I think the industry nerfs would be fair but this won't persuade people who don't want to be in player corps. they don't want the politics, the game running their life and they don't want to do boring activities with other people.

An interesting statement which seems to indicate that you have a great deal of data on how many people quit the game or reduce accounts and their reasons. While I'm sure very little can ever come to the same level of the summer of rage, I'd be genuinely surprised if a change as widespread as this wouldn't cause at least a few people to rage quit.

Hrm... I don't know if people will quit the game, but it is a known fact that higher taxes on NPC corps did not result in players joining player run corporation en masse. Players do start their own 1 man corps for missioning and POS stuff, but otherwise they will just drop the corp if they are war dec'd.

Forcing people out of NPC corps will just result in a bunch of one man corps that will result in less player interaction.

Believe it or not communication and interaction happens all the time in NPC corps. There are about 500 people in the NPC corp on this alt for example and I often take time to answer players questions to help them out and even donte money to people that meet certain criteria.

Take that away and people will just be in a one man corp sitting silently in local doing whatever they do to make isk.

I suppose you could say war dec's will force one man players into larger corpoartions.

That doesn't happen now and that won't happen even if you prevent players from disbanding, leaving, and generally forcing them to keep playing with the war dec, they won't undock.

And you basically can't force people to undock.

Also, on a side note, some of the major people who earn massive amounts of isk in hi-sec are station trades who by their very nature do not undock.

Anyways, back to my previous point. You could in theory force everyone out of NPC corps into one man corps and then you could force them to stay in those corps while they are war dec'd but you can't force them to undock.

And if you are playing a game where you can't undock, you get bored and if you get bored you think about canceling your sub.

Now there is no hard scientific proof that people who can't/won't/don't undock will automatically cancel their accounts.

But if I personally played a game where I had to stay docked all day, then I'd probaly quit. And if I quit, stastically other people quit too.

Personally, I'm in FW so when I undock I'll probaly get killed in low sec somewhere, but I'm talking about the people who are in NPC corps for a reason.

There is no good way you can solve this problem by force.

You have to make player run corps and alliances more attractive to players through buffing player run corps. Not by nerfing NPC corps. That is the only way.

example: If your corp has more than 50 players than give like a 5% bonus in mining ore or mission LP yield to everyone in that corp.

I posted in Features & Ideas on a possible solution to get players out of NPC corps into player run corps. It also addresses war dec avoidance.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2536640

The jist of the idea is to give player corporations skills that give bonuses to the corporation which only apply when you are a member. If the skills are exspensive enough and take long enough to train it will be an disincentive from quitting the corp and starting a new one because you'll have to start over again.

I stated EvE as it is now is sucessful simply because of the highest subscription numbers ever. Sure you can chalk it up to Chinese subs, .