EVE is in crisis. Time to finish them and grab their players!
- Thread starter Lulzwhat
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I stuck my toes in Eve. I didn't get a visceral thrill from the combat but the amount of player agency and the economy / contract system blew me away. There are concepts and mechanics I feel ED could learn and benefit from.
Not played either game for some time, but have played both for many hours, in fact played Eve for many years, lived in WH space for a few of them.
Its a bit like trying to compare chalk to chease, I played ED to fly a ship, be a space trucker and explore the galaxy we live in. Played Eve to control huge battle ships, strip mine asteroid belts with 30 of my buds, engage in huge space battles (pve), to poke my nose where it diddnt belong and hope to get away with it.
Also been playing a lot of NMS and thats offered other things.
ED is ED Eve is Eve they are both set in space bar that..
Its a bit like trying to compare chalk to chease, I played ED to fly a ship, be a space trucker and explore the galaxy we live in. Played Eve to control huge battle ships, strip mine asteroid belts with 30 of my buds, engage in huge space battles (pve), to poke my nose where it diddnt belong and hope to get away with it.
Also been playing a lot of NMS and thats offered other things.
ED is ED Eve is Eve they are both set in space bar that..
Eve players can't fly.
Big purple planet. Some consider her the final boss.
EVE is "in trouble" not because of it's economy or crafting.
"Trouble" means aggressively adding P2W stuff.
Player driven ecomony have no sense without crafting.
But in nutshell you dont need to rewrite anything for PDE. Just leave markets for the players.
Currently only thing i can do in ED: buy cheap, sell dear, get rich.
No impact on anything except your wallet.
Too dumb for such a game. Dont you think?
Yeah... they swim
Offline lol, it's the whinge that time forgot
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Not. Going. Back.
And the two aren't joined at the hip? Believe me, they are. As a former EVE player I watched the rapidly increasing "barrier to entry" for new players. Nothing, nothing drove up those barriers faster or more thoroughly than the player-driven economy. It happens in other games and for other reasons too but almost without exeption those that have a player-driven economy experience it worse than those that don't. And it gets to the stage that to pull in and retain new players some "equaliser" has to be introduced. In the end, there's no equaliser left but P2W mechanics.
I am certain that any game with a purely player-driven economy will eventually become P2W. That it's happening to EVE now isn't an argument for Elite to start down that road.
Hah I agree with You on that. My absolutely best MP gaming moments and friendships were in EVE, nothing came close to that unfortunately. Every other mmo game was beyond worse as far as "toxic " ED included.
btw OP I thought PA bought CCPs game like 2 y ago? Any new developments since coz I stopped paying attention to EVE since they started F2P thing..