EVE General Discussion

Ithink it is good ccp is fixing eve (very very very slowly) but i think eve needs a lot of new features in order to mature into a fully evolved Ip / MMORPG. I also am of the opinion the devs have lost sincere interest in the eve community as a fan base.

Could this be whats wrong with ccp?

In a widely read—and widely shared on Facebook—NY Observer article titled “Broken on Purpose: Why Getting It Wrong Pays More Than Getting It Right,” (emailed to me by a friend, a prominent blogger, with the subject line: “Why putting a lot of energy into building a Facebook presence is a sucker’s game”) PR strategist and social media expert Ryan Holiday succinctly laid out the case against the damage Facebook had inflicted upon its most active users with its recently rolled out Promote “option”:

It’s no conspiracy. Facebook acknowledged it as recently as last week: messages now reach, on average, just 15 percent of an account’s fans. In a wonderful coincidence, Facebook has rolled out a solution for this problem: Pay them for better access.

As their advertising head, Gokul Rajaram, explained, if you want to speak to the other 80 to 85 percent of people who signed up to hear from you, “sponsoring posts is important.”

In other words, through “Sponsored Stories,” brands, agencies and artists are now charged to reach their own fans—the whole reason for having a page—because those pages have suddenly stopped working.

This is a clear conflict of interest. The worse the platform performs, the more advertisers need to use Sponsored Stories. In a way, it means that Facebook is broken, on purpose, in order to extract more money from users. In the case of Sponsored Stories, it has meant raking in nearly $1M a day.

Please make missions and single player content more immersive with extensive storylines, possibly cutscenes and more atmosphere.

Planetside Pve and pure discovery exploration. (like jedi knight game.) in order to find very rare objects.

random encounters with super rare races and super rare item drops.

bring in a lot more pve elements and story to keep starters going.

beef up nullsec possibilities. all u can do in null and wh space is pvp, rat, mine , pi. there must be some more intriguing things to do when corp mates are not online.

^ things one can do on his or her own where one meets characters and experiences the eve universe in a face to face pve way.


I think we need WIS, it was an attraction point for many players and can be incorporated without disturbing the core game at all, yet bring players attracted to it and the many new feature possibilities it carries further into the eve universe.

WIS can bring a personal identification factor to eve which may boost duelling and pvp content to a huge extent. It also creates a community factor and opens doors to new industry options such as possibly the supply of alcohol and nutrition or other decorative accessories, 3rd person handgun holster draw duelling or even betting on 3rd person avatar pvp arenas.

the options to decorate your own cabin are long awaited and WIS in poses i think should be executed fairly easily creating internal corp social atmospheres and taking them to new extents.

POS functionality and accessibility is horrific. The access options are very complicated and unbalanced restricting certain people from having access to certain elements just to limit their access to tower controls. this is ridiculous.

EVE is a MMORG, It needs far more social and personification features in order to create an extended sense of individuality and so with individual presence within a virtual world full stop.

If you fear WIS will keep people out of space make space better. and stop messing around with more or less meaningless content expansions.


as i said in my last post

eve needs aliens people... for real... its a freakin' universal space game for crying out loud

I really think CCP is treating eve like a finished product adding to the already present luxury.... but I am quite sure this is what is hindering EVE from becoming a total sensation. If they treated it like a brand new MMORPG they could boost its numbers to great extents. They could do this by simply adding atmosphere and more humane interaction and occupation for solo players, more occurrence, more discovery one can simply come across generated by chance.

There should be individual meteorites in space that need to be scanned down containing colonies that start missions, that can be plundered and looted, be mined, or even occupied to establish player bases, thus taking away from the super simplified structure of Asteroid belts, planets and stations.
This would bring new dimensions to eve, new levels of exploration and again personification and sense of individuality. It would make the universe more believable and also far more interesting because it would create a sense of interaction between players and the universe its self. It would also give a far more advanced sense of inhabitation and present life.

Also to announce a feature like WIS in a product people pay for and dedicate a large portion of their lives to and not release it i consider to be an insult to the eve community. It takes away greatly from CCPs professional image and capability.

eve needs a lot of personality added that suits the current universe without it becoming a colorful toon kids game like WOW or KOTOR online If it is ever to advance beyond its current state of popularity or to hinder great loss of interest over time.

CCP please step on the gas, find people who can really make magic happen and let them make eve an almost real place, without making all the extra interaction a necessity. Please give people some real IP, a real world to discover, a real sandbox to live in, not just a space to shoot each other in and to supply market demand for shooting each other.


#206 Posted: 2013.02.03 15:57 | Report
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In their last updates CCP constantly stressed they where listening to subscribers but truly I see a probable 60% of pple wanting content and nothing has happened.... for this game to have existed for a decade i consider it to be a joke.

what?

Oh look, a qualified game designer!

EVE isnt a single player game and we the players make the content in this game.

/facepalm

Stopped reading when facebook got mentioned.

Why expand single player content in a multiplayer game?

So like Dust 514?



So like Officer rats? Last I checked dropping a module worth ~20b is pretty decent. Most officer rats can drop a mod worth at least a few billion. Also the devs do a decent jobs of live events and story stuff near expansions. Id rather have them developing the game than running live events 24/7 in my opinion.



And do exploration sites... and make capital ships... and use various weapons/ships not available in high/low sec... and moon mineral/reactions stuff. There are pirate faction missions as well. By the way, everything you can do in high/low sec you can do in nullsec... so idk where your coming from.



WIS is debatable... It does not really add anything to the gameplay though, its all shiny visuals. And after what happened when they tried to release it the first time, I doubt we will see it for a while. If they added minigames or like a Dust 514 map inside so it had a purpose then maybe it would be ok.



As for scannable missions sites: Have you even tried exploration? There are a lot of fun things you can find. Everything you listed in the above quote except for establishing a player base at a mission site is possible already.

You seem to focus on stuff for the "solo player" throughout your whole post. Maybe you should realize your playing a sandbox multiplayer game... and join a corp... make some friends...

You honestly think there are only six thing to do?

market, exploration, wh pvp, Missions, pos, incursions, nullsec pvp, ratting( belts or sleepers),

all consist of shooting and looting and selling, which basicly are 2 things under different themes, shooting and looting being 2 and a 3rd being market selling buying and so forth...

then there is pi - 4

industry 5

mining 6

pos stuff and moon mining 7

ok nice the game still lacks interaction on a personal level with the universe itsself and and introduced story for me which is something essential to making it a believable place





look in general there are many things to to... im saying 'in general' exploration, incursions, ratting, pvp, missions are just shooting red crosses ... what i am asking for is more background story and visual entertainmentt

ya but i dont want to pretent do do more things like in rp

i really wanna do more things. :D i also want to find out from the alien races why they do what they do... not just read it :D

i also wanna see them how they really are in a humane environment which is why i would like wis