Have you solved it?
Eve isnāt dying
Eve is already dead; basically a zombie surviving on multi-boxers and micro-transactions.
It aināt over 'til the fat lady sings and I aināt heard no fat lady.
I didnāt hear her.
I say EVE isnāt dying and you are NOT the Fat Albert! Youāre an impostor.
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OK so I see this sort of comment a lot. āSomething big needs to changeā. But nobody says much about -what- needs to change.
So whatās a āfundamentalā change to EVE - that actually causes more people to play, look like?
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Unfortunately, many have an opinion but do not offer a solution. An opinion without a solution is just thatā¦an opinion. You know what they say about opinionsā¦ 
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@Aiko_Danuja , i gotta say that your attitude to have fun (and generate good content) no matter what is the reason i respect you. You deserve all the fkn simps and im never saying anything nice againā¦ obviously this toon isnt my main and i give no chits about being liked butā¦ Players like you keep this game going.
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There is no change that CCP could do ( short of changing the entire premise of the game ) that will steer EVE away from the collision course.
EVE had itās time. Now itās time for other, more gentler, MMOs.
And before you kill the messenger, I donāt like it either but I donāt shy away from hard truths.
Thorkās reply above has some truthā¦ itās too late for CCP to reverse the direction of EVE back onto a growth path. However they can reclaim some previous players and recruit a few more newer ones to keep a more stable population. This breaks into 3 issues:
- Attracting players who are more aware of what EVE actually is and using an NPE that better prepares them for the realities of EVE. (Rather than essentially steering all new players towards mining.)
- Changing systems that drive players out of the game / or re-working efforts like Blackout/Scarcity that do the same, to no actual good effect for the game.
- Implementing new systems that encourage more interest and interaction and tempt older and newer players both into various kinds of gameplay.
The common element between these issues is that CCP needs to better understand player motivation and how EVE actually works and what it actually is (ie., itās not primarily a PvP game).
Again, weāre too far into a fairly negative thread to delve into ānew ideasā. Start threads on any topic you want to discuss in more detail. Here are some thumbnail sketches of things that could be considered:
- An NPE that actually talks about PvP and introduces it.
- Changes to corp benefits in ways that make it meaningful for corps to actively recruit and help new players in non-exploitive manners.
- Get rid of Concord, replace it with a player-driven system that makes āspace copā or ābounty hunterā a career as valid and profitable as ganking.
- Alternatively, get rid of ganking and change the mining systems in High sec and low.
- Add a contract system of Mercenary defend/protect/escort/kill/destruction contracts.
- Add a system like Resource Wars should have been (search my older posts for Resource Wars).
- Add a system of randomly appearing black holes into new, short-term regions holding various resources and loot, but with limited forces able to enter and fight for them (basically Extreme Resource Wars).
- An extensive rework of resources and ship types available through High and Low sec (eg. no capitals in Lo .4, .3 and .2) to encourage more activity there.
- Rework Wardecs so non-PvP corps have options other than either fight a guaranteed losing PvP battle or leave the game.
Many of these would work best together: eg. Ganking changes, Cop system, Mercenary contracts and Wardec rewrites would all work better together than as standalone changes.
One of the most fundamental changes needs to be in design philosophy. CCP (and some players), have for way too long clung to the notion that EVE should be a game where wolves hunt sheep. And CCP and the gankers/wardeccers/campers etc. have been crying for years that they āneed more sheepā and also crocodile tears that 'oh darn we just want good fights, WHY wonāt these carebears fight back?".
Which is utter BS, since fights exist all over EVE in Low, FW, WH and Null space. Or even in High but against corps that actually can and will fight back. But the self-termed āelite PvPersā of high sec do everything possible to avoid real fights and focus on weak targets to pad killboards and loot drops.
CCP needs to realize that the incoming stream of clueless sheep they had over a decade ago has dried up, and all the āelite PvPersā are doing is cannibalizing their own playstyle. If CCP canāt shift to a focus where PvPers fight other PvPers for valid reasons and worthwhile rewards, then EVEās decline will be even more rapid.
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Good conclusion to a very good post. All on the mark. o7
Best way to show support is send ISK
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And no less than 1 billion isk at a time.
The Frostpacker considers that greedy.
Iām sure that with time he will come to appreciate that.
Which would beg the question. Why are you here? If it as you say. Then what possible motivation for staying? A game by its very nature is a time sink. Why are you wasting your time on a game. That you have stated is already dead and is a zombie?
Make it make sense.
Good post, but the question here is. Can we get enough players on the same page to demand this and will CCP listen. So far it seems that they want to listen to only what they want to hear.
Equinox expansion is a case in point where the devās were told and explained that it would be a dumpster fire. By both the CSM and players that previewed it. Theyāre response was to make some changes and then inflict what was essentially the same thing on the players. What amounted to very small changes anyways.
Now the question is how do we, as players, get the attention of CCP to make the changes you have outlined.
Personally, I am all for what you have outlined in your post. I think it would bring about a more dynamic game. The PVPerās would be getting what they have really wanted all along. Everyone else would be in a better position to make the transition to full on PVP if they wanted to do so.
A just question, my liege.
Miss Keena, please forgive my rude interjection, but I must ask you one thing:
are you a vampire??
With concerned regards
-James Fuchs