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Yeah, like WoW

Mining, missions, anomalies, all boring activities. I didn't any incursions yet but they seem like more difficult missions and always the same.

You will say its a pvp game, ok. If no one mines, do missions or kill rats there will be no economy so no pvp.

Many people do the boring stuff to finance their pvp.

I've tried FW and it was fun, a pve/pvp mix. But there should be more things to do in high low and null sec.

Why the pve cant be fun?

PvE in EVE is bad because it's a small and rather unimportant part of the game, so it's not particularly worth putting a lot of effort into. It's more of an afterthought than anything, really.

Simply remove PvE because as game design, it expired a long time ago. Bonus: We also get rid of scrubs who want the "WoW" experience and feel entitled to it because that is what WoW have.

If EvE was more PvE friendly, it wouldn't be sitting at 500k players today and over half are alt accounts.

If EvE had only PvP I dont think it would have survived at all. Also fyi trading manufacturering is also a PvE activity. Environment does not only mean NPC.

Nope they're PvP activities, you compete with other players for sales, manufacturing slots etc.

Citation needed.

Average player count online at any one time is circa 7-10% of subs, are you telling us that 50% of those numbers are alts?

If EvE had better PvE it would likely have more players based on comparison of other games which have both PvP and PvE servers. The PvE only servers were usually around 3 to 10 times more populated.

If EvE had only PvP I dont think it would have survived at all. Also fyi trading manufacturering is also a PvE activity. Environment does not only mean NPC.

lol if you want to try that logic than npcing / missions is PvP, you compete with other players for isk generation / module drops. PvP is player v player combat or subtefuge anything else is stretching definitions with stupid.

Because grinding hundreds of boars and sheeps is funnier, isnt it?

The above is an example why mouth breathers should never dictate how a game "should" be played, as they don't understand even the basics of MMO design.

No PvE, EvE dies. Pure and simple.

When WoW did their inhouse study of it's players (you know the largest pool in MMOs without counting alt accounts as people? You know EvE players, too?) 20% was playing solo as a choice. That's on par with other group oriented games.

CCP loses 20% of it's player base, put a fork in EvE it's over. EvE operates in a manner losing that many the game can't profit. Without a profit, games can't exist.

So, no, ending PvE isn't going to happen. SWG:NGE is an example what a game turns into when the market and crafting goes bye bye...it dies on the vine.

If EvE was more PvE friendly, it wouldn't be sitting at 500k players today and over half are alt accounts.

And your post is proof why a self-professed "analyst" who is making far too many assumptions, such as yourself, should really just shut up. No, seriously, you should. Pure and simple.

Incarna was the tipping point for many that cost CCP a substantial number of players because CCP adopted this "18 month" plan where they would not focus on fixing problems, like broken mechanics, and some of them had been around for years. So not only did the "18 month plan" and negligence of problems at hand cost CCP revenue but they also had to axe 20% of their work force.

It was so bad that the CSM had to be flown out to Iceland for a emergency meeting.

Incarna was shelved and CCP began focusing on the game because CCP realized and contrary to a statement made by CCP Oveur, polish DO sell better than new features. So here we are, over 500K subs and EVE is doing better than ever while in the meantime, WoW is hemorrhaging subscribers because of stagnation, developer hubris, broken economy and whatnot.

I was thinking a revamp of the actual npc convoys in High Sec. They Should move through the system (new places), not only stations. You as a pirate could attack them and take their loot, and other pilot side with the npc corporation and protect them. Something like Factional Warfare but in High Sec.

A new type of site could be a non pirate station with npc rats defending it. You could go and blow the station and get their loot, and maybe a pirate npc corporation could pay you isk for doing such activities.

The missions should be less scripted, more dynamic and random. The new behavior of the rats (switch targets) is a very good start.

No better content generators than players, turn PvE into PvP.

Have the missions set up in a way that 2 pilots are given missions with winning conditions conflicting one another's goals, similar in a fashion to APB for anyone who may have played that (one of the few good ideas in that terrible game). Ideally, missions would also be randomly generated and dynamic to further mix things up. How to implement this however, I've got no clue. And I doubt all the mission runners out there would be very sympathetic to such changes. You could probably up the reward payout to compensate, but I doubt it would make it that far before a mass ragequit of mission bears, and CCP would certainly not like the chances one would have to roll with that.

God forbid there be competition.

lol if you want to try that logic than npcing / missions is PvP, you compete with other players for isk generation / module drops.

PvP is player v player combat or subtefuge anything else is stretching definitions with stupid.

No PvE, EvE dies. Pure and simple.

And your post is proof why a self-professed "analyst" who is making far too many assumptions, such as yourself, should really just shut up. No, seriously, you should. Pure and simple.

Incarna was the tipping point for many that cost CCP a substantial number of players because CCP adopted this "18 month" plan where they would not focus on fixing problems, like broken mechanics, and some of them had been around for years. So not only did the "18 month plan" and negligence of problems at hand cost CCP revenue but they also had to axe 20% of their work force.

The looting part of missions is certainly PvP, as is the hunt for rats.

That's pure PvE -- fighting NPCs, looting from NPCs.

]Where does the opposition come from when you're looting?
And note that I said hunt for, not fight. Where does the opposition come from when you hunt for rats?