EVE Search - Imbalance and the Inability to Avoid It

Caleb Seremshur wrote:

Brigadine Ferathine wrote:

So it has become more and more difficult to have make Isk due to hostle blobs everywhere exept hi sec. On top of this galentee keeps getting nerfed. The only way ive found that it is possile to make isk is by carebear mining*gasp* but that is so far from being a sustainable income for one account.

Point is it is impossible to make isk without buying PLEX which is wrong because I already subscribe to the game. I shouldent have to pay for other parts of the game due the fact I already pay to play.

PvP- Blob or be blobed. PvP in this game has nothing to do with what you have or how good you are with it. It is all about who has more guns on field.

This sad fact makes CCP's balencing of the game USELESS. My 100 rookie ships will kill your tens of billions worth of blinged out Battleships anyday.

Point is this game is getting very stale. Skill doesnt matter. The only thing that matters is who can buy more PLEX than the other guy will win. I have never gotten into an even matched fight in 1 year playing this game. People will only fight you if its 4 of them against you. It simply isnt fun being blobbed or honestly blobbing people. Unfortunately that is the lame nature of this game. I cant stand being in fights that last 5 secconds.

Long story short I do not feel like my subscription fee's are fair for what I get. Now we have to pay for ship paint jobs too plus being allowed to use our charicter slots? We already subscribe. I just feel ripped off. CCP needs to worry less about balencing ships and actually making good fights in the game. Balenced ships are pointless if you cant get a balenced numbers fight.

While I think CCP does much to identify retention issues for its newer players I don't see much work from them in identifying why veterans are leaving - although they mention an overall severe reduction in gross value per account in the 2013 CSM minutes. The conclusion drawn is that high-value veteran players are leaving (or biomassing) because they've hit their perceived end game and no longer find the game attractive.

May I address a couple of your concerns? Since you can't actually stop me I'm going to anyway.

1. Balancing in the manner you describe is to stop fail-players from buying their way to success. More detailed version is simple, 20 t1 destroyers with 200dps each is 4k dps vs your battleships measly 650-1000dps. Yet the costs are likely to be similar and the battleship probably has less ehp than the destroyer swarm. It's just wartime economics at work here and not intrinsically a balancing issue you can fix overnight by just adjusting a few ship stats, there's also the issue of your corporation members simply not having the SP for a powerful BS fit.

2. Gate camps have always existed since the beginning. This is a genuine problem but without an actual place to discuss it with strong moderation it will probably not get addressed, too many game mechanics hinge on arbitrary choke points like gates/acc.gates and stations.

3. Skill does matter, I now have a cerberus on SISI that has over 50 kills and an orthrus with about 14. Granted the orthrus has an assload of problems and practically cannot function against a competent enemy. This ship needs a couple of minor changes and it will be perfect (like first of all identifying what exactly it's supposed to be killing predominantly). I fly true solo, no alts, no OGB, no fleets. Just boosters and my TQ implant sets. I don't fly on SISI with anything I can't afford to use on TQ.

4. The game has been stale for a very long time, as I briefly touched on in the sticky about WW layoffs. Since I joined in 2009 the games most significant changes have been the rebalancing initiatives, politically however I can't tell the difference between now and then. March of Tyranny syndrome, no matter whose in charge its still ******.

5. Your subscription fee does not entitle you to ISK or any other benefit than SP. SP is what you pay a sub for, what you do with your time and the SP you have accumulated is your decision and if that's not working out the way you hoped then clearly you're doing something wrong (or working for the wrong people).