I thought long and hard (about 10 minutes in truth) about whether or not to post this, on the one hand I don't want to annoy players who clearly love the game, on the other I don;t believe in walking away from any business disappointed without at least telling them why (how can they change if you don't tell them what you don't like?).

There is no Feedback forum or email I could send this to (don't want to add to support's burden over xmas) so I apologise for putting it here.

Anyway, I'm not advocating change as clearly the small number of loyal fans love the game and who am I to try and change it. I just find it hard to believe the game is so inaccessible after all this time, frankly even with free play I expect only returnees and a few additions.

I just wanted to give my honest opinion because I always believe in feedback.

I came back to check out the game, not played in years...took me hours last night to figure out how most things worked whilst docked in a station, I left my ship in the middle of no where so I needed to head back to newbie grounds. Map pointed out destroyed ships were low in the area so thought I'd jump to a safer area (was in 0.2), jumped to 0.4.

Web'd, ambushed by a few players, when one dropped on shields/armour they warped out and were replaced by another. so it's game over for me. Insurance cost 43 million and covers less than half the value of the ship let alone the modules which cost 5 times the value of the ship (always found that ridiculous). With the poor insurance payout and my reserves I could replace most of the ship and modules but what would be the point.

To be honest I even told my friends out of game I was giving Eve once last go and that as I can't remember a whole lot I fully expected someone to blast me out of the sky before I got ten yards, how true that was. I was stupid enough to throw a month's subscription at the game, that's the second time I've done so over the years and will certainly be the last.

Power to the people who enjoy the ever unforgiving nature of Eve but it doesn't suffer fools and with years out of the game I am but a fool to the elite player base who live and breath the game (haven't played seriously since 2003/2004, except to buy and fit the Macharial for ratting a few years back).

Frankly I'm too old to put in the time required to get myself up to speed and as such Eve is not an option for me or the vast majority of game players out there.


So long, and thanks for all the fish....have a Merry Christmas!!

Map pointed out destroyed ships were low in the area so thought I'd jump to a safer area (was in 0.2), jumped to 0.4.