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[Jace]

I'm curious; If you had to make a list of top 5 RP related things in eve you would like to see changed/added what would they be?

You asking for a dream list here, or a realistic list?

[Esna Pitoojee]

I'm curious; If you had to make a list of top 5 RP related things in eve you would like to see changed/added what would they be?

(In no particular order)

1. Restoration of small-scale events involving limited contact with smaller player groups in addition to grand 'battle for X' events. Not only do these not encounter the massive difficulties surrounding huge live events, but they are much more likely to succeed or fail in a meaningful way - i.e., because people on one side or another showed up to reach the objective, rather than huge blobs appearing for tasty kills.

2. Increased production of fiction pieces in general. This includes both chronicles and news stories; personally I would push for more 'slice of life' stories as well - i.e., chronicles that portray things from the view of characters other than, say, leaders of the Big 4 empires - even if involving major events in the cluster (example of this: "Chained to the Sky" involves what was a fairly major news story at the time, but it is shown from the POV of an 'everyman' rather than, say, Jamyl or one of her advisors).

3. Building on the above, increased production of historical and worldbuilding lore would be very nice as well. Some of my favorite articles on EVElopedia from the last few big fiction expansions have been the ones that discussed things we didn't know about in the lore before, and it'd be nice to keep seeing stuff like that.

4. Removal (or at least tempering) of this 'capsuleer groups mysteriously supersede everyone' business. CONCORD and the Big 4 have in the past been shown to be capable of deeply controlling many aspects of capsuleer life and capability; if we want to discuss game mechanics, they still do. If CCP is going insist that capsuleers are somehow 'breaking away' without the express consent of CONCORD/Big4, I would like to see a very good reason why they have not been clamped down on long ago.

5. Overhauls to PvE including an emphasis on making them more 'lore-friendly'; while I recognize that any repetitive PvE will always break lore in some fashion, handling the worst issues would be heavily beneficial (deeply outdated missions, vast numbers of NPCs falling like chumps, and PvE encounters that simply do no make sense, e.g. a Minmatar agent sending me a mission to stop a slave raid... in Amarr space). Best of all, many of these could be dealt with at the same time as the PvE overhauls to make missions more engaging that CCP's been talking about since forever.

[orange]

3. Some form of yearly 'state of the cluster' wrap up piece (fiction presented as non-fiction) would be nice.  CCP keep playing the 'capsuleers are becoming more willful and free' stance - let's have some form of charting of that and other aspects of this transition from mortal to immortal led society. 

In theory, this already exist.  However, due to some internal policy change what was and could be a community project (the wiki) has turned into a slow burn, highly controlled info repository.

Also, slowly correlating what people build out as their list and then considering putting together a plan proposal to hit various points.  "When bringing light to a problem, always good to have a solution in mind."

[Joshua Foiritain]

I'm curious; If you had to make a list of top 5 RP related things in eve you would like to see changed/added what would they be?

You asking for a dream list here, or a realistic list?

Tbh i'm interested in both

[Lyn Farel]

1) Stop rewriting and retconing PF. Period. Accept one's own mistakes and deal with it. Sweeping stuff under the rug is just playing the ostrich.

2) Daily news events again. If possible by hired competent scenarists / history knowledgeable people / whatever.

3) Intra factional conflict, coldwar state, stop this full, false epicness nonsense that has been going on since TEA. It just makes zero sense anymore.

4) Define once and for all all major and key features of the lore : cloning, jumpcloning, the capsule, skillbooks and memory tampering, access to technology in New Eden, and possibly more hard science that actually focus on the science fiction part of the universe rather than just the politics.

5) Revive minor factions. Not including them in all events and each time focusing instead on a clash between 2 major factions (how boring, not even 3 or more, just 2, always) is just pure artistic laziness.



Also, is there an anti CSM candidate somewhere so that I can eventually vote a last time before my sub runs out ? Last time I voted was CSM 3 I think... You know, a CSM candidate that actually wants to put the CSM down once elected ?

[Vincent Pryce]

1) Stop rewriting and retconing PF. Period. Accept one's own mistakes and deal with it. Sweeping stuff under the rug is just playing the ostrich.

2) Daily news events again. If possible by hired competent scenarists / history knowledgeable people / whatever.

3) Intra factional conflict, coldwar state, stop this full, false epicness nonsense that has been going on since TEA. It just makes zero sense anymore.

4) Define once and for all all major and key features of the lore : cloning, jumpcloning, the capsule, skillbooks and memory tampering, access to technology in New Eden, and possibly more hard science that actually focus on the science fiction part of the universe rather than just the politics.

5) Revive minor factions. Not including them in all events and each time focusing instead on a clash between 2 major factions (how boring, not even 3 or more, just 2, always) is just pure artistic laziness.

So much +1

The constant retcons, revamps and remodeling of the PF is getting extremely tiresome. This seems to happen every time there's new folks behind the keyboard at the office, as a result the lore has gotten twisted, dry and bland. This has been also one of the major influences to not pick up Source, that and the disappointments the previous books have turned out to be. Anyhow, I'm on tangent here and I don't wanna hijack the thread any further.

Also, is there an anti CSM candidate somewhere so that I can eventually vote a last time before my sub runs out ? Last time I voted was CSM 3 I think... You know, a CSM candidate that actually wants to put the CSM down once elected ?

Hehehe hehe Anti-CSMtism.

[Graelyn]

I like the CSM. It's damn near worthless, but CCP left to their own devices is often disastrous.

Also, from a personal vanity perspective, since my ISD dramabomb caused the CSM to be formed, I think of it as my legacy of sorts. There sure won't be anything else of permanence.

[Lyn Farel]

I could agree with the CSM concept if people were nominated by CCP.

Though considering all the famous cases of corruptions that occurred over eve history, scratch that actually.

[Ché Biko]

I'm curious; If you had to make a list of top 5 RP related things in eve you would like to see changed/added what would they be?

In no particular order:

• New Hulk/Covetor. It does not make sense to me that the largest barge/exhumer, build for efficiency/yield, has the least efficient mining turrets.
• Expand FW/Incursions in such a way that bad guy RP-ers can support their pirate/utopian/other minor factions just like, or similar to, how we can support the major factions.
• Update the wiki. Especially the yearly summaries.
• More, smaller Live Events. Two characters chatting in local...the Awakended Infomorph travelling from point a to b unannounced... stuff like that. Or long-term events, kinda like the Arek'Jaalen thing, but less demanding when it comes to dev participation.
• The never released bits of Incarna.

[Dessau]

So... I think this will be the first year since 2009 that I sit out the CSM vote. I'm too out of touch with the direction of the game and don't feel like being involved is going to benefit me any longer.