Goin Off
Manson Family
Advent of Fate
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Posted - 2014.09.27 15:59:00 -
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This team concept and the new changes especially to industry have IMHO totally messed up industry.
Firstly, I have 5 pos's in hisec, managed by other toons and a couple of corps, two of the pos's have been online for years, the other 3 I use as necessary. Apparently no advantage to owning and maintaining pos's in hisec any more! As if the cost to keep them up and running wasn't enough of an isk sink, now I'm paying exorbitant costs to NPC corps to install jobs in pos's with NO benefit for my corp.
Secondly, this team concept CCP has created, beyond being another isk sink targeting smaller corps while handing industry to the large corps/alliances has caused me to rethink my position when it comes to EVE industry in general.
None of the recent changes CCP has made in the last year has done anything to make EVE more fun! All CCP has done is added layers of complexity, confusion, and change meant to turn EVE into a game for large corporations/alliances and if you don't join one you basically whelping ships and getting very little fun for your subscription.
I used to really love to do the indy stuff and was able to generate a significant isk revenue stream with 132 build slots available across 12 of 21 toons. Plenty of cyno alts and two highly skilled pvp toons.
I currently have 7 accounts with 21 toons most of which are/were industrialists and those characters are all about making isk for this character to be able to afford ships and stuff for pvp along with a few other pvp toons. Maintaining that many accounts in case you at CCP don't know it is an expensive and tedious. In recent months and more specifically with the summer expansion targeting industry I haven't been able to grasp/digest the changes in this expansion and be able to justify continuing along the industrialist profession. That being said I'll probably begin to consolidate my accounts, sell off my indy assets and play EVE for free until the isk runs out.
This toon was my first and will likely be my last in EVE. EVE is morphing into a game where it's hard to find something to do that's fun, lucrative, offers any kind of ability to relax without being constantly "on guard". Don't get me wrong, I play the game primarily to PVP and If you look at my KB stats I'm actually pretty good at it. However, the changes over the years have done everything to move assets and advantages towards the large alliances. Making it impossible for the small alliance to compete at virtually any level. My current alliance keeps plugging away, but IMHO will continue to struggle because we DON't desire to join a large alliance for the safety and security in numbers.
I used to mine ice and minerals in hisec, however, it's just not fun anymore!! Hisec gankers have ruined that career, along with the constant war decs that basically just create work for industrialists, loss of revenue and in my case parking 12 toons for a week or more.
Sorry about the wall of text but just consider this an observation of how CCP is going wrong. Indy toons basically parked, hisec mining toons parked (Don't care to hassle with gankers) .
For those of you that wish to troll me have at it, I could care less!! CCP you need to really wake up and analyse what's really happening with EVE, and, maybe EVE is really on it's way out. Analyse this though, when I first started playing EVE there were about average to see 45 to 55 thousand characters online at any given time, now barely over 30 thousand during prime time. Large alliances getting larger, small alliances/corporations getting smaller or evaporating into the ether of space. Rampant uncontrolled inflation in the markets for virtually anything in the game and all of the isk controlled by a small number of players/alliances. Your catering to the large alliances/power blocks serves only to keep the smaller corps from having fun competing all across the EVE universe and IMHO is contributing heavily to your loss in subscriptions.
If CCP cares to discuss don't hesitate to contact me in game, if ya don't care that's ok as well!! EVE for me is on the verge of no longer being fun and when it's not fun I won't do it anymore! Have fun, fight outnumbered, kill ****, and by all means take care of you family BEFORE EVE. |