Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Incarna failed as it was not simply an overpriced and overhyped feature but an assault on the communal identity of the player base. Identity in EVE has four components:

1. Sense of Place
2. Sense of Self
3. Sense of Group
4. Sense of History

By bringing an end to ship spinning CCP assaulted the players base sense of place. After years looking at ships in station players did not want the dislocation of the captains cabin.

Loss of the old portait system and the seemingly costant need to redo characters under the new one formed an assault on the players sense of self. With a new portrait a sense of avatarhood with a particular toon was weekend.

The new forums destroyed a sense of history. While the archives are still there years of player history suddenly dropped from view.

When player participation dropped wih Incarna it became an assault on the sense of group identity of corporations and alliances.

These explain, at least in part, why players are still requeting MT purchases. The most common requests are
1: Let me decorate my ships (increasing a sense of place).
2: Let me put my corporate logo on my ships/stations (sense of group).
3. Let me design a corporate uniform (sense of group/sense of self/sense of history).

What players do not want is more designer jeans. Oh and it would probably be best to give it at least six months before doing anything more with MT.