Concerns about mass-multiboxing and lack of counterplay — seeking the GM team’s perspective
Dear GMs,
It makes me sad to see growing churn among regular players — including long-time vets — driven by a lack of meaningful counterplay against attacks from the (increasingly coordinated) mass-multiboxing community. This has hurt many corporations and alliances, and degraded the game experience for an increasing part of the player base.
Recent examples:
K-Space/highsec gate ganking by disposable throwaway fleets
Pochven
Serial evictions of lower-class wormholes
Bets being placed on which space gets hit next
I’d like to ask the GM team directly:
Are you aware of the growing balance problem caused by mass-multiboxed fleets — near-perfectly synchronized 10–20+ ship groups — controlled by a single player, or even fewer?
Are you aware that many mass-multiboxers have perfected avoiding any fight with an uncertain outcome (e.g., once enough defenders form up), only to return another day with 5x as many multiboxing allies, repeating this until sheer numbers guarantee the outcome — and only then engaging?
In my view, this “massively synchronized attack” trend has pushed the player experience to a point where it no longer matters to the side being attacked whether such fleets are piloted by one human or by optimized code/AI.
I’ve been playing since 2003 (with breaks) and fully understand that meaningful changes here are beyond what the GM team has the authority to decide. Still, I’d genuinely value your team’s perspective and any recommendations on this, that can help us today to reduce further frustration and prevent more heartbeat losses from the player base.
Thank you for reading, and for everything you do to keep New Eden, Anoikis and Pochven running.
Планируете ли вы бороться с бандитизмом в Хай-секе? Это большая проблема для новичков и средних игроков, а так же для одиночек. Интерес к игре пропадает, если чувствуешь себя в непрерывной опасности, это явно не то за чем я сюда пришёл.
Когда в каналах чата начнут присутствовать модераторы? В частности в канале “помощь на русском”.
Будут ли вводится более доступные и прибыльные способы заработка денег для соло игроков, чем есть сейчас?
Планируете вы бороться или хоть как-то ограничивать игру в много окон? Сейчас это явление является болезнью ЕВЫ: устоявшиеся коллективы распадаются, а упор на социальность теряет смысл. Более того, человек - флот становится огромной проблемой для всего, чего он коснётся, заставляя других игроков наращивать напряжённость, а в конце бросать игру. Не все готовы играть на десятках аккаунтов, и это не должно быть их проблемой.
In the GM Week 2026 promotional video: Why is each successive card reader placed lower and lower so that the GM in the video has to keep bending more the further he goes into the building? It makes me wonder how low the ‘final’ card reader would be if the GM kept going to the very last / most secure area in the building…
Or is it just some confusing optics, and the card readers are the same height?
Can we see GMs in space more? Back in the day it wasnt all that uncommon to see a gm Polaris in a random belt in a system attracting attention just messing around.
I understand GMs have things to do and most things are automated or dont require an actual presence in game, but simply being in space reminds people that you exist outside of support tickets which by nature are often be a negative interaction.
It also helps give the impression that GMs are actually in, understand and care about the game and is just an easy PR move.
Will any of the GM Week roaming/other fleets be animal themed? I’m asking because of the shenanigans in the recent C.O.W. mining event. (This is about a ‘themed’ aspect only. Just something easy and simple. Not control, because having animal(s) in control will be too random for roaming and requires a lot of technical setup.)
It would be interesting to see what ideas the GM/PX team comes up with. Ideas from other players are welcome too. I will make some suggestions:
At the start of the fleet, each GM/PX team member in the fleet chooses a number and an animal for themselves. (Or draw from a ‘hat’ if you want to make it random.) Your ship gets named after that animal.
At every fleet jump through a stargate a dice is rolled. The GM/PX people with the same number has to make the sound of the animal they were assigned in the beginning… (Mew, Woof, Moo… Lizard? … etc) Make the sound once right after the jump, and/or once somewhere in the middle of warp. (Not continuously - to avoid annoyance)
If any fleet member types the animal/sound in fleet chat, the GM/PX member with that animal assigned has to make the sound. (See how it goes, and limit as needed if it gets typed too often…)
Near the beginning, the fleet votes for an animal for the FC (fleet commander… not the company). He has to end every sentence / fleet instruction with a sound, mew.
Puns and wordplay is moost welcome in fleet chat.
If you want, at the end the fleet can vote for the GM/PX that had the best sound impressions, or were the funniest. FCCP can give that GM/PX person a Fedo plushy for their work desk.
The GM/PX people that will appear in the twitch video stream can also choose to wear some minor animal-themed accessories if they like. (I know a section of the Eve community would possibly like the GM/PX people to wear c.a.t. ears…)
If I undock and click the warp button now, will I make it in time for the GM week fleets? Just asking in case the person that did the inertia/align changes strikes again.
I’ve heard some people state that there is a “gift” icon in the lower left corner where it can be claimed, but I don’t have that on any of my accounts. just a “resource loading” that never actually loads. no matter how many hours I’ve waited for it.
All of the Event, Log-in, Daily Goals and AIR Career Program rewards as well as items or gifts claimed from the NES should be available in the redeem queue… Check the little box icon with the arrow in it…
the problem is I was never able to claim it because it was never in the NES for me. so, no, it isn’t in the redeem queue. it was the same on all of my accounts.
Well, it seems to me that gift is for returning players with an Alpha account that probably haven’t logged into the game for a certain amount of time…
Anyway, I don’t see that gift offer… Probably because I’m an Omega account and have pretty much logged into the game almost every day… I also checked my Alpha accounts and none of them have that offer as well..
If you had the offer available and can’t claim / redeem it, I suggest you submit a Support Ticket about it…
I am coming back from a break from the game. if I got the email about it, which I did, then I should get the reward too. I didn’t get it on any of my many dozens of accounts, even the ones that haven’t logged in in well over a year.
Dunno if you will add new questions to the list at this point, but I may as well try. You mentioned you have tools to manipulate achievements for players.
Does that include the ability to remove the ■■■■■■■ achievement point tracker from our character bios? It’s causing a bug that elongates the portrait, which is a significant issue for those of us who like making portraits.
Could I find out how these collectible ships were obtained? A contest? A lottery? How did people get them, and is it possible for me to participate as well?
I have a question, if it’s not too late: are FC going to look into, or even just acknowledge with an official voice, the issue of the fact that since the opening of Exordium, Pyroxeres 0-Grade is still and to this day, the only ore in the entire game that can’t be compressed?
