EVE General Discussion

Hello,

There has been a "before of" and "past of" in EvE.

The rather unfortunate Dominion patch and then tiericide and many other game changes, along with the proposed industry changes suggest EvE is not just being "refreshed" but its overal theme and setup is slowly being shifted.

What some players would love to know is: where's EvE headed to?

I suppose there's a Lead Game Designer who decides (in concert with the CEO and whoever) the direction EvE is taking for the next years and - most importantly - the type of playerbase it is going to focus on.

Could we pretty please be given an hint about this?

Because we can easily see the EvE of the past: hi sec centric, The Forge is the center, game was somewhat stagnating, null sec was important yet somewhat had a certain priority which seemed to be less than today.

What's the EvE of the future instead? We see a shift away from "hi sec centric", more emphasis on destruction.
Some players would like to know the flavour of the Next EvE That Is Coming, the kind of players it shall focus on the most, the amount of "hardship" required to remain compeititve both in PvP, industry and so on.

Maybe this is just my personal curiosity, maybe not.

So, more emphasis on destruction = a nerf to industry/the death of highsec?
You do realise you're paraphrasing Dinsdale, right down to the suggestion of a casual gameplay nerf, yeah?

Shall we just get him to come and do this properly, needs more armwaving.

I see you made a number of assumptions over text I did not write.

Now, I don't want to criticise your telepathy skills, but I don't think you can see what I think and what I did not write.

I'll give you an hint: being a trader, I am largely not affected, yet I am curious and want to be ready to setup my stuff for when changes will come.

We don't know where. All we know is there's no going back.

So it may be that CCP don't know where either. They have a history of ending up in some place different than they planned, so I guess it's more about the journey than the destination.

If that's the case, the "we can't say" comments from CCP when Rubicon was released makes a lot of sense.

Well their five year plan is still in effect.

There will be colonization.
There will be more lawless space I assume.
There are mobile units regarding NPC bounties which fit.
Tbh all the new mobile units fit for this theme.

Prices for everything will finally go up,
to counter the ease of making too much money in less time.

PLEX prices will keep increasing,
up to a billion either this next year or in two.

The customer base will be increasing,
partly due to new seriously new shiny gfx and more realistic lighting,
partly due to new space which will also be a new shiny.

Our known space will have it's mechanics changed over time due to the colonization
that will happen.

POS or something new and equivalent will find a massive increase in useage,
and for POS they already laid out the foundation.

Fuel prices will go up.

The amount of wardecs will increase and more people will
start to create more and bigger groups.

At least one bigger community will join EVE within the next two years,
trying to shake up either nullsec or newspace.

BRAVE will eventually go this route too.

RvB will be the most dominant force in highsec
and will actually display it.

EVEUNI hopefully dies off.

Faction warfare will see a change within the next two to four years
and there's a slight possibility that SoundWaves vision comes true,
because of how NewSpace might change the landscape of the empires.
Or maybe because of DUST. Or both.

They WANT to do something with CONCORD but they aren't sure what or if it works
and it depends on what the players do to enable them to get rid of it.

Market UI will change within the next three years.

There will either be a change of how ships work/are being fitted,
or there will be a completely new class of ships that are different.


And that's without actually doing any research.

Paradigm.

I'm guessing you don't know that CCP reveals stuff like that at Fanfest using pretty graphs and powerpoint presentations all of which is streamed live, and that Fanfest is also imminent.

Not all what they say at Fanfest is really what they really do. I see Fanfest as being a bit of an "infomerchal" event where the priority is on grabbing new players more than truly revealing the long term plans.

I am not curious about a "1 year" prediction but at a 5+ years global strategic plan. Because the's one.

Take in example what Jenn aSide has said: it's well beyond a Fanfest spot, it's a grand plan deciding the direction of the game. I am curious about CCP's own version of something akin to what Jenn aSide has listed.

Current EVE plan, fix all the things.

The current plan is going to last a few years.

The first time riding the roller coaster is always the best, precisely because you don't know exactly what's coming.