On/Off Player since 2006... currently 'on' again and here's what I see:

• In the beginning there was High Sec, Low Sec, and Null Sec. Now, there's only High Sec and Null Sec.

Slightly more profitable and more risky than High Sec yet much less risky and less dangerous than Null Sec--Low Sec used to be this middle ground. It was a dynamic and interesting place to be. In a previous era, it used to be that one could dart around in Low Sec, solo even. That isn't the case at all today. Currently, Low Sec is as dangerous as Null used to be (and is). There's two problems that I see: Absent currently, is a reason to be in Low Sec. There are no rewards in Low Sec to justify the magnitudinal increase in risk of being there. It's severely disproportionate--the risk/reward here makes no sense at all. It really can't get anymore disproportionate.

EVE needs Low Sec dynamism back.

• 0.0 space & Sovereignty. I will say only two things here: Firstly, how little has changed in 10 years. It still feels stagnate. The same powerblocks, the same big names in the same places. Someone made a timelaps overview of one whole year of 0.0 sovereignty/control changes and the map stayed exactly the same. There needs to be more strategic risk in the way 0.0 operates. If a major force is out attacking, then it should be vulnerable to attack somewhere else unless there is also a sizable defense there. And that's why nothing changes. That's why it's a game of who has the largest wrecking ball and not whose strategically more inclined--the current mechanics offer no such attack/defend dynamic--only wrecking ball.

• Bounty Hunter System still a joke, and I really wish it wasn't. Really.

• Minmatar is still the hard mode of EVE and always will be. The amount of cross training needed to fly the ships with only a modicum of proficiency is so steep it makes you dizzy. You need shield and armor, turrets and missiles/torpedos. The few stand out ships here seem to be less useful now. Despite the changes over the years, Minmatar ships are less than equal (maybe one exception, or two, but literally only two). Once you train all the things you're left feeling dirty, because some other race does 'it' better.

• Caldari always was and remains the easy mode of EVE. Best Ratting ship? Best T3? Best anything? Always Caldari. Check any fitting thread of any non Caldari ship in all of EVE in the last ten years and there will be a minimum of two-to-three comments saying, "honestly, just use missiles" or "Caldari XYZ does this better, because..." "tengue" etc., Perhaps flavor-of-the-month ships of other races come and go, but Caldari always remain on top. In 10 years nothing changed.

• The single greatest problem with EVE, 10 years ago and still today, is that nothing in the whole EVE experience is visceral or palpable for the player---it's all spreadsheets. Even "flying" and combat--the most exciting part of EVE I guess--is spreadsheets. I'm into that sort of thing, so I like it, but there still needs to be a visceral experience in there somewhere the player can grab. Walking In Station is visceral and palpable, the problem though is it is entirely disconnected from the game... it is so disconnected from the rest of EVE as to make no sense whatsoever. It's interesting and I like it, I really like it, it just makes zero sense. This will always be EVE's shortcoming, and there's nothing that can fix it. Just do EVE2 already.

• It took CCP 10 years to streamline the autopilot system. Really? Thank you, 10 years too god damn ******* late.

• Lastly, the community has severely degraded. As Exhibit "A" I guarantee the first three responses to this post to be vile trolling. And probably the next three after that.