CCP definitely know that a metric ass ton of the log-ins will be ghost log ins by alt account of the very same player. Those are not the one they are looking for

500K player base?
Of which around 40K are logged in at the same time for 1 or 2 hours a week, while the average online is again slipping.

Your last comment is my all time Fav - Just Quit - The more that do quit (and there has been a bloody lot since I started playing) the less there is who actually play the game. 18K online - 2300 of whom are in Jita, so scamming or trade alts - Doesn't that just create so much content for a pvp orientated game.

The 500K registered accounts mark was passed several years ago - It refers to "accounts registered" and has absolutely nothing to do with active subscriptions (which are the only ones that count). - Which is far far less.

It would be interesting if CCP showed us the metrics on how many accounts have been created and how many are actively used

I find these daily quests a terrible, terrible idea! Like WOW-in-Space level of terrible.

The ones in World of Warcraft were used as a means of reputation grind, because the rewards were often things people needed for more serious raids (aka Shoulder enchants, Gems etc.), so don't know why people keep referring to World of Warcraft when comparing those daily quests to it.
Skillpoints are even gained when you're logged off, so it probably won't put a bend on your shoe when you're not logging on in the first place.

But I can agree the implemetation feels like CCP just threw a piece of idea on the floor, and see how the community eats it up.

If the problem was that activity was lost from changing the 24hr skill queue, and the goal is to get back the activity caused by the 24h skill queue why is the answer not just...

....reintroduce the 24h skillqueue?

If the problem was that activity was lost from changing the 24hr skill queue, and the goal is to get back the activity caused by the 24h skill queue why is the answer not just...

....reintroduce the 24h skillqueue?

Fun fact, unless you were pushing top tier content in hard mode, they were not required. Hell if your group was good enough, you could skip it anyway unless you wanted the mounts and other related stuff. Shoulder enchant are always named as a reason why people grinded the rep except anyone who look at the mat of what they provided would understand they were not really required. The 10k SP is the same. We don't NEED those SP but people will do it all the time because they feel they do.

I personally do not have a problem with giving an incentive/reward to login (although imo eve does not need that), but I feel it is done poorly at the moment. The system as it is feels bad, especially as newer player that is still starving for SP: I feel like I have to get the 10k each day, and I am losing out a lot if I dont. However, I simply do not have time to login every day, which leaves me frustrated. I really enjoyed not having to worry about eve, and you can argue that I will still train, but it is 20% less efficient, and I fully miss out if I do not find time.

Now, a possible solution is to give a login incentive, but avoid frustrating players too much would be to stack the SP reward after completing the daily after a certain number of days with exponentially diminishing returns, as e.g. by the following formula

XP_Total = SUM[i=1->number_of_days] 10000 * efficiency_factor^(i-1)

If you now select e.g. 0.8 as efficiency factor, you get:

Day 1: 10000
Day 2: 18000
Day 3: 24400
Day 4: 29520
Day 5: 33616
Day 10: 44631
Day 50: 49999
Day 100: 50000

Reddit discussion link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/4k7dkx/ccplease_make_the_sp_reward_from_dailies_stack_up/

Dailies will be online in a few days (yes dailies, it doesn't matter how you called it's still dailiy activity).
Achievements will be here soon. Then I will be laughing and every dev posting how special eve is.

Dailies will be online in a few days (yes dailies, it doesn't matter how you called it's still dailiy activity).
Achievements will be here soon. Then I will be laughing and every dev posting how special eve is.

Not sure if you realized or not but we already have achievements, what do you think the whole mastery levels on ships is ?

Xargun

The kicker here is - Anyone looking at the effect this simple "daily opportunity" has on players logging in will know it is not a real number.
The only real number that matters is how many players are logged for longer than the 2 minutes it takes to complete dailies.

Padding online numbers with this sort of thing smacks of desperation due to a diminishing player base.
That of course is due to all the restrictions CCP is introducing to how the game is played.

Dailies suck but CCP don't know what else to do, they have lost touch with the average player and so really have no idea what they want....... And worst of all, they don't really care.

It is a good idea to motivate new players and also for players who are not as rookies.

Skills points always come in handy.