Skill Discussions

Gratz, as allways your miles ahead

200 mil only pfff i got more xD


O wait you mean sp offcourse lol

nah just almost hit the 100mil iam fine with that.

CCP are backing away from the horrible error of introducing supercapitals as fast as they can lightly simmer that particular frog.

The ship tree needs to be grown wider, not taller - and even that needs to wait until the tiercide project is complete.

Your dream of a veteran-entitlement pwnmobile will, I hope, never be realised.

I think it's obvious that the game will eventually need to become even deeper, with things such as capital sized T2 modules for capital ships, wich are way more restricted in terms of fittings than smaller classes of ships, and the excuse that it would make them overpowered doesn't fly since they're restricted to low sec and 0.0 space, wich are the "dangerous" areas of the game where getting killed is more likely, and this is supposed to be a sandbox game remember?


Then we have T3 ships, wich are being released at an extremely slow rate that makes the ice age seem quick by comparison, and i can see myself kicking the bucket in real life before i see all T3 classes in game, along with T3 modules(Hey why not?), but it seems that CCP are largely focused on making the game more popular and to ensure it keeps on going in the longer run, wich is fine by me and i think they've done enough to make exactly that situation happen.....Either people like the game of they don't, but continuously watering it down to make it more palatable still over the last few years, and using a lot of internal resources to make it happen at the expense of other pressing matters, also isn't the answer either.


Old players, even if we're a minority, have been thru 18 expansions, adapted to every single bug fix, exploit, gameplay change, ship role and balance change, and even more that i can't even remember anymore, yet we are still here and waiting for a challenge and there hasn't been one in a long time for the really old player base....


The kind of player base that kept this game alive in the early years, and allowed it to develop into what it is today, and unfortunately a fair amount have quit the game out of sheer boredom by having pretty much everything a single player can accomplish, regardless if it's SP or Isk or flying the largest ships in the game( which they were released in 2005 remember, so it goes back awhile now)), and there's nothing left to aim for in terms of personal character developement, wich is part of what eve is as well.


Now i fully realise that making the game deeper and even more skill intensive, with even more expensive ships and modules isn't going to please the newer players, and they can use the argument that it further increases the gap between them and the really old players, but those old players need a challenge too, and eve has never been about being fair, and i remember how tough this game used to be in the early days, and still accepted it for what it is and i'm still here for nearly 9 years now, but completely clueless as to what to aim for next, now that i've adapted to everything CCP could possibly thow out and have trained for a lot of stuff already, good or bad.


Don't get me started on the walking in stations btw....

Don't get me wrong, i'm happy for Dr Caymus, and to be honest i'm also not far behind at almost 180 million Sp, so passing the 200 million barrier will happen soon enough( roughly 10 months), and i'm also less than 1 month from my 9th eve birthday too...


But the issues i mentioned earlier are very real, and i still remember the statements in the first year of the game's existance, made by CCP that the game was intended to have up to 5 tech levels( was it tuxford that mentioned it?), and here we are 9 years later and have barely started on Tech 3....Even having the jove eventually playing a larger role than simply being part of the backstory was also mentioned back then.

Makes me wonder how much Cribba would go for on the market.

You can have Chribba, I want his veld reserves!

More than 10m, less than 250m.

/c

For 9+ years straight, wich is aproaching an entire decade of non stop playing, and if you're the type aiming to fly every ship in the game, you also need close to 30 billion isk for the skill books alone.....

You are getting very good at piloting ships, considering you specialised from the start as a research/ industry/ production char...


CCP, we need moar skills if you please.....The tougher the better.