Patch hype. It's as if the normal bumps in price due to patch interest don't have quite enough time to reset in six weeks

I'm sorry the game does not follow a pre-determined script in hollywood fashion where the "good" side wins against all odds.

It's a difficult balance trying to get new players without losing the old ones, but it's important to remember that the old players are part of what attracts the new players. I totally miss that alliance.

At least they are honest about what makes them play. Certainly better than arm chairing about sov problems and sov-holders all day.

Highlight of this thread.

The reality of PVP in eve is that you're bored most of the time. You either spend an hour looking for a fair fight (being cautious) or you get dog-piled 10 minutes into your attempt at a fight. For me camping a gate for hours for a few kills lost it's appeal over half a decade ago. This isn't so much CCP's fault as it's the players fault. Everyone in eve is risk adverse and that causes some amazing fights to never occur because of people running or bringing a much larger number of friends.

Back in the day when the average SP difference wasn't so pronounced.

It infuriates me that people are so thick headed that they don't realize a game with character progression based on real time becomes disproportionately more and more unfair to new players as it ages over a decade old.

The length of training has to scale with the age of the game.

Other MMO's have already addressed this by gearing all of their content to the end game and speeding up character progression to meet up with the existing player base. We don't even need a million+ players, doubling our current numbers will be enough to revitalize the game.

Wait... did you hear that..? PLEX bubble just popped...
Now players should return in droves!

But CODE, and the elite PvPers push it to be this thing that news are weak and useless and come back at 30m sp. That really hurts eve. Yeah, can argue the whole bit about gank first and then say learn the game but that is a too late point.

Then, failing that, it's going to be a rough Xmas 2016 at CCP and many will wonder what went wrong and where.

It is what they did to anger the player base. Dumbed down the game. I am saying make mechanics that are solid. Eve vs Galaxies... they are reverse roles right now. Eve is simplistic and am saying make it complex even if those that want to be trolls get mad. Galaxies was we have a veteran player base and dumb it down to try and get newbs to endgame from the start.

People are not asking for unicorns,

For example, clicking your link for the Procurer we see the most violent month in 2015 was January, with 1518 kills.

1518 kills in January / 31 days in January = 49 losses per day as per Tippia's table.