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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.07.31 16:04:47 -
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They didn't go far enough
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.08.05 14:43:53 -
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Sonya Corvinus wrote:
Funny how we all selectively choose which pieces of 'unintended gameplay' should be allowed and which should not.
Or how some idiots selectively choose to not understand what someone else is saying.
Lucas Kell alt identified. Damn my 'Hide Posts' button is getting a workout....
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.08.05 18:03:25 -
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The elephant in the room is hisec.
We can no longer scratch our heads and wonder why we are always sniffing for meagre content in losec or null, despite the best intentions of Aegis-SOV and offering a 'land rush' carrot.
With realities such as this, and a hisec that promotes comfy living and stagnation, it's now time for hisec sticks.
- Reduce the physical size of hisec by 80%.
- Nerf ISK generation, content (remove lv3-4 missions, incursions, ice mining, etc), and lock safeties to green in hisec.
- Improve ship-replacement insurance to counter ship-loss risk-aversion
Send a clear message to all new players that hisec is just the 'practice area' or 'ready room' for losec/null, and gateway to joining a (or starting) a Brave Newbies or Pandemic Horde, to get into the actual game. Send a clear message that EvE online is now going to BE the nullsec thunderdome we have all been marketed, dreamed-of, but seldom see (unless one major FC calls anothers girlfriend fat...).
Do this not, and continue to scratch your heads in self-delusional wonder on why after 10+ years of EvE history, (and despite big new player spikes caused by vids of BR-5 or big fights in the "This is EvE' trailer), overall player growth and retention remains stagnant...or worse.
10+ years in, and CCP still hasnt realized that they shoot themselves in the head with each new piece of content or carebear candy they provide in hisec.
Its time.
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.08.06 13:40:08 -
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The elephant in the room is that hisec is too large, too profitable and too comfortably at odds with the big-battle 'This is EvE' and BR-5 videos that actually bring people into EvE in the first place.
Until CCP stops trying to be all things to all people (and playstyles), and greatly reduces the size, ISK and content of hisec -- to an empty 'ready room' for the real game in losec/null, EvE will continue to stagnate and not grow. There wont *be* a gold rush or land-grab in nullsec, if 72% of the population are fat and lazily gorging themselves on hisec incursion sweetmeats.
We can no longer look at images like this and scratch our heads in willful ignorance, on why much of EvE losec & null is empty and content-dry, despite any number of tweaking around SOV mechanics themselves.
Brave Newbies (the concept) proved that fast-tracking large numbers of new players out of hisec into losec/null ASAP creates content for many. It's time for CCP to double-down on that concept, with hisec ISK/content/size nerfs to create & feed more groups like Brave Newbies, Chode', etc.
We've tried the 'come get some SOV' carrot. Its now time for some serious hisec sticks.
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.08.06 14:04:17 -
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Andreus Ixiris wrote:
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People are brought to the game for many reasons and engage in a hell of a lot of things within it, and not all or even most of these things are to do with nullsec PvP.
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I am yet to see large swaths of new players join the game because they saw a dank hisec mining, Level 3-4 or incursion video.
Wilful
Ignorance
Serves
No-one
p.s.
Rekt.
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.08.06 15:04:37 -
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Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Just dropping links to one battle and then saying "rekt" doesn't actually refute any of the points I made..
Yeah...it kinda did.
p.s.
This is the map (and relative ISK/content factors) EvE needs. Not neccessarily wants, like with push-back on jump ranges and jump fatigue -- but what EvE needs, if it is ever to grow past its wall of 10+ years of total-player-count stagnation (and decline?).
It's important to read all the proposed details, including a better ship-replacement insurance scheme (ala Elite:Dangerous), as balm to newbie risk-aversion psychosis, as we make this transition to EvE 2.0...
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
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Posted - 2015.08.06 15:39:17 -
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Andreus Ixiris wrote:
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It was at this point that I realised that I barely even need to refute points that Feyd made...
It was at this point my quivering finger invoked my three-specious-shiptoasts-and-your-out clause.
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