Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Literally no one cares.

It's true, no one cares what the life-long patients in the padded cells have to say about improving how the asylum is run.
They're too close to it, they can't think outside of it... and they're insane.

You're completely indoctrinated and locked in on viewing YOUR null. And that's all your ideas represent, how to propagate YOUR game.
But no one cares about YOUR game.

As an alliance once said: our goal is to RUIN your game.
..because frankly, YOUR game doesn't benefit the rest of THE game.

Any mechanic that replaces static resources with dynamic ones is a good idea.

Period, end of sentence. It's practically a farking law of online games. It's been the right move in every other aspect of the gameplay and it would be the right move here.

If it's too much of a pain in the ass for one group to do to be worth it, I'm sure someone else will find it worthwhile. And voila. Content creation and player interaction.

Feel free to scan the tens of thousands moons in CFC space in search of the few good ones every month, I'm sure you will have lots of fun doing it.

Reposting the plan.

We can break it down into sections which, oddly enough, fits in well with CCPs new development plan.

We start off with addressing the need for empire sprawl. Right now there is a cap on how many players can actively rat in a single system, this currently stands at ten per system. This means groups like ours require vast areas of space to support our members.

"But most of your space is empty!" I hear you cry.

Yes this is true but that is down to another problem which is truesec. You see, the primary form of pve in null sec for your average pilot is anoms and they are tied to truesec. Most systems in null offer worse isk generation than blitzing level 3 missions in highsec with a mach. The best systems in null are on par to slightly worse than can be earned in high sec level 4 mission blitzing.

So we have a double whammy of poor isk income from most of null and the low player cap of 10 per system. This needs to change if we are to shrink the current two blocks from half of EVE each to a single region each and it must happen before any changes to sov.

Simply adding more anoms won't work, not only would a player cap still exist but you would also flood too much isk into the system. Inflation is also why you cannot just add more isk reward to anoms. Anoms must be replaced as the primary pve content and isk generator of nullsec. By far the easiest way to fix this issue is to add mission agents to player outposts. They allow for an unlimited population and null missions provide greater reward than highsec but importantly they will inject far less isk into the system than anoms and will be far easier to implement for CCP than a whole new system.

Capitals:

We then have to deal with capitals. Right now you either have a capital force that can match the two big powers or you are an irrelevant sideshow. Capital issues are all over the place and need several big changes. Firstly, carriers are going to have to lose access to sentries and move to a fighter based platform. Secondly, supers are going to have to lose their E-war immunity however they also need something big in return. Supers and titans must be allowed to dock in outposts. We have to end the bleeding of high SP subs because they are trapped in a space coffin that doesn't see much use. Lastly we must deal with their invulnerability to subcaps, this is covered in the next and most controversial fix.

N+1:

People rightly hate the blob, but why do they hate fighting outnumbered?

Well, its because they cannot hurt it. Right now fleet meat revolves around one simple fact, you must be able to alpha past the logistics of the enemy fleet. If you cannot do this then engaging is pointless. Logistics are going to have to be nerfed if smaller alliances are to stand any chance in null. Equally, it is logistics that makes capital fleets impossible to kill with a subcap fleet. It is going to be painful, it will mean much bloodier fights and chances are I will be among the first to fall in any fleet engagement but if we want to fix null it must happen.

"But you will just farm smaller fleets!" I hear you cry.

This is already happening. We are effectively untouchable to smaller fleets as they cannot harm us. With a logi nerf in place new tactics such as cheap in your face DPS fleets can dive into the heart of a baltec fleet and inflict a large amount of damage. Sure, we might hold the grid in the end but we could very easily lose the isk war and that is exactly the sort of thing smaller alliances need to boost moral. "Yea we lost that tower but we killed three times more isk worth of stuff".

Sov:

Another need for big balls of ships is the way sov fights are handled. At the moment you fight a handful of timed fights over huge amounts of EHP. This system needs to go. Not only does it mean you need lots of ships to grind down the structures but it also means you need equally or bigger fleets to defend. Remove the ehp and you remove the need for the massive fleets.

The current sov system also lets us dominate huge areas of empty space so long as we can pay the bills. So to end this sov needs to move to residency based. At a stroke you would make at least 80% of the current sov claims drop as all of the unoccupied systems drop. This is by far the most complicated part of the null overhaul and should rightly come last.

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Just....quoting the way obvious...

If CCP really...like "We really mean it this time!" Expand and grow subscription numbers, they HAVE, ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO cater to the more casual player instead of the 1% hardcore base.

That means ignoring Nullsec and the Cartels that want to keep it its current form.

Nullsec can say what they want, its easy to see through the complete bullshit that spews from their mouths...

Hell, Baltec, you already admitted this and actually think people will do nothing but jump fleet after fleet of ships just to get the odd kill here and there and boost your egos.

Place a mechanic that favors a maximum size of 5 man groups. Anything beyond 5 participants meets a point of diminishing if not negative returns.

The only way to bring play across the real spread of players is to give them an option for not needing to be a part of the biggest blob / blue doughnut.

Diplomacy is great, and it should have influence, but right now a few talented players are able to dominate hundreds if not thousands of other players by making agreements with each other.

Great gameplay for them, maybe, but that leverage is making the rest of those involved nothing more than spectator / drones.

All I'm seeing is "CCP needs to remove one 'M' from the MMO because I cannot stand other people". There are many games for those who cannot play with others at a large scale, EvE isn't one.

Some would say that having too much predictability is a real kill joy.

More things happen in game when things are less predictable - the nimble organizations thrive in this sort of environment whereas very large organizations don't. Large organizations are best at going after large static goals like moons. Having moons vary after a period of time gives the nimble organizations a chance.

Also, more chaos leads to more fights since it is more difficult to predict outcomes giving both sides better reasons to engage.

Feel free to scan the tens of thousands moons in CFC space in search of the few good ones every month, I'm sure you will have lots of fun doing it.[/quote]

That's a punishment in north Korea for stealing Kim Jon Un's 10 piece KFC bucket. That sound horrifying to the point I would rather bungee jump off the empire state building with the elastic tied firmly around my balls.

Whatever the implementation may be, somethign is needed. A way that smallers fleets can cause damage or economic disruption on a sov held territory if they are not coutnered. There must be possible to hurt an alliance a bit without the need to bring 500 people.

That is necessary so that smaller fleets need to be coutnered, so MORE small scale combat happens.