Out of Pod Experience

As for what I would want to see in EVE, to any CSM representative I can say that it would not bother me much if the devs that are working on Nova would be moved to Iceland to work on EVE assets for WIS Vegas expansion on their spare time. Like they have used the Atlanta teams to do the racial CQs for EVE. EVE deserves all the dev time, as it deserved the redesigned planets and other things Atlanta team used to add to the game.

Isnt social PvE for socially able players? For socially inept there is solo PvE correspondingly?

How much do we have socially inept players in EVE? Judging from people reactions, people writing in NPC corporations channels, player corporations are evil. Even able players would be sometimes turned off by those evil corporations talk. The solution would be to make oportunities to socialize doing space stuff without joining any player corporation. Something that would bring people together and make them fight for the same thing. SCOPE network could be redesigned that way, to make automatic events without people comunicating much, but giving them the feel of great things done together.

But is PVE done solo because people want to play solo, or because it's built to be played solo?

On a rough estimate, people suck. The absolute worst aspect of playing WoWs it's people. Not just chat trash talk (of which there's little), but the general incompetene, selfishness and stupidity of a neverending string of absolute strangers is the worst part of the game. Even as you may be stuck with them for 20 minutes maximum, the fact that they do everything possible to make your game a disaster, both the enemy team and your own, sometimes gets on your nerves.

And that in a game where loses, albeit harmful, are not wrecking and don't really set you back in your ability to play. I might lose 30 or 40.000 credits with a bad Yamato battle, but on average it's a positive, specially since WG added direct rewards (containers).

Of course, theoretically speaking, in EVE one could find the perfect people and be friends forever and the stuff... but then if I had a sensible chance to achieve that in EVE, I would be doing it in RL, instead of being a loner. Unsurprisingly, my social gameplay experiences in EVE have been disappointing and even harmful, and most of time what I've enjoyed it's been NOT playing wirth people, rather just chit chat, RP or general bullshitting with little impact on my game.

I used to think I was a weirdo for doing this, but in EVE there are lots of people like this. And when they break the radio silence, it's amazing to see that after all EVE is crowded full of misfits who play alone and wouldn't go social for nothing since it would harm their enjoyment of EVE. Of course those people are in a terrible position because CCP doesn't knows them and since Rubicon has been actively working on shafting them, removing the ability to enjoy the game solo in sectors like industry and now, apparently, PvE.

"We make a social MMO", CCP says. But that MMO exists and is where it is thanks to the money of an endless string of lone players... a string that is dwindling and fading, and drags the game along with it, as CCP focuses on "cool" social stuff rather than "meat and potatoes" solo stuff.

Yeah, there are 14,000 citadels in New Eden, hoozaah. But also the PCU has gone down by 2% since Citadel, once normalized for the F2P spike.

Looks like the best EVE CCP makes, the smaller EVE they achieve. It's as if a hidden force, something large and heavy like an elephant, was not being considered in the big scene of development.

What if EVE was being played, on average, as a solo PvE game with a minor presence of social PvP? What if, with their faster churn rate, PvE soloers outnumbered social PvPrs by 6:1 in the overall customer demographic?

Who would be more valuable to retain?

You know it's just rhethorical questions from me. I've been saying the same for literally years. And guess what, the more I say it, the smaller and less influential/relevant EVE becomes. As if -gasp- I wasn't completely wrong...

I have seen this Cherry 2000 film and can say that it was fun. Sometimes over the top effects, but for retro feel 80's film, actually looking like everything is right with it.

It's a cute B-series jewel, a small classic of its own.

I can't decide which is creepier.

What if I would rip this shirt, exposing cleavage, pouring water on my breasts?

No, that would be crazy thing to do, inappropriate. But I considered doing it, for a while.

Lewd!

Hey now, I might have used your quote but I laid out totally different terms for our bet!

You accepted them!

RIP!