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Yes the stacking penalty went live and Rise is fixing the notes and rig/module description apparently.

Enjoy your Aegis missile nerf folks!

I have removed a couple posts.


Please be respectful at all times. Disagreeing on philosophy or direction is OK if you frame your arguments constructively and provide viable alternatives or solutions. Ranting or rambling is not OK.

Who is angry? "A free exchange of ideas" is not free when they are subject to censorship. The players in Eve pay for a service. The service as delivered this morning was sub-standard, Period! Is that constructive enough? Have a wonderful day

Terrible patch.

4 out of 5 new things added to the game not seeded properly (or at all)

New wreck icons almost impossible to see

Ishtar STILL not in any way fixed.
ACTUAL issues with Ishtar: tiny sig, T2 resists, high speed, battleship weapon.
Your fix: move 1 slot from mid to low, slow it down a tiny bit.
Pathetic.

"In March 2011, CCP announced EVE online has over 360,000 subscriptions, at the same time, they recorded 63,170 players logged in to the game at one time. They would often hit the 55-60k mark at primetime on weekends." (mrmeloni, mmorpg 7/14/14)

Today I see less than 17,000 online and it appears to be steadily dropping.

When I joined Eve as a player, I spent a few months learning the basics and I liked what I saw so I stayed. I didn't care for the constant griefing in high sec and the seeming indifference of CCP in accommodating combat players at the expense of the majority. In the real world the gankers would have been dealt with and if they hadn't been dealt with then there would be mass migrations just as is happening in the real world (Mediterranean).

I have to agree with the description of the overview as a train wreck since the overview became no longer fit for the purpose as the sheer variety of icons (brackets) simply confuse the issue. We are told that it cannot be rolled back as it is all part of the master dream. But there wont be anyone left to share this CCP dream if this is where and how you are leading us.

This morning I see that the latest patch seemingly contained more errors than fixes. The token gesture at the overview did not address the fact that it is no longer fit for the purpose and CCP have seemingly no intention of going back to the drawing board or rolling back. I suspect it is symptomatic of CCP over reaching themselves in pursuing their vision when they should be consolidating the existing players. As a player of a couple of years with two accounts I am not interested in the grand plan because I was happy with the game or I was until CCP started carpet bombing the sand box in pursuit of a dream which, I suspect, the majority of us do not share.

I am glad that I am not a shareholder because an extraordinary AGM would be on the cards.

It's Shark Week and the new Mobile Depot icon resembles a diving mask.

Illuminati confirmed.

Uhm, I don't think that's the case.

1) Why should they do anything against high-sec suicide kills, if that is what you call griefing? Yes, it is true that suicide gankers have more advantage mostly due to inferior Concord game mechanics and other tactical elements. If you mean other forms of griefing, like ninja salvaging or loot baiting... that is part of the game too. I neither promote nor condone such acts, and don't do them myself... BECAUSE it is a sandbox. And just like in the real world, players gather up and do something against the gankers... however, with less success than it would have been in the real world because again... game mechanics favour suicide gankers. There was some really good post from a Dev about this entire freighter and suicide ganker issue, but I don't have it handy right now, I'm sorry :c

2) There sure will be people left to share the dream with, but the question is how many and from what generation of eve players. Currently they are shooting down long term veterans who kept supporting the game for many years, as well as people who have just joined recently. I don't know what their goal is with that. Trying to get a fresher audience into the game? I don't think a fancy set of horrible icons will do that. And the question certainly will be, what KIND of players eve online wants, and what they want to be associated with.

3) I think we have to make a little difference here between the dream and the actual product. CCP surely means well, their intentions are good. But the way their intention was worked into (half) finished products, did not work so well.
Yes, the tutorial was long overdue for an update. No, opportunities are the completely wrong approach.
Yes, the old icon set could have used some improvements on visual and engine level. No, an entirely new icon set was not required.
Yes, the starmap required an update to include more features and faster usage. No, the new map does not deliver this.
Yes, Sovereignty system required a change because the way it was has just been broken. I like the idea of needing more activity to defend and use it, but it seems like everything favors the attacker now. We'll see how that story ends soon.
Yes, Drone boat superiority is still an issue. No, nerfing the Ishtar is not going to solve this problem. You have to look at Drones instead.
Yes, module tiericide was good in it's intention and did at least get things right for some modules. But others are rather left wanting with the way it was approached.
Yes, capital ships required changes to make playing with them more appealing and useful. No, Jump changes were not really the first thing that came to mind in order to address this.
...the list goes on. I could probably fill the entire post with "well meant, badly delivered" examples but I let it slide.

4) CCP Games is owned privately. I don't know how much they have to answer to their private investors and how big those investors are, but I don't think we have a case of "make this a money making machine or we shut it down" shareholder philosophy at the works here. Because if we had, Eve would have gone free-to-play a long time ago with all those goodies like... pay for extra training time speed. Or special decryption keys to open lockbo-... I mean strange specially sealed containers found randomly through all NPC wrecks. Let us not forget ships and modules which can only be purchased via Aurum, and not manufactured.


When will people finally learn, that the idea of "summer hole" is simply not always true in video game culture and in this case, eve online? There have been years (plural!) in eve where the player counter was RISING during the summer period instead of dropping.
The summer hole or "exam time" argument holds no water, and never will.
However, you can clearly see from the concurrent player counter when good patches or bad patches hit, and you can also clearly see when advertisement was rolling out a strong presence or not.
Right now, I'm sitting in this european heat wave. And playing eve, as it seems c:

i see that with todays patch we have teal NPCs and rouge Drones. What next, vermillion gates? ochre stations?

lol, but I was understanding that the borders on these overview icons would be thickened for easier viewing?