and my axe!

Awesome news! Will vote.

Question: What do you think about the current NPC corps? My view is that improving them would be crucial for player retention, and that this could be achieved by introducing CCP employees or supported volunteers to be leaders and tutors in these corps.

EVE is a very complex game, and not only the first days, but the first month can be a confusing experience. New players are mainly directed towards missioning by the scripted tutorials, or making ISK via mining. And as we know, this is far from the complete EVE experience older players enjoy, and the vast universe trailers describe. I'm afraid many players never make it past their first experiences in the starter corp.

Handholding, solid advice and co-operation and encouragement to leave the starter area and professions for the full experience.

This would be accompanied by mechanics that reward player action, and guide towards graduation from the starter corps- they are educational institutions, after all. Achievements and awards, carrot instead of stick. But it would also be impossible to linger forever in the NPC corp, unless you'd be promoted to a tutor or leader. Graduated students, or those that don't complete their studies in the allocated time frame would either move to player corps, remain as designated tutors (after passing approval by existing staff) or be transferred into the other NPC corps, which would operate under different mechanics, ie. lesser protection and advantages.

I think being able to have characters in NPC starter corps, protected under mechanics that were designed only to protect new players, is broken and easily exploitable by older players, fully compliant with Malcanis' law.

What areas of EVE do you think you understand particularly well vs what areas are you relatively weak in understanding?

Oversupplying moongoo would shift the bottleneck to invention, which would mean datacores, which would mean that the T2 revenue went to hi-sec. I am anxious to avoid this outcome.

Mynnna could probably answer that better, but with FW as a major source of datacores, I don't think the revenue would be going to high sec.

P.S. His ass is legendary.

Mynnna could probably answer that better, but with FW as a major source of datacores, I don't think the revenue would be going to high sec.

Good to see someone who speaks fairly clearly going to put their name forward.

Theres talk of datacores & moon mining, so whats your position of PI as a possible replacement for moon mining & constructing things like datacores, skillbooks, implants etc. Surely it is something that needs iterating on in the future because lets face it, Tyrannis wasn't actually that special in delivering. It could even involve DUST 514 with mercs blowing up/capturing moon mining bases etc.

As a mainly high sec/low sec player, industry is a concern for me, in that it could be so much more.

I could probably reverse engineer production and make an educated guess as to how many datacores Eve uses, but that wouldn't tell us whether the majority from from FW or if they're still from R&D agents. That said, I disagree that it would shift the bottleneck - my gut feeling is there would be no bottleneck. You'd get it looking like minerals did when drone alloys were a thing; some stuff was more valuable than others, but it was all pretty dang cheap.

That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing in this context though, as it would be an avenue to achieve the "keep moons top down but not too valuable so you can't live entirely on them" goal he stated a couple pages back.


e: And my apologies to Malcanis, I sometimes feel like I'm hijacking your thread.

If there's one good thing about moon-mining it's that valuable moons are excellent fight-generators.

They were excellent fight generators.

About goddamn time.

Speaking of exiting Beta, Ytterbium's post on updating EVE's embarrasingly antiquated PvE is something that I absolutely intend to relentlessly follow up on, as this has been one of my pet issues almost since I started playing EVE.

It has been 10 years. It's not too soon for EVE to have PvE that's more than a blatant "To Do: rats" placeholder.

So you finaly decided to do it ay mal?

Good i cant think of anyone better for the job tbh you defo got my vote

known mal ingame for around 6 years had many a debate about eve with him in our channel but somthing i will say he is a fair and very trust worthy man

like a said we dont allways see eye to eye but there is no better man for the job imho

p.s. no nurfs mal haha gl bro

Speaking of exiting Beta, Ytterbium's post on updating EVE's embarrasingly antiquated PvE is something that I absolutely intend to relentlessly follow up on, as this has been one of my pet issues almost since I started playing EVE.

It has been 10 years. It's not too soon for EVE to have PvE that's more than a blatant "To Do: rats" placeholder.

"Why are we considering changing PvE like this? That is because we are running missions and PvE content ourselves, and we are not particularly fond of the stale state PvE is in EVE Online right now."

Just make them do this. Make them do PVE for, say, a week at a time, then invention, POS mining, POS reaction, manufacturing, PI, etc etc etc. Sooner or later I'm sure they'll go "you know what? this sucks dicks, we've got to fix this".

You never know, they might accidentally improve some of those things, too.

Heh. PVE being dynamic, unpredictable and exciting.

Good joke, that.

Let's say you could only push for one thing to change about non-empire industry, what would you think would make the most difference? Not counting POS revamp or moon changes.