EVE General Discussion

Well I'm Glad you asked
Currently there are quite a few issues with this game, I will try and give as much insight as I can though it may seem a little broad.
-Little content on last few (and upcoming) updates.

Inferno was such a minor update, the FW changes were perhaps needed but took away the chance for escalations to occur between the factions, there have been less and less cap fights (or even the need for one) and thus less and less of an appeal to the vets of FW, the system has become an orbiting farmyard.
The main issue I had with inferno is that you based the entire patch on a slight graphical update with new missile effects yet are heavily nerfing missiles in the very next patch. I understand the argument that drakes and tengus are "OP" but it isn't due to thier weapon platforms, the Drake in particular is used because you can fit a BS sized buffer tank as well as ewar.

The problems I have with retribution is mainly a lack of new content, yes the ship balances are nice (some of them anyway) but really what will this patch bring in terms of actual content? The Bounty changes, if you live in highsec (where for the most part pvp in detested) or even lowsec these changes might make a very small impact on why people PvP. The only people it will affect are those that would be looking for fights anyway, its merely a slight bonus to fighting a fight you would have fought without the changes. It will become as redundant and unused as the original bounty system we have now.


-The sledgehammer to incursions

Incursions were one of my favourite ways to make isk, I could spend a few days in highsec making isk when things were quiet in 0.0. It would give me oppurtunity to converse and socialize with players that perhaps I would never have spoken to. It really brought down barriers and I found myself laughing and joking with people I'd smack talked in local after a fight, it was fun, I enjoyed it, CCP broke it. Currently the only people that run incursions are those that were really hardcore into it and would prefer anything over going back to running L4s. Hardly anyone runs them anymore, if an incursion pops up it is extremely annoying due to the inability to cyno and the horrible rat gatecamps they produce, whereas before the sledgehammer nerf they were run and a joy when an incursion popped up in your constellation.
I propose you revert the changes you made, and you give people a reason to run incursions again. You can now make nearly as much isk running L4s solo than you can risking your 1+billion ship to difficult incursion rats. I understand that the rewards were a little too high so keeping them at the level they are at now would be justified and should have been the only original nerf.

-Same space, different region.

Another issue that I want to briefly touch on is that much of space in all of eve is the same, yes there are different rats and a few different names here and there but it is essentially the same space different place. I would propose adding different feautres to every region, something unique and something that would really make you want to live and fight for the space. An idea would be for dynamic PVE events that are different depending on what region you're in, these could be done in groups or solo and would be offered by Agents. My ideas on this are a little light So I will update when I have more time to coe up with ideas.

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0/10 for effort.

Bounties are not a hisec exclusive feature. You have been misled.how much better will nullsec combat be when hisec scrubs are invading your region to kill you because your enemies but billions of ISK up for bounties on your entire alliance?

Incursions are crowded, by and large. Of course there are quiet times depending on which time zone you play in. Incursions really are fine in hisec, the only real difference to pre-sledgehammer times is the need to kill more stuff in OTAs.

I agree with your sentiments on nullsec stagnation: current sov mechanics don't really provide for daily fights, the entire mechanic of sovereignty comes down to reinforcement timers. The sov-lite features being tested in FW are pretty darned awesome, in my estimation: to gain occupation youmhave to engage in a lot of little activities, not one ore two big activities. You have to be active to have occupation.

What?

MOAR INSIGHT PLS

Yet content and subscriptions have been steadily decreasing over the last year. There's nerfing something to help combat inflation then theres nerfing something to make it useless. Going through with an original nerf of -10% reward would have made more sense, instead they were hit with a sledgehammer and are now worthless. If an incursions pops up in a constelation live in it is a huge inconvinience especially in 0.0, either give them a buff or begin to remove them from the places where they aren't being run..

Wait...an incursion of hostile forces in 0.0 sovereign space is inconvenient? Holy crap it's almost like the invading forces were trying to invade or something.

Also, EVE is dying again.

The idea of incursions was to create group PVE activity that would both reduce the grind for isk and get many highseccers used to fleet activity. The First was highly successful, people were doing less L4/anom grinding and running more incursions, we even had an incursion running channel on jabber, yet since the nerf non of these are used because incursions are just not worth the reward when a similar reward can be gained through blitzing anoms solo.

Great and articulate article, well done.

I agree with a lot of what you say. I think the most important thing is to fix industry in Null, then people will go there and make money and pirates can hunt them and people will fight over space as it's a precious resource, and, as you say, you'll only want as much as you can use.

Good stuff.

Removing reinforcement timers wouldn't work, they are put in place to give more of an oppurtunity for conflict. Removing jumpbridges also wouldn't work as most large alliances have access to titans which serve as mobile bridges.

Lowering the HP and adding a penalty to reinforce time would be a step in the right direction and would lead to more big fights and create a more dynamic 0.0. The proposals you make would make null into a small skirmish arena.