Falling Active Player Numbers

[MB_ThePhotographer]

@Rico_Shikkoken

I found a corp and have a good laugh with some great people!

That’s probably the hardest part of EVE to overcome. Without ppl you can trust at least to some degree, the game loses a lot of appeal.

[Xeux]

It’s all fun and games until the corp thief steals everything. Then the CEO stops logging in. It doesn’t take long.

[Ridley_Rohan]

@MB_ThePhotographer

That’s probably the hardest part of EVE to overcome. Without ppl you can trust at least to some degree, the game loses a lot of appeal.

I have actually been thinking recently to open a thread about how to inject trust into EVE. Trust is a HUGE issue with regards to the enjoyment of this game and I assume, player retention, but I disagree that it would be so hard to overcome.

[MB_ThePhotographer]

@Xeux

It’s all fun and games until the corp thief steals everything. Then the CEO stops logging in. It doesn’t take long.

Read this please. I would not play a fairytale game like you propose.

I have a brother who is 19 yrs older than I. (whoops! ) He started using me for target practice in chess and risk at the age 5 and then would pat himself on the back for it. All it taught me was to “Get gud”.

Going through life as a perma victim is your choice, not mine.

[Ridley_Rohan]

@MB_ThePhotographer

I would not play a fairytale game like you propose.

You seem incapable of understanding the half of what is written. Nobody proposed such a game.

[MB_ThePhotographer]

As entertaining as you are, I’m still not going to bother to waste my time copy/pasting your replies.

Commercials over, back to tv till the next ones.

[Ridley_Rohan]

@MB_ThePhotographer

I’m still not going to bother to waste my time copy/pasting your replies.

Your utterly incorrect interpretation is the problem here.

The most grandiose thing I have proposed is adding a completely safe hi sec level while all the other levels remain exactly the same. I believe this would boost player count especially in the completely safe area, and that those numbers would spill over into other areas where destruction would happen on a larger scale than now.

But I can’t tell if you just cannot understand that or if you just want to be pissy.

Edit: I should have said “remain ALMOST exactly the same”. I had a proposal for gate mechanics that would allow players to at least set foot into different sec levels without immediate gate camp destruction. You know, give them a bit of time to fly around a bit before they die. But die they will.

[MB_ThePhotographer]

@Ridley_Rohan

pissy.

Look who talking.

CCP has already provided the stats that show no handholding is needed. Go bot in another game because that’s all you seem to be asking for.

[Xeux]

@MB_ThePhotographer

perma victim

What did you call me, Scrow?

[Dragon_Lord_Irontooth]

@Scoots_Choco

I’d LOVE to see an example of buy and sell orders put up with the intent of scamming folks.

Unless one knows to specifically look region-wide, a new player will be frustrated and confused by the price warning.

[Kylanti_Hendar]

@Scoots_Choco

I’d LOVE to see an example of buy and sell orders put up with the intent of scamming folks.

If your not intentionally lying when you say you haven’t seen scam sell orders, I have some nicely priced mods to sell you.

[Luwc]

It is time we band together and demand the change this game really needs :

I DEMAND THE ALPHACIDE - CLEANSE ALL ALPHAS AND MULTIBOXERS

There are no overabundant ressources. There are overabundant “workforces”. We wouldnt need Scarcity if it weren’t for people multiboxing 20 Rorquals / Orcas and botters flogging into the game in masses with Alphaclones. Actual “normal” players quit the game in droves until only botters and basement dwellers with a goyzillion accounts will remain. Lets finally stop dancing around the real issue. Remove Alphaclones Ban all Multiboxing. There is only one reason why this exists. “muh log in…

[Mkikaden_Tiragen]

Well, that thread lasted.

[Jacob_Amaris]

eve dies !

[Spicer_Starman]

I will quit if no one answers me wich tribe won the minmatar hunger games

[Xeux]

Brutor.

[Cherti_Stardust]

I agree the only reason to keep multi-boxers going is to boost player number artificially. They need to ban it all and keep a one player one instance policy. No alts. Edit: just an FYI the FTC has been cracking down on companies giving out false investor information related to user use. Twitter is beginning to take action on fake accounts and looking to make it 1 person 1 account when using the service.

[Leila_von_Breisgau]

Culling multiboxers, eradicating bot-farmers and enforcing a “one player one instance” rule would be lovely, but sounds highly unlikely: such a U-turn in policy will undoubtedly hurt the player base (which is not doing well on its own) and in turn revenue. It needs a bit of thinking and simulating how things may progress given the change, but even though it may be better in the long run, the short term dip may scare the management too much.

[Ridley_Rohan]

@Leila_von_Breisgau

such a U-turn in policy will undoubtedly hurt the player base (which is not doing well on its own) and in turn revenue.

The thing is that so many people have multiple paid omega accounts for multiboxing. Not only would cutting those accounts be an instant loss for CCP, also the last remaning account would probably get canceled by the owner in anger. They didn’t skill up those characters and pay all this time to just lose it all. They would demand and deserve refunds…but if CCP does it, more losses.

Also a big trouble is trying to determine if the two accounts coming from the same IP is the same person, or someone playing with a friend or family member.

I think the genie is well out of the bottle.

[Ridley_Rohan]

So what you are saying is that if you have a cash cow worth 300m a year and one worth 50m a year, you kick the 50m a year one over a cliff.

I don’t think that’s how it works.