EVE General Discussion

Meh ... not much of a change to the game: Loot Pinata is Loot Pinata.

The big difference is that you won't be able to draw conclusions about how many SP a character has based on its creation date. For all you know that 2 week old character could have several million SP.

Your telling us that half the EvE population left because there are not enough lvl 4 missions in highsec ?

Cmon

I said that new Level 4s would call back former highseccers. That would buy some time to CCP so they could finish their current roadmap and develop a new one to adress highsec.

And certainly adding more missions should be like 100x more preferable than selling skillpoints.

Jonah you're not getting the mindset of people who love running L4 missions.

From time to time I just want to relax by doing repetitive and yet fun, low risk activities involving 'splosions. That's when I get my trusty Raven, docked at my L4 agent's station. That station has all I need to do missions:

• several thousand cruise missiles
• appropriate T2 shield hardeners to swap out as needed
• T2 drones to replace the ones I manage to lose
• ...

I would actually love to be able to specifically select the mission I fly instead of getting a random one. Yes, I know that's paying a monthly fee to play a single player game ... but sometimes that's exactly what I want to do.

... I'm also exceptionally good at following instructions when putting together IKEA furniture. I had work colleagues who failed at building a simple chair. True story ...

I get the mindset, I'm one of the people that almost exclusively does PvE, mostly level 3 and 4 mission blitzing for LP. It's easy isk unless I decide to challenge myself and do them in undersized ships.

As for the IKEA instructions.. damn you're better than I am.

Socket Closed.

This issue alone is enough to make me quit.

On speedtest.net I ping at 20ms I download at 39 Mbps and upload at 17 Mbps.

...and yet I constantly get socket closed.

It's annoying. ******* annoying. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a hidden issue that's making players quit.

Dis gun be gud.

Well if you ask me
they have killed the birth grounds of EVE also called high sec

people want to have fun and opportunities (even in HS)

but people do not want to be FORCED into low or any other dangerous place

*only when they are ready to ...

and thats just the fundamental mistake they have made

*the reason for them was money.

also the difficulty level has increased significant (learning curce) what scares people away)they have tried to do some beginner tuts but thats just a small part of the entire game)

high sec players miss a lot of content that is currently available in low and wh
for example there is no arkonor in HS (you might ask yourself how the hell does a rock knows he should not be in HS )

it doesn't make sense at all

also the game has become more expensive
and that also reduces game population

there are a lot of SF games on the horizon

Eve has become:.. Elite EVE Sitizens (just a joke with words and games :) )


BUT..there is a solution :
Stop the learning curve
bring back the opportunities to HS for the birth population( young players)in hs
(low profit in hs but much more in low )
Advertise more and Make the game cheaper > (volume of net money will not drop if more people are in the game)

Remember: players are not clones, just slaves.... :)

What's more important to the populace?

A populated game with people who haven't played as long as the bitter vets flying around in ships those veterans feel the noobs shouldn't have a right to pilot?

Or an unpopulated game with the few remaining actives station spinning in their titans and carriers with nothing to shoot at because they refuse to change the game to allow new people to access available content faster?

Like I'm really sorry the world has reached this point where we're not as patient as you wish we would be. But are you willing to punish yourselves by driving new players from the game by holding them back from all the neat things you show them you can do thanks to the simple choice of starting the game earlier?

The game has been around so long that FC's don't make room or exceptions for new players. Like sometimes they do when things don't matter.

But when it's an important strategic objective, the best of the best is required. Only this and this type of ship, no exceptions. These ships MUST have these fittings and be able to target and apply DPS at these specific ranges. Now I'm not knocking the FC's demands because it really is important to making sure he is fully aware of what him and his pilots are capable of doing. But it alienates new people. Opportunities pass n00bs by to fully participate and feel as though they're contributing to pinnacle of eve possibilities due to their inability to access the ships demanded with the fittings needed.

"well they can fly tackle inthe mean time!"
OK well that requires a couple months worth of training to ensure that they're able to properly fly the ship in the manner it was balanced by CCP to fulfill it's ability to do it's designated job.

"well they can train logistics and do that while their large projectile 5 skill takes that month for them to train!" OK well that's a bunch of now mandatory extra skills that'll have to be trained BEFORE being able to begin addressing what is now the fleet doctrines.

And then the meta shifts and FCs are calling for entirely different ships with different fittings and different skills. Which is great for that 90% core of the fleet members because they've all played for 7+ years and have all the skills that put them in the position to decide they were going to make this shift in the first place.

But that new guy is left behind. He doesn't have the years of skill points on hand to just switch at the drop of a hat.

The new guy doesn't have the versatility older players have.