EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am a returning player, from way back when BoB was in power, you had to train learning skills and the first Hulkageddon was started.

So I consider my self a new player as SOOO much has changed. What I find funny is even back then in the year 2000. The same topics would pop up ( I am leaving threads, eve is dyeing, the Dev's don't do enough...) seems the same topics in every game.

1. I came back as I now have the money to play long term and wanted a game that was entertaining. I did not want things handed to me, wanted to work for my skills and be challenged. Got sick of the FPS refurbished games and DLC

2. See above.

Not a newbie, but I'll answer:

1. Sci-fi and spaceships brought me to the game.

2a. I continued playing past my trial because of the raw potential. I sat there imagining what I could do once I trained this ship and that ship etc. Of course, it would take years to get there. I usually stop playing a game, once I figure out how to "beat" it; actually going through the motions to the end feels like a grind to me. So, with EVE, I started anew, a lot. Every few years.

2b. What kept me playing this last stretch was the corp I was in, which was pretty good, still is. EVE is definitely a game that is much better when you're in a good group. Unfortunately, RL intervened and prevented much play, but I kept the skill training going.




CCP are typical devs - they love trying out new technology / new code / new things, and get really lazy when it comes to maintaining or keeping a game going. So, from the beginning, they decided it would be a lot less ::effort:: to just code a bunch of ships and keep them balanced, than to have to come up with a new expansion (full story arc, new ships, new loot, new NPCs, new skills, etc.) every 6 months like WoW did.

This is why they will expand the PVE, but only as much as you've seen; it is still a core principle of the game that they will let players create the "content", with CCP just putting in the minimal effort of keeping the ships balanced. Minimal effort, in this case, means a smaller dev team being able to maintain a large complex game.

They've seen what lack of player interest means for the game; but it's not PVE, it's PVP. When there are no wars, they lose subscriptions and money.

As far as making the game more appealing, they won't be able to compete with the mass appeal (and effort) of SWTOR and WoW. And they've seen what the effort to bring out SWTOR was, vs. the failure that it turned out to be after the initial 2-month rush.

Well, keep in mind that high-sec was really intended as no more than a newbie area, and you're not going to get good returns doing solo activities in high-sec. Null or wormhole space, with friends, on the other hand, hundred million per day is easy. Risk vs. reward and all that.

Nobody's kicking you out of high-sec, just like nobody's kicking you out of WoW's newbie zone, but you won't get rich there. This game is intended to be a strategy RTS game, played as a member of an alliance, out there in the PVP areas. It's also a zero-sum game, more or less; only a few of the players will truly strike it rich (or successful), and they'll do so at the expense of others, who will simply function as 'prey'.