Can we get a tl;dr before this gets locked?

CCP sucks in event making.

Tell me about it, I still have some event loot from the 2013 Sansha event that never ended up being used.

PvP content is where the excitement and fun really are. Eve is an MMO. Embrace it. PvE is for single-player gamers, really.

I have long hoped for biological "bug ships" (See the "Lexx" series) that needed to be fed on corpses. But that apparently would have to be a different game for being way too outside of Eve cannon. Just the way it is.

The sites are boring, pathetic actually and yet on the o7 show we are addressed like kindergarten children with the marvels of what await us in this highly anticipated event, that engages and exploits those of an addictive or aspergers personality type. This "carrot on a stick" approach would be fine if the carrot at the end was worthwhile...so this bring me onto why I am actually pretty livid with CCP and before I proceed I will state, I stand nothing to gain from CCP bowing to my next line of thought, no isk benefits, no power or virtual status, I am just struggling to understand design decisions in a game I once regarded as tilting towards folks who enjoy spreadsheets in space and those who like to blow up what the spreadsheeters produce. So here goes.

The Vehement.

**** you CCP. The build costs of this thing make no sense to anyone even those with a fat in game wallet. Is this ship aimed at pilots who drop PLEX to buy capitals or what? Because it certainly isn't for the industrialists who have to build this over hyped piece of crap. In defense I have heard players say, "but pew pew", "it's great for anti-tackle", "it's just meant to be a shiny". Ok.... This isn't an aesthetic item, it's a functional one, yes it pew pew's, yes its great for anti tackle....but if you are tackled in this you can be sure supers are coming and you are about to be killmail whored, so it's just meant to be a shiny???? well then why not like every other shiny object in the game does it require 7.4 untanked freighters to ship the Capital Armor Plates? so let's look at the build materials shall we?

It's kind of funny how someone can complain about being addressed like a kindergartener, but at the same unironically uses terms like "pew pew".

What's wrong with that? It's commonly accepted vernacular in these forums as a phrase generally referring to a myriad of things centered on the act of shooting. I've seen it said dozens of times, but never have I seen someone so petty as to jump upon the phrase and passive-aggressively demean the poster.

Just because something is used often, that doesn't make it less childish.

well, I can see that isk/time/resource sink could be a good thing for the game, but I think half assed attempt at lore with 5 minute effort would have appeased the OP.

They could've made the build requirements into something like 'Serpentis Capital Armor Plate', 'Serpentis Capital Jump Drive", etc, Make the BPCs drop from rats/cans/data/relic sites to please the exploration crowd and put some simple sentence like "Serpentis Capital Armor Plate trades material efficiency for sheer performance. The production technique used is highly wasteful, but the super compressed materials give these armor plates extraordinary strength compared to more conventional armor plates used for Capital Ships", etc, on the BPC.

I think it's this lack of even trying for any 'lore' sense is what angers OP, which I can sympathise with.

***** expensive and OP is a peasant.

PvP content is where the excitement and fun really are. Eve is an MMO. Embrace it. PvE is for single-player gamers, really.

I think my assumption is pretty valid. CCP is well practiced in douche bag maneuvers, but I cant see them waiting until after some are built to make the cost reasonable. If I was that guy that had just laid out 30+ billion to build one, only to find CCP drops the build cost a week later down to normal dread levels I'd be pretty pissed and with good reason.

You nailed it.

The community that's left is sick right now. CCP has the leadership and authority to fix it without any nerfs or changes in mechanics and covering it up with new content. The game is better than ever but it's wasted on the players. But the problem appears internal to their ranks and a problem must be admitted to before it can be addressed.

I'm an '06 player.....pretty sure I know this already, a forum is a forum. a dialogue starts somewhere and here is as good a place as any, I can take the toxic elements in the community in my stride, but please don't assume this is simply a whine or a complaint, it's a critique. As for better ideas, do I really have to point to the hundreds if not thousands of other community ideas that are better than a reskin, a quick stats edit and a tour around the graphics department. This isn't hard, CCP designed everything else we love in this game, this is damn lazy. I am someone who solves problems, I am not a designer of ships, but I am pretty sure you can't call the Vehement a designed ship, it's a reskin...

Which is not what built this games community originally, I don't mind the micro transactions, I don't mind the pointless shiny things, I do mind the enforced grind, the lazy design and I expect so much more from this games studio.

I do not think this word means what you think it means.

Then doesn't said "critique" belong in the features and ideas forum?