I know that space rich does not translate to real-world rich, but there are ways to do this…like coming up with a solid proposal to turn this game around and selling it to potential investors… Elon Musk has stated that he wants to get into space gaming, so that would be a great place to start… There’s alot of very intelligent people in this game that could help make this happen… Just imagine if you could channel all the salt here into business prowess… Lol… Anyway, I would love to see something like this happen… 
Yes, maybe Elon Musk will finally ban all the evil griefers and gankers. 
With hopeful regards
-James Fuchs
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I honestly don’t think that he would destroy the nature of the game… In fact, I think he would stop the monetization squeeze and gouging the game away from the players… Being much more wealthy than Pearl Abyss, he wouldn’t be desperate for the profit margin… I actually think that he would be the best bet for an owner to take pride in developing it while retaining the nature of the game… The game is really an open slate that has been begging for the stations and planets to be developed, but it would take significant investment to do that by a wealthy owner with vision…
In regards to ganking hurting player retention, I think that just unblinding the stations and putting the warp core stabilizers back to the way they were would be enough to undo the severe imbalance that has been created between ganking and new player retention… This is where the others pig-pile on me and beat me to death with salt… Lol… 
Joke’s on you when something like that will actually happen. 
Bad idea. Look at the CSM for an example of how the players would ru(i)n the game.
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Don’t you want to play EVE Carebear Paradise?
which kind of bear? HS or Null bear?
All and every kind of them. 
I am not saying it won’t happen. The investment per person would be somewhere around $2,500 USD / 2,135 EUR per player. How did I guestimate this value?
I read the game was bought for 250 million and almost everyone here told me 450 million. So I am starting with a base sale price of 400 million USD. Next we assume 30 K is the active players? But no, the number is higher. Only bots can stay online 24/7 a week. I am human and based on my casual 2 hours online per day, I assume the average player is online for 4 hours per day. I divide the 24 hour day by 4 and get 6. Multiply the active players reported online through the day by 6. I get a most realistic player base of 180,000 players. Assuming this group can afford 2,500 USD that comes to 450,000,000. However I take in the knowledge some players are bots and most cannot afford such a price tag.
Let’s assume you can talk PA out of it for 350 million, and you can only get 100,000 players to invest. The average share would be 3,500. Is it likely to happen? No, it would take a lot of work rounding up those investors and let’s face one fact: none of you trust each other.
I know some of the players can afford to attend the Fanfest and fly to Iceland. We are talking about a very broad range of incomes. Does anyone know the actual head count at the Fanfest event? That could prove to be interesting statistical data. Also the most likely venue to announce such an endeavor, but that event has passed by this year.
Have fun!
ah heck with it, I’m in. I’ve been playing since '07 & these days I consider myself retired anyway.
It wouldn’t change anything unless radical and potentially game-killing changes were implemented and the game would feel less and less like EVE and more like a county fair for carebears. I doubt other devs would do better than the current ones. The game is what it is, can’t transform an orange into a grapefruit.
Elon says a lot of things, it doesn’t mean he wants or can actually do it. We’re still waiting for that trip to Mars by the way. And even if he bought CCP, he wouldn’t be the one dealing with the day-to-day operations. He’s not a game developer, he would more than likely mess everything up and kill the game in its tracks.