Maybe that sounded better in your head?
As I recall, at last election you said in a video posted to Reddit.
“I don’t know anything, but I know people that do”. When I heard that, I just heard. “I am just going to beak the NDA by sharing confidential information with third parties for solicited feedback, so I can have input at CSM”. But hey, power to you. You’re not a crook.
Nice!
Well, that’s a particularly twisted and biased interpretation of ‘I’m going to ask people questions about things so that when CCP asks me questions, I have answers to give them.’
The year was slightly arbitrary, but I think you get the idea: most people who’ve been here several years will have a ‘favourite’ year, which is fine, but a lot of them point to it as the year past which EVE started going downhill. Since I’ve not been here for all of EVE’s years (and even the years I have been, I can’t really follow all play-styles at once anyway), I can’t agree or disagree with anyone’s ‘favourite year’ as being the best one, but I don’t get why some people think bawling all over the forums every chance they can get will magically restore EVE to their year of choice.
You joke, but some of the stuff I’ve seen posted (in past threads) actually does come pretty close to emotional or ‘energy’ vampirism . One of the reasons I stayed quiet for 4 years was how easy it was to find examples of it tbh - no point in a conversation with someone who just wants to make as many people as possible feel as bad as they do about whatever the devblog announced.
Sanity is fleeting, but Quixotic obsessions last forever… or at least as long as there are windmills to deludedly believe are giants.
I do! I find it’s a great way to keep myself from falling into the dregs of despair and drunken depression with all of the willful ignorance about how the CSM functions, and presumptions of malice about people who really do just want the game to be better, in general.
If you have any idea how the STV works, and you looked back over the results, you’d realize that not a single Imperium vote found it’s way to me. The last person to get on CSM 13 was The Judge, he was in 10th place, and he was 4th on the Imperium ballot before me. Being 5th on the ballot was essentially an endorsement, that’s all. That by itself didn’t help me get elected at all. It was my alliance and the many, many other people who voted for me (my alliance couldn’t scrape together a win on it’s own, and I only tracked maybe 1000 votes from INIT out of the 2400+ I received) who made that happen. So, no “mega null bloc coalition.”
I’ve never said I don’t know anything. I’ve said I’m not an expert at certain things, because I’m not, and I said that I would listen to those who were. Listening to player experts tell me what they think is wrong and what they’d like to see fixed is one of the hallmarks of what I’ve done on the CSM, and I think folks appreciate that.
I have not and will not break the NDA for any reason.
Wasn’t it? I mean, seriously - do people think because I’m not willing to call myself an expert at some niche area of the game that I don’t have opinions or can’t see the bigger picture about what some new feature may result in? I play the game every day, is that not enough?
Hopefully we will get some of the flavor back after CCP eviscerated the bloodlines, ancestry, etc.
Would it not be more interesting to let players construct new gates upon stabilized wormholes with great effort to unleash proper colonization of the Anoikis, which itself could be made much vaster than now to generate truly immense ever expanding realm. So much expanding as players themselves are willing to invest.
Given what Anoikis is, and how stargates work… no.
It’s a vast, engineered space. Stargates need points of natural ‘thinning’ in space-time in order to create their directed, momentary wormholes. Anoikis… isn’t that. It’s entirely artificial space, and from a purely OOC reading of it, it’s not supposed to have wormholes at all. They’re a result of the work put into Anoikis—by people so far ahead of the Jovians as to be basically gods—breaking down. They’re not stable, and they can’t be stabilized. They’re basically the entire artificial 33-ish regions of space beginning to tear itself into nonexistence.
Setting aside the lore reasons…
I think you’ll find the vast majority of j-space players would be very cross with the idea of stabilized gates that make Anoikis just like everywhere else.
As for ‘expanding’… there’s huge swaths of the map where nothing happens already. You want to spread people out even more, so there’s even less interaction, and less to do? Triple the number of people logging in, and maybe EVE should start looking at expanding. Maybe.
What happened when the numbers were higher? Did players spread out more back then?
The sov mechanics then made it more advantageous to spread out. That didn’t change until 2015, when Aegis Sov went in, and made it more advantageous to concentrate. The guys who’ve stayed spread out have basically been paying huge extra sov bills to underperform, economically. You’ll notice that while the rest of PanFam spread out over a bunch of regions, and Legacy pre-war held 10 regions themselves, FRT has consistently concentrated their people into a small number of systems to maximize their defensibility without losing any moneymaking opportunities at all.
Sounds intresting and reworked interior - Do we get back chilling on the Sofa? 
Just Kidding, i know you mean the Hangar 
From personal experience of near daily playing, there is quite a lot of commotion everywhere, be it LS, Null, or the Anoikis, not to mention HS even in LS-surrounded enclaves. Like everywhere is pretty tightly controlled and long explored, which was not the case some ten years back. This is what the idea of the need for expansion and added new colonization oppos stems from.
NO NO NO NO NO
No new Solitude gates!
Y’know… you say that, but…
Paragon Soul: 259b destroyed in March. 635b in bounties. 16b mined.
The Spire: 97b destroyed over the full month. 241b in ratting bounties. 190b mined.
Omist: 156b / 468b / 31b.
Impass. Immensea. Fade. Curse. Black Rise. Verge Vendor…
The numbers say the same story, over and over: just not much happening.
Indeed. At least hundreds billions of happening everywhere. The numbers look more or less consistent with first-hand observations.
Let’s look at those numbers, though. We’ll do Paragon Soul, since it totals the highest.
259b destroyed. Over 311 days. Over 39 systems. That’s 214.22m destroyed in each system each day. Less than a battleship. Less than a pair of battlecruisers. About a pair of cruisers.
635b in bounties. 525m. Less than 1000 rats per day in each system. Closer to 500. That’s maybe 2 people, for 2-3 hours.
16b mined. 13.2m in ore mined per system, per day. Less than a single Venture hold’s worth.
Don’t add gate connections to Solitude. I’m sure there are people in other regions that would dislike gates to their region as well.
I live in Solitude, and adding a gate from empire space to the region would kill the uniqueness of it. Please, please, for once, don’t ruin a good thing.
Pretty much too late. They made their decisions and now a ton of gates coming to solitude and a few other islands.
CSM flagged it as a risk free haven needing change and new life.
MESS and DBS removal when?
Mining reintroduction in nullsec when?
