I recognize you have to say that, I just thought you might recognize it's silly.

MMO.

And you think one person with thousands of accounts is "healthier".

It's silly beyond reason.

I always chuckle at posts that says "gosh darn iv been playing this game for x amount of years" then you check the age of char and its way less. Theres a reason why the term "post with your main" is a popular term.

P.S will we be getting a new topic for every char that you unsub?

What's changed in 8 years that makes Eve less dangerous? Is it mechanics, or is it player behavior?

Honestly, I wonder if we could form a large enough group of people, who don't necessarily have the same train of thought, but at least the same end goal~to improve EVE~I bet we could accomplish much more than all of this futile bickering.

OP, what specific changes do you suggest?
(Not having been around when PVP was considered better, I have nothing to compare with).

How to seriously increase the difficulty level of Eve, stop training.

Train up to, say 20m skill points, (decent multi-racial frigate skill level) then try to do as much as possible with those skills.

Been there, done that. With less SP.

In fact, I once soloed a Geddon with a Vexor and the character flying it had approximately 123,000 SP. Yep. 123K. Not 12.3 million, or 123 million, 123 thousand. Just to prove it could be done.

Put all local into delayed mode

The problem with this is that given the horrible risk/reward throughout the game (hisec incursions, l o l) people wouldn't bother figuring out ways to "adapt" to delayed local in nullsec. It'd make covops cloaking ships far overpowered and dudes would simply repurpose a subcap character into a hisec incursion alt where they'd farm ISK endlessly free of risk.

The problem with this is that given the horrible risk/reward throughout the game (hisec incursions, l o l) people wouldn't bother figuring out ways to "adapt" to delayed local in nullsec. It'd make covops cloaking ships far overpowered and dudes would simply repurpose a subcap character into a hisec incursion alt where they'd farm ISK endlessly free of risk.

I'll probably be flamed to hell for this, but I'll bite-

(in no particular order)

Put all local into delayed mode
Remove Warp To Zero, make every gate act as a warp bubble with a 15km radius. Even if you put a BM 100km behind it, you'll still come out of warp 15km from the gate. Problem solved.
Remove Jump Bridges
Remove Jump Freighters
Repping anyone locks you out from docking/jumping for 60 seconds
Increase aggression docking/jumping lock out to 60 seconds (this due to the increased relative HP of all ships and decreased peak DPS intended to 'prolong fights')
Remove all non static warp disruption bubbles (e.g. dictor bubbles and HIC bubbles)
Make probing more difficult, but more skill/technique based

I can detail out each reason, but that's a good start. What do you think?

Overall you seem to be a huge fan of encouraging massive blobs to carry out every task, and reducing null to a deserted wasteland filled with endless tedium.

Well, that was a very quick list, with no detail. Also, I mean for local to be in delayed mode for all security systems, even high sec. Run incursions while war decced in high sec with delayed local? Maybe... even then, it would be worth it to suicide incursion runners for the ISK, they used such pimped out ships.

Clearly, the profitability of high sec would be reduced in relation to its safety in comparison to 0.0 and lowsec in my vision. But yes, I agree with you, as it stands right now, it wouldn't work.

Statu quo?

Another problem with delayed local is that nullsec would need a drastic revamp re: the effort needed to find a target. Simply delaying local would allow me to simply jump a bomber into a system, look for a ship on dscan, warp to wherever it is, and instalock+point it (bombers don't have the targeting delay) - assuming that the ship is even there to be killed. At least in wormholes it works since you have to probe your targets out, with your probes showing on dscan, and there's a mass limit on the number of ships you can get into a given w-space system. No supercapitals, no cynos, no fixed routes. CCP would have to address a lot of things outside of hisec if they were to touch local.

Beyond that, hisec incursion runners don't tend to allow you to join their fleets if you have an active wardec, and you can simply drop corp during wardecs anyway.

Where 1 hard player quits, 3 soft hearted NeX Store loving, Gold Ammo Wanting, Daddy's Credit Card Holdin', teenagers will soon replace him. And Hilmar's dream gets a step closer to reality.

Mechanics. If you have to ask, you haven't been watching. Or are simply too new to have experienced it as it once was.

Sorry for not clarifying, I didn't think I needed to. I meant video games, not real world sports. That's a different story.

So to summarize... you can't get any kills so CCP should make it easier for you

Its also not going to happen.

So it still stands a growing game is a healthy game.

Again, if that dude keeps buying subs at or faster than the rate other people are leaving, you're forced to call it a "growing game".

It's beyond ridiculous.

And yet you'll cling.

Sorry but what you are saying is just stupid. Nobody is paying for thousands upon thousands of subs.

Thousands of subs... must be quite a mining operation or something.

Another problem with delayed local is that nullsec would need a drastic revamp re: the effort needed to find a target. Simply delaying local would allow me to simply jump a bomber into a system, look for a ship on dscan, warp to wherever it is, and instalock+point it (bombers don't have the targeting delay) - assuming that the ship is even there to be killed. At least in wormholes it works since you have to probe your targets out, with your probes showing on dscan, and there's a mass limit on the number of ships you can get into a given w-space system. No supercapitals, no cynos, no fixed routes. CCP would have to address a lot of things outside of hisec if they were to touch local.

Beyond that, hisec incursion runners don't tend to allow you to join their fleets if you have an active wardec, and you can simply drop corp during wardecs anyway.