EVE General Discussion

Star Wars and Star Trek are both popular again. Two tired old space formats that now got a second wind.

Answer is clear - CCP need to hire JJ Abrams.

The fact remains that there is not any new **** to do in a long time. The fun old stuff to do got nerfed or changed or whatever you want to call it so that it was accessible to more people but nothing was put in to replace it. I guess you could make a case for burner missions but those seem so stupid I never even tried them.

Give us something to do in game already. You've balanced ships for long enough. We've waited patiently for like 2 years while this road map plays itself out. Time for some actual activities. Incursions, wormholes, stuff like that. Get on it.

Found your problem and highlighted it, how can you ask for more stuff if you haven't even used the stuff they gave 1st?.

EVE is best for people who know how to refresh content on their own, and treat new CCP made content as a 'bonus'. For example I spent some of last week trying new 'regen' type fits in lvl 5 missions. Lost an Ishtar and a maelstrom before finding the right balance.

With all due respect to CCP, They are fairly horrible at 'content' (go try some Drifter Incursions...or wait you can't), but superb and making new tools for us to make our own content (Command Dessie alts turn out to be awesome helpers for high end ded complexes and lvl 5 missions). Many of you lot would be way happier if you learned to experiment.

CCP don't do account linking, which is a real shame, I wish they would, it would solve other issues...

But the new player is handicapped because he has to run around in much more vulnerable ships, so they get carved up easily by hordes of bored vets with axes to grind, which is what I think CODE is. Perhaps CCP should enable all new players to have and be able to fly a DST from the start and put in a full tank fit with special modules. Perhaps also start them so they can fly a Procurer with a good tank fit and again supply them with that.

War decs, it is a difficult one because you are dealing with two extremes, players that want to avoid it at all costs and players who largely want to farm easy kills with no risk. Trying to create a war dec system around those two extremes is just kinda meh and I feel for the CCP Devs in terms of this, but the existing system can be adjusted, I went and looked at it in detail and it is actually a good system which needs a few tweaks. The issue rests mainly with the player base and how it has developed in hisec. The ideal sitaution would see small but active corps being war decced by equally small and active corps that are not going to farm them in GTFO ships or massed neutral RR backed up on high grades in a pimped Proteus to kill a poorly fitted Ferox for example and have something to fight over which has meaningful value. I made a suggestion of giving watch list functionality with an OS on a per constellation basis, which is vulnerable when in operation. For a defender that has real strategic value.

Having new players involved in that sort of content could be fun.

I have recently seen some bigger hisec corps, which I think happened due to the watch list changes, I was rather happy to see that and gives me some hope, though I was wondering how many of them were Goon alts filling in time and a lack of income on their mains, hu hum...

I would reduce the cost of war decs to max 25m on a corp and 100m on an alliance, I would make it so the war dec follows a player if he joins a player corp within 7 days of leaving a war dec corp. On the other side I think I would try to put a restriction ona corp from having any other war decs for a period of time, but have that for anyone who has actually lost a ship... A limit to the war dec should be there, two weeks, perhaps more. However these limits should be removed once the environment in hisec has become more healthy, if that is ever possible...

There is that. Start an account, get the freebies, sell them, transfer the ISK, biomass. Yeah, no problem there.

The problems I see with Eve is that its very top heavy. It took me several years of coming and going before I finally even understood what Eve was and was about. Since then, I've seen a lot of things happen.

From a new players perspective, I can easily see someone diving into EVE, learning a few things, joining a corp only for the corp to get wardecced as part of the blanket deccing many of the big corps do, then losing a ship, being told to dock up and not play for a week by their CEO and saing "**** this game".

Or maybe you are in PVP corp, but you get decced by a big merc corp, again, blanket deccing everyone and then being told by your CEO to dock up for a week because you cant compete with this big merc corp. "**** this game".

You'll say "Hire another corp and fight them, or band together and fight them off." umm, all of the big merc corps are allied to eachother because they are all too sissified to actually take on anyone that will challenge them as its easier to blop smaller corps and act powerful and big.

It's top heavy. CCP is always trying to push people into low/null sec when a lot of players simply dont want o go there.
They wont change the blanket deccing going on which would give more newb friendly corps a chance to thrive and ultimately is committing a slow and painful suicide over time.

Its seems CCP is more about fueling the loss of ships to keep the economy in check at the expense of losing players to frustration or lack of play.