Jita Park Speakers Corner

eve has a big problem because still cant reach 55k player levels from 2 years ago. The main reason is that everything is focused on big alliances and less and less players interaction.

in the past it was possible to get 100kils on a single roam! (not blob fight!), now you make 4 hours roam and you cant meet people to kill.

few suggestions:
- create more interaction. for instance on completing an anomally you get next annomaly in different system - this will increase traffic i.e. interaction. of course should be ballanced with increased bounties.
- decrease station services EHP, so that it be possible for a small gang to kill it in reasonable time(no more than 10min for 15-20man gang)
- increase number of WH connecting null sec to null sec. this is the main was to get small gang pvp now since big alliances space is empty.
- create an everybody visible list with all reinforced structures in game so that fight could be joined by everyone interested
- make undock radius very small for all outposts, like it is now for caldary research outpost. give aggression to people who undock and rep services/ships.

MORE INTERACTION !!!

Great post, thanks for the detailed suggestions. I'll add them to the notes I'm formulating as I prepare for the summit (for those that haven't yet heard, I will be traveling in place of Kelduum this Winter.)

What I hope everyone notices when they read your post is this - so many of these issues are exactly what we've taken the time to nail down in Faction Warfare through subsequent patches: the proper balance of risk and reward). Plexing works when its lucrative enough to stand out above high sec game play in terms of income, but dangerous enough to create explosive PvP in the process of trying to obtain those riches.

It's exactly what the rest of low sec content needs, and on a larger scale, its exactly what 0.0 needs as well - enough effort put into balancing income streams that creates something even remotely resembling a logical progression. I personally think that such a balancing effort (constructed with a sense of logic and design direction, much like "Tiericide" for ships) is one of the biggest bang-for-your-buck endeavors CCP could begin this Spring, and would do wonders to kickstart activity and to repopulate dead regions.

Thank you CSM and CCP, hopefully some of this stuff will happen sooner than "soonTM"

the new system is actually not that bad (decshield aside)

bad are the things you can (or can not !) achieve via hiring mercenaries

The suggestion i gave are really logical but as u say the "tiercide" for isk/hour in respective secs needs to be done, the magic formula if done properly will solve lot of problems in EVE.

For me the most important factor is time. Lowsec needs to have PvE activities that are done faster and yield more than highsec. And the null longer activities that yield the most of all of em (My first 6 months of EVE were in nullsec Alliances so i know smth about it too)

I ll give u an example: Before the incursion nerf my corp farmed em and killed like 10 Uroborus in the row. We ned like 5 mins to clear a vanguard and the payout was really nice. That was still enough time to catch farming parties cos we did catch lot of T3 in those incursions. There was quite a nice community battling it out for the dominance over the incursions,

After the nerf we are doin sites almost double the more time than before for same reward. And ofc we stopped and i think none is doing them anymore and a nice piece of content gone.

There was really needed lot of organisation and skill to prevail in 1 lowsec incursion, the payoff was not that bad imo only the Uroborus bpc needed a bit of higher drop rate and it needed on some attribute boosts also (of those 10 kills we got 0 Uroborus BPC).

What i want to say is that it had that ratio short time/same or higher yield than highsec and it was quite popular.

Poetic, I served with the Mittani. I know the Mittani. The Mittani is a friend of mine. You are no the Mittani.

Sorry, couldn't resist the comparison of you to Dan Quayle.

We (all of CSM 6) went to the gaming press after Incarna because it was the right thing to do at the time. We were terribly worried about damaging the relationship of CCP with the CSM, but we knew that we *had* to do what we did. This is a totally different situation, and calls for different tactics. If you weren't blind with rage at Kelduum, you might see that.

You assumptions about what CCP is doing when are just that, assumptions. Do you actually think CCP would be talking to us about a future roadmap if they weren't doing some future roadmap planning of their own?

A main limitation in Eve seems to be that although it has great depth, there is very little worth doing that only takes a limited amount of time. I feel that if you want to attract new players, there needs to be exciting short snippets of content available. This time factor affects us bittervets too; families and other responsibilities often lead to people only having an hour to play, which hardly seems worthwhile in the current climate. I'm not suggesting any specific solutions, just that CCP need to retain the complexity but also look at this time issue. For example, nullsec is often so empty when roaming these days, that a 2 hour roam can result in only a single engagement. That isn't very encouraging!

I can't even begin to describe how terrible the idea of removing Mineral Compression is.

Fix nullsec mining/mineral acquisition through revamped Mining, Asteroids and this proposed "Ring Mining" before you decapitate what we have left of Industry out here.

I left this in another forum post, I will leave it here also (I consider myself a bittervet)...

my wish list to keep me subscribed in order of preference:

Small little things:

- Give us the possibility to change chars in the same account without the need to login again
- Allow us to create Industry and invention jobs that required less clicking and that allows us to make bulk actions
- PI extractors stop, start or restart of 1 planet in one mouse click in the command center
- POS module online queue
- Big nice red Jump/bridge buttons in the overview for Capitals (and subcaps near JBs) instead of menus
- Give shield pilots a equivalent to a slave set
- Give armor pilots a equivalent to a crystal set

Priority 1 fixes needed in this game:

- Give us a new and improved POS (POS revamp)
- Improve SOV system and reduce structure griding
- Finish ships tiercide (including Capitals); Fix black ops and electronic attack ships; fix leviathan and chimera;
- separated local intel from chat system
- Give us a new overview, local intel and chats UI
- Fix null-sec industry
- Fix moon mining (for example, make it work like PI)
- Give us a new industry and invention UI with less cluter, user friendly, futuristic look and that cuts with the tipical excel windows look that we have nowadays; and above all that required less clicking please!
- Improve invention and manufacturing mechanics
- Fix the T2 BPO problem (for example, by removing the research copy ML -4 and give it 0 by default... just an idea)
- Give alliances the proper tools to tax corps, mining and moon mining, get rent money from (blue) POS in their space

New long expected features:

- Give us new integrated accounts system where I can see all my accounts / characters, only login once and lunch multiple clients (one for account of course) from it.
- Allow the possibility (only for POSes) to reserve several slots and associate them to a queue and then the possibility to schedule up to 100 jobs in that queue independent of my max jobs skills and let the pos alocate them automatically having in account my max jobs skills and slot availability.
- Allow us to fly customized painted ships
- Give alliances, corps and players tools to make military , trade, ratting, mining, moon mining agreements (a.k.a treaties)
- Give us more t3 ships
- Give give us more end-of-game contents for vets like achievements, more skills, more caps like carriers T2

Nice to have:

- Find a proper role for titans and supers in the battle field
- Give us all the remaining ships (including caps) with the shader v3 skins
- Replace the ugliest ships in this game with new hulls
- Give us more t1 ships, clearly there are still areas that need more ships (for example, like Electronic warfare/logi destroyers or a new t2 command destroyer; or Electronic warfare battleships for other races other than the caldari, etc)
- Continue fixing and improve more and more visual effects
- Give us more station models for 0.0 (for example, just allow us to deploy all the station models that exist in empire is the easier way)
- Make mining fun (I can dream right?)

Well let's just say that I'm more confident about the bounty system than I was for the revised wardec one. I'm certainly confident that it'l be way better than what we have now.

As for wardecs, I'm not sure that there can even be a good solution to making them workable for the wardeccer and fair to the wardecced. The expectation gaps are just too wide. As I've said previously, I'd rather see Faction Warfare expanded further to provide PVP-risk in hi-sec than rely on the wardec system to do so.