Fixing the game

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I’ve made the same point elsewhere. The graph is deliberately ‘sawn off’ below 15,000. That is classic visual misrepresentation of data. As is the way the final graph deliberately leaves out the segment in 2020 before the surge that was entirely due to Covid lockdown.

In fact, if you really analyse the graphs, you will see that concurrency in January 2022 was only 6% lower than concurrency in January 2020. But I guess one is supposed to miss that bit.

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Because “ignore 5 years worth of data to cherry-pick only 1 month and only compare that month in 2 separate years close together” is really in-depth analysis I guess.

Man, just how “eyes wide shut” do you need to be to make EVE’s numbers look less than awful? You know he points out the source of the data there right? And EVE Offline is a resource anyone can use?

Maybe instead of making up pointless theories and ignoring 98% of the data to find one piece that makes it look not too bad, you should try going and finding the actual hard, published data that agrees with your fantasies?

Unless, I dunno, that seems too much like honest work?

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You didn’t seem to have any problem with cherry picking months when you presented July 2018 compared to July 2022 on another thread !

I mean, look…January 2021 is actually higher than January 2020. The whole of September to November 2021 is higher than the same period in 2019. February - March 2022 is actually higher than the same period in 2020. The entire graph is clearly distorted by lockdown in April 2020…and what about the fact that concurrency in October 2019 was actually lower than it is now !

I’m not the one cherry picking bits. I’m the one pointing out that the entire graph is a sawn off mess from which you could probably deduce that Elvis is alive and well on Mars with enough mis-representation.

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Please overlook my post history as I am not a miner.

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Thought you where a philosopher.

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I am a deadbeat, only rp as a miner and never a p***pher. The only philosopher I knew of in New Eden was James 315

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Im no progolpher either

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I would say I was a bogey golfer back in my day way before life changes.

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  • Lower subs to the previous level for all countries. Stop using EVE as a cash cow to fund business diversity and other projects. Lower payouts to execs and investors.
  • Remove the extra steps added to manufacturing during the scarcity changes. Because the extra effort is more of a killer than the resources.
  • Add a de facto policy of super capitals having base mineral costs increase with inflation. Free market be damned it a game and this is the right way to handle these end-game ships and stop stupid proliferation while not causing the above issue!
  • Apologies for crap fanfest.
  • Give us previews of new ships and content. Even if it is just silhouettes in black.
  • Make some radical changes to the map to shake up the game.
  • Reduce all skin prices by 90% across the board. With the number of skins in-game now players should be encouraged to purchase in quantity to complete collections.
  • Hurry heraldry up. This needs to happen asap.
  • Add new content focused on veteran player retention and more importantly interaction. EVE loses players as their friends leave and it becomes a cascading issue. There is very little that makes veterans talk to each other and form new bonds after their initial group of players leaves.
  • More mid-tier content- the game needs more to facilitate and encourage activities in groups of 5-20.
  • Big new features- like stabilizing a wormhole, Planetary landing, mini planetary RTS game, space whales,
  • PI simplification, Auto setups for planets etc, I’m getting old and A RSI from all the clicking is not my idea of fun.
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Why don’t you just stop doing PI?

If you don’t enjoy it, why are you doing it?

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Remove PI

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Because it’s a feature of the game and it nets good isk once set up.
but its dates, old, not intuitive, and a pain in the wrist.
Stop being a troglodyte. things should change and be improved.

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If you want it simplifies, then nerf the isk.

Its bad enough as it is.

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This is literally illegal. It’s almost as if you don’t understand how contemporary capitalistic business functions?

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It’s in no way illegal. A business can choose how much it pays out in dividends.
It is also entirely down to management/owners/shareholders how to spend after operating profits. It’s almost like you never studied economics, business or law and talk ■■■■.

It is well documented that Hilmar and others at ccp and its owners have wasted millions on the flavor of the month projects that have diverted cash out of reinvestment.

Maybe you should learn some history of EVE and some Business before you talk ■■■■. It is blatantly obvious EVE has been used as a cash cow for over a decade.

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You just want auto isk.

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Wasn’t there a Universal Monthly Income (for free, for Omegas only I assume) suggestion like a year or some ago or something? :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Wait so I can sell shares in my company, then refuse to pay out any dividends?

Capitalism just got awesome!

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Please explain to me what the actual F are you smoking?

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What a reputation that dude has now, eh?
The man who killed EVE.
I wouldn’t want to staple that to any of my resumés.

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