Extend a Premium Insurance option to Omegas to cover T2, T3 and Faction ship hulls and ease the transition to low-sec.

It does, however, mean that it was not a failure, therefore "Alphas and F2P Have Failed" is a factually inaccurate statement. Also, go here (http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility) and look at the actual player count over the past five years. Notice how the player count increased to numbers that hadn't been seen since 2012 at the exact same time the game went F2P. Also, note the fact that the player count has remained above average in comparison to the 18 months prior.

Safety is a non-issue. Getting people engaged is the issue, that's where the game has been failing.

Seems like business wise they are on the right track with Phoenix and maybe Nova and the other things they are selling.

I want your opinion on something following this. Do you think there is opportunity to raise subs in the "here is a ship now **** you" player market at this point? Since no matter how we slice it, EVE need to renew it's subscriber base at least as fast as it lose subs to stay as active as it is now.

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You're right that it's not realistic. Voice comms are by far the most efficient way to communicate commands in a fleet engagement, so not using them would be a disadvantage. Telling people you are deaf would mean some do-gooder is wasting his time relaying commands for your needy self.

People who refuse to use comms without a good reason are considered untrustworthy and annoying.

Voice comms mostly became a thing when large group cooperative game play became a thing because people realized it's much easier to tell someone to do something than it is to type. Typing a command to someone else essentially mean you stop doing your own job because you would still need your hands for that and usually take more time than just saying the exact same word. Any competitive group will want to have better communication. Why some people would rather stay in the "stone age" of comms and still type stuff is a mystery to me.

Nobody buys gametime with ISK without there being cash some how involved. Here is how it works,

Bob wants ISK, but doesn't have any. Bob does have a good job, so Bob spends $19.95 and buys a PLEX. Bob then puts the PLEX on the in-game market. Joe buys the PLEX for ISK.

So Bob pays for his sub, and also Joe's, and at a premium I might add. In exchange Joe gives Bob ISK.

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I like this. I was playing diablo2 at battle.net for a long time and there was esxactly this mechanic and server was resetted every year.

However, there will always be players who like what they have and will quit if you take it away from them. While its true a fresh start would give many players a new motivation to return to eve or just to play further, it could also drive the other half player away as they will not be interested and willing to start over.

I feel like this has no chance of being ever implemented, but there is no reason not to discuss it so to make this suggestion viable, EVE online would have to borrow a second mechanics from diablo and thats a ladder and non-ladder. In diablo, characters a nd your assests were actually not deleted at the end of the season, but instead moved into so called non-ladder. You could still play those characters but there were limits. Only ladder characters could find/do many items and special activities which added motivations to start a ladder character each season as the items that could be found only in ladder were extremely valuable on non-ladder. A little problem might be that in diablo ladder and nonladder characters were separated from each other. I believe that its not possible to keep them in single server and there is a question then how many players would be interested in playing the second server... still something to think about.