Jita Park Speakers Corner

Lo and behold, these are the lengths to which CCP has driven me... I'm about to shower praise on a member of PL. I enjoyed your write-up and was a good read. I agree completely that CCP has lost its way as far as this game goes. Most of the last 3 expansions have done nothing to add to the enjoyment factor of the game, with the exception of incursions. We are a seperate, distinct game, NOT A TESTING GROUND FOR OTHER CCP PROJECTS.

I don't want a space-ken dress up funtime. I want more content for the meat of the game, which is flying in space. Walking around in circles in a station by myself has no appeal, nor does it add anything to the game over than about 30 seconds of "oh that's neat" before I turned it off and have never turned it back on again. We need more REAL content. Not vanity micro-transactions. We need the various balance issues that have plagued the game to be addressed. We need more fun.

In your defense it's BDCI.

Glad you are back, Seleene.

"Multiple objectives, intel / stargate tools, a proper treaty system, wreckable outposts, real siege / sov warfare, mega alliance-sized industrial projects, wormholes leading to new, completely empty areas of 0.0 that had to be built up from scratch…"

I remember that and got excited all over again just reading it. :(

Not being overly familiar about the details of former CSM and their operations-I can't say for 100% certainty, but-I think CCP is really listening to CSM now days, more than any other CSM from the past. The CSM is very much in agreement about 90%+ of the topics that have been discussed, and 100% in agreement about which direction CCP needs to take in general.

Todays meeting with Zulu-while I can not make any specific comments about it-was very positive and I believe will prove to be a harbinger of good things headed our way as players.

Good blog+1

nice blog. +1

Another nullsec "insider" thread.

If you think easing play and adding wealth to the wealthy will fix any problems with the population imbalances - it won't work.

I still recall a post from 2 years ago about nullsec, right before I started this game.

Querent: "I heard there were areas in EVE you could go and conquer territories as your own."

Veteran Reply: "That was nullsec a few years ago. Back then it was a wild place where players could go and cut a piece of the wilderness out for themselves. Those times are gone. Nullsec is now claimed space and that wilderness is owned."

That old nullsec needs to return. If that happens, all that wealth and manufacturing and the rest of it won't be needed. The place will be flooded with players but that won't happen while the few hold sway and can order everyone else around.

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In real life people are under the boot of others daily. Putting that model into an area that is portrayed as the ultimate "end-game" here in EVE won't attract those looking for freedom to operate with fellow like-minded groups.

1) "AFK empires" is still tossed around about how they work.
2) "The same people that ran nullsec 5 years ago still run it."
3) "no way to challenge for a spot - suck up or get out"

Nullsec isn't "stable" - "stagnant" is more fitting with the same nullsec players and voices screaming about how it needs more attention to "attract" more players to it and all their suggestions seem aimed at fattening wallets or easing play there.

The model for nullsec is broken and that "fix list" has very little on it that will remove the "foot on throat" view of the place. It just seems aimed at feeding the wealthy more ease and wealth.

Whether the above is accurate on how the place works or not - that perception needs to change and there is very, very little in that blog on disrupting the current empirical structure which has led us to where we are.

No insult intended on that. It's just seeing the same type of reactions from the small fraction of players that reside in those areas repeatedly jammed at everyone else with "CCP listening"...

The problems in nullsec, and lowsec for that matter, are manifold but buffing incomes and making life easier for those who control those places sure as hell isn't seen by the bulk of players as major areas of concern - not when nullsec outfits freely admit to TRILLIONS of isk sitting in their corporate coffers.

Look again at that "dream board".

Mining, sole source of minerals - sole control of markets? by a HANDFUL of players? lol
Self-sufficent industry, lucrative. - so they don't have to spend anything to make a lot?

Repeat the "lucrative lucrative lucrative"

So Trillionaires need even more income to encourage others to come out and play "slave labor" for them? It's like seeing the government giving bonuses to bankers and brokers as an apology for all the hard times they've had to suffer through - while watching the repossession and rent increase notices going out.

Already the highest income potential in the game. Second is wormholes. Third is lowsec. Lowest on the food chain is highsec yet 80% of the players stay in highsec - it's the vast amounts of players, that don't like being TOLD what to do, that don't like being CAGED IN who stay out of the other areas which makes highsec seem so wealthy.

It's already like a gold brick in a tub of acid - few will try for the prize... figure out how to get rid of the acid, then see the fights over the gold. These suggestions simply make gold into diamonds - you still haven't found how to motivate folks to grab for it.

Feeding the masters of nullsec control over all the markets in the game by stripping ores and the like... Whatever moron came up with that notion had better take a damned good look at the "joke" threats on controlling market activities that currently come out of nullsec. Those won't be jokes if they do gain full control and NOBODY can stop it. Such actions will irreparably damage the game for the vast majority of players which will end with far fewer accounts active.

There already is no way to challenge nullsec from OUTSIDE of it. The tools to challenge must be built there and take years to build up. Even with some "nerfs" proposed to super caps - they are fixing nothing with respect to limiting those power blocks ability to easily find and crush anyone or anything that tries to go in there.

Perhaps a review of WHY people don't go to the absolute best income potential in the game is far more in order than such things as proposed to help the wealthiest part of this game community.

Ironic, considering that Eve Uni has one of the strictest rule sets of any alliance.

Living in 0.0 requires co-operation. Bad alliances will force the membership to co-operate; good alliances will enable and encourage co-operation. But the fallacy that every 0.0 alliance is populated wholly by mindless drones, popular though it is amongst those who don't know much about 0.0, remains.... a fallacy.