Player Features and Ideas Discussion

1. SANDBOX's are NOT FUN. no one want's to play in a sandbox. EVERYONE want's to play with and around awesome CONTENT in a sandbox. case and point: Put child in sandbox with nothing - Child crawls out of sandbox.

2. Balance IS NOT FUN. at no point has any one in eve ever gone yea that was fantastic and super fair.
EVERYONE in eve will seek an advantage or blame something for their loss. WHAT IS HILARIOUS FUN: When one super overpowered thing meets another super overpowered thing and well those two things argue all the underpowered things fight around them and chip at them. THIS results in grand story's of how one guy with a sword killed two dragons by waiting for em to wear each other out. Hazzah.

3. EVE IS A SOLO GAME. stop forcing everyone into gangs to do stuff. EVE is 90% of the time spent playing solo. case and point.
EVERYONE who is not a lazy hobo has a job everyone's jobs and time-zones are different. EVE HAS A PRIME TIME: between 5PM GMT and 2AM GMT. This is the only time when EVERYONE is flying with others. thats around 1/3 of the time in EVE.
WORK TO THAT FORMULA! 1/3 of the game should be balanced to gangs, OTHERWISE you get the current situation where those few who can form a gang outside the prime time end up causing a huge problem. And before and wise ass says forma gang with those who are online. NO. everyone knows in practice this just aint happening in EVE. and those with the gangs at weird hours tend to be corps working on off prime, prime times. IE westcoast USA or like wise corporations. They just have different prime times and still play solo in their non-prime.

4. When you are doing your development talk to each other... For example don't go making nullsec full of nullified ceptors, insta gank thrashers, cloaky campers cynos. and then have another team nerf supply chains to nullsec and say go be self sufficient
when industrial movement in 00 is impossible.

5. ship balance does not fix core mechanic issues. This goes back to the original Warpcore stab nerf and introduction of interdictors. new ships and mods don't fix the core problem. EVE's travel system is outdated and does not lend it's self to any of the quality elements of eve. Gates, warping, scrambling and interdiction need a massive overhaul to move away from the small 15km area of operation to a much large 100-200km area around the gates. this then encourages brawling style pvp rather than ganking and also creates a CAT AND MOUSE game-play rather than a ganking one. (Warping, jumping, scrambling,interdiction, ship types, warp speeds and ship speeds all needs to be based around charge times.

Pretty much this. If you have to put in more effort than you could ever hope to troll back with it, you're doing it wrong.

CAPS LOCK -- cruise control for cool

1. No children I've encountered crawl out of a sandbox, sandboxes are awesome nomatter what's in them.



3. I agree in a way, EVE is a solo game in many ways. That said, EVE is not always perferable to play solo... I enjoy shooting **** up alone in deep space, but I sure as hell enjoy it even more meeting up with a friend and cluster ******* everything that moves.

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