24 bullet points thought of by playing the game for 30 minutes after returning after 10 or 20 years aka first impressions after returning after 10-20 years
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Get rid of cloaking after jumping through a stargate? Why is the ship cloaked anyway? DO EVERY SHIP HAVE A MAGIC CLOAKING DEVICE?
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After jumping you land in a random place in the target system instead but you arent cloaked. Maybe always near the center. The stargates aim for the mass of sun but take care not to put you directly in it. Somehow it always works and never screws up.
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Remove the safety system. Let new players discover the ins out and out âthe hard wayâ. You know how it used to work when Eve player base was increasing!
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Change the launcher. Make it more simple. Remove any links to the daily deal and the shop. This stuff needs to exist in the far background, otherwise it ruins the immersion. (the launchers function should only be for the player to login to his account and make new people who are curious, want to create an account and login after checking it out. the current one does not do that imo. and no âJOIN NOW AND GET DIAMOND FEATURE FOR FREE LIMITED OFFERâ is not what im talking about.
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This is a sandbox game, players make up their own oppertunities, this is why the âoppertunitiesâ thing needs to go away.
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âThe Agencyâ needs to go away for the same reason
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The Air Career program needs to go away for the same reason
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The skill trainer needs to become simpler. Make it like it was many many years ago. The queue functionality can be a premium thing. The whole concept of skills training automatically without players having to grind is very appealing to present day gamers. Its what can bring in players again. But the idea is kinda lost because the trainer has become over complicated and uninteresting.
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No in-game restrictions for free accounts. They should have access to the same thing as premium members, including all skills, except they may not skip a potential login queue, they may have not have access to QoL things like a skill queue. If those were the ONLY two difference between a premium and free account, you would have alot of players and alot of premium accounts imo. But instead the whole free vs premium thing has been completely butchered and probably turns away people more than it gets them playing.
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Get rid of the âProject discoveryâ
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Get rid of the âin-game helpâ, you can never do as good a job as external sites and tutorials anyway
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Dont call it âchat channelsâ call it something more immersive like âCommunicationâ or âCommsâ or something even better. Maybe just call it âRadioâ, most people associate the term radio with music. But in ships and trucks the radio is used to communicate with others. Even tho its text based you are sending the message out via radiosignals. Yea?
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Get rid of the daily login campaign. Make players want to login and play the game in better ways
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Get rid of the New Eden Store in-game. It ruins the immersion. By all means have it on the website. People can browse it while at work or school or what not. When they are at home they play the game?
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Rename âFittingâ menu to âShipâ and possibly merge it with Inventory in as imple and intuitive ui as possible.
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Dont play the music on repeat.
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Tone down the backgrounds in more systems. Most seem to have extremely bright and large nebulas. Whats wrong with empty space and stars with maybe a sun and some planets in the distance.
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In NPC corps where new players typically start, disable chat. Make it emotes only? Inspired by hearthstone.
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Dont give too much info for free. For example right clicking in space and selecting planets, without any survey or anything, it lists if the planets are solid, ice and what not. At least make the player purchase this info on the market, or do the scanning and such himself? Apply this principle as much as possible to other things as well?
For example when right clicking and selecting âAsteroid fieldsâ it should say âUnknownâ if you dont have the data, and no-one should have the data by default. Must purchase the info from another player (And/or new eden store?) or do the neccesary scans and surveys himself! I mean im in an Ibis with combat fitting and i can just right click in space and know all info about asteroids, glacial anomalies, and planet states(gas etc.)? -
When a criminal enters the system, put the dialog âYou are wanted etc.â in LOCAL for anyone to see instead of having it pop up in the middle of screen for a few seconds. This helps to liven up the game ever so slightly. Do this to more things if posible.
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Get rid of overloading modules. On a scale from Fun to Just complexity, its just complexity.
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Company logo creator needs to be modernized. Higher resolutions each decal at least.
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Please rename âSearch for anythingâ to âData assistantâ or something more immersive a long those lines. This is also where people can see which systems they know what about, and what data they are missing, which was a suggestion in point 20
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Get rid of the different types of each ore? For example veldspar is veldpar, there should be no Dense Veldspar or Concentrated Veldspar. Getting more yield comes from training skills and upgrading ships. No reason to have versions of each ore that yields 5 and 10% more than base ore.
Add an asteroid that actually has no yield instead. For more variation in higher sec. For example âAsteroid (No ore)â or something along those lines. -
Some stations are very dark. Why dont they put up some spotlights on themselves to liven it up a little? Example of a dark station:
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More formatting? For example in industry tab when the amounts get kinda large formatting is essential imo
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If someone types something in local but leaves the system in a relatively short period of time, make a notification like âpilot x jumped out of systemâ or something like that. To avoid confusion. Its probably one of the contributing factors to local being kinda dead. People cant tell if the player who asked something is still around, unless checking the list first. Sure they can do that, but QoL mate. QoL, QoL, QoL. Make the âpilot x jumped out of the systemâ if he jumps out after asking or saying something. pls?