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?

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"Get rid of the ridiculous overpowered ECM which fully cripples down ones ship for the full duration of a fight; nerf the ridiculous overpowered ECM down"

...then a player like me would very likely keep playing EVE for the next 10 years (& beyond?) also.

At present I have 2x accounts, both skill training (both having real good skills already)...but, when I consider logging in I ask myself? Why should I logg in? What entertaining things am I gonna go? ...since (battle focussed as I am) I would like to play in low sec or nul-sec, going for the entertaining fights(!) But at present, my many high value ships (which I can easily afford & are willing to burn in fights, as long it is in an entertaining ways/fights)..would be easily totally crippled down by some cheap 20 mil ECM-Cruiser (or even frigates .....) for the full duration of the fight: one cannot even shoot back in such fights(!??). In fact, this represents the very only critisism I have since as in a total I opine EVE is (& could stay) the most fascinating SciFi game there is(!) And if the ECM is severly nerfed than we would see many more new players realy getting enthousiastic about keep playing EVE for the many years to come (..but what players do we see at present being logged in, generally speaking: most are 1st-hour players having 10 to 18 accounts for ISK grindings simultanuously...so, where are the new players, coming in for the real entertainment that EVE could certainly provide when ECM will be nerfed(?) ...)

Besides the above, in my opinion many MMO-players play more than 1 MMO: I myself am subscriber to playing 2 MMO's which I like the most: EVE + SWTOR. So, those players are capable enough to easily detect some extraordinary game- mechanic, realy to be nerfed.

So, my opinion, EVE could be far greater (incl. attracting far more new players) and more interesting for many when they would decide to nerf ECM down severely.

Last: seems lots of veteran players see playing EVE as " doing working hours" ...doing the many ISK grindings for free, almost mechanically. My question: what happened to "FUN & ENTERTAINMENT" commonly known & accepted as the most important reason for gamers to playing MMO's.

In short: I very much like EVE as a total package (great graphics, excellent game mechanics & even having great forums & players community etc.). My only real criticism: get rid of the ridicilous overpowerd ECM.

Might I suggest wormholes?

The price of greater safety, I suppose.

Because less risk = less reward, or it should.

Highsec does have incursions, after all. But I imagine you're talking about solo PvE encounters, yes?

What you're saying is "I want better AI, smarter rats to kill".

So do I. So do most of us. But as you said, that will be a long time coming. PvE in almost any MMO setting is not particularly advanced, that's just the nature of the beast.

But would it be really nice to fight these NPC pirates like they were at least something closer to real players, instead of 50 red crosses to get beaten by one guy? Yeah. It would also be amazing if there weren't quite so much difference between PvE and PvP fittings, too.