EVE General Discussion

Instead of mission running, you could try wormholes. Rats are harder, and then there's the fact that players can find you and will kill you, without any repercussions....if that's more to your liking.


I too remember a time when saying in Local "Who wants lv 4 salvage" would get you flooded with convos. Now? I let the wrecks rot, because no one will take you up on it. My first 2 years of eve were spent mostly in hisec, so I can say for certain that the PVE is horribly boring. Maybe changing PVE to be closer to PVP would not magically fix the game, but I do think that it would give NEW players a better understanding of pvp mechanics, and stay true to the high action trailers you find on the net.

Why don't they make a trailer focused on mining for whatever expansion the mining update got pushed back to? I'd like to see it.

Samuel L. Jackson was a player at one point in time. (At least back in 2005, he "supposedly" said so in an interview.) No idea if he still plays, or how long he played for.

Yes, I tend to agree it would help. Honestly, I've always felt that some of the spark left EVE when they made high-sec safer. The best way to learn PVP is to PVP, though.

A friend and I were reminiscing about the things you just don't see anymore in Eve, recently. I spent a good amount of time lurking around low sec assassinating hulks in belts - and the occasional ratting battleship - once upon a time. Today, I would probably die laughing before I could secure a point if I came across either of those in low sec.

The constant stream of haulers running NPC courier missions is another thing that went the way of the dodo, too.

One of my more hilarious early experiences involved a pack of Russian jet-can miners in Gammel who were EXTREMELY displeased to suddenly find themselves bound by a uh... slightly non-consensual contract for my minutes-old ore-hauling service. Admittedly, it might have been the online translation tool that made it so funny.

I will say this, eve is on the threshold of being popular. Or having a door slammed in its face.

With Valk and possible Legion coming, this could open the door to a new source of blood and rev for CCP. Someone could jump into either of thous games, like them, and come here. We saw a slight increase when dust went live.

The flip side, if CCP does Valk and legion badly... it can cause a loss of people, and loss of money. But we will see. the future looks bright, now is that the light of day or a train running towards you at 200 mph.

oh yes i forgot i had seen that one too, i geeked out when it was on lol

Unless the trend has changed however, eve has grown every year since inception. They did not say the subscribers at fan fest this year, so it could of gone down. but i'm not so sure. At this point, eve needs to fix some of the older code to handle more player before they do a huge ad campaign. But meh i'm not ccp

And that is bad how?

Skiff = Big tank, useful for mining in hostile territory.
Machinaw = Big cargo bay, useful for solo mining.
Hulk = Highest mining yield, useful for group mining with support.

Doesn't seem broken to me >.>

The bolded part is the important part. A game about people isn't (imo) supposed to have this magical "not about people" part to it to draw people away for...interacting with people.

Look at what you said. It amounts to "these PVE activities bring people together" (incursions and such). THAT is what snadbox PVE is supposed to do. Which is why EVE's PVE is working as intended.

The OPs (and it seems yours) idea that this game someone how needs 'better' pve to keep people is backwards. This game maybe only needs better advertising to reach more people who would enjoy this social gaming niche (whether they were adversarial "play against you" types aka PVPrs or cooperative "play with a group" types aka PVErs)



This is again untrue. After 7 years I'm STILL finding new ways to tackle PVE content across New Eden. Just last week I 'discovered' (i use that word lightly, I know I'm probably not the 1st) the joys of using a Smartbombing Drone Link Augmented Domi to do null sec anoms. Warp in at 100, drop sentries, MJD to npc spawn point, start Smartbombs (to kill things) + start ECM burst (to keep aggro and to provide a potential anti-tackle asset if the tackler is dumb enough to venture within 10 or so kilometers).

Haven't lost a single sentry drone and have been raking in the isk. Got tackled once by a ceptor, MJD's away.

That's where the fun in PVE comes from, , doing new things and seeing if they work or not. I've bet you real life money that 99% of the people who say "PVE isn't fun" are mission runners running the same fits over and over doing the same missions (or other pve content) over and over and wondering why they are bored. In EVE, PVE is just like PVP in that YOU make it fun or not. That's a sandbox.

If you think you've discovered all the ways to use the tools of EVE Online to PVE, you shouldn't be posting on these boards, you should be trying to get hired by CCP.

EA became a bad word to me when they killed MPBT 3025 in beta, a game i waited a decade for....