EVE General Discussion

Numbers limitation, you can only take x amount of ships depending on wormhole size which means every ship must punch well above its proverbial and literal weight.

Many people find these expensive ships by, ironically, incursion alts.

Fleets of 30-50 are extremely rare unless it's a system invasion or something like a fortizar bash. Most brawls tend to range from 15 to 30 people

@Toobo you're right that trade has gone down but the commodity (blue loot) orders have disproportionately dried up at a faster rate than the other sectors

I hope the possible t2 boost charges hinted by Fozzie will be made from stuff dropped in wormholes

CCP as a company is doing reasonably well from what I gather. They have (still somewhat) an excellent and unique game but need to adap to this new era while keeping its core players happy. That's understandably difficult task because what the vets want and what eve virgins want could be very different.

At the moment it feels a bit sitting on the fence, pissing off old vets while not suceeding in attracting lots of new players, so it's pretty much the worst case scenario. :p

EVE has always been a niche game. But it's lost some of its niche appeal while not quite becoming mainstream.

I'm looking forward to next year or so though when CCP adapts new commercial model.

My personal recommendation is on improving PVE side though. It's actually against my vision of EVE as a PVP centric game but I think it will be PVE revamp that will attract players. Although EVE is supposed to be a sandbox game where you make your own content, mainstream gamers do love contents presented to them on a plate.

Aren't there six classes of scalable difficulty already?

I'll try to add something (hopefully) constructive and tell you about this wormhole we live in.

It's empty.

Like, no signatures, barely any anoms. No visitors either (surprise, surprise) because -you guessed it- it's empty.
I do not know how new sigs are created but at one sig every two hour I could live alone in there and still run out of content. We obviously visit other holes but those too are mostly devoid of life.

Is everything happening in the upper class holes, or what's the deal here? Wormbros, fill me in pls!

Not sure if it's a matter of "don't want it" but before citadels there were POSses which incurred severe trust issues between members and sometimes even leadership (some fags just couldn't be bother to refuel the POS or grant anyone else rights to do so ;-)

We also find ruins of what I imagine were once great corps, but they've been forcefully evicted for the heck of it and nobody settled down in their place. Like scorched earth.

This.

The game is sick. I've been laughing my as* off at "EvE is dying" threads for over a decade. I'll tell you this though: It really is now. Alpha clones are the only thing I can think of that will save us. Sure, I'll be here when the servers finally shut down. I'm plexed out for a decade. A LOT of you are like that too. But the main problem in EvE right now is that we don't have enough players.

There is a wax and wane to EvE. Some part of the ecosystem is always fracked up, and other parts thrive. As a guy who's been playing for a while, I actually think that's pretty damn sweet. I like to go to the wastelands and find new ways to play. For the first 5 years I played I never empire ganked a soul, if you can believe it. There is a lot of interesting gameplay, and just because your niche is drying up, doesn't mean it won't have another time in the sun when the game shifts yet again. That's what keeps eve alive. I'm actually planning to abandon my highsec d-baggery for a while and go on a long journey through WH space just to see how it's changed since I started playing again (I've been on hiatus). There is always something neat to do in EvE, and the fact that it's constantly changing is part of the draw for me. The takeaway is, don't count on EvE to adjust to your niche or playstyle. Adapt to the changing landscape, instead. It's more fun and rewarding. WH's are awesome, and hard to live in. CCP will give them some love again before too long... and while adding more WH systems is insane, I say enjoy the wasteland while you have it. If the Alpha clone thing works out, you might be posting a "WHs are overpopulated and T3 prices are crashing" thread a year or two from now.

Every ship, item, and system in EvE gets it's time in the sun. It's the circle of life. :p