EVE General Discussion

1.) Iteration

2.) Content

3.) Jesus Features

1. Set long and short term goals for the direction of what I view the game should be and be as transparent to my teams about these goals and views.
2. Get the more skilled teams tackling the tasks that require the most work and effort while putting junior developers on the papercuts that are driving customers away.
3. Hold people who fail at their tasks accountable and burn them at the stake when they make mistakes.

<-- volunteers as butler.

In order

1) POS revamp
2) Finish ship rebalance
3) some null-sec love

1. New PvE content to grind ISK with
2. New PvP content content to fight over
3. Making lowsec and nullsec more interesting and worthy space to go to

We call the Unified Inventory all kinds of things, but the filter keeps blocking it.

God really? This is a sandbox why does it always have to come back to 0.0 there is no endgame in eve only what you make it.

If you want to make eve better all regions need some love and not at the expense of making 0.0 better than everything else. That logic has resulted in a stale 0.0 populated by a coupla entities with so much iskies now they dont even care if they lose titans

I remember when they changed 0.0 sov and CCP said they were going to make it so small roaming entities could interdict sov and have a real change. Myself and many others rejoiced and tried 0.0 again.. Yeah that worked LOL godawful set of regions only pvpers out there worth their salt live in the NPC regions

1)live events.
2)add more stuff to blow up its whole point of the game anyway.
3)fire anyone who says we cant do stuff.

Push a "fundamentals" expansion:

1. Clean up all the old code.
2. User Interface fixes/improvements.
3. Revamp the entire physics engine. Death to collision bubbles.

1. Reshape PvP and factions.
Force FW on every character, absolutely kill off faction neutrality.
Remove FW PvE aspect(NPC) and remove LP gains other than from kills and system conquest(based on kills).
Kills in friendly controlled systems 100% LP.
Kills in an enemy system 50% LP.
You get 50% of the ISK your ship is worth if you lose your ship in a controlled system.

To gain control of a system, for every 1 minute you are in that system the faction slider gains points based your ship value. When taking a system, all your effective kill value(EKV) in that system is counted with the total contribution value(CV) you produce. Fleets share EKV fully.

You fly in a battlecruiser.
Value 50m.
You stay in system for 20 minutes, and apply 1000 CV just by being there.
You also partly destroyed 4 frigates, 2 cruisers and 4 battleships.
EKV = ~150m, your part around 25% of 450m
You now contribute 50 + 150/50 = 53 CV/minute.
*The moment your ship explodes you contribute 0/minute.

The moment you conquer a system, you get all your combined contribution in the form of LP as a bonus modified by your EKV.
CV * (EKV/100) = 1000 * (150 / 100) = 1500 LP.

When the assault begins, entering the system, the attackers are warped directly to a defending force(40km), a location with no access for others, and a set number of pilots of 8 min/24max. Volunteer attacking fleets are registered and the attacking fleet is chosen by previous successes and recent attacks. If the attackers win, the system is open for invasion, but all complexes and stations must be taken with proximity within 4h.
When a system is conquered or defended it gains a lock and it cannot be attacked again for 48 hours.
Any stuff remaining in system, even inside stations will be divided and given to the conquering faction fighters as a bonus based on performance. The time a system can be attacked may be changed to any 4hour period of the day.
The most productive(kills & presence) corporation gains the system and is awarded a 5% tax income from all activity in the system until lost or defended better by another corporation.

Misc.
Allow great >1000player alliances to become factions and conquer empire space, once it converts the alliance is disbanded.
All faction members pay a tax, 10% which is divided(5%) among the top 10% most active and successful fighters each week.
All faction members are reimbursed up to 50% and SP/10 m ISK each day based on available faction funds.
Allow players to donate ISK for system defences which are paid out to defenders at a similar rate as their contribution for LP.
Add more factions for newcomers at character creation.
Remove skill point loss, loss of implants and costs associated with podding.
Remove NPC Faction fleets in high sec except some central trading hubs and newbie systems.
Allow all systems to be captured except newbie systems.
Disallow cross faction trading, contracts and markets.
Disallow greater war ships than BS in low sec.
Disallow greater war ships than BC in high sec.
Lv4 missions no longer exist in high sec.
Lv1(Frigate), 2(Cruiser) and 3(BC) missions all generate 75% isk of a lv4 mission, but 1,2 are much tougher, and 3 a bit.
Allow the owners of low/high/null decide the system security.

Logic: The game needs some serious changes, activity boosts and team spirit to move from the AFK miner/mission runner, isk farmer mogul, blob monster it is in today, player activity and smaller ship/gang PvP is sorely needed(read: real PvP, aka. fun).

2. Rebalance and invigorate modules and ships use, pricing and effect(Techicide).
Reduce costs for all T2 modules and ships by 90% to match their T1 counterparts.
Make T1 modules specialized prototype modules, with excellent single properties for such as range, ammo hold, damage etc, and the other properties around 80%.
Make T2 modules generalized which have adequate properties around 90% from all the best T1 prototype relevant modules.
Balance T1 and T2 ships so that T1 are specialized, and T2 are more general purpose, just like the modules.
Allow all skills to apply to T1 and T2 ships and modules relevant to them.
Property budget would remain the same for all modules and ships, they would just be, different.
All T1, T2 and faction modules would be brought up to the property budget of cheap deadspace.
Allow anyone to acquire T2 BPOs and BPOs for ALL T1 modules.
Release all special AT ships(sensible versions).
Release many more ships with overlapping qualities to the present ones, you could easily have several ships with the same hulls, different properties and bonuses,even for modules, random or player designed properties through invention.

Passive shield regen reduced by 30%.
Armour drawbacks reduced by 50%.
Laser damage types: 40% EM, 30% Therm, 20%Exp, 10% Kin.
Hybrid damage types: 30% Therm, 30% Kin, 20% Exp, 20% EM.
Increase all T1/faction low damage longer range ammo damage.
Increase long range weapon ammo capacity by introducing a skill for it.
Increase long range guns(small/med) base ranges.

Logic: Let people fly what they trained for without having to spam feed the wallet with isk after a single ship loss, because isk is the main focus in this game at the moment and that is a huge barrier for PvP and also an incentive to become blob-bears.

3. Allow unique pilot skills.
Increase all skill levels to 100, so people can dedicate their training time as they see fit, train for frigates exclusively, go ahead. As it is now people are forced to train oddball stuff just because there is nothing more to train within their areas of interest. This would of course have some diminishing returns so that lower levels would be more significant and train quicker than higher levels.

Logic: Let people train what they want to fly and in time excel at it, and at the same time also be somewhat unique and wanted for their special skill setup.

*seeks cover from angry mob and flame bombs*