EVE General Discussion

And yet over the course of the last 10 years hundreds of thousands of actual human beings have figured out exactly how to do that which you can not figure out on your own. What does this tell you?

It tells me the problem is the "individual" and not the "environment".

CCP keeps talking about (paraphrasing) "trying to lower the barriers while not taking away from the "complex/hard core" nature of the game ie easy to learn-hard to master".
I personally think it's a fool's errand. EVE the product is like any real life community, you can keep it small and thus nice/efficient but not meeting it's "full potential", or you can "lower the barriers, open it up" to more people (more subscriptions and such) and turn it into a lowest-common denominator Ghetto.

Suburban towns in the United States have learned this lesson: They changed their zoning codes to allow the building of "for rent" apartment complexes ("lower barrier to entry" than true home ownerships) and expanded public transport in hopes of gaining boons from increased tax revenue because more people would be living in the city limits and thus subject to city taxes....only to find out that they ended up spending all the new tax revenue AND MORE on public safety expenses because the kind of people who live in the easier to afford housing require much more attention from police and fire/rescue services (which are super expensive).

Make EVE easier to get into and you let in all these fair weather MMO players who destroy MOST other MMOs, the whining, crying , gimmie gimmie/cater to me types who don't have the attention spans required to play EVE in the 1st place.

Say no to the Ghettoization of EVE.