i started playing in October 2002 and joined CCP in april 2006. 6 years is nothing, quit whining

I have been playing EVE for almost 6 years now (just 3 months to go until that anniversary).

It has been 3 years since there was something new to do in a spaceship. More than half my EVE "life" has been since the Apocrypha expansion was released.

I'm not going to rehash the ~mistakes were made~ period of Dominion - Incarna. I am most definitely not going to complain that CCP has committed a year's worth of development effort - desperately needed, long overdue, hugely welcome - on what has essentially been a massive polishing and detail-work project. It was unquestionably the right thing to do, and I'm glad they did it.

The new battlecruisers are fantastic - I love all of them. The tiercide project is revolutionising T1 frigates, which is so obviously a good thing I can hardly think of it without tears coming to my eyes - and I'm totally looking forward to seeing what happens when the project is extended to the T1 cruiser range. You've made EVE beautiful with the new nebulae and with the V3 project. You've even pretty much "fixed lag", for God's sake! How awesome is that? That stuff is all brilliant and I love it. I have even learned to get along with the new inventory thingamujig, after some practice.


But three years, guys.

For my 6th EVE birthday present, what I'd really really like is for you to tell me that there are going to be new things to do coming to EVE. You've been doing a fantastic job of improving EVE; now I want to see you expanding it.

September 24th, 22:34, 2012: I'll be online, logged in, starry-eyed and hopeful.





Love,

Malc.

This topic is about ( i dont like soon tm ?) well you cant change this... Soon TM is official CCP motto.

No it's not about SoonGäó. After 6 years you stop struggling against SoonGäó. It's about direction.

Friend, buddy, old pal, exchanger of homoerotic banter....

credit your pusher.

New types of space. Avatar gameplay. New things to do in space (eg: bounty hunting, spacewhales, mining that's not comatose-inducingly dull, ring mining, PvE that's not wrist-slashingly predictable, DUST would have been a fine example if it was incorporated into EVE)

How's about some 'fluidic space'.. a la 8472.. that could introduce a whole new tier of everything.. ore, planets, ships, modules, npc's, etc.

i started playing in October 2002 and joined CCP in april 2006. 6 years is nothing, quit whining

Ineffective Bounty Hunting system since 2003 anyone?

(Maybe not a new feature in the strictest sense)

I just joined, and it didn't take me long to see how broken the bounty system was. I was really meaning to do that as a career when I first signed up, and it was so frustrating to see that it was an essentially useless mechanic in practice. Personally, while I do appreciate that they're going to finally 'formalize' mercenary work through the merc market, they could have done something similar with bounties (which, personally as explained above, I would prefer). A market, coupled with a skill (or multiple skills) that governs how many "jobs" you can take and of what price range (perhaps) would go a long way towards encouraging bounty hunting as a career. Rather than being something that you just sort of inadvertently collect from killing people, you now browse through a list of jobs with details provided by the potential employer; when and where they were last seen, general habits they may have, etc. Mechanics should be put in place to prevent members of the same corp, alliance, and alts of said characters from collecting bounties to prevent exploitation.



Perhaps the merc market will have options in the contracts to encourage this sort of thing. Being able to individually contract within specific parameters (kill him in a hulk, or in this particular system, whatever) could do more to heighten the more "personal" aspects of bounty hunting vs fleet battles or even mercenary assaults. If you were forced to actually stalk your prey and strike at the right time to receive a reward, I think it could do a lot towards generating a 'new' feeling experience.



Just my two cents, I'm sure there are barriers that I'm not aware of, and this has mostly likely been brought up in the last 9 years or so.

It has been 3 years since there was something new to do in a spaceship. More than half my EVE "life" has been since the Apocrypha expansion was released.

There's new content it's called dust
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Make sure to bump/repost this in 12 weeks when they actually come back from vacation.

Yeah but you are paid to play