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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.03 09:03:35 -
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The main reason why my friends don't play EVE is they don't have the time for it.
Never before in history man had so much leisure time like us, but there are also so many things you can do with your time than ever before. So why should someone spend or waste a large proportion of its free time for just one thing, if during the same timespan multiple other equally fun things can be done?
The greatest strength of EVE is also its greatest weakness. It's the amount of time this game takes of your life.
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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.04 13:01:45 -
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And there is an other issue, the monthly fees. I for myself don't have problems with that but if you don't have that much time, why paying for something you may only play for a few hours per week. There are a lot of games out there who are for free.
That leads to the next problem, multiple accounts. As if paying for one account isn't bad enough, if you look through the forums you get really fast the impression that you need several accounts with specialized characters to be successful. That quadruples the monthly fees.
Well sure you can pay for those accounts with your ingame income but then you would play just to pay for your accounts. Where's the fun in that?
If you have no job or life, this may be attractive. For all others it's a reason more to decide against a game that is seemingly only played by freaks.
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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.04 15:24:38 -
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Teckos Pech wrote:Or you know...you could have friends in game. ...or in real life. What's your point?
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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.04 17:32:56 -
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Teckos Pech wrote:Having alts is not a must have requirement. In fact, in many cases having several players vs. several alts will be better on average. I agree.
The reason why I mentioned it is because it was one of the things non EVE players told me about this game. Here my experiences why they don't play EVE are, beside they aren't into science fiction stuff, on number one the time and on second place the costs.
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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.05 09:30:11 -
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Well the monthly fee kept me ten years ago from joining the game, but now I agree EVE is cheap in comparison to many free to play games. That brings us back to the question why CCP failed for years to convince for example me to join its club of capsuleers? Maybe they simply failed to bring the message of a really cool game despite the fees to me? Who knows.
But people are short sighted, with exception of you dear reader of course. Monthly fees - free, monthly fees - free.... That people very probably will pay over time more for a f2p game isn't in their minds at the beginning. I don't suggest CCP should change that, the contrary. But I still think it's a reason that has an effect to some degree.
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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.06.18 10:09:46 -
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That's a nice suggestion Malcanis but how many of the new players can afford a multi billion isk war bond to kind of protect themselves?
The current war dec system is rubbish. It allows PvPers to impose their play style on others. That can't go well. What would they do if because of some game mechanics the only thing they suddenly can do is mining? They would leave too.
Yes Eve isn't a birthday party for children, it's evil. It is and has to be dangerous everywhere but that within well defined borders. If someone wants a total war, there is plenty of space in low and null sec for it.
What has to be changed? - No war declarations without avoidable reasons. A reason can be a suspect timer on a corp member. - The costs for a defender to end a war has to be lower than for the agressor to declare it. Otherwise its a simple mechanic to financially ruin the defender. - Declaring war on a 5 man corps has to be more expensive/less rewarding than for a 500 man corp which very likely has more resources to defend themself. - Unequal fights in high sec, where the aggressor has much more dps/hp as the victim shouldn't be rewarded with loot.
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Aelavaine
University of Caille Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.06.20 06:56:05 -
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Malcanis wrote:Aelavaine wrote:That's a nice suggestion Malcanis but how many of the new players can afford a multi billion isk war bond to kind of protect themselves? One might query whether it's a sensible idea for new players to be raising their flag and forming crops that they can't defend. But such a corp could just post the minimum bond of 1M ISK (IIRC that's the cost of forming a corp) and be in almost exactly the same situation they are in the current setup, with the sole difference that their level of commitment to their corp is now public. That's true.
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