What I dislike obviously is the reason for the player decline, although just yesterday we had 39k+ accounts logged in and I am just talking out of my ass. Besides that, I should read a few more books.

Clearly the solution here is bringing back the loot spew mechanics that was recently removed. Explorers have been crying about it ever since they removed it.

We also need to BUFF highsec and make nullsec highly unlivable and make sure concord shows up every time someone locks someone up.

yes the ease of high sec ganking is an issue, leave high sec and buff low sec is the key. The loot spew mechancis should be reimbursed also. Null sec is fine. Ease of access between low and high is easonable esp with wh mechanics

yes the ease of high sec ganking is an issue, leave high sec and buff low sec is the key. The loot spew mechancis should be reimbursed also. Null sec is fine. Ease of access between low and high is easonable esp with wh mechanics

a less restrictive playstyle.

Elaborate.

Can we all agree that Elite: Dangerous fanbois should be called 'Elite D-bags'?

We had 39k users yesterday ... until the big disconnect hit.


So ... no .... you just talk crap and they should ban your candy ass.


I predict a lock.


*kinks* (:

Original Recipe:

1lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef

1large onion, chopped (1 cup)

1/2teaspoon salt

1cup shredded Cheddar cheese (4 oz)

1/2cup Original BisquickGäó mix

1cup milk

2eggs

Directions
GÇó1Heat oven to 400-¦F. Spray 9-inch glass pie plate with cooking spray.
GÇó2In 10-inch skillet, cook beef and onion over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef is brown; drain. Stir in salt. Spread in pie plate. Sprinkle with cheese.
GÇó3In small bowl, stir remaining ingredients with fork or wire whisk until blended. Pour into pie plate.
GÇó4Bake about 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Crowd-size recipe:

1lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef

1 1/2cups chopped onion

1teaspoon seasoned salt

1bag (12 oz) Green GiantGäó SteamersGäó frozen mixed vegetables

1cup Original BisquickGäó mix

2cups milk

4eggs, beaten

2cups shredded Cheddar cheese (8 oz)

Directions
GÇó1Heat oven to 400-¦F. Spray 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. In 10-inch skillet, cook beef, onion and salt over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until beef is brown; drain. Spread in dish. Top evenly with frozen mixed vegetables.
GÇó2In medium bowl, stir Bisquick mix, milk and eggs with wire whisk until blended. Pour into baking dish.
GÇó3Bake 30 minutes. Sprinkle evenly with cheese; bake 10 minutes longer or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cut into squares.

Posting in a stealth "EVE is dying" thread....

According to all you chuckleheads, EVE has been dying for nearly 12 years.
With the condition she's in, right now, whatever she's dying of is going to take another 50 years to finish her off, at this rate.

The facts are since I have been playing in 2010 eve has not gained, but lost players every year. Players can't even stay connected to the game for more than a couple hours at a time for 2 months now, see https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=374966&find=unread.

It won't be long before pvpers like me won't stand for taking ship losses every single play session for months due to CCP's relaxed attitude to the game breaking connectivity issues. We have been experencing this for several weeks now without any compensation or any real commitment to fixing the issue, if that's not a sign of eve coming to an end I'm not sure what is. Sure there are plenty of people that sit docked, troll the forums, or just manage their skill queues that won't care; but when people can't pvp and actually play the game without constant disconnects there is a real problem.

Instead of CCP hiring network technicians to make sure their players can actually use the service they pay for, they are laying off, or not paying their devs enough to keep them from moving to other game companies.

Possibly because there is no issue CCP can fix.
You know, it not being anything to do with their server code.

Quit your whining in every thread, the disconnects aren't that bad. Is it sometimes annoying, sure. Might you loose the odd thing, sure. Do you loose something every single time.... If the answer is yes you are doing things wrong already.

They expect that mindless players like you will keep playing regardless of this game breaking issue and you probably will. However active pvpers like me that play the game every day likely won't.

Well... it is still summer too. The online player count tends to suffer a bit until bad weather starts to roll through the northern hemisphere.

edit: also... online player count =/= actual subscribers... the latter of which is the real measure of a game's health.

edit2: looking through some of those numbers, they seem to be relatively equal. Sure... there is a dip during the summer... but again... it's summer.

Maybe where you are - here all schools and college/universities have been back in session for a few weeks now. And I believe Fall officially started one or two days ago.

The facts are since I have been playing in 2010 eve has not gained, but lost players every year. Players can't even stay connected to the game for more than a couple hours at a time for 2 months now, see https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=374966&find=unread.

It won't be long before pvpers like me won't stand for taking ship losses every single play session for months due to CCP's relaxed attitude to the game breaking connectivity issues. We have been experencing this for several weeks now without any compensation or any real commitment to fixing the issue, if that's not a sign of eve coming to an end I'm not sure what is. Sure there are plenty of people that sit docked, troll the forums, or just manage their skill queues that won't care; but when people can't pvp and actually play the game without constant disconnects there is a real problem.

Instead of CCP hiring network technicians to make sure their players can actually use the service they pay for, they are laying off, or not paying their devs enough to keep them from moving to other game companies.

Then why would they say this "Our teams have been working tirelessly to address these attacks, but by their nature they are extremely difficult to predict. We will continue to counter these attacks as they occur, in our efforts to provide you as much uninterrupted internet spaceship fun as possible. " In the post I mentioned if there was no way to fix or counter this issue?

They simply don't have enough network technicians to address this problem. Instead of hiring more they are laying off countless employees. They expect that mindless players like you will keep playing regardless of this game breaking issue and you probably will. However active pvpers like me that play the game every day likely won't.

Also if having a criminal timer is playing the game wrong, I don't want to know what carebear way of playing you think is right. I pvp I don't sit docked or press f1 in a nullsec blob.

Banning Erotica1 killed the fun for many people.

You can't say it's just "summer". The numbers for this summer are lower than the previous summers.

Banning Erotica1 killed the fun for many people. It destroyed one of the key differentiations between Eve and all the other MMOs out there.

It just seems to me that there are fewer stories about heists and villainy these days. Eve is turning into a generic MMO.

/eveisdying

I only found 7 piles of dog ***** at the side of the road this morning, that means people are owning less dogs per head than last year.

Source: I have eyes and I can count to 11 because mommy taught me to use my fingers.

...distinctive feature of EVE...

Eve is not dying. Eve is saturating.

Most interesting response to the 'ol EVE is dying thing.
Also, I think the amount of alts and multiple-account players are dropping rather than the amount of players in general.
And yesterday there player count was somewhere near the 38K mark, which is not bad for an early week day.

*sips coffee with cinnamon*

I have heard the Vatican is investigating CCP for a violation related to necromantic arts. The argument is that EVE Online has been dead so often while still being 'alive' that it could not be so without use of arcane forbidden secrets to give it a semblance of life, i.e. keeping it in an artificial state of unlife. According to a statement of the head inquisitor on this case, we, the players, are all victims of a complex enchantment involving heretical wizardry.

CCP Falcon, I hope you have a statement prepared as those are some serious allegations.

I've already had a cappuccino with cinnamon, but I'll join you with another coffee!

I have heard the Vatican is investigating CCP for a violation related to necromantic arts. The argument is that EVE Online has been dead so often while still being 'alive' that it could not be so without use of arcane forbidden secrets to give it a semblance of life, i.e. keeping it in an artificial state of unlife. According to a statement of the head inquisitor on this case, we, the players, are all victims of a complex enchantment involving heretical wizardry.

CCP Falcon, I hope you have a statement prepared as those are some serious allegations.