Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Almost impossible to make the 25b/hr I can pull running on mental auto-pilot without the is-boxer functions I use for this and which will be banned, meaning the officer smartbombs and so on aren't as easy to acquire for the manually boxed ships and so on.

I do not socialize when it comes to things that cost me months and enormous amounts of ISK and effort to achieve. MMO or not, socializing is not the solution to everything in any game and most things are done more efficiently and outright better if you do them on your own. Some people in my alliance (and many other groups) don't even know how to cyno correctly, among them veteran players; do you really believe that I want to socialize with these people and put my belongings in their hands? That's not going to happen. I don't care about rookies unless they show clear signs of being able to become a proper EVE player, and most do not show these signs at all as they are all ruined by Angry Bird, Farmville and other similar "games".

You also fall in this category as you could not even find out who predator666 is. Granted, I typed it wrong and it should be "predator 666" but Google corrects that for you and the EVENews24 entry at the bottom answers your question comprehensively. Just for you, here's the video that demonstrates his capabilities and that shows what you want to take out of the game. I should not make it harder than it already is, right?. With that in mind and your disgusting focus on socializing: Do you want to say that people like predator 666 should bring a friend along who just sits in the booster ship in a safe spot and dwindles fingers while they watch dscan every now and then? Is it that what you think of when you say socializing?
Furthermore, why should I socialize more than absolutely necessary with people on the far bottom end of the education scale, on the far bottom end of the measure scale "How do I come by in EVE", on the far top end of the scale "I want stuff now and without doing anything for it!"? Basically any new player for EVE falls in these categories and many older players have an unhealthy tendency to fall down into that hole. Many people don't want to scout targets anymore, sit in space on a gate, do PVE or other things to provoke fights, who don't want to help the alliance by doing "boring" stuff like market and contracts to provide tools or logistics. Instead, you find more and more people like this one; people who just want an easy way to do things, who don't appreciate the work of others, who wait for pings to log in, have an action quicky and then log back off. Why should I do anything beyond the absolute necessary with them when I can do it without hassle, unnecessary discussions, complaints and other "social stuff" on my own, therefore, be far better off and don't have to stress myself and ruin my gameplay? How can these "players" make my game "more interesting", how you call it? Mind, more interesting does not mean to me saving some sorry back of a newbie/veteran who is not capable of judging things and situations properly and then cries for help in local or on TS; that is the exact opposite of "more interesting", it is irritating.
I fill many roles because I detest having to focus on one thing; focusing on one thing is unnatural and goes against human nature. That is why Rivr can do many things in EVE (PVE, market, exploration, missions, scanning, contracts, scouting, fly most ships the game has in store, PVP in most ships the game has in store, ...), that is why my alts can do many things in EVE and not just one thing. Which connects me directly to your cyno example: Why should I have to wait for other people in my alliance/corp to be online and in the mood for providing me a service? When I need cynos, I need them right now in a place that I deem adequate, not someone else.
What CCP wants is of little to no concern to me. I play the game how I think it should be played -- and that is not the Ego-shooter it turns into and that CCP seems to be after. EVE for me is far more than a shooter in space and I will not play along with the idea to turn EVE into a mere shooter.

So if you have two (or more) people in the same house (and thus sharing an IP) that play EVE they can't both play at the same time? And then there are ISP level mega proxies, corporate proxies, college campus proxies, and carrier grade NAT (a big thing in Europe btw).

And what do you do when IPv6 hits widespread adoption and everyone has a bazillion IPs for each room in their home? You can't go based on ranges due to the lack of enforcement of RFC 5375. And RFC 4941 will make it impossible to really track the IP to EVE account relationship on a one to one basis. And RFC 3633 will also make this sort of thing almost impossible all by itself. So good luck with that one.

Also, depending on how the EVE servers handle initial TCP sequence number randomization and SYN timeouts, implementing any type of IP based session count restrictions could make the EVE servers incredibly vulnerable to certain types of DoS attacks.

I don't think the OP is aware of just how easy it is to appear to come from several different IPs when doing things on the internet. Anyone can setup a farm of super cheap proxy servers in the Amazon cloud and make themselves look like 20+ different IPs. It gets even more fun when you start using VPN services and things like Tor.

I would also like to know how the OP plans to get around multiple EVE clients running on one box under ESXi. VMs with full hardware acceleration for DirectX 3d rendering have been around for a while now. ESXi is free, RAM is cheap, and EVE is not a very demanding game to run for the CPU or GPU. Go go VM cluster based mining fleet.

Please don't make suggestions about highly technical things that you don't understand. It just shows engineers like me how little you actually know about computers.


TLDR;
As a professional network engineer I don't think the OP understands how monumentally stupid and impractical it would be to limit each client IP to one EVE account or one active EVE game session.

There is no way CCP can enforce a 1 computer 1 online account thing.

The only thing such a rule would do is hurt people who don't break the rule, putting them at a disadvantage over those who just gets around it. Which is the same as rewarding people for breaking a rule that can not possible be enforced.

I agree, people need to conform to the alt standards of the EVE population at large.

What are you waiting for? Go get yourself an alt.

You do understand that the majority of players have alt accounts, right?

Stop subverting the population at large you counterculture hipster!

Most people don't want to lose their pay to win. And CCP needs the money from the subs. End of discussion

Enjoy your real life!

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Morale? In EVE?

On a different note, it will be a huge advantage for those that know how to use a VPN. As for the rest... well

I would imagine that a multi-boxer (no matter how skilled) is going to be in a world of pain against an equal number of organized individual pilots. I have no problem with multi-boxing (just isboxer but that's sorted shortly). Limiting one account to one IP is never going to work though since mulitple people in the same building (students for a start) could be using the same connection and therefore IP.