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Ship spinning is NOT a group activity in the MMOG EVE. But when this solo pleasure was removed the wails of numerous individual pilots finally forced CCP to recalibrate their thinking.

So how is it a bad thing for other solo pleasures in EVE to be spoken of openly? Are the Captains Quarters open to other pilots you invite in? Nope solo pleasure. What about those NEX purchased boots? Anyone going to see them in your headshot portrait? Nope solo pleasure. So when CCP establishes a solo pleasure it is good, but when players, aka the people who pay the bills for CCP, find solo pleasures where none were intended it's bad.

I would like to see the different styles of game play openly embraced by CCP and not seemingly disregarded.

If solo players are a small fraction of the CCP revenue stream do they really want to reduce it even by a small amount? Most business plans seek to grow and cultivate paying customers when doing so does not force them to give up their primary mission/ goals. Working to accommodate solo play without sacrificing the group dynamic of EVE is not impossible or even that hard.

I have accounts that cover the spectrum from alliance to corp down to solo each has a different return for my investment of time and money, I only hope that CCP appreciates all styles of game play even when it's not happening exactly as they planned or projected.

Mara most of the functionality that you speak of was never removed. All those functions were still available by clicking on the ship icon in the ships menu as they remain today available by doing the same. Double clicking the ship icon replaced dragging it to the hangar to activate, arguably easier by the way.

Go ahead and make yourself feel better by saying things that are completely baseless in facts known to every competent player of EVE, if blatant intellectual dishonesty works for you, however this thread is about the fact that unintended solo play brings value to many EVE paying subscribers and CCP had to recalibrate their usual heavy handed disregard for a solo pleasure they removed. I am hopeful that CCP is a little better as an organization having learned a lesson that customer feedback can add value to their product .

I suspect if the complaints raised by most players had been as specious as the inaccurate after the fact rationalization you put forth a simple statement from CCP telling people all that functionality was still in the game ( because we all had to use it until the hangar was restored) would have been the only result and we would all still be looking at the door.

People missed ship spinning, plain and simple.

That is not to say this was the only complaint voiced by EVE subscribers but it was the one most frequently articulated by a significant margin in the chats i was a participant of in all of my several accounts. The other gripe most frequently heard were "i undocked in the wrong ship", but i heard that nearly as often as i heard and still hear players saying they forgot their drones when warping out of a belt, or forgot to load their cargo when going on a distribution mission. I never undocked in the wrong ship because i pay attention an i do not resist change when it is presented just because i am used to doing things a certain way.

okay i'll use smaller words and shorter sentences for your skill level ..... CCP listens to players good ...... CCP ignores players bad ..... solo players pay also.... CCP should be happy..... CCP make all paying players happy.... the end

You actually made your point less clear with that.

Let me try using a sentence structure you'll understand.

WTF ARE YOU WHINGING ON ABOUT? KTHXBAI!

So because i did not cater to your short attention span I am the one whining? lol

Attention span aside, I do believe what is being asked, is just get to the point, and quit rambling, it muddles the point you are trying to make.

Kind of like this.

Point:



Is this what you are asking?

I endorse all forms of solo pleasure in the captain's quarters and look forward to reading many stories about them.

Just for the sake of argument, what forms of solo play are CCP removing from your repertoire?

Solo play is available in many forms, as examples:

• Exploration
• Mining
• Mission Running
• BPO research, copying
• Invention
• Solo PvP (well, solo roaming)

The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

If you want solo play a la Bejewelled Blitz, there's always Facebook or Steam.

Except for exploration and solo PVP (which I'm not entirely sure is something you can make a career of), which of those offers, you know, excitement?
You did forget trading, though, which I have found quite interesting.



Aren't they always. I can just sit in station and IMAGINE all the things I'd like to do! ;)



I suggest you try the multiplayer version of that, seeing that you have intimnate knowledge of both f'book AND these games...



Sorry.