How to Retain Players in EVE

I think it will be good.

Maybe.

They’ve been working on it for some time it seems

Based on what?

The ā€œlittle thingsā€ thread was relaunched earlier this year and heavily promoted.

ā€œLittle thingsā€ are not a major expansion or even significant update. I guess we’ll find out this summer, but it’s never historically been more than, well… a collection of little things.

Timeline

March 4th: Bakster opines in a forum post on Eveonline.com he speaks for the majority and urges CCP to find and fix little things

March 14th CCP relaunches the little things thread

June 7th: CCP Okami mentions a coming patch that focuses on little things

June 24th: Slated release date for said patch

:popcorn:

If it turns out they found and fixed the right little things i wouldnt be surprised if Peak Concurent Players breaks 40k not long after.

ā€œBakster speaks for the majorityā€ says Bakster.

What an arrogance.

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Inb4 he retorts: but you have no evidence I don't speak for the majority. :thinking:

:popcorn:

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CCP worked on ā€œlittle thingsā€ last summer, too. Nothing to report here.

I think his a funny dude. :disguised_face:

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I like your attitude! More players should have a sense of humor. It’s just a game… :winking_face_with_tongue:

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Not if that ā€˜level of discernment’ is itself a delusion.

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Ah…that must be the patch to fix the previous ā€˜little things’ patch that messed up the ship fittings window remembering what ship you were on.

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Fix the market to retain players. Address the issues instead of manipulating material costs and mineral availability.

… says the person who proposes to kill the player-ran aspect of the market by putting up static NPC sell orders for all items to ā€˜prevent spikes’ and proposes to remove the tax that stopped a majority of market bots.

One almost couldn’t suggest better changes to kill the EVE market if they tried.

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static NPC sell orders for all items to ā€˜prevent spikes’

This is inevitable if the market isn’t fixed

A player run market does not work when buy and sell liquidity is disincentivized