Asking for any "love" for solo players from CCP is like asking for world peace.

But that's what makes things interesting for solo players.

In fact, bucking the game system is the goal of many a griefer and metagamer, and so to play solo in this game is probably the most benign way to stick your thumb in the eye of this game. The former is always saying "this is a sandbox" but the goal never changes: hit the other kids over the head with the pale and shovel and then point and laugh, until "mommy" (CCP) ends up having to take the pale and shovel away (nerfs, buffs, etc).

But the solo player is truly trying to buck this game system and laugh at all of those people singing "this is an MMO".

Yes, it's an MMO. But to play with others just because it's an MMO is the same logic that has everybody stuck in the same traffic in the same place almost every day at the same time. Backroads? Side streets? Nope. It's "rush hour" and you are supposed to be stuck in traffic.

Crap logic. Yeah it's an MMO and I like that too, but play solo, because server-driver NPCs and AI are only a little bit dumber than most of the other players - but I don't try to interact with NPCs except to blow them up or run away from them. With other players, it's the same thing, only a little more challenging.

"A Little" is key here. My drones have more creativity than an average gate camper.

As for giving some lovin' to solo players, if CCP had been visited by three ghosts this Christmas and are inclined to change their ways, they could start by creating a ship that is intended for the most popular form of solo play: an exploration ship. Gankers have ships, miners have ships, haulers have ships. Even salvagers got ships. But explorers? Nothing. We still have to outfit a BC or at best a covops or SB for exploration.

Funny thing is, EVERYBODY likes exploration. There are miners who will never gank. There are gankers who will never mine. There are mission runners who never PVP, and PVP'ers who will never (again) run missions. But across the board, everybody will throw on a probe launcher and roll the dice and see what space has to offer. The PVP crowd has their slow days, and find themselves alone - they go exploring. Same for mission runners and those who belong to mining/industrial corps.

So you would think that CCP would figure that an exploration ship would be a good idea.

In the meantime, Nova Fox has pitched some very good ideas for factions Exploration Ships, the faction being Sisters of Eve. I recommend that everybody find them and support those concepts at every chance in the hope that we get exploration ships someday.