Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OP has it all wrong, limiting corp size will do nothing and aggression in highsec is a much needed element to keep this game alive.

Blue donut is one of the biggest issues but you can't make it go away no matter what you do.

Malcanis law will get you every time.

That is like saying that no problem has a solution.
You can make it go away, by making it not worth the time of people to do it.
The best way to do that is to remove the ability to distinguish in any reasonable fashion who is an enemy and who is not (out side of the 3 blues you get).

This make people stop blobbing, there is no work about for it.

If you get allies to attack at another time, you reduce the blobbing size, but increase the frequency. - Success, Because you reduced blobbing.

If you get allies to attack at the same time that are not blue, you cause neutrals to fight neutrals, to fight neutrals, to fight blues on the battlefield. Making blobbing ineffective.

If you continue to kill allies, people will get fed up and leave and make their own coalition. So the situation changes from
neut vs neut vs neut vs blue to

blue vs other blue vs other blue and so forth.

It will resolve the blobbing with out a doubt.

Additionally, Limiting the population sizes increases more coalitions, while yet smaller, will cause competition to be on a more equal footing (like it was originally in eve), Resulting in more life and death cycles in eve.

you will remove the super powers, and restore "skilled game play".


As for the rest of the stuff (like optional pvp, afk cloaking issues etc) those things help keep people happy (and happy people play the game longer).


Lastly,

Rarely anymore is statistics used in a unbiest way.

You beat me to it Ralph.
Plus, I'd pay good money to watch him tell a group of high school drop outs that they "aren't equal" to him.

Just here for commenting can not bother to read a wall of text .
And if you are a 2003 player pls post with your 2003 character which was not bought.

That Might be true, and changing the system this way does not stop it. It makes its hard for it to be a few bodies involved. People can always pile up in this area in some way that is unorganized and still battle, but it prevents single entities or an entity that is a collection of such from controlling the power.

Eve is in a state that is similar to a new world order, which a few control the many and where the quality and success of lives of the many are dictated by the few

It would not be possible. The whole system of "setting blue, red etc" would exit eve for a new system that offers

"hostile" "neutral" or "Friendly"

What "color" you are to them is dependent upon a relationship built up over months or destroyed over night (in massive battles).
This means, there would no longer exist "personal, Corporate or alliance standings" that are "instant set blue", and thus no work around.

As i said, you will have 3 (max) allies blue that you earned over time, but everything else would be either neutral or red (depending on how much you kill each other).

It would make distinguishing "neutral allies" Impossible by any legal means in eve.

From there a reduction of political bodies removes blobbing from the game (well, it makes blobs impossible for anything over say 500, and unlikely for anything over 200-250. Where as now, blobbing can happen in the thousands. What this does is make newer smaller alliances more competitive and closer in equal footing to older ones with the exception "Skill or skill points" added in (meainng people who focus on "quality" over "quantity" are going to be rewarded more; this give a huge amount of player "Recognition" by people knowing who truly are good in eve (not just the ones who pad their KB).

Interesting fact, "when" EvE dies in three years by your prediction, you'll have been playing a game you fundamentally don't like for 15 years. Wow buddy. Wow.

CCP states

"the use of third party programs that give unfair advantages over other bodies is prohibited".

If someone codes a third party app that circumvents the normal process of eve, and with out a doubt (by my interpretation) would violate that said rule.

Additionally,

Any alterations to the GUI is a direct violation of the EULA, and so even if you coded such an app, you would subject massive amounts of people to ban for editing the GUI (Graphic user interface).

So There is no work around that is "legal" In eve.

If you managed to find a way to get around this, you are either 1) breaking the rules or 2) Hesitating a lot in your primary/secondary target calling that will cost you a buttload of isk and morale in the process.

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It was here that we noticed the underlying ideological bs underpinning a bs idea.

Game design, maybe. Economics doubtful. A free to play eve would kill off the "micro transactions."
You claim that it would have no effect on plex, the micro transaction medium. Demand for plex is based entirely on play to pay, the ability to pay for your sub with isk. A sub someone else paid for in expectation of isk.

I have done quite a bit of game design, both computer and pen and paper. And im the space pope, so my opinion totally trumps everyone. Peace be unto you, you idea is heresy, repent and all is forgiven. (Waves symbolic rubber chicken in benediction)