I don’t think you understand the objective, if something is balanced too far in one direction you have to counter balance a bit behind where you want it to balance before stopping it in the middle, basic physic’s.
Will be interesting to see who’s left after you guys are done.
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Haha, I love that - NOT
CCP is ruining MY game for years already. I just stopped working towards anything anymore since one year.
The war keeps me playing for now.
They can be happy that there is not a single game on the market that actually can compete with eve.
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You sure do complain a lot, friend Orca.
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i’ll believe it when i see it. i went from making enough to plex my accounts building stuff to…absolute zero thanks to your mining changes. so. thanks for that.
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I kind of wish I could give myself letter grades with no attached criteria the way the Devs do.
In a retrospective, it’s nice to comment on both your accomplishments and some of your misses before proceeding to your plans for the coming year.
And of course, it’s nice to make those plans measurable to the world at large so your performance can be judged.
But, half the reason everyone complains is that CCP never actually talks about what success looks like against any metrics that the player base can see.
And the “quick fixes” have all been things that have gone against scarcity by opening the (null) faucets a bit wider. One wonders why that is…
…actually one doesn’t.
But as with all things, time will tell.
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may they enjoy the revenue from that endeavour 
dude gankers were around long before there were those “red” buttons 
so no ones world will collapse only get funnier like the good old days…
I stopped payment on four omega accounts as you have systematically nerfed them all to death. I’m just sick and tired of dealing with ccp basically attacking the game. I am not playing Eve to be involved in some programers mistakes. If I want to fight something or some one it will be people in the game or NPC’s not you.
All you have done as near as I can tell is make it obvious you don’t play Eve. I see no reason to keep paying you to break stuff.
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With regards to the RMT and Bots section where CCP claim that they are actively banning them…i simply refuse to believe this statement! What about the large horde of 20+ bots in Derelik region? They have been reported by many players over the last few months and nothing has been done. A report and videos proving they were using scripts/bot software were given to a Dev who said he will pass it on, yet still nothing! There were on the ice regular as clockwork. We knew the ice was due when local population suddenly tripled and all you needed to do was go to the local refinery to see them all lined up in neat rows outside the refinery ready for the simultaneous warp into the belt. To make matters worse, since the recent ice changes, the bots are using Skiffs now instead of Orcas and they are sucking up entire ice fields in less than an hour from all the local systems. Also the change doesn’t seem to have been thought through very well…1-2 ice fields in systems 6-7 jumps out and none anywhere else nearby for days in the region which leads to a fight to get ANY ice at al!. Looks to me CCP they don’t really care about the bots considering the reports that have been put in about them.
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it’s hilarious to see CCP just making announcements of what they want to do in the future (it’s been a while since CCP’s actually released an official roadmap of sorts), and even then there are people threatening to unsub.
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I didn’t threaten, I unsubscribed four times in a row. I also am thinking of starting from scratch as the most hated new alpha clone in highsec, I think flooding zkillboard with new accounts could be a form of entertainment, especially if I do it in rookie ships with civilian weapons.
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SOOOOOOO let me get this straight…with the graph, CCP is admitting it has adversely changed the isk making for players? LOW STATE = CURRENT STATE . Great job CCP, we players ALL TOLD YOU SO but hey I knew it was part of your business model to force players to purchase plex.
SMH
-Adi
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Yeah, unsubbing in rage, then re-subbing after your knee jerk rage goes away (and repeating this 4 times) is sure gonna hit CCP where it hurts.
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I for one am excited and see a bright future for New Eden.
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Scoots Choco, it wasn’t rage, it was irritation. And I’m not going to resubscribe untill they stop. What I am going to do is make a new alpha account and start over doing the one thing they seem to want, killing everything that moves.
Ok now you’re off and running! I was getting a little concerned that it took you a couple hours to get into this thread. This material and the people it will bring out has you written all over it. Like chumming the water.
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I think he missed what I was saying a bit.
- How many unique players does EVE have now, compared to previous years? (do I count as one, 3 or 9? - I log for ~1h daily most, 3 accounts (1 omega, 2 alpha), 9 chars)
- Why is new player retention so bad? Newborn pilots are at +250-350 daily afaik (unique or alts again?)
- How is company revenue from EVE? (same, over the years question).
- How will your changes described in blog improve number 2 and 3?
I have some hints. I returned after 8 years to see:
- No changes done to NPC missions (except maybe nerf to loot). New Burner missions were added like 5+ years ago apparently and I had ‘fun’ figuring few 1v1’s out with my specific 60m skills. And have more than half of them left to find.
- I see my corp of longtime carebears empty (most didn’t play for 2-4+ years) even with our “vast” wealth made with group mining + industry. Privately running missions and were getting into group PvP. 3 of us are back a bit to check it out, but biggest industrials are out. I see them playing Factorio 24/7… on steam.
- My 8 year old (Amarr/Minmatarr/BR/Sansha) ship fits are mostly as good as they can get, no possible improvements except upping meta/isk on modules. No new weapons/tools for them. Nothing ‘new’ to try. Don’t try to sell me new Triglavian ships. If anyone should have seemingly OP/P2W continuous weapons is AMARR LASERS v2
- Additionally, there’s no new ships for empires (T3 destroyer is new as far as I see it). Wheres my Khanid T2 Abaddon Marauder with Torpedoes and stuff.
- LP stores are same. No additions. Khanid Navy Abaddon BP to Khanid Navy
- Planetary Production is same. I just restarted all planets, done. Zzz.
- Low-Mid level exploration is same-ish. Scanning seems easier for some reason. Don’t remember sleeper stuff in HighSec so I guess that’s new. Looks mostly out of my league solo atm.
- I don’t see point in HighSec belt ratting. Empires still not paying LP for cleaning house. Should be viable for new people at least to get them started better.
- NPC Triglavians are podding newborn players/alts. And old returning players alike. In highsec.?! If this poped me in something expensive, you lost me instantly. (my corpie died on alt, like 2-3 times… before we figured it out by googling. He lost like 500mil total. Said he couldn’t even re-cloak after align)
- There’s cruisers with doomsday weapons in highsec. And there’s drone motherships that can be soloed in a cruiser in Triglavian systems. What’s happening?
- Suicide ganking has still ridiculously low cost and consequences. (I never lost anything to it, btw).
- Player “Bounty Hunter/Policing” is still not a thing. There’s ton of griefing and baiting to some where’s there’s no counter play or it’s extremely biased towards griefers advantage.
- Are there any accessible 2-5 player level challenges in HighSec (incursions?). Most ‘fun’ I probably had when 3 of us newbs were doing lvl3 mish in ■■■■ fits with skills so low we had no right to be there. Abyss has 2 destro/3 frig option so probably that?
- Dynamic threat levels still not a thing. Probably had google open on 2nd screen for entire month. Drone Legionnaire Something Mega Tier 4 + 10 other drones with names out of 3rd level of hell… I spent 1 hour reading info on google to then aggro and drop 5 drones out, turn repper up and wait. (they almost chewed trough my ■■■■ dragoon fit). Help players with NPC recognition, for f* sake it’s not like NPC’s obey any ‘standard’ rules of fitting where it would make sense to teach them “It’s Slasher - it’s probably fast, nimble and likely has web or scram” They’ll have to process million PvP things anyway.
Super negative - Laser sounds are ridiculous and extremely bad. Voice line “Pew Pew Lazers Pew” would be improvement… seriously. I’m quitting “omega” for another year just due this.
Positives:
- The Agency. Good step towards new people.
- Filaments. This could be used for more. Instanced lvl5 dynamic missions spring to mind… 2-5 players just no “auto kill” timers… I’m not flying 1bil+ into disconnect on my mobile net.
- Abyss
- POS changes seem nice and less of an hurdle to manage. But industry/mining seems to be bit nerfed and would barely break even in current situation. Also there are assholes around we could not defend against. So it’s out of question anyway. I’m down to abusing some neighbors place with low tax. /shrug.
Before anyone hits me with carebear stfu. I’m currently stuck in Triglavian space… with 1-2 players on full system DScan for hours. Only one I found ran away instantly, other seems to be somewhere in safe-spot(s) as it moves. Found standing deathstar on one of moons, with last war 4 years ago?(got moved with Trig invasion or it’s just there and no one cares). Contemplating self-destruct button. Zzzzz. 
I didn’t bring exit filament and farming it is proving… difficult with nothing happening in system. Maybe tomorrow…
Part of blog speaks about AFK gaming. And I agree it’s something you need to look at.
Mining -> add dynamic minigame to influence yeild. “Rock is becoming unstable” - “Reduce power to beam” // “Energy Fluctuation detected in mining module” -> “Change frequency and blabla”… (Saga of Ryzom had this nicely done, didn’t feel like just hitting a rock). Make it so there’s risk-reward involved. And barely worth if you do nothing. You could increase yeild/cycletime/etc… by 20% and be safe or do it by 60% and have large chance to rock to explode in strong aoe to your face… possibly killing you/your mining drones or someone that is stealing your can. Doing nothing… yeild progressively reduces, stuff breaks down or even rarely… explodes if you don’t stop mining due “rock overheat”. Ups.
Drones -> more Sleeper AI everywhere + less drone damage + more drone durability vs NPCs. Drone ships are reaching most “dps” in game. Have application and damage profile can be chosen - seems bit better than other weapons.
Not sure… either make drone ships more drone reliant with less drone-unrelated bonuses (add more modules for drones, remove gun bonuses on drone ships, etc…) and force somekind manual management (eg, drones have 25km auto range, but 26km+ you need manual targeting). Or less by nerfing drones and stick other weapon bonuses on drone ships 
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You must have missed the twitch stream where they told us that they had everything worked out, with detailed plans, but they couldn’t tell us any of the plans, because if they told us, then we’d know, and they’d have to change all the plans and start over because we’re not allowed to know because… reasons.
Yes, CCP is saying that because they felt there was too much wealth in the economy, they overcorrected to force some of it to bleed out, like bleeding the air out of your brake line. Now they can move the inflow back to levels they consider more reasonable without players retaining massive stockpiles.
Of course, most of the people I know who had massive stockpiles… still do. They just logged those accounts off for a few months so everything those accounts own drops off of CCP’s tracking metrics.
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