you should go play albion online
We should all go do something along those lines. Get server numbers below 10k for a few weeks straight.
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That’s easy, everybody just logs in with 1 account.
Right?
And it just as easily loses them. Primarily on crashes…where I’ve had occasions that I’ve had to reset the entire UI to what I want as settings got lost. There is no ‘save settings’ option anywhere within the U.I that I can find…I’ve looked everywhere for such.
Before you go, can I have your stuff? Not to be greedy, but I intend to keep playing, so anything you have would really help me keep going now that sub prices are increasing. Thank you SO much!!!
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Somehow prevent bots from signing in and those numbers might even drop below 2K. 
My recommendation is to buy unique or valuable items off the market and trash them while streaming on twitch/youtube. If you can get enough people to feed you money, you can create a hell of a market sink of destroyed items.
Or just fit it to an alt’s ship and gank it to pad the old killboard, call it “researching fits on Tranquility or something”.
Looks interesting, but I saw the “Play for Free” thing. Everybody’s free lunch is paid for by SOMEBODY.
And I like “space” stuff.
The fact that you had to look so hard is a violation on the designer’s part of the don’t-make-your-customer-frown rule.
I was just not impressed with the keynote, I don’t really care for the story but want more sand in the sandbox. Expanding on the evil scary trig’s and releasing new ships would have been better. More sites, more missions (keep the old ones just add new ones), more space that is subcap only like pochaven would be great, or a npc station in every null region to spur conflict.
You mean “themeparks” in the sandbox.
Their mystery Arcs are like rollercoasters then with some XCOM voiceovers.
“And yes, we are announcing big content updates for Fanfest. It’s the largest one probably that we’ve ever done.” - CCP Paragon
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To follow up on my initial views of Fanfest Keynote…
CCP - I appreciate that you want to avoid spoilers about Arcs - But when will you realise that after nearly two decades of “just wait and see”, “We have stuff coming”, “it’ll be worth the wait” and all manner of other random statements promising things that never appear - I (and I am guessing a rather large chunk of the playerbase) were actually hoping for something, anything that would reverse this trend. No suprise, we got more smoke and mirrors.
Hilmar brushing off the price hike and even worse, seeming proud that his metrics showed that in a nutshell CCP is losing their playerbase .
- SP / Implant / Attributes - that’s huge, but it was brushed over and “this is what’ll happen” - no indication of timescale
- Excel integration - great for indy newbies what about timescale / google sheets?
- Faction Warfare - I agree, it seriously needed some love (and I have never gone near it), but this is your “yuge update” - something that affects a portion of the playerbase right now?
- Price hike / Multi account discount - The price hike was almost laughed off, the multi account discount was brushed off as yet another “looking into” - no indication of timescale?
- Heraldry - Nice to see, but no surprise, another new currency! (oh, and no mention of when)
- NPE upgrades - Fantastic to try and get newer players in, Retention however will be the biggest killer predominantly I feel due to the increased financial barrier to entry to Omega (I say again, how many new players will want to drop $100+ on a sub - they won’t, they’ll want a few months at month to month to check out if they want to stay).
I am seeing a lot of people referring to it as FailFest - and that is the most disheartening thing I can think of! Hell, even @Brisc_Rubal was telling you guys “you have to show them something”.
TL;DR CCP Screwed the pooch with “Just wait for fanfest” - lots of the usual “we are thinking about x/y/z”, with absolutely zero timescales as per usual and no reason to justify the price increase.
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I really noticed that too - the loudest cheers I heard were when they brought out the volunteers and the whole, “Give a thanks to the volunteer crew that helped make this event possible.”
People had more enthusiasm and appreciation for the logistics crew behind making the event happen than they had for any of the updates CCP tried drumming up support for. That right there tells me this game is not on the right path.
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Mr Epeen 
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Is it apple bashing time? Because I have opinions.
Summary
- Lets not forget about cables designed to fail.
- or the apple maps fails
- Or the removal of ports so that you have to buy cables/products from apple’s ecosystem
- or how they’ll reintroduce ports that they removed, and try to pass it off as a new feature
- or how they use a ton of proprietary parts
- or how anti-repair they are
- or how overpriced they are
- or how litigious they are, even going so far to sue others for stealing what they had already stolen (this is true, btw)
- or how they’ll ban successful apps on their store because they want to steal their ideas
- or how they do business with foxcon (a company that is so exploitative that they literally installed suicide netting because so many of their workers were committing suicide)
- or how they’ll make design choices that are so obviously bad that people spend hours debating the real reason why apple did it (and yes, this picture is real)
In fact, apple does so much messed up crap, it befuddles me to think that they still have so many fanboys irrationally defending them. Apple could invent a gun that gives people cancer, and fanboys would gush over how well designed and easy to use it is.
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They now design things to be replaced sooner rather than later.
Twenty years ago I was speaking with a sales manager for Colorado brand shoes and what he said to me changed my thinking about why Companies make those sort of quality decisions.
At the time I was wearing a Suede Colorado and they were around 3 years old and I commented that I wear them every workday and showed him how they had looked in excellent condition even the sole.
“He told me I am not a favorable customer” I understood as it means the quailty of their products last longer than they would desire them to last and even if repeated business does exist, the quality increases their business cycle.
Now a few years later (those same shoes purchased a new pair) lasted less than 9 months under the exact same conditions of wear.
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