EVE General Discussion

If you look for new mechanics, look no further then the new Seekers, they exhibit behaviour not seen before by NPC's in Eve. they chase people through warp & aren't afraid of sieging a POS. They also adapt to web suage, try it, web m and suddenly they orbit you further, just outside your web range (teasers!).

It's expected more changes to NPC's will come over the year, the Seekers are just the test for it (and maybe those new drifters?)

Also the various Sleeper sites in known space are something else then your regular exploration sites, offering a puzzle to solve for the best profit (puzzle as in finding out what the best sequence/route is to unlock most stuff)

Not to mention Thera, a unique system in eve with it's own mechanics to travel towards (yus wormholes, but so many & shifting so often it's impossible to camp m all, all the time)

To (very) loosely quote CCP Seagul:

"We're going to be fixing old systems in dire need of an update (corps, sov, POS's, etc) before focusing on new content."

Not to mention that before Seagul was executive producer, people asked for the exact opposite. CCP was on a track record of releasing all kinds of new things and leaving old stuff to rot (which is partially why we are where we are now, having to fix all the stuff that's been ignored for so long).

Besides, the scope of these updates is probably going to be new content in itself. The jump fatigue wasn't so much new content, but it completely shook up the way null sec worked. The incoming sov mechanics are looking to change the entire system over, probably almost resetting nullsec as we know it today. The entire POS system is most likely going to be thrown out and entirely replaced by new code and functionality. I mean, it depends on how you define 'new content'.

I think that, through observation of their actions, CCP is aware of this.

The new ships have capabilities that have an effect on content. So they are taking a singular approach on two paths. Rather than make content and ship additions on separate lines, they add new ships with features that no present ship can do and take some existing ships and give them a feature. Here are some examples:

Giving interceptors warp bubble immunity
Recons have D-Scan immunity
"Stances" or "modes" for the advanced battleships and these new T3 destroyers.
Fitting bay in the Nestor


And it looks like we have sleeper content, the advent of which are almost on the level of a drawn out live event: the same "facing the unknown" elements as a live event.


So I'd say they were on the ball.

Not that, this

Basically. EVE is a sandbox. All CCP has to do to create new content is change the landscape, and the content will change with it.

For example, I'm still reeling from the possibilities introduced with the new structures and the new rules that will govern them.

For another example, the "Space AIDS" mechanic change has had far-reaching implications in terms of both restricting old content and enabling new content; Sugar Kyle bringing back the low-end sites to lowsec wasn't just a PVE buff, because those sites instigate and host PVP conflict.

This isn't a themepark. CCP can make what appears to be a small change, and the effects can ripple through the game in complex and significant ways.