Player Features and Ideas Discussion

INR -- Improvement Notice Request:

Having played this game for over 11.5 years, and very much as an indy/miner/trade/T1 manufacturer, and despite my best efforts asking our CSM members in the last few years, we still seem to be stuck in mid-2000's trade slot limit of 305. Always seems to be talk of 'improving industry methods/processes in-game' but not the parts that are out-dated.

That was fine back in 2005-2007 when we had limited numbers of BPOs to build items from. We're now in 2015, with substantially more items across 7 or 8 times the categories we used to have, and i would like to sell the same products across 3 or 4 regions, but can't as i produce nearly 400 different items, and can't even sell those in one region, i have to sacrifice some items. Some regions have very few T1 products on sale, I'd imagine partly with other players hitting similar limits, and staying around the trade hubs (which I don't)

plus if you add-in any buy orders, then you lose more trade slots (which I think should change).

It's an easy fix if you double the skills abilities of Trade, Tycoon and Wholesale etc, it would be a good start.

While you're considering this improvement request, can you also look at contracts limit, 21 personal and 60 corp, again fine back in the day, but not with the current game's available items, I spend a lot of time selling ship BPCs, and its a pain to try and get everything up on behalf of the corp, and end up having to spread it among the members too -- then you need to get all the ISK transferred back across to the right wallet -- messy and should not be necessary.

Again just raise the limits for both please.

21, you mean. 500 Corp contract slots are plenty, too.

Not so sure about the trade slots. Sure, it's limiting power traders, but that opens up opportunities for other people to trade as well, or make you buy more alts. In my opinion, it's not a bad thing that one person cannot trade with every single item in the game, because it forces other players to contribute as well.

I think that hard trade limit is about right - get an alt and grind them up if you want more.
as things stand, they allow the little player to get an in..... in a way that they should....

as for production slots - same

some good points of view, but a small corp with a few active players, shouldn't have to resort to using Alts as a work around for a flawed system, that no longer exhibits the issues of old, that put the caps in place in the first place.

Inter-regional bulk trading needs to happen, some regions are dwindling a bit, just in the last year or so the market is near non-existent (everyone is glued to the trade hubs in some cases, playing with .01 changes to prices). Can't rely on a smaller players filling the demand.

I work out of Citadel, and in the last 6 months, things are getting dire, even low-end minerals and key materials have only a half page of results, i have to start looking to get from another region, as the sellers have moved elsewhere. used to be pages to scroll through and spoilt for choice and volume. I know different regions have ever changing levels, but really not wanting to have to upsticks/move the corp to a new locale, but that might need to happen.

hopefully some CSM member will see this post and ask nicely for an update/response!

Another skill for more trade slots would be nice.

I would rather see something, where players rent "Market Stalls" like an office.
But on these you pick the size (number of slots) and you proceed to stock it.

Then get more people interested in it. It's only a few months of skills, so it's not a massive hole in peoples time to train it. If people aren't training it, work out why.

2 other slots would be to try other races/characters, like many things originally introduced in EVE (book marks being the main one), used not as originally intended. I'm not asking for total market domination, just a few tweaks/corrections to a long flawed system, and yes I work with SQL servers, and virtual environments on a daily basis.

Back in 2003-2006+ era, you couldn't run 2 clients at the same time, without minimising all graphics, no audio and pray your system didn't fall-over -- it was never intended to run concurrent accounts in that way. Though now it can be done a bit better and is now a recognised option, i chose to use the original character i designed and poured my time into.

We all know they have at least TWO Ram San units (SSD) for database duties and some very good CPU and server hardware (with more on the way from the blogs recently posted), it not really a resource issue now is it, its just a legacy cap/patch that has never been re-looked at in about 8+ years.

A few extra trade skills to keep it simple, to solve the trade slot issue (biggest bug bear), as some have suggested and yes its not easy to get someone else interested in trading (as mentioned in another post, and I've had to deal with issues/fall-out too), and playing time is not always available or at the same time for everyone, so you need to be a flexible corp these days, so the hours and hours that used to spent doing mining ops every week and other fun team activities, are no longer the norm that they used be years ago, in most cases.

maybe I'm just getting old, and need to retire, like so many of my 'no longer playing EVE' friends i have made over the years.

Is what you really just said.

You guys make me question if I should just stop playing since I just really don't ever want to deal with alts... God doing all that sound crazy to me...