EVE General Discussion

With all the seemly large amount of complainers on the forums about how poorly CCP has handled Eve development, what would you suggest the next steps that need to be done to start bringing in new Subs?

They need to keep doing what they are doing, which is repair old and underused or incomplete systems, before they expand eve. They might take some hit sin subs, but they need to rebuild the foundation.

Example:

1) POS' (being addressed slowly)

2) Sov (being addressed)

3) Corp and alliance interface and roles (being addressed)

4) remove or adjust stocks

5) revamp or add new mining content

6) repair PI (its an incomplete system)

7) adjust t2 moon goo (personally this needs to become active mining not passive)

8) adjust capitals

9) Finish Dogma and BIAB

10) with 9, keep improving back end to fix performance issues

11) Finish or remove WiS (yes it needs ot be addressed damn it, makes eve feel incomplete)


There are more, but foundation must be fixed, then what CCP should do is focus on the eve unverse and create New Eden. As in, all ccp products tied together for ease of use. On one plat form (anything that will be linked or add to eve MUST be on pc so the eve players cna support the new bros.) They also should bring out stand alone, easy to play and use products, like the eve offline arcade game, prjoect nemisis, etc. Things related to the eve universe but can be stand alone.

Valk and legion/dust shoudl all link and work together with eve, this will enable future competition to have issues.

CCP as a company should eventually relook at WoD. But it should not be a focus.

Repair old stuff, expand eve, expand new eden, add new easy to make stand alone games for a rev boost, then look at your other ip's once New Eden is stable.

Finally, be making an EVE v. 2 which is a complete rewrite. but i would of started that ages ago.

My .02 isk. though alot of this is not nesscarily what they need to do, just what i;'d liek to see. (fix foundation and expand is what needs ot happen, slow expantion)

CCP should focus on the starter space forest full of space boars that you may hunt in complete safety, as well as a new space island full of a new wonderous alien panda race, new ships that look like winged robot unicorn zebras that have rainbow sparkle cannons as weapons.. and shoulder fedos.

But they should definitely focus ont eh shoulder fedos first.

I never felt like they did enough over the years for small corps, not all players want to be in Large alliance's and become a number.

From the changes they have made over the years to cater to the Large block alliances it has made it impossible for smaller corporations to get a foothold nearly anywhere, but that is just my opinion.

POS's were suppose to be the stepping stone for those small corps to eventually grow in null, but now with the types of blobs the large alliances can plop down in your front lawn it is simply a very minor road bump.

To get NEW players, a few things:

1. NPE, this is obvious. While the NPE is better than it's ever been, it is still clunky and onerous.
2. Cut the crap, stuff like attributes that serve little purpose but confuse newbies should be replaced with more meaningful decision making.
3. Dispel myths, there are a lot of myths out there that say it's too late to start Eve or it's only composed of sociopaths. More PR and Real Stories of Eve to demonstrate what productive Eve gameplay is really like.
4. Brand champions, or KOLs/social influencers. Basically people like me, say Youtubers, except ones with sizeable fanbases and name recognition. If I can get thousands of people to try Eve, I can't imagine what someone like Husky or Day9 could accomplish. I'd imagine tens or even hundreds of thousands.
5. Dust/Legion/Valkyrie, for obvious brand and universe building reasons, and as a differentiating point again the competition.

Super Star Destroyers and Deathstars. Restricted one piece per alliance. The ultimate weapon.

I think CCP is on the right track, 00, Structures, Backend-Performance, ... and the feedback loop works.

Cake

Perhaps, a secret cow level?

Just imagine a level IV Burner mission filled with Battle Badgers in Thukker Tribe camo (with burner AI), all scrambling and webbing you while frantically broadcasting a garbled string of "Moo! moooo! MOO MOO MOO! Moooooooooo!!!" in drunk Icelandic voices.