Jita Park Speakers Corner

Thats exactly what I wanted to know, thank you. Something you might think about is the detrimental effect that gaming the system can have from either side of it. Example being docking games in highsec, or wardec shield alliances. I covered that in the link I've provided, but its stuff to think about. I'd personally like to see more ways to hit people in the economic wallet with regards to wars. War doesn't just have to be shooting people in the face.

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Could you please poke ccp a little bit more with "lack of communication and netiquette" .

Starting one or two multiple threats and asking for feadback and discussion in a test server trheat should involve a moderation by the originator of that threat or at least some smalltalk responses.

it's more a matter of nitiquette than communication but there still need to be imporvement and less fear of the player responses.

...not quite sure what you mean here. Could you give some examples?



Which 'addition' are you talking about here? Blowing up stations? The new customs offices?

Gah! Missed that.

I think I've been pretty clear on why I want players to be able to affect and deal with NPC factions. Insofar as the 'structure grind goes', I don't understand why everyone assumes it HAS to be the same as it is now. If CCP turns around and nerfs all the HP on station services by 90% (meaning they can be killed and repaired really fast), that's less of a grind. If you can cut a deal with an NPC faction for benefit or detriment that affects those same services, that's not so much of a grind either.

As a side note, if I could blow a station to smithereens, the 'grind' wouldn't bother me so much either.

I'm not opposed at all to shooting stationary objects in space so long as I don't have to shoot the same ones OVER AND OVER again and there is some kind of tangible result / expectation for doing so. Regardless, there is more than one path to it and I'm not advocating ZOMG SHOOTING STRUCTURES IS AMAZING LET'S ADD MORE.

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not sure some of the things 'wrong' with combat in EVE can be fixed without tweaks to other systems. Assuming that happens, and I'm including everything from null-sec sov to a Factional Warfare re-vamp to looking at high-sec war dec mechanics (yeah, there's a lot of things that need fixin'!), the thing I would most like to see is a complete overhaul of EVE's industrial, resource and exploration system.

I'm a builder at heart. When I play strategy games like Total Annihilation or the old Master of Orion stuff, even Shogun2, I tend to work toward building things as big and 'upgraded' as possible before sending my armies out into the world and conquering it. I like making something out of nothing, big things out of small things, etc... In EVE, I have probably spent just as much time building everything from cruise missiles to Titans over the years just so I could say I'd done it.

I'll bullet point a few obvious things and they should be familiar as everyone has been screaming about them for years:

• New, dead regions of space waiting to be built-up / exploited


• Region-specific resources


• Dynamic resource allocation


• Improved mining / Comet mining / planetary ring mining, etc...
(as a caveat to this, I'd like to see mining become something that requires player interaction to some extent so bots are taken out of the equation as much as possible)


• New probing / scanning mechanics


• Finite resources of rare resources (moon goo)


• Massive scale construction (stargates, etc...)

This is stuff just off the top of my head so don't treat it as anything even remotely resembling the beginning or end of what I'd want to see. One of the things I enjoyed most about being at CCP and working on Apocrypha was creating Wormholes. The sense of wonder and danger had been missing from EVE for so long; for the first time since the beginning of the game, we managed to re-capture some of that feeling, while also adding new stuff (T3) that made the risk worthwhile. I would challenge CCP to do that on an even larger scale.

Fix the fighting and then give us new and improved things to fight over!

would be easy from a lore perspective, by adding some new wormholes regions that could be transformed on near classical nullsec if structures are built on it
i said a lot of times i would really like some hybrid between wh and sov nullsec, but well, maybe it will happen one day ^^

Pay To Win (P2W) can be defined as paying a company (or referee) extra real life money to gain an advantage over an opponent within a competition. It is an important distinction that P2W scenarios are kept quiet on the part of the game's designers/referees. If they were to openly state that a player could pay them extra to gain an advantage, their game would generally be labeled as corrupt. For this reason, any Pay To Win actions are generally kept secretive... the referee does not want the players to know who is paying more to win, so that everyone is put under the pressure to pay more in order to stay competitive.

Currently, a situation exists within Eve which resembles this so closely that I am forced to say CCP implemented Pay To Win years ago... and got away with it.

I enjoy solo-fighting in T1 frigs. I am by no means alone in this, I encounter a great number of adversaries. After each combat I pull the logs and go through them to find how I may become a better fighter. Against one opponent, I simply could not understand how I kept losing so badly. I didn't seem to be making any mistakes. I'd been able to pull his fit from killboards, examined it closely, but could not figure out what I was doing wrong. In a conversation, he mentioned "You're never going to get anywhere until you get a boosting alt." And now I know why I cannot compete against him; he pays extra money to CCP (in the form of another account) to achieve a significant boost to his ship's capabilities. Unless I know who his alt is (difficult, if not impossible, in a crowded lowsec system) the secret is kept.

This has caused me to cease logging onto Eve. I now question every single solo fight I've ever had. Did I lose because I'm a poor pilot? Or because CCP offered my adversary an advantage in exchange for money and kept quiet?

Selene, here is my question to you: Does this not constitute Pay To Win?

I've been advising new pilots on how to find and win solo fights (in the Warfare and Tactics section of the forums). Honestly, should I tell any new player to this game that they'll have to purchase or train up a separate boosting alt to be competitive? That they're wasting their time otherwise? Given the lengthy time to master even a single race of T1 frigates, do you think many new players would stay if they knew?

I realize the boosting stuff cannot be yanked from the game at this point... it's been in too long, too many people have trained for it. Thus, the only solution I can see to resolve this is to have boosting alts appear on the killmail. It is a poor solution in my eyes, not addressing the sad fact that you have the ability to Pay To Win here.

What are your thoughts on this? And do you think I should tell that new player who is planning on devoting time and effort into solo fighting to not waste his/her time?

When I'm in a wormhole I literally have the sensation of standing over an empty pit, waiting to fall. It's absolutely awesome the sensation captured in a wormhole (at least if you're not a WH dweller). The sensation that nothing is absolute while you're in there.

My ideas on mining are here : https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=678113#post678113

It builds on ideas that CCP used to have, I don't know what the likelihood of it really happening is, but it does involve more opportunities for player interaction than currently. There are other good ideas in that thread, just don't want to endorse any specific ones.

Working "together" is the way to play EVE.

If you're playing solo, and someone has 2 accounts, that doesn't mean they will win - but it does mean that they can bring 2 characters where you can bring 1. This has nothing to do with "Pay 2 Win" this has to do with paying for more accounts. It also means you have 2x the amount to kill on the field.

Bring a friend to kill his boosting ship (scan it down) and then distract his other main he's trying to kill with.


You get a really nice command ship/T3 kill out of it.

Whatever is easiest to phase in first, so long as all of it eventually gets in. There needs to be a massive overhaul of this area of the game to make it less of a mind numbing time vampire.



I think you need to take your medication.