EVE General Discussion

Done.

A few comments on the survey:

The question "Which of the following S&I activities are you currently most happy with? (Choose all that apply?)" should have had 'none of the above' as a potential response. You're forced to be 'most happy' with one. I don't engage in all of those options and have criticisms of the ones I do. Asking me to rate one as "most happy with" is like asking would you be "most happy" to be shot or stabbed today? The answer, especially in this 'check the box' format, will yield misleading data imo.

Also, the question: "Please group the following S&I activities into two groups based on how easy to understand they are:" should not have forced replies on all the items. I have no idea if outpost deployment/improvement is easy/hard to understand - yet I'm forced to choose an answer. (I chose 'easy' btw.) But again, misleading data, imo.

I'm also a little concerned at the question asking if it were incentivized, would you be more likely to engage in cooperative gameplay in S&I? What a loaded question - the implications of which have me concerned. Most of the manufacturers in game can probably circumvent any player-based restrictions with alts but I'm much more concerned with what type of incentivization is being implied here. Forcing sheep into herds only makes me worry that wolves are on the horizon. However, the questions about detailed reports regarding each player's contribution to an S&I operation was pretty encouraging. Industrialists have needed a better way of keeping track of individual contributions since I'm playing EVE. But then again, asking if the S&I interface getting an upgrade in any capacity would be viewed as a positive change is likely to receive a lot of 'yes' votes imo.

YK

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This. Always this.

First time I saw it on the launcher, I jumped on it like a fat kid on a donut. If we get a full expansion totally dedicated to S&I, I might just reactivate all my idle accounts.

I love CCP, but for too many times, I have seen CCP having a complete disregard to the ingame "market values" of certain items by reintroducing and devaluing them to a mere fraction of their preceding market values.

I've seen the survey and I have this gut feeling that CCP will follow the following logic;

1) Ah! We see that of the 2,534 players participating in the survey, there are only 2 players who own T2 BPOs.
2) Obviously reintroducing the T2 BPOs will have minimal impact to the player base at large!
3) New Summer Expansion titled "The Tycoon" launches. It includes finding T2 BPOs at random Ghost Sites.

We all know that T2 BPOs are mostly held by several collectors who enjoy this game with passion. I have divested all my T2 BPOs, but CCP, I beg you. Please do not reintroduce them (and yes, this could potentially be a nonsensical fear mongering on my part).

Those are sensible positions, and I could support them. I don't think that's what's on the horizon, though.