Mining. Exhumers came out in 2005 CCP....2005! How the hell is there still nothing for miners to train for beyond exhumers? And before anyone says "blah blah Orca Roqual blah blah" those are not mining ships. I first signed up to EVE because I wanted to mine...2 months later you're at the end game for actually mining. I don't want to fly capital industrial ships, I don't want to downgrade to mining frigates...I want more lines of mining ships. Bigger...better...like combat ships. Instead you just keep re balancing the same small handful of ships constantly. I have no interest in other aspects of industry and I am sure plenty of other miners don't either...so what is there to do after you train up Exhumers? Nothing. Seems like a good way to bring in more people and bring some people back to start showing some much needed love to the supposed "backbone" of EVE. Nothing gets built if miners don't mine and now it's mostly a profession for bots which can drive new players away too when you see blatant bot mining going on all the time.
I'd just really love to see more mining ships, maybe new mining mechanics...certain ores/asteriods/gases/ice that can't be mined by the same ships. Variety.

And more PVE...or an overhaul to PVE in general like missioning. Been doing the same handful of missions for years. Need more variants...more than the basic 4 levels of missions? Make missions that require small fleets for corps to do together...doing level 4's with multiple people is boring. I know incursions are a thing but they are not that appealing to a lot of people especially when you try to join a fleet to do one and the community that does them regularly are a bunch of jerks who tell you to go to hell if you don't already know exactly what you're supposed to be doing and doing it perfectly.

I know the game is based around PVP, but even the pvpers do ratting...kill NPC's, mining to make money. I just think a much stronger PVE element would draw in more people.

And more lore based events.

Ways to fix your standings with other empires.

More character customization. I loved the original character portraits...they had a real sci fi feel to them. Now it's boring modern military style clothing and we all look the same.




Awful idea...EVE is one universe, it should stay one universe. Instances work in other games...but other games are not EVE Online. Hell I'd love it if we could just bring the Chinese over here too...all of us on the same server. Instances have no place in this game.

Exactly. People make suggestions that amount to "if you dumb down the game, make things easier, "lower the barriers" of entry, they will come". CCP operated on that premise for years.

No, they won't come , because the real barriers (the time it takes to 'progress' and the non-consensual pvp nature that underlies everything in EVE) are red lines that the average MMO player will not cross, not matter how much easier you make everything else. And into that the average MMO players (false) idea of "I will never catch up to people who have played for 12 years" and you end up with an MMO most MMO players will pass on.

There is no fix for that because the thing that would need fixing (the attitudes of most people who choose MMOs as a good use of their entertainment dollars) isn't fixable by a niche game maker (or anyone else).