Diversifying Money Making Opportunities And Removing Activity Reliance

[sajuuk111]

literally right as the rework dropped activity shot up

2012.01.01. saw 225/225 activity when 4.86 dropped, yet later many argued that said version was one of, if not outright the worst. Just because something creates huge activity on its first day doesn't mean it's good, it means it's new, and people are flocking to try it out. Come back with that arguement later if the generated activity persists.

Whilst trading isn't reliant on other players, it's built around a need (a great need at that) to login to grind cash whilst simultaneously not being very enjoyable.

Any moneymaking activity is built around a need for cash. Missions are no different. Rewarded PvE and trading are better than the other examples because they don't require other players for cash generation. Because of that they are also good first steps on a food chain, generating basic player presence to support the other activities requiring it.

About what's fun or enjoyable and what's not, it's all subjective. You can't really argue for or against something dependent on personal preferences, but the more you repeat it the more your post looks like an opinion, less a recollection of observations and conclusions.

You can not increase the playerbase without forcing people to play the game to make an impact.

Stories are decided by developer teams, and most of the actions done by players doesnt matter at all.

You literally need to play the game in forums to change things. That is unhealthy and that is what plaguing this game from the start.

Unless we find a way to incentivize people to login to game if you want to change things and not just earn money, the RP side of the game will just remains as a "tip" of the iceberg, because 90% of it is in forums, and causes people to handle the faction works in forums rather than logging.

How about this? Destroy 1000 NPC pilots and you weaken the defenses of a base, then you go to forums and plan an attack, then you go there and you see a Titan Armor'd NPC Battleship, which players can defend to keep the base.

Indies can help you with the start, official factions can take over the other aspects. Voila.

Of course this idea is silly but just an example of how we can make the server breathe without focusing too much on credits, because if we only think that "earning money" is going to make people login, people wont, at some point they wont.

And it was the reason i left the game in 2011, and probably it will be the reason why I will leave in 2021 as well. RP, piracy, trading, fighting will all get boring unless you see something coming out of it. Credits are not enough.