Thought it was sarcasm, but he's and GD poster and by nature full of terrible, self serving ideas.

Oh god, why, I thought I had a delicate and smart sense of humor, but I've been laughing minutes about this...

Tons?

Its the CCP way ...


1. We want players to live in null and PvP a lot .

2. So for laughs lets start them all in hisec where there is no PvP

3. But we do not want them to stay there ... so we lets make PvE boring and do not up date missions or add new ones.

4. and just for laughs make it easy for gankers to kill their unarmed mining ships so they are terrified of leaving highsec.


with the result that the majority of players stay in highsec till they get bored of it and quit :D

So let me say it in my words:
We get through sort of natural selection here. Or bootcamp. The stronger stay, quitters gotta quit.

And I suppose it's a balance of those who does not to want or has limited time to farm horrid pve content and decide to spend cash on Plex which is bought by the players who pay for the game time with ISK.

I still don't get the financial part of it - more ppl interested in pve would become that fodder to shoot at.
It would create much greater cash flow for CCP too. Just the rise of the demand of the plex if eve got more players interested in eve would boost CCP profits dramatically.
Then more profits would yield much better content.

New AI, new exploration mechanics, new exploration sites, new exploration types, revamped FW, new PvE-centric equipment, new rewards, new markets. Every part of PvE has been refreshed, hence the question.

The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon. A formula for soap consisting of water, alkali, and cassia oil was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.
The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates the ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance.

It's called niche marketing, Eve caters to a particular kind of player and is rather successful at it. If Eve was changed to appeal to the masses it would rapidly become a poor facsimile of itself, because the players they attract would demand changes to the very essence of Eve.

Basically: Need some fresh and new content in Eve, recycling, shining the same old boot is not good enough.
Some new litter for the sandbox please!

Anyway, you added the PvP related stuff to the list

PvE-centric equipment?

Bigger playerbase equals bigger demands, but much bigger paychecks also.
It is like saying: "We have a small company here it takes care of local demands, but we don't wanna grow and get on the world state or even world level."

I bet they still want those $1000 jeans, but bite the elbows instead.

So you're not actually asking for a refresh then.

No matter, the question is much the same: such as what?

Marauders and auto-looters come to mind.

Neither polishing the coin nor flipping on a different side is same as making money.
What we see CCP does here is stand on the side flipping the same coin for 10 years, occasionally shining it, and demonstratively biting it showing us: "Hey - that's pure gold right there, don't even think otherwise!"

Mining is Daves thing, it's what he does.

Even in other mmo's, the pve gets old and stale.

Refreshed how? It's received tons of tweaks and additions of the last couple of years.

Also, yes, it is indeed a problem that new players learn EVE through PvE since it means they don't actually learn anything about EVE.

Really does surprise me that the backbone of nigh everything in the game is so well crap tbh (i really don't like using crap it sounds soo harsh)

I picked mining as a career (yeah sad i know but well some numpty has to do it), an being new an not understanding much yet is exhumer an T2 strip miners the best i can hope for solo? i mean cmon i thought this game had been out 10 year an the best it has to offer a wee rock smash is a T2 barge for solo work

A wee T3 with mining subsystems would be a better goal tbh :P

ach tbh i don't mind mining as it is, i would have liked a longer skill train an more ship choice i guess but ultimately i don't know what they could do to change it

...It also kills games, look at Ultima Online, and what happened to it when the Devs gave into demands for a safer environment.