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I know at one time someone in the in game channel FoH was a member of Karma Fleet. I've always been a care bear and lived in a wh a fair amount of the time with a static to null to allow exploration in null.

Anyway in the past I care beared because I didn't have time to devote and at times need to "go" in a hurry. I'm over that now and have a lot of time to play and would need some group to help me transistion to pvp and such.

Possible for that person to get me a heads up to KF since I don't think they are accepting applications right now due to the changes with looking up characters and such?

A lot of times would simply be a quick login to check on skills, which are now at 70m all in subcaps as I had no reason to skill into caps alone in a wh.

I am probably that KF person! Sorry for the delayed response i been super busy IRL.

Until now nothing really changed. They are still doing monthly bigger patches with small fixes in between. Events are also still going on with skins&skill training accelerators as rewards. Biggest problem for CCP right now is the chat/channel system they reworked last year. Its still not really working reliably and they set themselves a deadline until end of january to either finally fix it or revert to the old system. I guess thats taking up most programmer devtime right now. After that they wanted to upgrade to a 64bit client, thats another big potentially very problematic project. Sadly you can see on the EVE-Update site that no big content releases for the game are planned right now (officially at least), client&chat system are important but not really new "playable" content.

And the big ingame problems (rorqual mining & supercaps everywhere) are still there waiting to be solved for the longterm health of the whole game, idk if CCP will be able to solve those problems...

Player pop is stagnating, but numbers are still healthy. I think 2019 will be a deciding year for EVE, if CCP manages to release interesting new content in addition to fixing basic problems then EVE can be healthy for a long time. If they start down the "monetize to the MAX, nothing else matters" road then EVE will decline rapidly...

Population overview:
EVE-Offline :: EVE-Online Status monitor

I have to admit, that pop monitor shows a healthier game than I was expecting (by Eve's standards).

Euro prime time it hits 30k. USA prime time it hovers from 16k to 22k.

Looking to sell my character that I haven't really played at all in the last 12 years or so. No clue how much it's worth but I know I won't ever get back to this with family and shit so no point in keeping it. Let me know if anyone wants the API keys or something like that to see everything it has / can do.

It's been changed for a while. If your corp doesn't have a structure like citadel/pos you can't be war decced.

I'm not sure, but I think it's geared towards new players joining a corp and not knowing they would be war decced and such. I'm not sure what keeps a new player from joining a corp that has a citadel and is war dec eligible since citadels are everywhere. One day CCP woke up and decided this was the biggest thing effecting new player retention and quoted numbers of how quickly people dropped off playing when they died to a wardec as a new player. Shortly after they introduced the activity tracker in game that would total points for doing all the various things you can do in game. They don't reward anything, or do anything. CCP said for the first time they could see what people were actually doing in game. I think it's a way for them to prioritize what to concentrate on for MTX. Just me tho. It does nothing for the player other than another crappy UI to look at.

Upcomfing changes. Kind if been titans online as of late. Even titans ratting in some rare circumstances. Lot of streams/videos of single frigate being dropped on by capital group. At the very end the change to the New Player Experience. OMG good one. CCP Falcon did a video and they linked it on the launcher. Looking just like that pic in the dev blog. Reddit went wild with memes of him with that creep "I need an adult" face. I think it's still linked on the launcher.

Oh and last week mass test of 64 bit client coming finally, decade late kind of.

Spring Balance Update Incoming! | EVE Online

Our main focus for spring is capital balance. Capital balance has always been a challenge, swinging from periods where capitals are dominant and oppressive to ones where they don't deliver on the great aspiration and investment they represent. Since the major rework in Citadel, which was meant to put power back in the hands of capital pilots, it's become clear that we over-shot our goals in several areas. Capital have become an all-in-one answer to most of EVE's obstacles.

Even MS&Titans are kinda ok if there would be no FAX (capital remote repair ships). Without those a lot more caps would die and large battles would be a real slaughter were even the losing side could kill stuff for a time. They should just remove the FAX ships class (will not happen sadly). The other big problem are Rorquals (cap mining ship), originally more of a booster ship for the fleet, it got buffed so much that it is the best mining ship hands down, nothing comes even close (1 Rorq > 4 people mining in the next best mining ship). They should nerf the Rorq even harder than the will be in the upcoming patch but it is a good start. Its just too easy to get resources right now (ISK/minerals)...

This balance patch is a great start and good for the game (hopefully CCP will not break something and make it even worse, happened before )

Really got a craving for spaceship pew pew anything right now, so giving this another shot, had an account since 2005, but hardly ever played. At some point I got a few million points auto assigned to industry skills for some reason, would it be worthwhile to switch those all to combat skills with injectors? I'm assuming stats still affect skill training time, so likely a good idea to get the best implants I can afford while ratting high/low sec still? I'm sitting around 10M SP, I know just a drop in the bucket, but I don't mind hitting the wallet a bit to boost a bit. Still have a couple Billion isk too, so lots of room for a noob like me to play around and make mistakes for awhile.

Weird how my Hurricane was in one station, all the mods for it were 8 jumps away, and all my ammo and drones were in another location 4 jumps away, I have no explanation for that. My drunk self is really a dick sometimes.

This game really aged well visually.

The only thing that impacts training time is your attributes and you can raise those with implants, or change them around with a attribute remap. No more learning skills. If you had those before you should have some un allocated SP from when they refunded them. If you do you can assign them to anything.

Having 10m SP it will be worthwhile to use injectors if you have the isk to puchase them. The further you get along the fewer SP you get out of each injector.

If you use plex to raise isk right now is a pretty good time. Last week Jita got low on plex on the market and prices have skyrocketed as they have been lately but really took off even more.

Abyss space looks pretty good. Go with a cheap ship and no implants at first to try it out. You don't finish in 20 minutes you lose your ship, and your pod. It's part of the triglavian race that was officially announced today and the triglaian ships that have been in a while. The weapons ramp up damage the longer you go the more damage they do. They also announced some more triglavian ships today with a few sketches. Eventually a whole new ship line, now just frigates, destroyers, cruiser, logi, battlecruiser and battleship.

Dunno if you played since citadels were introduced. That's one of the biggest changes.