EVE General Discussion

Something will happen.

CCP will develop more technology to allow even more people toplay on the single server; just like they've been doing sinse '03.

CCP puts in a lot of effort to ensure that more an more people can play on TQ. Slow continual growth has been a blessing for CCP, not a curse.

What part of Single-shard sandbox do you not get? And why would you invite the possiblity of another "Trammel Event..?" Do you really hate EVE that much?

the new eve online universe should be called trammel

I suspect that without a vibrant economy to back it, at least half of the professions in the game would become worthless. And where would I get ammunition, drones, and replacement ships?

The map could be made bigger just by adding systems. Some regions are huge, like Domain and Delve. Some are small like Fade and Verge vendor. Systems could be added to the small ones.

It would be interesting if we players could find new systems and build the stargates.

Or entire new regions could be added.

A new shard? It would have to be essentially a different game to be something to do. Like eve with greatly strengthened NPCs and no PvP space combat. Something like that would be a place to put people who are told to "go play STO". They would be playing a different game, but still sending their money to CCP.

An all PvE shard would be hard to balance. What drives the economy? With Trammel the answer was "nothing" and the economy got all screwed up. All I can see is the NPCs would have to be sufficiently difficult to blow up ships in sufficient number to drive the economy. And they would have to be dynamic: If insufficient ships are exploding, they get tougher.

But it would give a place for all those who like eve, but not pvp space combat a place to go. You get it? All that whining would go away.

That is only because China is a backwards country whose government oppresses its people. If China wasn't so ****** up then all of those players would be on TQ.

No it genuinely isn't needed. There is still empty space out there, and the really heavily populated systems are that way because the player base made them that way. You have to remember that the game is player driven. If you want to be away from the other players, scan down a wormhole and live out there. You might get a visitor every now and then but most of the time you can be alone.

You'd have to ... no, I can't say it - it's too terrible. Ok I'll do it, but I warned you.

You'd have to mine and then build them yourself.

Which defeats the whole point of skill specialization and economic MMO play. One of the things that makes EVE unique is economic interdependence across all of the various activities, in contrast to something like WOW where participation in the economy is largely optional.

Do away with local.

Nerf Jump drives and bridges.

Allow theft of moon goo from ungaurded arrays.

Create one way wormholes.

new nullsec constellations that cant be built in and wont accept cap ships.

Random wormholes that suck whole fleets into hidden constellations, cut off from the rest of New Eden, for a week or so.

jump clone viruses that randomly kill off JC's.

Different sounds for the jump gates in different regions.

Have jump gates malfunction and drop people into interstellar ice fields, some with harvestable treasure, others with ancient relics or something else.

Replace CONCORD with faction navies, each one with different regulations and enforcement protocols.

Separate the empires with lowsec pipes.