EVE General Discussion

McDonalds. I've been to this franchise all over the planet and pretty much it is the same. Unless you are in some crap hole that only serves a Big Felafel Meal Deal you could be in the same McDonalds pretty much anywhere.

Welcome to EVE. A homogeneous meh where a bit of eye candy and a few tweaked attributes aside you are in the exact type of place as every other drone doing exactly the same thing.

Every item or service is available a couple of jumps away. Everyone is as equally good at doing pretty much the same things. Technology is just that little bit different in minor ways, but they are effectively the same.

With some minor distribution aside anything relevant and meaningfully in the game is on everyone's doorstep. Need a particular item? It's likely to be right where you need it or a few jumps to Jita. The mechanics are challenge-less. Anything you will want to quickly do is just a training queue away. Choices are meaningless. The question is only how many diminishing returns you want to invest your time in.

Combat should be dynamic, but you have pretty much all the pieces on the board when you get there. Once the archetypal fits are known, the outcome is a close second.

Why the CCP obsessive compulsiveness with balance? Where is the chaos? Where is the choice?

Some examples…

Billions of people in the known universe and there is no innovation - Why does every ship have to be so uniform with minor tweaking of accepted fits? Why don’t they all have subsystems to foster innovation? Or even the ability to re-assign slots?

Systems strewn across the galaxy and there is no randomness of space – Why are resources effectively equal? Why aren’t some other parts of the galaxy more ore rich? Why not some with ice? Why has scarcity not invigorated trade or warfare?

Where is the specialisation? - Why is everyone equally good at refining? Why is everyone equally good at manufacturing?

A dynamic universe is a healthy universe. I see thousands of worlds where people are running numbers at the margins like ten thousand others. The few who have found a way to differentiate or who can meta game are Kings.

I say, we should unleash the chaos and if required the madness.

CCP - pour in the sand.

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Make a new alt, Known troll :P

In the time it took you to write that load of garbage, you could have found yourself a new game to play.....

I drank a beer, does that count?

Kane knows how to let your hair down ^_^

Pirate stories Ftw ^_^

OP has a point: the cancer of "balancing"

Problem: CCP takes forums QQ too serious because they think it's the player base. There might be some good ideas in balancing topics, but the most is more like "whawha my ship needs to be stronger than yours!". 10 ppl post that and claim to be "the majority" or something...

I like innovation, I like choices, but "balancing" is a cancer because it serves only itself...

Ditto that.

Oh I agree, CCP has made quite a boring one at the moment. There should be much more scope for differentiating.

I don't think there exists enough money to pay CCP if you make a panda character. There is a different game that does that.

That is bad how exactly?