Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There it goes.

The after taste is unfulfilled loneliness.

Figure out a way where DPS won't infinitely stack in EVE - and you won't get structures with large amounts of EHP.

No easy solutions there unless you change weapons so that every weapon that hits within an interval does less and less damage until the debris cloud fades, or the ionization from the previous weapon strike(s) fade. Which may be the only long-term solution.

The concept would be, divide time into 1 (3?) second intervals:

- First weapon that hits a particular target during the interval does 100% damage.
- Each additional strike does N% less damage then the previous strike.

But it would probably be a pain to calculate.

I know I'm going to get shot at for this, but I don't think there is anything actually wrong with the current sovereignty system, what is obviously wrong that I've heard so many people complain about is the fact you have to sit for hours blasting away at the structures like they're a Jita monument.

I would actually suggest that maybe a serious nerfing of their HP would be suitable, maybe if you made it the health of a Titan? or something a bit less? I don't know the exact numbers I'm afraid, I haven't had the chance to play 0.0 properly because of all the gate campers.

I know for a fact that CCP will implement player ideas if they are sound. Consider, for example, PI taxes. Originally CCP was going to continue using the fantasy numbers that existed back when PI goods were sold by NPCs. Then a player named pmchem came along, wrote out some fancy schmancy math, and pointed out to CCP that the notion of the tax was pointless at the current base levels and that POCOs could almost never pay for themselves without a hundred people using the planet. And so CCP changed the tax, to almost exactly what he suggested.

First of all, from my perspective (i.e. someone who's in goons, but not all that high up in the hierarchy, nor very close to the CSM itself), what the CSM (and indeed the entire playerbase as a whole) has had to contend with the last 2 years has been to drag CCP, kicking and screaming, back to actually developing EVE. Crucible was, what, 3-4 months work, if that? All they've been able to do has been to go "oh **** oh **** oh **** EVE is in trouble we must do something!", and then start fixing a lot of the lower hanging fruits such as adding the display of JBs to the ingame map, update the PI interface (although, believe me, there's still a fucktonne of work still to be done to make the whole PI setup/modification UI even remotely good, but at least the export/import UI isn't sucking horsedicks on a rack anymore.

Whether this change in priorities have come because of user unsubscription rates, bad press, CSM punching them in the face on the iceland meetings, I literally couldn't give less of a flying ****, the main thing is that they have changed priorities. It probably would've taken longer if the bad press hadn't been whipped up, it probably would've taken longer if unsubscriptions hadn't been as dramatic etc etc etc, whatever. We have CCP back on EVE, and that's the important thing.

As to getting null improved, there's been a ton of small things making life in null a little bit better in crucible, JBs using standings etc so we won't have to type in the damn passwords every time for example, anoms are either already slightly upadjusted again or will be soon, various ship balancing etc, and probably a lot of other niggly little things that I can't be arsed to remember offhand. For a few months' work, I'm mostly happy with that progress. I'm hoping that the next expansion will be a much more focused, and much less panicky, expansion, where they can sit down and look at exactly how to make nullsec come alive with strife and murdering again.

The current setup of bringing the biggest blob you can into a system every second day, with 8 hours warning, isn't just something we've been "annoyed with" the last few months, it's something probably all of null (or at least I hope so, because it is ****) has been annoyed with for well over a year. There's absolutely no dynamism in it, no way to gradually grind down a bunch of systems, it's smash one system at a time and move on to the next. And if CCP were to concentrate on just one thing for the next expansion, I would say that this problem should be the one thing to focus on. Anything else is, to me, extras. If they do their job well in that regard and make null warfare much more dynamic than it is now, I probably wouldn't mind if they focused wholly on hisec/lowsec/faction warfare/whatever for the next few expansions.