GeeBee
Paragon Fury
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2015.08.11 05:52:34 -
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I know i missed the cutoff but here goes.
Major problems with phoebe
1) Effectively removed what many players view as end game material. Causing many to unsub.
2) Made eve a bigger place by reducing the ability to travel, due to less players playing this is a force multiplier for stagnation.
Major Problems with eve as a whole
1) New players so far behind an aging playerbase, skillpoints being the biggest and hardest thing to overcome; core skills are the biggest problem with getting newer players to play the game and stick with it. There's well over a year's worth of training for core skills. I define core skills as anything you train that has a passive effect not on a specific item. Its a long list of skills and a lot of skillpoints, for my characters I wouldn't care if I got a refund on them, but for lower SP characters they probably would. It is such a massive amount of skillpoints to refund that it should be done @ 1-2mil sp refunded per month and the skill then being a permanent passive or rolled into the base stats of everything it effected. This is to prevent the majority of the playerbase from having ~20+ million unallocated skillpoints.
2) Fozziesov turned sov warfare into a war of attrition to maintain your sov by opening up the ability for completely un-interested parties to troll sov owners. Not only is the concept of the entosis link terrible, the multinode system is bad. This is because it promotes small fights with annoying ships, not real combat. Battleships and above have basically been made useless by this. I really don't have a solution for this, other than come to some sort of middle ground between dominion sov and fozziesov. Bring back SBU's and structure grinding, but keep the indexes and have them modify the hitpoints/resists of structures and the SBU online time.
Judging by http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility we're back to mid 2007 login numbers, eve has had a very rough past year in this regard. To deny that in its current state eve is dieing would be foolish. |