I want hundreds of story-lines going on between many more entities in the game. That's what we're trying to build with all the new features."

So you are implying that the carebears are not necessary to the economy what so ever?
If we were to take and remove every carebear from the game the EVE economy would be as active and as diverse as it is now?

No, I'm flat out stating it as a fact.
They do not fill any unique and necessary function and could be excised wholly without any real adverse effect (wellGǪ maybe the forums would get a bit more boring, but that's about itGǪ and that's not part of the game economy anyway so it's rather besides the point). Anything and everything they do can be GÇö and already is GÇö done by non-carebears, commonly to a much greater effect, efficiency, and volume than the carebears can muster.

Yes it would.

They are few in numbers but loud with their mouths. They don't add anything to the game, they don't do anything of note, they refuse to adapt or use tools available to them, they create zero content and they are forever demanding that EVE be turned into yet another WoW clone.

CCP Seagull is saying lots of things that makes me happy for the future.

So you are implying that the carebears are not necessary to the economy what so ever?
If we were to take and remove every carebear from the game the EVE economy would be as active and as diverse as it is now?

Think hard about this one though in this case we can not convert carebears to PVPers we would have to think about the effect it would have on the economy if every carebear account was to be ban from EVE.

What would happen with the loss of money to CCP? Plex would also become less desirable, Pure indy players would also be removed. Please give me a scenario with current game mechanics the way they are on how the economy would look with all these players gone from EVE.

PVP does not generate ISK nor Does it generate ships. So again without changing any game mechanics draw me out the scenario with all carebears ban from EVE.

It's the new features presented at Fanfest each year that brings in people.

I talked to a few Dev's at the Hollywood E3 Meet a couple of months ago and they said that the main content engaged by the majority of the player base is PvE.

So what exactly are these "carebears" doing while logged in that would cause them NOT have any impact on the game world or game economy what-so-ever?

I still can't understand why EVE doesn't have a built-in EFT.

It's the new features presented at Fanfest each year that brings in people. Due to CCP's in-ability to deliver what they promise causes players to leave. Not to mention all the buggy releases CCP constantly implements time and time again...

DMC

It's the new features presented at Fanfest each year that brings in people.

I love how third-party tools are identified as a good thing.

They were developed because the game itself doesn't provide the tools necessary to play it.

Many of the tools will not be things that all players have access to in the first place. All of the tools give the player with the programming skills more "power" than the player who has none. That's not a good thing.

Thanks for the article link, OP. It's proof positive that CCP really is living in a fantasy land.

More player-made content. After all, the community and its escapades are what brings people to the game and makes them stay these days.

Yeah this is gonna back fire epically.

This game is drowning in stuff that need to be done and in dire need of updating game elements.

This game is a themepark already, existing content has been graphed out to such extent by the playerbase over the years that there's little to no potential left for innovating a gameplay aspect of the sandbox.

"Currently we have two big power blocks that are kind of locked in a struggle. I want hundreds of story-lines going on between many more entities in the game. That's what we're trying to build with all the new features." - Andie Nordgren via this article at polygon

So, opening the API to additional data sources and looking for more 3rd party tools is going to do that? Really? Do tell...

This^^

Hundreds of stories? they are all the same. X joins a corp, X betrays corp by Awoxing, feeding information or simply being a douche.

Player driven content? This is just the buzz-phrase excuse for ganking and scamming. Ganking IS part of EvE but to dress it up as actual content is just polishing a turd.

This whole post by the new boss simply smells of the usual marketing spin to disguise the implication that they have run out of ideas and want the players to do the job for them.

Would have been nice if the "welcome" thread was a bit more positive. Imagine what an epic job that must be.

More player-made content. After all, the community and its escapades are what brings people to the game and makes them stay these days.

Oh andGǪNo-on particularly bitches about players who do any of those things. People ***** about carebears, who are wholly unnecessary for the economy and who keep refusing to accept the simple fact that the game is PvP through and through.


Who said they would?

You seem bright which makes me curious why your views are so limited in regards to new players. Player made content does bring new players to EvE, but relative to what? other games experience more rapid growth without player made content.

Player made content should be in addition to changes that make the NPE more enjoyable to...more.

I helped push a previous PvP game to be more PvP centric. Give you one guess as to what happened, players left in droves. This may be what you want, but in general PvP games do not succeed. As it is EvE is not a PvP game as PvP games require skill, not who brings the bigger or most dicks to the table or has played longer.