Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Me too! Want to share your experiance?

Yeah, and if you don't pay your 50% tax little elfs come out to wardec you permanently.

Heh, this is how I remember Lady Spank, spouting out stuff that I disagree with.



Due to the new Crimewatch mechanic, there should be plenty of targets for you to shoot at without having to cry about players in NPC corps. As for the players in NPC corps, what's it matter to you anyway? What, you don't like the corp jumpers who constantly leave player corps when they get a WarDec? Can't find enough easy targets to gank?

Heh, too bad.

Try posting a proposal in the Assemble Hall to limit the amount of times a player can leave and rejoin the same player corp within a certain time frame. Or if the player corp has a WarDec then no members can leave while the WarDec is active, etc.

Now if you want to include NPC Corps in the WarDec mechanic, then you're just asking for a lot of trouble.

Like no docking access in that corps stations, being attacked by station guns whenever you're in range, having the other allied NPC corps also not allow you access to their stations as well as attacking too. If you think you'll just be fighting players in one specific NPC corp and still be allowed to access it's services, you can forget about that. Since the NPC Corps all belong to a Faction, you'll also have to contend with Faction NPC's fighting and helping the player members in those NPC corps.


Anyway, this game is all about having different options and a variety of choices available. Trying to force people to play this game one certain way will only encourage lower subscription numbers.


DMC

Enjoy your 75% drop in subs.

All of these suggestions are missing the point completely. Eve is driven by player interaction. There's no way you can tax/wardec or grief the interaction into them.

Here's the kicker, I'll say it again, Eve is driven by player interaction. As a player it would be YOUR sole responsibility to show NPC corp solo players what makes the rest of EVE so great. Befriend them, show them the ropes and teach them. I have personally cuddled up to introverted players, gained their trust, and taken them on their first gank or taken them pvping. Every single time you introduce a different aspect of emergent gameplay to somebody who doesn't know it you open their brains to the adrenaline rush and the fun involved in creating or destroying something. These players become smart, skilled and loyal players in any corp or alliance in EVE.

Please keep in mind that NPC corps are where players get dumped when inactive or when kicked out of corp. by their peers. You can't put hangar rental fees or any such automatic payments on characters that are inactive, that would screw them up.

Also, you guys are talking about "incentives" to leave the NPC corps, but your specifics are all to force people out of the NPC corps. There are plenty of incentives already, what you want aren't incentives. I don't disagree with your proposals, but call a horse by its name.

Personally, I'd like to see CCP get rid of the NPC corp membership mechanic altogether. Independents should have no corp at all. And as far as whether a group can declare war on an independent individual, maybe they can expand the bounty-hunting system to allow independent individuals to be hunted (as if wardecced) somehow.

But anyway, no rental fees; unsubscribed characters sit in NPC corps and can't pay monthly fees while unsubbed.

AFKing your freighter should be expected, it's been done ~forever~.

Pretty sure the one man disbanding corp can do most of the same things. It's more effort though since every mining alt would have to move to the new corp or perhaps make its own corp and all that.

CCP needs to start taxing stupidity so this kind of thread stops showing, specially from individuals using/abusing game mechanics for years and crying all day long "CCP gimme yer hand I can't do it by my self".

The problem is not NPC corps, the problem is not those players or alts in, the problem once again comes from fps shooters moaning crying mumma (ccp) for candies (nerf) because their life is too hard...oulàlà.

...always remember if eve becomes too hard or boring for you, it's time to get some fresh air, have a drink with a nice lady and eventually have some real sex, then you'll be back and figure out there's no problem with NPC corps or with Eve pixels, well except if you're using W8 64 pro versions.

Imho, there should be severe limitations for people still in NPC corps, but not to the extent that they can't play and enjoy the game albeit those limitations. For instance (just throwing up random ideas here), production slots, sell/buy order slots, etc. and there should be way(s) to interfere with those activities (production, trading, or anything else major) via wardecs or other form of ingame conflicts.


Throwing random numbers are we? I can do it too, Eve'll be getting 28.59% increase in subs by the end of 2013, 15.4% of total population at the time will move to lowsec, 32.5% will move to null and the rest will stay in hisec. My numbers have two digits decimal, I win!