Player Features and Ideas Discussion

They successfully rebalanced their players.
That is for sure.

I don't care about how many active subscriptions they have - what matters to me is active players , that actually bring something creative to game.

Think about that we have around 24k players logging in.
- divide this by people flying on multiple accounts ; i usually do 2 , and every day login on 4 , now think about all this isboxer 50 account miners
- exclude players that just login for EVE : Skills Online
- exclude players that login , ask about if something will going to happen , but as many other players are doing the same , they logout 10 minutes later

How many from those 24k people online we will be left?

1. Hell, we will get new industry , faster in sov - more players will be able to produce more in the same amount of time!
2. We will get in next months next frigate rebalance and cruiser pass!
3. We will get bigger roaming fleets!

ad 1. But there will be less player to sell this to, damn my excel calculations where grate , if only there was enough people to buy stuff i produce!

ad 2. Those ships are grate , now only 40 jumps for someone to test this on , and not to get killed by 200 man bored firg roam.

ad 3. Roam tomorrow, finally there will be a reason to login again! We got 4 kills in our 200 man fleet ! Ops success , and we will have next roam in 3 days. Perfect timing , i will login and update my skills then.

Grate Job CCP!
EVE Online : Players Rebalanced

I think that is the reason why we lost 20k active players.
(of course this is much more than 20k , as people are shifting places all the time )

Focusing on some small features while ignoring bigger issues discourages new and old players.
Changes that needs to be done for higsec players :
- no corp ship aggression , we have duels
(this will lead corporations to be more friendly towards new players)
- more secure pos/corporation asset management.
(new people cannot own poses as the same roles will grant access to all corp poses.
- Account API limitation.
(many people don't like giving away all their informations , no more full account api, limited character api without ability to see whole account. Some new policy that will forbid enforcing by big blobs giving them full api)
- Staring skills , 1 character per account making new player actually able to do something!
- Reduction of new ship cost, 1 cheap ship per class in each race , so new player don't have to farm 200mil just to buy new battleship , that he will loose 3 days later.

And of course every thing you have in this topic regarding sov and power projection changes.

FHC thread?

This EHP is nothing when you have enough supers.
The issue is that you have timers , a few day ones, and multiple on Hub or a station.
In order to move to this timer from the other side of eve , he needs about 30minutes.
If he is few regions away - he need even less time.

Amount of ehp forces you to use large numbers , and if those are sub capital numbers , a lot of time.
If you use capitals or supers - this will be still enough time to drop his fleet on top of your head.

Now lets assume that you where ready for this.
You placed a trap.
Now the next SOV nonsense come into the play :
- TIDI , it kick in , and trap is turning against you , as enemy can ping for every one and bring back every friend he have , even when this friend will login to the game 4 hours later , the fight will be still there.

Why?
You have TIDI 10% in reality much less. So in the TIDI system pass 1h while outside in the rest of eve 10h already passed.
Your modules are affected by overloaded node - you deal much less damage.

Now motherships can have around 60.000.000 ehp , titans way more.
But what is more important they will be repaired all the time, so in order to kill them you have to do few times more damage.
Now imagine yourself 70 those ships on grid , and 200+ on the way from the all upcoming time zones , until the downtime.

As long as moving large group of players+ ships AND (super)capitals from one side of eve to another will take less than time needed to kill a super under a TIDI, or kill something before timer runs out.
Nothing will change, and game will be still bleeding players.

stupid ccp.
let people destroy
give them real power not ******* 5% boost pear skill level.
let them destroy stations - let them destroy moons, planets, let them destroy gates and
make thair own ships into big bomb makeing KABOOM killing half of grid.
this game will die, this game is dieing for long time, because of stupid game developers.

rebalances is WASTE of TIME. It is not problem one ship is better then another it is even better in fact.
but one player even with 200.000.000.000SP can do notheing... and it is realy realy bad.

players with skills should be able kill MANY like in other games - this is that simple
and this is true fun.
This is answer why eve population is so small because it has no fun here, only ******* job.

So to claim system players must anchor TeritorailClaimUnits, then they may place Hubs there for benefits . To contest sovereignty they have to deploy SovereigntyBlocadeUnits in order to have possibilty to shoot Hubs which has dual reinforcement timer, one for shields and one for armor (days). Now with ability to deploy as much forces as want to anywhere they want...no wonder null is empty. This is tremendously boring. For how long have you guys been playing this way? This is most hardcore game community i've ever met.

You want to claim territory shoot TCU and anchor own. Why using BCU? (who get this insanely idea, what is this? chess?). Reduce the TCU EHP a lot. 20 man suicidal raid should get this down (cruisers maybe).
Remove timers from HUBs. You get attacked? Defend the thing and/or repair it.

Well this was working, at least partially.
Until both coalitions didn't get their numbers so high that there is no way to brake them on the timer.
Because :
- they will put enough people in the contested system just before timer , that putting your , will crash the node OR you will get TIDI 1% and this fight will be for next 20hours , until DT
- they will put enough capitals and supers , that will block you from any thing, as DPS needed to BRAKE their spider tank is so big that again node will die , or TIDI will make this fight till the DT without ability to achieve any thing

Just remove ALL notifications.

If your POS gets attacked... Look after it!
If your SOV gets attacked... LOOK after it!
Timer?... Fly to the POS and check it out!

Failheap challenge

http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?17149-CCP-Fozzie-and-team-are-discussing-my-favorite-subject-in-a-thread

Ahh Roman Empire. Romans keeped peace by pax romana (and good politics to the conquered nations). 30 legions deployed among empire provinces. It was good in primes inter pares period. After great conquest era they build great limes along their borders. Without good mobile armies, and reforms they were flooded by roaming "barbarian" nations. If they had cynos...every general wet dream. Firepower and mobility. Maybe copy some of that to EvE. Coalitions as clay legs titans.

What if CCP:

-remove cynos option for combat ships or restrict to cruisers and lower classes,
-capitals can jump only to closest systems with 15 minutes timer to recharge drives, leviatans with huge fire power but slow,
-give ability to roams into coalitions sov system (like "barbarian" raids) for planetary resources etc. Some motivation to attack this "land of plenty", swift attacks, to steal or destroy and loot, not necessary to conquer, real conflict driver, far more than ESS. CCP you have huge oportunities, think huge,
-Sov structures will have reduced EHP greatly (defends whats yours),
-rebalance resources in null, some system with greatly increased ISK oportunities (conflict driver),
-pirates trying to recapture systems, attacking players sov and poses,
-sov is establised by some kind of loyality to corporation, some kind of pax romana, money, fear etc. players choice,
-reduce JF abilities. Conflict driver. Is it better to stay in far systems, good to defend or close to empire borders with good logistics but vulnerable.

Any weakness of above points?



This is what coalitions are for, gather people from all timezones.