it also has limited chokepoints that can be easily monitored

Exactly, given enough clout and power I would make the same decisions as they may or may not be making, what with the general state of the game and all, it could not really do more than accelerate whatever is going to happen anyways, and I for one have waited two years since Dominion for CCP to at least address the issues they introduced.

I neither would wish POS spamming back onto players nor desire for the current trend to continue... which leaves two options, destroy everything I can get my hands on, or just simply stop participating in the grand space opera, convince (or force in this case) as many others as I can to do exactly the same, and sit and wait for CCP to crap a brick, pull all the stops, and finally do something legitimate and tangible about it.

Stoic is right though, it would have to be excessively drastic and effectual (in this case he argues that it is not) for CCP to take action, otherwise the only real way to get their attention is through subscriptions.

ugh