Thanks for bumping the thread Ms Sadkurk, your help in keeping the thread at the top is greatly appreciated even if your input is a little.... underwhelming, although I do agree I could have written things better the intention really here is to try and get the community talking very much about, how Calypso so eloquently put it:

"more game, in our MMO game"

I like your ideas regarding npc interaction and content,
I also like the comments where these interactions can bring players together without shooting each other.
PVP players have come to the conclusion that is eve is meant for them /us only and anyone else is mistaken, and they/we will shoot, cheat or scam them to prove their /our point.
Sorry guys pvpers may be loud, you / we may be obnoxious, (and proud of it) but you are not actually right.
Sure PVP is a massive part of eve, it has also lost as many new players as it has kept.

There are many players who actually want to do other things, they do not need protecting or cosseting, and eve deliberately makes the choice not to, that is also a big part of its appeal.
They are bored. The sandbox is short of sand, yes player interaction is great, it has done amazing things, but there is room for much much more.
More npc interaction if done well is an unreservedly good idea, it will bring new players into the game and more importantly keep them. i imagine that like most companies in this industry it costs more to recruit new players than any other part of their budget,
Get new players staying, and the extra funds pay for development time to pay for the fixes and improvements the basic game needs to continue and improve.
And hey even in the worst case there will be more opportunities to PvP

All players should support this idea fully, it seems that it would take more resource time away from the fixes we all know need to be sorted, but without new income and for that matter new blood the game will just end up bought by sony or someone similar and guess what happens to PVP then.

Eve has room for every style of play it is not a zero sum game both can win.

Oddly I spoke with my brother about that, he had similar ideas and thought that maybe player set up anomalies/signatures to manafacture or provide some sort of service/goods, which players currently don't create, like mission items, npc's, meta level items (level 4 and under) or bpc's, maybe research instead of using a pos (like a cheap alternative provided your 'pool' of anoms/sigs arent wiped out) , was a strange idea but sounded like it could be fun, could be corporate anom's/sigs so if anyone attacked them you'd get limited engagement timers or suspect flags to them, hell there tonnes of ideas out there, just odd theres so few in game