EVE General Discussion

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Malcanis' article there is hands down the best read I have had in The Mitten rag by far.
I think one point he made is very necessary right now: how can we boost NULL without nerfing every1 else off

I always think that nerfing is a lazy fix & is unrealisic in RL & ruins my emersion in thegame. BUFFING is always better but is a far trickier juggling act....

Here's few suggestions I'd like to throwout there for buffs for NULL only which doesn't nerf others much if at all:
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My main ( currently forum banned ) is known for his Incursion rants so here's one sugggestion I made to CCP before:
For NULL SEC incursions if an invasion is killed off ( the Uroborus site is finished & the super dies ) then the SOV fees for that constellation are waived for a period of time ( a few months or weeks? ) as a reward to the SOV holders for doing Concord's job.
Not only would it give a reason for the Alliance as a whole to work together hopefullly it would breathe some life into NULL's dead incursions since the escalation nerf. Maybe the Uroborus's wreck also dropping new Sansha faction SBU's or something simular would help also.

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Jovian invasions/rats who's salvage & BPC's can be used for officer MOD's

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The above are more PvE oriented so here's acouple PvP buffs:

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WARP STORMS something like in WH40k that doesn't affect your warp drive ability but does prevent cyno'ing from working ( CYNO JAMM STORMs I guess would be a better term ) Maybe have a supernova in sydicate as a background RP & this area would become a permenant cyno jam'd small gang PvP area. It couldbeargued though this is a nerf to those owning CAPs & a buff to others but I just wanted to throw this idea out there

another twist on the WARP STORMs could be instead of cyno jamming the super nova wipes out & disrupts local chat in a certain stretchs of NULL so that intelligence can no longer be used muchlike in WH space. This way local is not taken down in all of NULL but just afew places for CCP & plyers alike to test if its good idea or not.

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Another idea: 10-??? Jove space systems open up to NULL with Dyson Sphere's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere ) which are like areana PvP areas but are only accessable to certain classes & MAX numbers of ships. Jovians reason them for them: gladitorial combat entertainment

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I dunno this postmay be more of a F&I subforum post but I wanted to throw it in here
and yes they are sort of 'Jesus features' but I hope they are not to theme parky which null dwellers seem to be so averse to

I thought the risk vs reward in high and null was already like that... (Then again i don't mine)


Im new yo. But for real i was about to quit before i found a corporation willing to teach a straight newb that actually knew what there doing in low/null sec.

Its the only thing that's kept me on 4 months counting. Imagine how many people said "**** it" That didn't find a good corp?

Maybe a reward system for people doing these "Good will" Services or something... Idk, just dont see enough thats good quality, training corps.

Please dont loose track of helping eve become more appealing to new players, if you did, i may not be here to pay you.
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Just out of interest, which members of CSM 7 would you define as inactive? Or is this knowledge publicly available somewhere?

Edit: I think one thing that was largely missed out was the new player experience. While you make a big point of turning Newbies into Veterans, you can't have Newbies without turning Potentials into Newbies. You did mention the 'Shiny' aspect of turning a potential customer into a paying customer, but you didn't talk about what happens directly after a Potential starts playing - as it is, a lot of people who start trial accounts or even full accounts end up leaving before they can turn into Newbies. What CCP is doing with the tutorial is obviously a good start, but it's honestly still pretty baffling when you start.

Buffing nullsec is not the same as nerfing highsec.

Spoken by a guy who bumps miners while pleading for their ISK and proclaiming himself king of whatever HS system he is bumping ships in.

Oh... and while trying to control the miner's urine.

How do you come up with these figures?

Given the already existing depth and complexity of the game I'd say it'd be at least a year before it feels stagnant because of lack of content, so why would potentials and newbies care much for brand new content?

The fundamental issue is the gameplay itself, which (as a newbie) I've found enjoyable up until recently, but the new AI changes has taken that away and thus I can't see myself continuing - and it has nothing to do with the content, hell, I barely even got started. Couldn't care less about income either, but watching bars and clicking away every 5 seconds is why I tend to shy away from mmos - Eve gave a chance to not resort to that, but alas.

Not much in that CSM document that I even remotely agree with

Making Null Sec more lucrative? It already has Moon mining monopolies, deadspaces, the best PI, and the higest bounties. What is the CSM talking about?

Making POSs more Modular? I think the CSM needs to look up the word modular. "Modular" is what the current POS system is already. It needs to be more aesthetic and user friendly.

Making Mining more cooperative? The best ores in null sec and WH absolutely demand cooperative/social gameplay in order to function succesfully (protection, hauling, etc)

Not sure what the CSM is representing besides themselves here.

Maybe, but I doubt it's malicious. I'm sure they honestly think these are the best ideas for the game as they know it.

I must admit I too am wondering what CSM members put their name on this ill thought dreg?

Ill thought you say, how so?
The greater supply of minerals of hi-sec type to Null the less they are then worth to those mining in Hi-sec.

Also I did not even hear mention of fixing the ridiculously broken corporate management system we have now.

Also if you want higher player retention why don't you use your efforts on the player numbers as to where they are 60% Hi-Sec, 20% Null, 15% lo-sec and 5% WH's. Yes I know that people say, "But or Null sec mains have alts in Hi-sec." But unless someone can prove that it is more than a few percent it really is not relevant.

We hear from Null sec players that Hi-sec has had 2 expansions dedicated to it but in reality what did it really get, can anyone name these wonderful new additions for Hi-sec?

So to boil it down stop acting like a Null Sec lobby group and More like representatives of ALL players.