EVE General Discussion

I am a player that has been playing EVE since 2005. I am in agreement. I believe what CCP is trying to do is great, but the Sov changes they are putting in place regarding the sov being vulnerable for 4 to 8 hours a day is emptying null sec out a lot more. I remember CCP making a comment that EVE is in now way the representation of the way people thing or live their lives. I would prefer CCP rephrases that, because it is very untrue.

People become immersed into the game, their RL dramas left behind and their ideas and thoughts no matter how sadistic or not become part of the game.

With the new sov changes CCP Fozzie is introducing, i would say that null sec will lose even more numbers and probably already is. Generating more action is just something that is needed, with that i will agree. You can't have everyone carebear all the time and then stagnate the game to a point people quit due to boredom. There are many problems in EVE. One of many is the fact that CCP stated they trying to generate more fun fights and action in EVE, and also trying to allow smaller entities to have a piece of the pie. However, this is not the case, larger more stronger alliances are at it again. They push smaller entities to the point of simply quitting the game, as there are thousands that do not want to be in major 10k to 38k size powerblocs. They don't want to do massive fleets. They enjoy the small gang game play style.

Each time CCP makes a change they completely ignore one simple fact, a fact that has been apart of the human condition for thousands of years. That fact is, "I am a stronger caveman than you, join me or I beat you like rock". Then tie that in with the really sadistic minds of some of the people in EVE, well, that only spells bad news for any small entity. Even if its a small entity bent on trying to promote EVE and Null Sec and get more new players to join up and move to a null sec region designed to help build up the abilities of new players, so they can learn how to play the game in a different environment to high security space. Lets take Brave Collective for instance. They have lots of new players join them, teach them, show them the ropes. Some alliance are not as big as they are. Some try to show new players the fun side of a smaller scale way of having fun.

None of what CCP Fozzie has brought forward is of any interest to a new player willing to move to null sec and learn the ropes in a harder environment. At the present moment, numbers are dropping. I also get told, no, numbers are increasing and yet i don't see it. I had a GM tell me they are over 500k accounts. I really could not contain my laughter. CCP makes a big mistake relying purely on just the numbers and not the "active" numbers.

CCP states they cannot intervene nor interfere or they use the phrase, "we cannot directly affect the game". Well now, that is the funniest nonsense I have ever heard. By making certain changes to the game regarding mechanics, you are affecting the game. Due to the 4 to 8 hour timers you are implementing in the new sov changes, you directly affect the game. It forces alliances/coalitions to make every possible attempt to break up smaller entities and push them into joining a larger powerbloc and becoming nothing but a number. That is directly affecting the smaller gang game play style. I would also go as far as stating that CCP have not really changed much in terms of giving opportunities to smaller entities.

To be honest, there is a good chance CCP will lose a lot more "active" players. I myself personally have opened an account on other games like star********. LOL.

It is truly very sad that EVE has turned to this uninteresting, not fun, game. It was the biggest, best game in the world, that no one had the ability to top. Now CCP is just pushing people away, pushing the community away with some of the changes in the new upcoming patch. That has already been a dramatic drop in active players over the past 12 to 18 months. Thank you CCP for a great game, and thank you CCP Fozzie for your effort, but EVE is just no longer worth playing.

It's not a small clique of anything, it's people being people, human nature at work. People will take advantage of ANY situation, whether it's lawless space in an internet game or in real life (look at real life businesses using various laws and regulations to not only make a profit, but beat the crap out of their competition, hell, you don't even have to go that far, look at any High School lol)

Blaming it on a "few people" is an old and tired fallacy (and one usually offered by people who themselves have contributed to the problem but don't want to take any blame), the idea that "things would be great" if a handful of people didn't do something. The real truth is null has been the way it is now since day one, the entire game has been that way, various individuals and groups seeking whatever advantage they could over others and damn the consequences.


In other words, you can't sit there in an Alliance that is Blue to Goons (an Alliance i used to be a part of btw) and complain about Blue anything.