EVE General Discussion

There were 135,000 nine months ago.

On the first of June there were 12669.

They sold 50 million units.

Halo 4 is a dead game not even a year after it launched.

The demographics alone are reason enough not to want to attract that sort of player. That being, that only a studio with a budget far beyond CCP's can afford to put out full titles twice a year as this would warrant.

Perhaps it's just me, but I have yet to ever meet anyone who defines themselves as an FPS or shooter player who wasn't a drooling knuckle dragger who follows the flavor of the month like a demented gosling.

So that'd be the second reason. In fact, the last time someone asked me why I play EVE, I responded by saying that I enjoy associating with a higher class of player. The kind of person who doesn't have a heart attack when they see a spreadsheet in a video game.

None of that makes any sense. What "dumbed down" feature have they put in recently that makes such gatecamping possible?

If you had in fact been playing as long as I've seen you claim, you'd know that gatecamping has pretty much been an ever present thing in this game. In any game, in fact. Turns out, people camp chokepoints. Hell, even in real life.

But unlike CoD, which offers nothing more than mindless gameplay, EVE actually has other things to do (tons of them, in fact).

I was under the impression that "at lot faster" meant a difference of up to 5 hours in a 24 hour period. You'll hardly ever be doing more than one jump a day, with the only difference being that if you rely on daily jumping (e.g. to operate bases or organize market orders in different corners of new eden), missing your daily jump by an hour will no longer permanently shift your schedule. DId I miss any other change or is this really the kind of change you consider a "dumbed down feature"?

Everyone can play how they like. Thats not up to me. Im merely making an observation based on my opinion. An opinion that I hold strongly but one I recognise is possibly flawed or wrong. I don't think it is but.

Yes we know, but every post thins guy puts up manages to be worse.

Thank you, ISD, for saving this gem.

There is more to intelligence than IQ.

Intellect without wisdom is blind, else I am sure you would know that buffing safe income simply leads to inflation and you are right back where you started.

At least it would hurt people in nullsec

To the OP:

First, the ability to earn to move on is needed - that's a problem if you want actual new players vs 4th-10th alt account to be rewarded with little risk. It becomes a bigger issue as those alt accounts grow yet sit in safety to earn but there are other factors to consider even with respect to this issue.

Soloing all the time is not going to get people out to places where cooperation is required to operate so soloing focus in highsec is not going to populare *ANY* other type of space in this game.

If you want improvements, you need more group based activities that transition well to other space.

Second - nullsec requires bases to operate out of. Empire has them all over the place but unless you join a group out of null, you are SOL for resupplying, buying, selling, etc.

Many have attitude problems about "sucking up to overlords" out of null for a variety of reasons. Some don't like the idea of "being a drone" - one of the horde. Some don't find the attitudes out of that space all that attractive with all the xenophobia, homophobia, sexism and racism that is common in many outfits out there. You hit this kind of stuff across "competitive PvP" style games so this is not unique to EVE where the option to avoid it exists by avoiding those portions of game-play that attract those types of players.

Whereas there are groups that aren't distasteful in such fashions out in those areas, they are the minority and often tend to be more closed than open for newer people/players being as there really are few "newer players" vs "another alt account" of someone interested in trashing your outfit for lulz - which tends to be a speciality of this game vs others. "Spies & thieves" are fairly common here but also one of the unique aspects of this game that relegates "trust" to a masochistic tendency.

Net effect - you aren't gaining null residents by buffing soloing in highsec nor are you gaining null residents by nerfing null.

That's a tad twisted.

You also won't gain more null residents by buffing null and nerfing high - accounts will be dropped (less funding for the game) across the spectrum (low, high, null, w-space) if you nerf highsec being as many hold multiple accounts (one or more stationed in highsec) and won't play this game if they can't use *ALL* those accounts as they choose.

It will be tricky to try and rebalance the areas to make them more accessible to more players because, right now, it's just "trips to..." with getting there and out again is a PITA. Unless it's easy to "test the waters", many will avoid it simply due to lack of time to invest in a 1-way trip down with a med-clone express trip back.