Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Co-op gameplay means training more alts, right?

We of course don't want to inject any ideas, but it could hint at having the gameplay more of a collaboration of many rather than something you would delegate to a single individual to achieve.

I did the survey just to ask for a corporation hangar array that has divisions for each member of the corp. So many ships stolen from POS hangar over the years without a decent way of preventing it. Should be easy to exercise safety if it is warranted.

I get not storing ships in the hangar if they are worth taking, but still. Deploying from a starbase in home system is very useful. Should be possible to do safely. Sharing ships is great, but safely storing ships with only personal access should be possible as well. Should be an option, not a forced thing, as I can totally see that making some of my ships available to corp members is useful for rapid deployment, but some ships that are more expensive are better off in a personal array.

BTW, the easiest way for industrialists to interact is via the market interface. You can put up the part you have done for sale, other team members buy it. You get your ISK for your effort. The issue with using the market for this is everyone else is also using the market, messing up your price structure.
Solution: Private markets. A market that works just like the current public market at stations, except it can be set up by any player, corporation or alliance. Access can be restricted to corp, alliance, and by standing.

Poor questions, you force us to give misleading answers. You ask us in a number of places to rank gameplay elements. This jsut tells you we think something is better or worse than something else, which gives the illusion that we think X element is in good shape, when in fact in some of these the players believe they are all in significant trouble. In all honesty 1-10 ratings would have been far more effective.

When you make references to stuff like co-op game play you need to state some semblance of an idea to get a good response, everything in eve is ALREADY INHERENTLY COOP game play due to the nature of this being an MMO, you can set up a pos yourself for example, but someone must build it and the fuel blocks for it, and if someone attacks it you and multiple other persons more than likely will need to defend it. The only true not co-op game play is perhaps industry but only because of the prevalence of alts.

Also even is inherently a game where trust is punished not rewarded, so people want to interact with others only when they must.

In short my suggestion to you is to hire a consultant who has experience in political campaigns, or even better a pollster and have them take your ideas and make them into questions, you will more than likely receive better data that will lead you to better decisions. You may be even able to farm this task out to you marketing department which i presume has done marketing research at some point, similar concept they will have studied this in school.

That said i survived it and answered as best I could, but the structure of it I think is going to make you feel that some areas of the game are in good condition when prehaps they are not.

EDIT: Additionally alot of these questions only maybe 1000 people in eve can answer jsut due to how few truly interact with outposts especially and to a large degree even ihubs. The number of people who still do not understand basic dominion sov war mechanics is pretty astounding.

Link works now but some of the assumptions are pretty terrible.
for one i'm not in an alliance i'm in CAS.
We can't make POSes in CAS so a lot of question are pointles..
the ones about sov warfare asssume we're in alliances but a lot of people are not in alliances.
how do i answer questions with bad assumptions do i just leave them blank?