Jita Park Speakers Corner

Content - The EVE Content team will talk to the CSM about their plans for the next 12 months.

More incursions? Class 7 wormholes? Group 0.0 PVE?

for people who ever played silkroad, they had a cool way for doing trade missions.

a model like this would be fun to introduce in EVE (and would give more content in 0.0).

in high sec: you take a trade mission as a hauler -> supply your own escort. during route npc thieves will spawn
in high sec: you take a trade mission as a escort -> npc haulers will follow a route and get attacked by npc thieves. defend them and get them to the endpoint.

in low/0.0 sec: all 3 parties are players.

imagine this: you with your friends take on a mission for concord. The loot has the space of 3full freighters. during your trip in 0.0 some npc thieves can spawn. But the main focus is, the thieves could be a random gang roaming around.

making missions like this viable in 0.0 by introducing a system where all sides could be a real player? looks more fun to me (+ not only gives more content but makes small roams more interesting)

Here is a novel idea, Eve is (on paper) a MMORPG, right?

HOW ABOUT SOME GODDAMN RP CONTENT!

All we are getting is a chronicle once in a while, usually written specifically to avoid saying much of anything .. hell, if I came from the outside and read some of that drivel I would have no idea that it was taking place 40K+ years in future, in a different galaxy where animosity was the fuel driving society .. that is how vague it is.

Close to four years ago, the Empire got a cloned Empress .. nothing further said on that front even though it screamed in the face of millennia of tradition.
Close to four years ago, the State, Republic and Federation were all usurped by madmen of varying magnitude yet NOTHING has been said on the subject since then apart from a few glimpses from the periphery (Scientist defecting, Priest murdered etc.).

CCP has a fairly unique and extensive IP in the Eve universe and they squander it on stupid repetitive incursion bullshit and floundering storylines. Get your damn act together!

A point about the 'meta-game' of Eve content, if you will:

The one criticism I have of Crucible and, to some extent, Inferno, is the somewhat unfocussed and random nature of the fixes and improvements made. At times they feel like someone at CCP wrote a big list of everything that was wrong with eve on a wall, then fired a sawn-off shotgun at the wall and anything that got hit by a pellet, they fixed.

Certainly with Crucible this was understandable, since it was an 'emergency' expansion to grab as much low-hanging fruit as was available while various restructuring was going on within CCP behind the scenes, and the positive reaction it got seems to have encouraged CCP to repeat the process for Inferno. However I'm sure many of us would like to see CCP take time to systematically address one aspect of Eve that needs work (obvious non-controversial examples: Lowsec? Industry? Ship balance?) and go through making improvements to every part of that section of the game that needed attention in one focused move.

Do you think we will ever see an expansion approached in that precise, deliberate way in the future, or is the 'scattershot' approach to improvements the way Eve is going to be handled from now on?

GIVE THE PLAYERS TOOLS TO MAKE MISSIONS OR CREATE SPECIAL EVENTS

Let players build mission on SISI and pay plex to publish so we know they are serious about the adventure or event.
The plex would essentially pay for an eve QA person to look over the adventure to see it it works and is acceptable to publish.
After the review, the QA person can, publish this to Tranquitity, or recommend a few tweaks before publishing, or deny the request with out refund stating that this was a waste of his time and the applicant needs to publish something better and with in context of the current eve universe.
Have a mechanism to allow them to earn isk depending on the response given by players. To reward good work.
Set selected parameters to guide players to an acceptable product.

This should help with the limited Mission content eve has, and is expensive to create vs the return on investment. Mission are a form of content that is consumed not worked with like most of the elements of eve. So skip paying develops money to make the universe allow player to do this work, and tell their own story. I am sure there are several who have a script in mind just waiting to be built

For Special event assign a deep space area where the event can happen. Also have the player pay isk for the ability to use the tools and also provide the special reqards which would have been provided beyond the loot drops by NPCs

During Fanfest, devs showed a conceptual clip of combat with Picture in Picture, weapons hitting shields then armor then hull, true tactical overlay, and generally a vast improvement in how pilots visualize what's going on around them. That looked really cool, and if I were on the CSM, I'd try and get CCP to follow up on that idea.

I think that the visual improvement would help with new player retention as well as appease old timers need for pretty space pictures.

I'd like to see the system that drives the Sansha Incursions expanded to the other empires and pirate factions, rogue drones, ect...

Rogue drone sprouts in empire (and maybe even null) expanding into full hives
Gurrista, Angel, Serpentis, EoM, raids into Empire.
Inter-empire conflict, with "Amarr Incursions" into Matari space or "Minmatar Slave rebellions" in Amarr space
and similar conflicts between Gallente and Caldari

It'd also be nice to see the negative effects of all "incursions" expanded upon. For example if Sansha holds a system for long enough, I'd be absolutely awesome to see Sovereignty actually switch from empire to Sansha (control of the guns and stations and all)... at which point the "incrusion" becomes an "insurgency" with empire resistance struggling to regain control.

You could have saved a lot of typing by just saying 'delete nullsec' instead.

There's no need to delete it, just stop pretending it is the ultimate reason for playing EVE. It is not and probalby there is no way that it becomes such a beast without completely resetting it. Well, tha'ts a pity, it was fun while it lasted, but now just please start thinking WHY people is paying CCP.

It's because 11% of them eventually end up in nullsec? Or it's because 75% of them happily do their business in hisec until the lack of endgame and the occasional bother from bored nullseccers drives them away?

Let us stay in hisec. Allow us to set long tem goals and get advanced content that justifies skilling up and keep playing the game without a need to swim into the boring and awfully time consuming cesspool of nullsec.

Examples?




Of course they can. They can give production in 0.0 comparitive advantages to match that hi-sec convenience. If it costs 25% less to build a Zealot in 0.0 than it does in 1.0, then people will certainly consider balancing that production advantage vs convenience.



I assume that you're referring to moongoo? When you have to assemble massive fleets to PvP for exclusive access to R&D agents, continually defend them, and risk loosing them, I guess you can compare them to moons.



The sheer fact that virtually all non-supercap production and research occurs in hi-sec is an indication that there needs to be a rebalance in industry, R&D and mining between 0.0 and empire. A great deal of that needs to involve boosting 0.0 (player outposts are terribly gimped compared to NPC), but some of it may reasonably involve chaning hi-sec. To use a simple example: if we want player built structures to give the best refines, that means that NPC ones can't give 100% any more.



A large segment of hi-sec population is only in hi-sec because that's where they're forced, sorry I mean very strongly incentivized, to be. Apparently it's OK to "force" people to be in hi-sec to research or trade or make stuff? If all the alts of 0.0 players who are very strongly incentivized to be in hi-sec were able to conduct their operations in 0.0, I think we'd see a much more even demographic distribution.