I bet the population that experiences the most amount of churn is people who never leave high sec. CCP is just trying to allow carebears to experience the fun the rest of us are having. People who do nothing but mine or run missions must be miserable.

Yes indeed, one CCP person making such statements as has been done has not considered the serious long term repurcussions.

Be Afraid ? I would say it's very much like commercial suicide on CCP's behalf.

I bet the population that experiences the most amount of churn is people who never leave high sec. CCP is just trying to allow carebears to experience the fun the rest of us are having. People who do nothing but mine or run missions must be miserable.

here allow me

unprecedented steady growth and retention of users in a fickle MMO market for nearly 10 years until highsec-exclusive, anti-PVP expansions were ushered in, bringing about the summer of rage until CCP wisened up and started making PVP-related expansions again

threats of 'put highsec in pvp and watch us all leave' made by idiots were exposed as nothing but hot air, with all evidence pointing to the exact opposite

That's snake oil propaganda that's only usefull in the forum wars.

Every single account holder in EVE over 6 months old has been to null and was greeted by a wall of excuses from tinfoil hat null bloc's that had every right to be paranoid because of the huge impact Meta has on a broken permissions system. We all went there with billions, got sold a bill of goods and ended back in high sec farming missions to replace our ships.

If you play a high sec game and have not seen this interview, watch it, and then make plans of moving out of high sec, or quitting the game.

Instead of adapt or die, I will be considering adapt or quit

http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve-online/interviews/inferno-part-one

What Soundwave is saying is pretty much further expounding on everything that came out of Fanfest

Highlights of what he says in the interview

Datacores: If you are smart, you will cash out before Inferno. Soundwave says those words between 8:30 of the interview. He believes the datacore system is "terribly abused". Those are his words. BTW, there will be an ISK charge to get your datacores from an agent

High sec Incursions: Some kind of nerf. This has been done to death in a ton of threads, no need for comments

ALL NPC bounties: At 13:45 to 15:00, a nerf of a suggested 10% across the board, all regions. Soundwave called this the "emergency button" button. Of course, at 12:50 of the interview that 10-15% of all NPC kills came out of Drone Regions. I doubt it will be a one to one ratio, but if they nerf all NPC income by 10%, yet Drones start having bounties, will not that be a wash for null sec income, but a high sec income nerf

Mining: No direct comment on high sec mining, but it will be better as low end mins prices rise, assuming null sec mining does not crank up. Soundwave at 11:35 says 40% of the high end minerals come from the null regions. That means nothing to high sec miners, but will kill high sec industrialists who rely on their high end mins from null sec being sold in high sec

High sec transaction taxes: At 13:28, he says empitransaction cost going up, because they want to reign in the economy. This has the biggest impact of course on the high sec players

Soundwave thinks that the economy is approaching a place that is "not healthy". He has started playing Ultima Online again and he does not want the Eve economy to reach the point that Ultima's is in

Soundwave makes it clear that he wants to shake Eve to its foundations. He says, and once again a quote " I kind of hope things go terribly wrong" at 8:02 of interview. I understand he does not want to design a game for specific results (his words), but many of the changes are going to trash high sec industrial chars specifically

Guess the null sec power blocs are getting want they want
Even though the power blocs are losing direct control of moon goo, the wealth of that moon goo is staying in null sec
The high sec players are getting shafted as the overall potential wealth generation in high sec is lowered

This is of course what many of the null sec zealots have wanted for quite some time

I have done my time in null sec and wh's. I will not be choosing that option of joining a low sec/ null sec/ wh corp if my income gets squeezed as badly as I forsee. I will be choosing the remaining option of quitting

If you're playing Eve today and you're not on board with the future, which is WiS, Avatars, paid customization and more hisec consensual content (FW, War Decs, etc) then your days are probably somewhat numbered, because it is a lot more work for CCP to cater to the 8 or 10 year old player than it is to cater to the one week old newbie..

also nullsec anomaly running is way too safe and there's too little risk because of BUBBLES AND LOCAL nobody ever loses ratting ships in nullsec, hisec incursions are the riskiest pve in the game because one time i heard from some dude in my vanguard fleet that his corpmate lost his nightmare when one of the logis lost his connection

CTA tax was 100% and we had CTA tax pretty much every time I logged in so that was never really a debate for me.