EVE General Discussion

Sell pay to win items and watch hilarity ensue of course ...

Then again not everyone likes to extract tears as much as I do.

Me, CEO.....

Clearly, I would have had to already get buy-in from the board of directors and investors on my plans.
I would have told them to expect a massive PR campaign against any changes I implemented, a sizable short term drop in subs, very likely outside attacks to bring down the internet connections and possibly internal sabotage.

An incomplete list in 1st 90 days, in no particular order:

1. The dissolution of the CSM. It would be replaced in the future in some format that far more equally represents the demographics of the player base.

2. All ISD's in-game affiliations would be made public. Not ingame names, but what group they are with.

3. Immediate sit downs with all senior game designers, who would also be required to show all in-game affiliations, views of what Eve should be, and it's direction. Not all would be with the company 90 days after I started.

4. An immediate beef up of the employee group responsible for dealing with RMT and other security matters. These new high tech sleuths would have no prior experience with Eve, but experts at tracking down people doing bad things. I would give everyone 30 days amnesty from my initial announcement to cease all RMT operations, then implement the draconian measures described below:

If caught engaging in RMT sellings after that 30 day warning period, all RMT sellers would be publicly outed with their ingame name and affiliations on that account, plus any other accounts they have. If systematic RMT'ing can be demonstrated, to my satisfaction, to be happening on a corporate or alliance level, that corporation or alliance will find after downtime one day, they would have lost all assets, sov, and the entire corporate wallet, and the entire directorship, banned for life.

5. Dealing with the fact that Eve has 2 huge problems:
a. High sec players, the bread and butter of the Eve sub base, are under attack in-game and out of game by developers with badly skewed visions of what Eve should be.
b. A massively stagnant, and incredibly boring, sov null sec, brought about by a few individuals who quite brilliantly, but also ruthlessly, exploited every possible avenue to create the mess that exists today.

The ways that would be fixed are myriad, but some of the low-hanging fruit would be easy to implement:
a. Concord response times are improved by a factor of 4 in all space in the immediate short term, at least until other solutions can be implemented. Ultimately, suicide ganking for the purpose of tears and driving people from the game would be made an VERY expensive activity.

b. Though certainly not an immediate change: The creation of a player based police force, who when enlisting would be handed a Concord class ship, and complete and perfect knowledge of the locations of all players who partake in suicide ganking. The Concord ship would only allow actions against said griefers. Any action by a player inside a Concord ship would not within the narrow parameter of destroying grifers would result in a permanent ban from the Concord police force, at the very least.

c. Anyone with a less than -6 rating in high sec will not be allowed to dock in any station OR POS, AND not use stargates. Any ship like an Orca they get a ship from will incur the wrath of Concord.

d. All jump bridges and all jump drive fuel requirements overnight go up 100 times. Jump freighters and Black-Ops driven ships are exempt from this.

e. A freeze on Crius. That would be followed by a much more fair and balanced changes implemented, where ALL regions of space have equal refining capabilities and manufacturing costs. That means 100% refine is possible in high sec, low sec , null sec, and wormholes, among many other things. Although I find it reasonable from a lore perspective that re-processing finished products should not be 100%, a 50% base is far too painful for high sec mission runners, and 100% reprocess would stay until a more fair number could be found. Many many other things within Crius would be dumped, many others tweaked for fairness.

6. Dealing with the grid lock of massive organizations within null sec is a huge and complex problem, but 3 concepts would be slowly fleshed out, over time.
a. Supercaps would be far more expensive to build, move, protect and flat-out use. Supercap online is just idiotic.
b. Party to that, Blob Online is death for Eve. Through ingame mechanics, and social engineering, it will be removed, but will require sea changes to null sec mechanics.
c. One of those changes would be the implementation of Dynamic System Sec Status. (DSSS). As a system is "civilized" with more player traffic, ratting, industry, etc, the sec status slowly rises, and the value of the rats and resources lower. In theory, eventually, a -1.0 system could become a high sec system, and Concord shows up. Whether an alliance can keep sov in such a system would require much thought. Conversely, some high sec backwater, if unused, could slowly become a -1.0 system in theory. DSSS would be designed so groups have to be more nomadic, constantly fighting over dwindling resources in an area and planning on moves to richer areas. (how do you like push-pull now Greyscale?) Also part of that idea of resources dwindling is moon mining would be abolished, replaced with moon-goo found in asteroids that can randomly appear in ANY system with a sec status below 4.0.


That would be just the start of the changes I would implement. Many vested interests in the game would be hugely angry with them and would at the very least, quit the game in a very public and destructive way. Quite likely, they would also try to destroy CCP with hacking and other internet attacks. The first 6-12 months of my tenure as CEO would be very rocky, to say the least. But ultimately, Eve would emerge as a better game appealing to more people than today. It is supposed to be fun to play. But as of now, for many it is not and they are leaving.

Unban Ero.

Rehire CCP SoundWave.

Let him create his vision of global faction warfare affecting everything and everyone.

Remove rookiecorps and replace them with the choice of joining BRAVE, EVEUNI, RvB
and there's another one good for this but I forgot the name.

That way people get planted into communities and can choose to play alone,
which is infinitely better than being forced to play alone, needing to find friends.

Friends would be included in the standard package and nobody would teach them crap
like how they should mine or run missions and hide from people or whatever.

then I'd reinstate CCP Hellmar, give me a nice 200k euro bonus,
give 190k to my parents. I'll watch the subs rise from my chair,
my parents in holiday for the rest of their life and that's it.

Oh and... when you join the game you will be at war with everybody ...
... until you declare and pay for peace! Good bye, carebears!
Hello actual players!


The End.

Everyday I'd pick a four digit number out of a hat, anybody with that number in their SP at a specific time that day gets banned.

Having all ccp employees make their affiliations public SHOULD have been a policy from day one.

How are we supposed to think that jump fuel changes are supposed to do anything to a bloc? They have trillions. It only hurts the smaller folk. Doesnt hurt those that some ccp employees are affiliated with.

It was an inside job.

Let all ships warp from system to system with their own warp drives, to adjacent systems or far away, as is done in all major sci-fi genres.

AWOX party - big time!

I would quit and return to my current job.

I'll give a serious answer.

As ceo, you would not have a lot of dealing with game design, so that's not a very good place to be If you want to change eve.

So I would be doing what is going on right now, focusing on the EvE IP, getting valk out, I would of green lite legion by now *Hilmar green light the damn thing already*

I'd push to integrate all the games ASAP.

If this venture was profitable, i'd restart WoD.

I prolly would have stated a side project of a complete eve rewrite to modern code, and limped along till that was ready. Then I would launch the rewrite with valk and legion all integrated and make the new eden ip one huge universe with the launch of "eve 2" (which would just be a re-write and a carry over of old data)

but that's me