Lady Miah
Perkone
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.04.14 22:57:22 -
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Hi,
I am not a fan of these changes. I do not think you have adequately considered price and manufacturing pressure on existing items. Many items are unprofitable to manufacture in their current form and invention is a total mess even with recent changes, so increasing the mineral cost for these items at the same time sovereignty changes are being introduced is going to have a hugely negative impact on the game, making it much more expensive for people to play. Which works great for your pocketbook, until you start losing subscribers.
I like the idea of nullsec minerals increasing in importance and increasing nullsec self-sufficiency, but the reality is that life is already very difficult for most miners both high and lowsec, and the nullsec mining climate is going to get much more hostile with the increases in roaming gangs under the new sovereignty system. Which is totally fine, but it is going to have a serious net impact on prices, which in turn is going to continue to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
CCP's changes are getting less and less clued by the day. There are some fantastic ideas being bandied around (and I applaud the innovative spirit, particularly of the structure changes which I think are the best thing to happen to EVE in almost a decade) but the rush to put them in place before they have been thought through is pretty obvious.
Before you do anything, you need to wait for the changes from Fozziesov to settle out, rebalance the industrial ships, take a good hard look at manufacturing profit and mineral content overall, and consider making PVPers make a choice between killing miners/industrialists and killing everything else. My suggestion would be to offer specialized arrays for scanning down mining anomalies. Then there's the question of how to get these minerals out of null, which has gotten pretty difficult with the absolutely dimwitted travel changes and has essentially pushed everyone towards jump freighters.
You can't rely on the market dataset; there are too many items there being sold at levels currently unprofitable to manufacture, which leads one to question whether CCP has any sense of what is actually going on.
If you don't fix industry, EVE will continue to be too expensive to play.
Can you please stop with the braindead decisions? |