EVE General Discussion

I want to start by saying that this isn’t intended to be a troll post – I wanted to setup a poll but there doesn’t appear to be the facility to do it.

The Summer Expansion approaches and imho, the endless ship rebalancing program and the “Building better Worlds” announcement is all very nice, but does anyone else feel the frustration and want something new? – some actual new content?

I agree that some things need fixing… but if you could have some brand new content what would it be?

As a builder I would personally like to see:
Player built gun platforms for defending destructible outposts.
Player built stargates.
Player built gun platforms for defending player built stargates.
A choice of damage types for fighters per race.
A choice of damage types for fighter bombers per race.
Add a 3rd fighter type, i.e. fighter bombers that fire bombs and fighter craft that fire missiles.
Another empire besides Amarr, Cal, Gal & Min… maybe one of the ancient races or the Jove, and not just the odd incursion.
A new set of regions.
Other classes of T3 ship… why are there just cruisers?
Solar (sun) harvesters – for new building materials.
Point defenses (a group of auto-targeting missiles maybe) for titans at the expense of a Hi slot.

... you get the idea,
...so, What would keep you playing for another 10 years?

Removal of CONCORD from highsec would keep me playing for at least another 5, assuming the supply of tears wouldn't dry up.

Seeing this game become the new way Science Fiction is consumed, that no longer to people simply read books or watch a show on TV, but actually participate in the story, live.

Imagine if STTNG was an MMO at it's prime and instead of just knowing about the battle with the Borg at Wolf 359, people actually commanded ships in it?

CCP is sitting on something that could change science fiction forever. Who would want to go back to watching some TV show or reading a book? And it's not at all like such things would be cast aside, but simply augment it.

Though whether or not the "anchor" is the MMO or some series is in question, or what could come first. But if done the right way with the proper application of media (game, books, TV series, etc) - a sci-fi genre that people can actually participate in instead of there just being an MMO or just passively watching on TV (though the choice to do either exclusively could not be denied) would be HUGE.

Hopefully they take on this opportunity. And if they do, most of us will still be playing in 10 years no matter what content is added.

I like Bacon.

It feels really great to finally be able to fly what you've spent a lot of time to train for. I have a hard on right now for Enyos but I'm waiting for it until I have better skills. If you could fly all ships and use all of modules from day it wouldn't be as fun.

Absolutely incorrect.

Unless Carriers and Jumpships are basic to you.

that's probably the thing that would keep me playing..

"next month, skill X will be trained, after that i'll have Y and Z."

skill queue online is awesome.

The players. Honestly, if they doon't completely change the game to where its not recognizable, It would be the bros i fly with on a regular basis

Not really.

I haven't come close to exhausting all that EVE has and i've been playing since June 2007. Even then, after a while, i go back to old 'content' to see how things are now after various changes (like COSMOS now that npcs switch aggro and such or doing the epic arcs with MJD battleships ect).

When I decided to try EVE i asked around about it 1st. I was told it was a super long term investment type game unlike most MMOs and that if I wanted any kind of instant (or even slightly delayed) gratification I should choose something else. That's how I knew EVE was for me.

Even after CCP wisely stopped with the "add Jesus feature and then act like it's really Jesus and forsake it 3 days later" thing (lol) , my interest in EVE hasn't waned.

I'm learning the new ins and outs of the tech1 cruisers and frigs, rediscovering my love of the Cerberus, getting some more PVP time every week after a long hiatus from combat and getting pirate faction standings for 2 tengu pilots so i can do NPC null missions for a faction i haven't used yet. The Angel Cartel LP store is a thing of beauty.

EVE is a sandbox, if you aren't having fun it's not the sand's fault. EVE isn't the kind of game you should play if you need to rely on CCP adding more and more fun things for you to do.

Sov fix. If sov was held by actively living there and lost when not, or some other thing that isn't bloody structure grinding, it'd open the door for new entities in nul that dont have to kowtow to the coalitions. THAT would keep me, no questions asked.