EVE General Discussion

in before old forum shutdown

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1) Alphas realized that they were playing a trial.
2) eve is dying. Seriously, game has never been so much stagnated like today.

all of this is just "fake news"
you new eden trolls are just the liberated new eden media making up things about this wonderful ccp administration.
everything will be fine.. don't worry.. ccp is bringing players back to the game.. every patch brings in 10k players and 10 out of 10k signing up is a success!

Doesn't this necessitate people playing?

Really? If you rat for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and make just 30 million/hour you should have way more than enough to PLEX your account.

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I agree with this 1000% and its dead on.

simple put.. the fanboys of ccp has made this game even worse for many players besides themselves.

this will end up being eve's death nail.

Meh... EVE has been "dying" for years and years now, and it will continue to do so. It's nothing new. Dispite CCPs constant tweaking of the NPE, it never managed to attract new players in any significant number, and the old playerbase is shrinking slowly but steadily. Everybody aside the few, core "fanatics" can see that... but hey, nothing lasts forever.

No, not at all!

We're getting old with EVE. New generations want more than just a game to aim and shoot. People want immersion, something EVE can not do anymore - it was designed for a particular generation.

EVE needs to broaden its horizons.

Many former players find the game 'repetitive' and it is, in fact. The new ones do not accompany the extremely expensive market of ships, etc. The wars ruin new players who try to make a minimum to stay in the game. The older ones just feel some fun doing wars - but the situation these older ones did 'ISK' in game was different from the current situation.

CCP is not sensitive to this. Never was. CCP needs the new, new ideas - without fear...

It's time to changes...

I think CCP needed a bit more story for early gameplay before they released Alpha clones.

Right now they have the tutorial (with voice acting) that was pretty decent. Then they funnel you to career agents which have missions without voice acting but still have an ordered plot. Then you have the SOE epic arc which is a little harder to find out about but still available.

Then you're kind of left hanging. It becomes create your own content. the missions are random and don't really follow any kind of story.

I think CCP would be wise to add more epic arcs. LOTS more epic arcs. Preferably with voice content. There should be triggers that cause you to get a message in your mail telling you that an agent wants to give start you off on a mission so you don't have to search for them.

The goal with this is to get players to have a goal to work towards early on... getting to the end of the story told by the epic arcs. This would simply provide a longer period of time where they're engaged in the game and exposed to the other more "permanent" parts of eve. They'd also be playing through an enjoyable story while they train skills.

It may be different for others... but for me there was a certain point in the game where I stopped feeling extremely overwhelmed by the game. I think a bit more immersive "hand holding" through epic arcs that teach you the lore while you learn through playing would be good.

This wouldn't fundamentally change the game in any way. It would just give new players more of what they're used to from many other MMO's so they can do that while learning how to adapt to the particularities of EVE.

Plex price is something I've never cared; I've always paid with sub.

Skill injectors, I do frown about. It shouldn't exist.