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Planned new feature to address new player movement:

For players less than thirty days old, once per player corporation joined, and
For all players, once a year

You may push a button in your corp interface (while a member of a player corp and docked) that:
- Moves your medical clone to a station designated by your corporation, and
- Automatically moves you to your medical clone

Exact method of corporations designating target station still being ironed out, but it will involve at the very least being able to designate a default station for all corp members, and will likely be allowed for *any* station with a corp office, regardless of system sec status.


This seems to us like it solves the "I want to recruit people to nullsec" concern, and also gives non-nullsec recruiters an easier way to get genuinely new players to the right location easily.



Thoughts? Pasting this into the FAQ and also trying to get it into the blog proper.

This change might be good for gameplay and increase the fun in small-scale fights. But it will remove completely the large mega-fights. I for one had my greatest time during B-R, one of those rare moments in EVE that I will cherish as long as I live. Those moments will never come back. Now, there will be more small scale pvp, which is fun, but those fights rarely makes a huge impact as B-R did.

The drive to own supers, titans, JFs and even carriers/dreads will diminish. There will be no real need for having many cyno-alts to support supers, carriers or JFs either. Many veterans refuse to use these ships under the new feature of jump fatigue timers because "reasons". The drive to own null-space will diminish, since the reason to own that space is to get incomes to build said supers and titans. It will affect the online economy, less players, less demand for supers and capitals, less demand for minerals, less demand for jump-fuel, so this will affect the miners and the complete value-chain through producers to end products.

If players want to small-scale pvp, lowsec is the obvious place to live. You can roam lowsec or nullsec and get guud fites. So nullsec will be even fewer than before, and those who stay will be more spread out.

So, there will be fewer players in general, the drive to live i null will diminish for many like me, the large mega-fights that made headlines in The Times will dissapear. EVE will be a less vibrant universe. Sadness.

This will also lead to a quick dip in cash-flow when subsriptions are unsubbed, and in time a dip in overall income and revenues for CCP.

I cincerely hope that CCP considers this change in terms of income, cash-flow and revenues before they give CCP Greyscale a go-ahead to start it. I fear this will deliver a severe blow to CCP economy, forcing layoffs and less new features for the players that remain in-game. THat will also speed up the probable death of this wonderful alternate reality.

This is not the end of EVE. It is not even the beginnig of the end for EVE. But it IS the end of the beginning of EVEs death...

I'll take that one too, I ain't fussy.

I live in a wormhole, and I have to say I love the lack of local. There is a real feeling of constantly being watched (probably because someone is always cloaked and watching :) ), and we are forced to actually defend our space. We watch our known wormholes, and are constantly vigilant of new ones opening in our space.

Well...

Since not only me but a freaking loads of other people are equally frustrated then I suggested that
CCP simple ask us how to solve the current "Allians Block politic, large scale stuffy in 0.0" that they so much want to get rid of.

There's gotta be tons of great ideas out there that are WAY better then this one right?

Yarr! Says Captain Neckbeard...

Now roll a D20 to see if a Black Hole swallows your Niddhuggur!

CCP, you have acted boldly and decisively. Many people want nothing more than to maintain the status quo. This game needed new life breathed into it, and that you have done. I am more excited about the future than ever. As the CEO of a corp of 80 real people, I pass along to you our collective thumbs up. Stay the course. You know what you have to do, and this is only the first of many needed changes. They will be painful to people but in the long term, essential for this game. The removal of death cloning was needed to avoid an obvious work around, as was applying the change to jump freighters (otherwise they will become a battle taxi and defeat the changes).

Be strong. You have our complete support.