Out of Pod Experience

In short after 7-8 years of on and off Eve, forum trolling, and bittervet syndrome, I've decided to clear shop and uninstall for the last time when my plex runs out in 11 days.

So instead of a whiny I quit thread and explaining why, I decided I wanted to see what things others would want done to make Eve a better, more fun, and immersive game. Or new ideas to make that possible.

What do you think could be changed/added to keep older players active, or bring them back?

What do you think could be changed/added to keep more new players?

These can be major things or minor things, your idea can focus on either new or old or possibly both it doesn't matter.

Well thought out ideas will receive ISK, trolls will receive nothing(unless you're clever).

Want my stuff? Post an idea.

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Brooks

Me quitting too would probably make the game better for some people, I would imagine.

TL; DR Nerf Ramona

There is a big chance that you will return to this game so you shouldn't give your stuff away, but if you really want to I'll take it.

Profession tutorials. New player looks at a list, selects Explorer. He then has access to skills needed, common ships used with approved, by the player base, fits. Gets access to profession specific guides and perhaps a link to a chat channel where 'Explorer' vets will help the newbs of their chosen profession.

This idea could of course be expanded upon to include charting outlining risk vs. reward, maybe some fictional 'a day in the life' stories, or whatever.

Auar

Boarding parties! Add a breaching module, and if it succeeds, you get a RNG chance to capture targeted ships based on skill level + number of marines in your cargo hold, balanced against the number of marines in the targeted ship's cargo hold.

To keep new players in longer:

Less reliance on 3rd party sites and software. CCP could do a lot better in training people up, providing details. Don't get me wrong: I love what the community builds etc., but it feels strange for many new players that they need to go outside of the game for so many things. Dotlan, StaticMapper, Uni, etc. Additionally, one could think of more robust Sov Mapping in client. For a new player Eve is extremely daunting: NPE can always be better, I ran through it when I rejoined eve 2 months ago after being gone for a few years. Very basic mechanics are there, and yes, you get scrammed and such, but it's still nothing to do with RL EvE

The client should come with several overview presets: PvE, PvP, Mining, Explo, All, basic.

For myself, I feel that the EVE system is relying on meta too much these days. Awox, Safari, AFKCloakers in large swathes of space: all viable tactics of course, but they're kind of gamey ASFAIC. Full API's, no one ever talking to each other cause TeH SpieZ! Looking into this from the outside, as a newbie carebear just trying not to get a shiny new vexor popped in a Lvl2 Sec mission, it seems like sooo much hassle to ever be fun.

As ZP once put it: EVE feels like paying someone for a second job. Getting to the 'good' stuff requires a hell of a lot of planning and mechanics and 'stuff'. Not really any frontier space exploration. Just setting up shop somewhere etc.

For older players: I would personally love mobile stations. Say a capital ship people can dock in, provides services etc. That's slightly less blob attracting than the average titan. Random PvE encounters. More exploration content. I love Exploration. Seems that all the WSpace has been claimed though I believe.

My subscription runs out next month so i'll be quitting / taking a break too. I would probably start playing and enjoying the game if CCP did the following:

* Improve the UI - Everything from the overview to the tactical overlay needs modernizing and improving

* New content for wormhole space - Wormhole space needs new features to reinvigorate wormhole PVP and new, more challenging pve content (maybe a C7 wormhole with sleeper capitals)

* Avatar based gameplay - I want to physically explore things like relic and data sites with my character

* Fix local in dangerous space - Delay it, remove , make it disruptable, whatever.

Help for new players? Merge the mastery tab and trait tab on ships, and remove the characteristic pretty pictures.

Hey new player, what does this ship do? Here are the bonuses, and here are the skills that would make it easier to fly (not just requirements).

And Auar stole my other idea about specific help chats for professions. There really should be something that pops up at the end of each tutorial that directs the new player to find and join a channel "made and designed for people like you" or some such thing.

I don't know how many people I've helped in trying to simply find their first agent or fit that first destroyer that were just spamming in Scopechat because they had no idea where else to turn.

Dynamic sec status. Similar to the idea in your signature, but with a simpler implementation. More rats killed in a system leads to a higher sec status, meaning less desirable rats. Low activity in a system leads to lower sec status, and thus better rats. Suddenly, those unused nullsec systems are very valuable, and instead of empty constellations, people are encouraged to spread out and use that unused space.

What I think you wanna do is give most away on the forums, then buy some sort of shiny (maybe a capital?) and fill it with exotic dancers and spiced wine, then leeroy it somewhere