EVE is not a l33tboi PvP bear game. EVE is a sandbox. It is Industry, it is exploration, it is PvE, it is PvP, it is mining, manufacturing, it is many, many things and you can smack talk all you want but the fact is, EVE needs all its players. It needs them all to feel achieved and it needs them to be having fun.

On day one of Fanfest, Seleene sitting with CCP Sunset and Soundwave said he saw so many "Carebears" coming to Fanfest, and Soundwave's face became a bitter scowl, it was rather illuminating. It's true that some emotions are hard to conceal but maybe I'm being paranoid. but to me, he doesn't appear to approve of that kind of play style.

A grain of truth amidst all the whining and complaining.

What did you expect? Think back to Sim City. After you've built this fantastic city with all your time and hard work.........the very next thing you did was send godzilla or a meteor shower or some other diasaster to your little world. And watch it burn. Then build it back. EVE is CCP's Sim City. Why should they want it to be easy and passive? They want to toss in a few grenades and watch us scramble around trying to survive. They wouldn't have it any other way.....unless we won't pay for it, hehe.

On day one of Fanfest, Seleene sitting with CCP Sunset and Soundwave said he saw so many "Carebears" coming to Fanfest, and Soundwave's face became a bitter scowl, it was rather illuminating. It's true that some emotions are hard to conceal but maybe I'm being paranoid. but to me, he doesn't appear to approve of that kind of play style.

Has CCP said what proportion of the player community plays exclusively in highsec?

I'd want to be very careful about biting the hand that feeds if I were them.

As to whether I'll throw in the towel after these nerfs go into effect, I'll have to see how badly it bites my ability to make ISK. Already tried nullsec gameplay is it sucks kinda badly from my point of view, so highsec is where I live.

I'm pretty sure Soundwave doesn't have any issues with a particular play style. I certainly don't because I've probably spent as much time building things as I have destroying them. v0v

CCP won't do anything to endanger their hisec dwellers. They might prod them and touch them in some places, but they won't risk alienate the people not willing to go into lowsec, WH or nullsec.

Asides for suicide ganks which are more common along miners or going for +2bil fits and can-baiting, pushing people averse to PVP into PVP will not work. They are settled in their own ways and most of them would look for something else where they could do similar activities.

Despite all their high and mighty attitude, CCP is still a company trying to make money. So, withing limits, the more people joining the game and having a decent start-up experience, thus sticking with the game, the better.

Thus, we need to take into account that quite a lot of people are in "protected" space. Which means, discounting the PVP-ers, that they may be at least equal to the people in lowsec and nullsec, where supposedly the risk is a constant. After that, we need to take into account that most MMO players are "carebears" which like to bash NPCs.

Therefore, CCP will have limited maneuver space to modifying game-play in hisec.

The MAJORITY (which isn't you Goonwaffle) subscribes (with money) to the notion it's a SANDBOX. It's not hard to visualize the really good and experienced players (Read: YOU Goonwaffles) have evolved a game for themselves that allow them to set up their own dynasties in null sec. Low sec players [can] be situated in between the beginners and the pros, too good to be in hi sec, not quite organized enough to move into null.

You're subscribing a bit too hard to the idea that we seriously sit around and worry about that publords do in highsec. Other than some people who do stuff there like market action, mineral compressing, jump freightering most of us only occasionally care. (Other than of course if we're having celebrations in highsec~. I hope you stocked up on Caldari ice after Riverini told you of Bat Country's heroic interdiction). There's even a pretty nice market hub down here with competitive prices on stuff that is important to what we do.

A bunch of idiots decided to try and wipe a member corp off the map and after goodness how long of sieging them they got chased off in two days when we all came down to defend our allies. And then there's bigger things like people who will kick us out of our home by febuary, and people who don't want their moons in Tenal anymore.

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

Mommy?

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

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

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

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
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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

Hi, didn't read all of what you said... but here is the thing

High sec is not suppose to be where you can earn the most isk without much risk (besides suicide ganks)
anywhere els you have to be aware of who is in local either by scanning constantly for probes on scan (in wormholes)
constantly checking local in 0.0... (trying to rat in systems often camped by people with covert cynos ready to hotdrop 30 bombers on your income ships)

Risky space is suppose to be worth more than high sec, regardess of who holds it (just because it's a big alliance and coalition holding a large region or ten... doesn't make it 100% safe like high sec...

So -10% income on rats in high sec is fine. it's either that or buff it everywhere els.

Incursions too... shouldn't pay much more than a lvl 4 missions in high sec... but in low sec the payout is fine as is.