Wormholes

Incursions are great and also not actually a huge isk fountain something like 3% of daily isk generated in eve.

Where else in eve do you have public fleets all working together for a common goal?

Public communities with srp and all the drama and general typical community stealing comes with.

Contesting leading to group not liking each other so much

Mom popping sprees and the tears that follow

Have you actually sat in an incursion fleet for a few hours and enjoyed it?

At least people have to be at keyboard unlike afktars... warp deploy drones come back in 20 mins to warp again nothing broken here at all.

I feel twostep is the donald trump of csm dudes going for the cheap percieved issues

just lol if you think narrowly avoiding being captured by the skin of your MJD just isn't the highest tier of WH elite dvd

we were outdated ;) anyone who still runs escalations that way is rightly going to get dumpstered. but those days are gone, current trends are running cap escalations without caps on field for more than a second so the risk or content for others just isnt there.

more importantly, the fact that most of c5/c6 space is occupied by tiny farming corps is proof that escalations are tons of money, req little to no effort,and the risk and effort certainly isnt enough to stop people from trying

This too much true! Risk averse wermholer always use mechanics to their protection.

Pvp group leave chain open, like direct highway to their home always open.

My proposal be broadcast chain to all eve and let the content come to you. More frag, more fun!

The best and most important line in this article is
"Any income source that isn’t based on direct competition with another player should pay peanuts compared to one that is."

exactly this. for example there's one major group in particular which does nothing but run static sites these days and they crit all holes connecting to their static with luxury yachts (yes, luxury yachts with an oversized propmod and a cloak), and then they deploy the marauders and ventures.

nobody is going to invest the time into w-space that they currently do when the chance of finding something good becomes even lower than it already is.

And replaced with what? What other ships besides Caps can do C5/C6s reliably?

No. unpossible.

Virginal neckbeard aspies wheezing at you because your drones aren't spendy enough and you didn't get enough wrecking shots.

I agree with Two Step insofar as the amount of ISK in the game and the ease with which the means of production can be co-opted, rented out and optimised and organised is a little stupid. There's something to be said for re-evaluating the whole economy of EVE to put incentives in the system to prevent blue donuts (in and out of W-space).

But at the end of the day, doing it right now, is probably a risk. Screw the economy up and people will leave.

if anything, ISk rewards need to be flatter between peak players and noobs, to allow the noobs to accumulate ISk significantly faster. ISK generating activities need to be less able to be funnelled into corporate structures and corporate coffers and the control of the heirarchy of old players, so that these old, rich bastards need to fight each other versus just come down to agreements and donuts.

Mostly, this does involve trashing the moon goo system, and trashing Incursions, and trashing escalations, because goo goes to the existing entities, which enforces the status quo. incursions go to insufferable neckbeards and FCs who run a small closed circle of bequeathmentand require ridiculous fits to engage in. Finally, escalation ISK allows people to run solo bear holes with impunity, which basically has fractured w-space into isolated ISk-printing factories where no one interacts or has need to interact except to do a monthly fuel run. This ISk then goes to fund Nullsec, Lowsec or other game activities.

But do we need everyone to be impoverished slumlords? no. Part of the joy of wealth in EVE i flying spendy ships or varied doctrines and not worrying overmch whether you can afford to fly what you are possibly going to lose.

This is the problem with Two Step's line of reasoning. He thinks that a hand-to-mouth existence will reduce the massive bearing that goes on. That somehow if everyone can only afford a Drake a week, they'll be more happy to play Drakes online than flying T3's everywhere and helicoptering Swaglfars about the joint with impunity.

I doubt it. Making everyone a poor bastard who cannot collect their toys, be a completionist, a hoarder or just fly whatever, whenever - thereby forcing them to bear longer toachieve the same goals - will turn people off. Oddly, Two Step says that the push for everything to be small ships and small gang is wrong, but his way would see the same effect via a different mechanism.

escalations definitely need changing, of course you could just bring back the API thing that showed when pve was done in the system instead.

Back in the day C6s were run by Guardian supported T3 fleets and it worked just fine.
You can also take a carrier and 6 BSs into the static to run sites.
Now you could also easily run then in Marauders.

C5s can be done in RR BSs or better.