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Posted - 2011.11.08 04:54:00 -
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Ronan Connor wrote:
No, those are highly specialized characters with month/years of training. But CCP is condemned to grow and that you can do only if you dont concentrate on one type of player.
The point just sailed completely over your head, so let me help you out.
I said hear about. I didn't say actually do.
People don't sign up to play EVE because they can mine or run missions while reading a book. They might in fact play EVE that way, but that sort of gameplay is not what gets EVE recognition in the press or the minds of the public. What actually gets people playing and talking about EVE is the fact that these huge sov battles and spy shenanigans happen. They are integral to keeping people signing up because they represent the public face of the game, the part of it people who don't play EVE talk about.
In short, the maintenance of this type of gameplay is much more important to growth than any other aspect of the game. This is why we're getting FW changes, because they represented an opportunity to expand that sort of gameplay.
On the other hand, improving the experience when mining and mission-running is the key to player retention, since it represents the activities of most of the playerbase. And while I personally have nothing against the current mission setup (except the relative uselessness of L5 agents to the grand scheme of things, it's an idea that simply didn't work as people didn't follow them and lowsec remains as derp as it has ever been), mining needs to be heavily rethought. I haven't seen anything in this thread that really sounds attractive, so I'll instead repeat my usual refrain.
Under the current system of mining, humans should not allow humans to mine. Hulkageddon and the Gallente Ice Interdiction are mercy kills. It's mind-numbingly boring and inane, and must be somehow made more interactive and more profitable if it is to be considered a worthwhile activity. As it stands the only reason it's even remotely worth tolerating is because it's enter belt-activate stripminers-disengage brain. Anytime you go "disengage brain" in a game, something has gone terribly wrong.
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