EVE General Discussion

The longer timeline includes more large spikes and that jacks up the average.

Either that or we're all doomed.

The are a ton more mmos available than 5 years ago. Also, as players are aging their priorities in life change and the new generation of players is in search for instant gratification while Eve requires at least long term commitment.

Interesting. In fact, I personally also use fewer accounts/characters than in the past. Not even for money/ISK reasons, but because I don't have to. In today's EVE there are more things a single character can do without need for alts. Which is a good thing, because in general it's more fun to focus on one client compared to constant switching between clients.

This^. The majority of our eve online numbers logged in isn't so much as other people, its the same people with more accounts.
People don't like relying on people in eve, or waiting to team up with someone to go out and do something past a roam, and even some pvpers will fly multiple accounts in combat.
A long standing method of play eve is if you want to do more then get more alts.
between Rising Plex prices over the years and constant hits against activities people use alts for such as ISBOX, Capital ships (between ship sitters and cyno alts), and pilots that had salvage alts for their missions.

I know of a couple of ISBOX that was running incursions that sold all of the nightmares for supers and took off to nullsec, Now im going to say that come the summer (if he hasn't already started looking at something else with skynet's death) that once supers become nothing more than a boosting ship, either 1 we will find something else or 2 the fleets will lead to several hundred more accounts unsubbing.

Also eve needs to stop all of the ads about "come play eve, be the bad guy" Not everyone likes being the bad guy but the game is infested with them. I watch brand new pilots that just get their venture get ganked because they are mining, HTF is that a good way to retain subs when people are blowing up or scamming legitimate new pilots? (and im not talking about peoples alts here)

I'd rather have Eve filled with people who are ok with that line of advertising. Anyone who isn't ok with it can find something else to play.

People need to understand, that EvE is a parallel universe where chars are (and behave like!) immortal semi-gods, where death doesn't count the same as in real life. Shooting players' ships and pods for fun is not bad in New Eden. Btw, "New Eden" is a nice euphemism. .

I've been running 5-7 for years, I'm working on bringing that back to 3 (this char is a result of that plan, still in training but will be "done" is about 3 months).

Uh HUH...right... I don't think the majority of people in civilized society would agree with the significance of this "take" in characterizing a venue where junior is being enticed to attend. You may like it, but the world isn't beating a path to the door of strip clubs to see some T&A (especially those who ... I'll leave it at "don't NEED to"). Though, I appreciate you saying this as it might give the management some insight into EVE's reputation.

EVE certainly has a reputation and it's not one responsible parents would wish to see attached to their children. I mention this because responsible parents tend to pay their credit card bills, where those who want to stuff money in people's underwear tend to PLEX, which as fun as it may be, doesn't pay the bills. (And, who said grinding for PLEX is fun?)

There's not a lot you can do about this if you insist upon making EVE the first-name in perverse on-line behavior. It will definitely cut down on the traffic. I myself don't tell people I play this game, as I still want them to welcome me into their homes without fear of my disrespecting the sanctity of the hovel, walking out with the silverware, or diddling Sally Sue.

Yeah, rather than continue to try to pry open this can of peas, it'd be better to just suggest the "baddy of gaming" idea isn't very good advertising unless you want the sort that don't pay their bills. After all, in a capitalist society those are the baddies, no?

I'm honest-to-God LMAO here.

You're surprised that Adults do things? lol, aren't you the one who just posted in another thread about how puritanical and bible thumping Florida is?

I call Hypocrite.