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Every year, there are less users playing, why??

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Dirty Forum Alt
Forum Alts Anonymous
#281 - 2016-07-24 11:18:34 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
Move to null if you want war.
Actually CCP may be on the tracks there.


To repopulate it in different way now.

Only if we could have more those players who beside shooting easy targets would like to move to null and be actually in some risk there.

Where are you, hardened PvP ers with a lot of ISK for wardecs? You still chase the bunny, not wanting to come up to the challenge of bigger pray that can bite back?

0.0 space is surprisingly bad for PvP - unless you really enjoy just being a small, insignificant piece of a much larger fleet led by somebody else, or you happen to be one of the few people who can handle the stress of leading a 1000 person fleet - which is much like herding 1000 cats...

And the reason these fleets exist is to either conquer or protect the space *so that the PvE players can farm it*. Because ultimately, 0.0 is primarily for hard-core PvE players who want to make a LOT of money. Sure they get to hop into fleets and shoot things from time to time if they want to, but that is just a break from their PvE farming.

So - why don't *you* and all the other people who supposedly want to PvE get your lazy rear ends out to 0.0 space where you could make some serious money doing it, instead of derping around high sec for arguably more direct risk and far less rewards?

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool. They lay. They rotted. They turned Around occasionally. Bits of flesh dropped off them from Time to time. And sank into the pool's mire. They also smelt a great deal.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings (Sussex)

W33b3l
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#282 - 2016-07-24 12:31:13 UTC
Dirty Forum Alt wrote:
Nana Skalski wrote:
Move to null if you want war.
Actually CCP may be on the tracks there.


To repopulate it in different way now.

Only if we could have more those players who beside shooting easy targets would like to move to null and be actually in some risk there.

Where are you, hardened PvP ers with a lot of ISK for wardecs? You still chase the bunny, not wanting to come up to the challenge of bigger pray that can bite back?

0.0 space is surprisingly bad for PvP - unless you really enjoy just being a small, insignificant piece of a much larger fleet led by somebody else, or you happen to be one of the few people who can handle the stress of leading a 1000 person fleet - which is much like herding 1000 cats...

And the reason these fleets exist is to either conquer or protect the space *so that the PvE players can farm it*. Because ultimately, 0.0 is primarily for hard-core PvE players who want to make a LOT of money. Sure they get to hop into fleets and shoot things from time to time if they want to, but that is just a break from their PvE farming.

So - why don't *you* and all the other people who supposedly want to PvE get your lazy rear ends out to 0.0 space where you could make some serious money doing it, instead of derping around high sec for arguably more direct risk and far less rewards?


You have a point. CCP should update the EULA to make the renting of space a bannable offense. Then maybe money (isk) minded people might give 2 craps about moving to null and join a corp that actually owns space.

Or CCP could finish WIS and let people buy emotes with aurum giving all the vets the middle finger but bringing in a lot of new players.

I say we're screwed no matter what lol.

Bu we're fine in the mean time.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#283 - 2016-07-24 12:36:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
If really Null is for PvE null bears, so why mercenaries dont go there after them? Bears with teeth? Pandemic Legion isnt mercenary alliance that is fighting in Null? I thought it was.
Maybe CCP starts to think they should make more differentiation between high and null, by making high safer, so actual PvP ers will move where they will not bother PvE centric players so much, and will give these non wardecable social corporations without ability to make industrial structures, and take away possibility to shoot others without war target flag in high.
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
#284 - 2016-07-24 14:46:07 UTC
Apparently there are still TOO MANY players in EvE.

Every time I want to go exploring or looking for some cheap ore in an "out of the way" system... there's always someone there to spoil my fun.

Where are these "empty" systems?

--Curious Gadget

Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist

Given an hour to save New Eden, how would respected scientist, Albertus Eisenstein compose his thoughts? "Fifty-five minutes to define the problem; save the galaxy in five."

Terminal Insanity
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#285 - 2016-07-24 16:43:17 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
If really Null is for PvE null bears, so why mercenaries dont go there after them? Bears with teeth? Pandemic Legion isnt mercenary alliance that is fighting in Null? I thought it was.
Maybe CCP starts to think they should make more differentiation between high and null, by making high safer, so actual PvP ers will move where they will not bother PvE centric players so much, and will give these non wardecable social corporations without ability to make industrial structures, and take away possibility to shoot others without war target flag in high.


People do hunt bears in null. Every day hundreds of null bears get their **** pushed in. The difference, is null bears just dont care Thats what they were in null for in the first place. They dont throw a tantrum when their rattlesnake gets ganked. They just replace it and continue.

This is what highsec people dont get. Highsec people sit there in their deadspace golems running lvl4s 16 hours a day, and the very idea that someone could possibly gank them at some point, is absolutely abhorrent to them. They think that its "ruining their game". Kid, that IS the game. The risk adds a ton of excitement to the game, unless you're one of those idiots who wants a perfect record, and thinks ccp should remove killmails because you dont want any record of any losses. Yea, with that attitude you'll have an absolute terrible time in eve and you'll think the whole game is out to get you. because IT IS OUT TO GET YOU. thats what the game is designed to do. Its designed to put you at risk at all times.

"War declarations are never officially considered griefing and are not a bannable offense, and it has been repeatedly stated by the developers that the possibility for non-consensual PvP is an intended feature." - CCP

Loki Yamaguchi
Level 42 Industries
#286 - 2016-07-24 16:46:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Loki Yamaguchi
IMO HiSec is too safe, huge and profitable for most to even bother with LowSec/Null. Characters can PLEX their accounts easily and never leave the comfort of HiSec.

What I’d like to see…


  • A real bounty system that works.
  • Nerf/Remove Concord and make policing a player job.
  • Have HiSec “authorities” fight to keep HiSec with 0.5-0.7 systems being able to be captured/lost to LowSec status.
  • Have the faction war actually matter and maybe some type of conscription system.


Essentially make the big safe pool smaller and more dangerous but give more tools/incentives to protect that pool. Players will fine less ISK to harvest in the safety of HiSec and have to go into LowSec to earn.

Force them into LowSec to show that it's really not that bad...and that excitement/danger is a good thing
Terminal Insanity
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#287 - 2016-07-24 16:48:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Terminal Insanity
Gadget Helmsdottir wrote:
Apparently there are still TOO MANY players in EvE.

Every time I want to go exploring or looking for some cheap ore in an "out of the way" system... there's always someone there to spoil my fun.

Where are these "empty" systems?

--Curious Gadget



come to nullsec. Our guys are out there right now with a rorqual pressing freighterloads of ore all day. You dont need to worry about CODE gankers ether. We have intel channels and standing fleets that will help keep you safe. And when you inevitably do get ganked while watching netflix, you wont care because you'll have made more than enough to replace it 10x over. Plus you'll probaly end up with hilarious killmails where the guy trying to kill you ends up dying to a fleet of miners.

"War declarations are never officially considered griefing and are not a bannable offense, and it has been repeatedly stated by the developers that the possibility for non-consensual PvP is an intended feature." - CCP

Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#288 - 2016-07-24 16:51:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
If nullbears are there and dont care, and the rest of high sec whines, CCP will do what I proposed.

If now the risk for common highsec bear is abhorrent, and they dont want to be ganked, and they are not ganked as often as they would fear, and its like they dont even care about ganks if they do it in low populated systems and tech 2 fitted ships, and occasional gank is only pissing them off and they dont want to play any longer, same as with wardecs, CCP will do what I proposed.

It will be done to make more players stay. More is not a guy who will HTFU because he likes some aspects of the game he pays for, but the one who will leave if he dont like some aspects of the game he pays for. This game has presumably those HTFU guys olready, so they will stay, and more of those who try and will not whine because there will be nothing to annoy them, will stay. Numbers will rise.
Terminal Insanity
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#289 - 2016-07-24 17:12:44 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
*bleh*

you dont get it. You just dont get it. Go play those X games if you want pure pve. Go play a PvE game if you do not like eve. eve is pvp only. Even when you're shooting up rats all day, you're still in a pvp world and consenting to pvp.

The reason we're bleeding players is because people like you who come in here trying to force ccp to change this game into something it isnt.

This is not WOW in space. You do not have the right to be safe in eve. Ether play the game that was designed to put you at risk, or play a different game.

This would be like me going into WOW and demanding blizzard turn every area into non-consentual pvp areas with permanent item loss. How offensive would that be to the millions of existing players who enjoy the game the way it was designed?

Thats what you're doing here in eve. You've come across this game, and now you;re trying to force its entire player base to accept your rules. **** off if you dont like eve.

"War declarations are never officially considered griefing and are not a bannable offense, and it has been repeatedly stated by the developers that the possibility for non-consensual PvP is an intended feature." - CCP

Lucy Lollipops
State War Academy
Caldari State
#290 - 2016-07-24 17:21:48 UTC
Terminal Insanity wrote:
Nana Skalski wrote:
*bleh*

you dont get it. You just dont get it. Go play those X games if you want pure pve. Go play a PvE game if you do not like eve. eve is pvp only. Even when you're shooting up rats all day, you're still in a pvp world and consenting to pvp.

The reason we're bleeding players is because people like you who come in here trying to force ccp to change this game into something it isnt.

This is not WOW in space. You do not have the right to be safe in eve. Ether play the game that was designed to put you at risk, or play a different game.

This would be like me going into WOW and demanding blizzard turn every area into non-consentual pvp areas with permanent item loss. How offensive would that be to the millions of existing players who enjoy the game the way it was designed?

Thats what you're doing here in eve. You've come across this game, and now you;re trying to force its entire player base to accept your rules. **** off if you dont like eve.




There's no risk to insult millions of players here....

Considering that most veterans use 2/3/4 or more accounts, it's more some thousand of players if you are lucky....


should be a giant warning bell for any game developer honestly.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#291 - 2016-07-24 17:26:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
I think you are in mistake.

CCP realizes its niche because of reasons, reasons you are not grasping. This niche is every year smaller. The changes to game, as they are, are too little to drastically shift the way game appeals to new players. It appeals only to this niche you are in. You are in minority. You can fear this is the only game for you.

I can assure you, null and low will be there to PvP and faction warfare. These changes will not make so much change to the way PvP is done there, they wil only sacrifice the gankers and griefing wardeccers But it will change the way new players will perceive it, if I am right and new players trying the game dont like how it now looks and dont subscribe or dont stay long, and they are still trying it, despite CCP giving majority of them middle finger thru those years.

That is my hypothesis. You can all dont agree with it, but maybe this is the way they are walking now.
Lucy Lollipops
State War Academy
Caldari State
#292 - 2016-07-24 17:34:37 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
I think you are in mistake.

CCP realizes its niche because of reasons, reasons you are not grasping. This niche is every year smaller. The changes to game, as they are, are too little to drastically shift the way game appeals to new players. It appeals only to this niche you are in. You are in minority. You can fear this is the only game for you.

I can assure you, null and low will be there to PvP and faction warfare. These changes will not make so much change to the way PvP is done there, they wil only sacrifice the gankers and griefing wardeccers But it will change the way new players will perceive it, if I am right and new players trying the game dont like how it now looks and dont subscribe or dont stay long, and they are still trying it, despite CCP giving majority of them middle finger thru those years.



Yes, and it's very strange devs don't realize:

- Long term veterans would accept changes, even to their sick hisec/wardec ideas, they invested too much time and money on this game to quit, they will not quit...( prove is they accept to be enslaved by total grind events even if they keep saying it's a sandbox...we are free...yes even in wow you are free to stay in the world doing your things...none forces you to grind...

- New players and persons who try the game are, on the contrary easily disgusted by harassing/ganking and so on, in particular if they don't know games mechanics in detail, so they will leave and tell anyone asking them about this game that it's a horrible game collecting all the horrible gankers that have no other place left where they can pour out their rage on others...
Loki Yamaguchi
Level 42 Industries
#293 - 2016-07-24 17:48:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Loki Yamaguchi
Lucy Lollipops wrote:
- New players and persons who try the game are, on the contrary easily disgusted by harassing/ganking and so on, in particular if they don't know games mechanics in detail, so they will leave and tell anyone asking them about this game that it's a horrible game collecting all the horrible gankers that have no other place left where they can pour out their rage on others...



CCP's own data says otherwise...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A92Ge2S8M1Y;t=54s


A sense of boredom brought on by a perceived lack of risk/excitement seems to be what drives players away.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#294 - 2016-07-24 18:22:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
Loki Yamaguchi wrote:
Lucy Lollipops wrote:
- New players and persons who try the game are, on the contrary easily disgusted by harassing/ganking and so on, in particular if they don't know games mechanics in detail, so they will leave and tell anyone asking them about this game that it's a horrible game collecting all the horrible gankers that have no other place left where they can pour out their rage on others...



CCP's own data prove you are wrong here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A92Ge2S8M1Y;t=54s


Please read the commentaries under the video first.

If you would listen carefully, you would know its half assed attempt to know what actually is going on, because:

Its only for 15 day old timespan. And they not bothered to ask about why they tried the game in the first place, what they imagined before playing. So this alone could have affected the results in greater perspective. Like how much players were bored by what, were annoyed by what.

1 % people have been ganked for first 15 days. Clearly a trial timespan.
How much game you can explore in that timespan, what can you acquire being completely new, and who the hell ganks 15 day old noobs? If they would care to watch players play more, like for a month or two, different timespans...

Those who have been killed played longer, that may have been because of one reason, they have seeked vengeance, stayed to learn how to gank others, because its so easy and can cause mischef. This one percent is affected by mischief. Will affect the rest that plays the game in negative way as we could have seen. Also its only result from one percent, so they could be borderline inexact in relation to the majority.

No wonder that "I have lost ship, or I have been harassed" in resignation is so low. It could be a shame to write in resignation, "I resigned because I have imagined myself as a warrior and was blown up in one shot, I feel violated", this pool may have been affected by emotions.
Loki Yamaguchi
Level 42 Industries
#295 - 2016-07-24 18:32:37 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
Please read the commentaries under the video first.


Nah..I'll listen to the people that have the data, make the exit-polls and in general know what's going on (big picture) more than most. Reading YouTube comments should never be the basis of anything other than cautionary tales covering why you shouldn't listen to trolls...
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#296 - 2016-07-24 18:44:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
Loki Yamaguchi wrote:
Nana Skalski wrote:
Please read the commentaries under the video first.


Nah..I'll listen to the people that have the data, make the exit-polls and in general know what's going on (big picture) more than most. Reading YouTube comments should never be the basis of anything other than cautionary tales covering why you shouldn't listen to trolls...

These are no trolls.
If you would bother reading also mine commentary for it, you would know they speak from experience. Badly researched data leads to wrong conclusion. They did let you know on video how they tried to research data, well, maybe they should have asked at university first how to make that kind of research.
zus
TxivYawg
#297 - 2016-07-24 19:10:31 UTC
Denavit wrote:
Is is because PLEX prices, i remember buying them at 550mill, 500mill, now is almost 1bill, or is it because the changes are making oldSchoolers quit?



Nothing to do with PLEX

I started playing EVE at 2003 or 04 i use to play Allegiance back then and after sum time the servers started crashing so
i got tired and quit plying.

I first saw EVE at MSN's website advertising next with Allegiance so i give her a try and ever since have became the primary game to go to.

Even when i get tired of her for sum period of time and try sum other games eventually i rebound back to her ,

Many of older players like me have sold their character for isk like i did, when no longer want to be competitive and just want to enjoy the game as a beginner since is a lot more material to go through and challenges,
especially when significant updates with new material are implemented we run back to EVE to try it out

For me and like-minded people what attracts us to EVE is high sec the reason is / no time frame commitment in action we need to be able to interrupt and continue ,

So if there is lock in content or restriction in experiencing the full content of the game then we have loss of motivation and take a break for awhile.


Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#298 - 2016-07-24 19:23:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
Post above gives a glimpse of how EVE is played, its not by 15 day old player.

So if they really want to have good research, they would really need to go and explore the playerbase. But pols are so much annoying to do, most players would probably mine a whole belt while listening to Nightwish than do an exhausive pool.
Loki Yamaguchi
Level 42 Industries
#299 - 2016-07-24 20:54:05 UTC
So now we're playing the old 'use alt to back-up position' forum warrior trick...Roll
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#300 - 2016-07-24 21:28:40 UTC