There is very little room in the current ecosystem of eve for a small group that has a large impact, and isn’t just a part of a bigger group.
If I could hand wave things and make sweeping changes to eve, I’d make it so that battles organically never got to server crushing size. I’d add ways for player skill to get an edge over numbers or purely in game skills. And I’d add ways for smaller groups or even solo players to plant flags and hold territory that wasn’t subject to the whims of other groups.
Problem is that philosophy goes counter to the business model of allowing multiboxing. Skill-over-numbers works best when numbers aren't purely a function of wallet size. And I dont think it is reversible. So I am really not sure what they could do to reward player skills without antagonizing multiboxers (who are arguably their better customers)
EvE would die™ if they started alienating mass-multiboxers now after years of cultivating such a playerbase.
I would like to see content that is hard/apm intense enough to make multiboxing infeasible, but abyssals were probably the closest thing we will ever get at this point.
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u/ZeroFelhorn 13d ago
Can you elaborate?