* Unnerf solo NPC farming, I was making 20+ mil an hour solely in plasma out there + all the dropped mods using 1 combat 1 support and 1 hauler.

* Increase mission reward money 75%+, it's not even 20 mil an hour with max extensions which is sad.

* Add some more black/other color bots to the Syndicate store (people have been begging for a pink and white Ictus for literally years) you could even in addition to making it available for tokens/NIC - which it should be - also make a Credit purchase item that does the same thing to an existing bot (aka just swap the one you have in your inventory for the pink one, could just be another model doesn't necessarily have to actually apply paint).

* Unnerf group missions, especially for combat. Having people in squad but not around and getting their fraction of NIC/relation didn't hurt anything at all I don't understand what that was supposed to fix.

* Unnerf beacons, not saying make them how they were in the beacon pit, just worth doing, because right now they're not. Don't believe me? Check the market.

More work and not all PvE:

* Gladiator arena with betting - AC takes a cut of the NIC (money sink + gambling that is skill/fitting/luck based instead of RNG based). Modified mission area with set radius awards whoever is left standing gets the reward money (some percent of the total better) and are only flagged to other people who are inside the arena. Anyone who flags outside the arena cannot damage anyone inside. Crossing the border from inside to outside deflags the contender and they lose the bet (leave the ring). Could even raise terraformed walls around the area once it starts or impenetrable versions of gates or whatever. This is off the top of my head. Everyone who has seen or participated in the sponsored arena fights remembers them fondly and wishes there were more of them.

This could also be modified to allow people to bet on people in a given fit fighting a set of specified NPCs or NPC waves.

* Racing - now that there are highways seems simple to make a mission someone can accept that starts at a certain time and requires them to be with in x meters of a given location (aka starting line). Make the race a segment whoever crosses the finish line wins. Have PvP flagged and unflagged versions (aka Road Warrior or regular racing).

* Bounties - again, AC takes a cut of the reward money (make tax extension affect the outcome), can essentially be made by modifying a mission template probably pretty easily, someone buys the bounty it effectively assigns a standing mission to the target in a separate queue so it doesn't interfere with that persons mission running ability, and then whoever kills them completes the mission and gets the NIC UNLESS the target pays say 125% of the Nic bounty to clear it (and that cleared NIC goes to AC - again another sink that's fun).

Agreed.

I even agree with what Jita said about the payouts. After running a couple hundred t5 transports and some t4 combat on the pay is pretty pathetic. I like the mechanics better now and having the terminals just the rewards (even with maxed extensions) pale compared to other things like artifacting on Gamma or harvesting Nora. Hell mining Titan on Alpha probably pays better per hour it's just not auto-pilotable

A delicacy in certain parts of the world?

It not only doesn't encourage team play it actively discourages it. I'm forced to leave squad every time. The rewards are kind of lackluster but since the NPC farming nerfs it's the only thing you can do on Alpha. I can make far more money mining/harvesting/artifacting on Beta/Gamma but when I'm tired after work on a week day and I don't want to have to think/worry about it that's where I'm going; back to 100% safe Alpha.

The game is a niche (MMO) of a niche (SPACE/SCIFI) of a niche (FULL LOOT PVP - the smallest). It will never ever have even half of EVE's population - but it doesn't need it to be fun and viable and, frankly, at this juncture, the game couldn't support even doubling the population with the Beta/Gamma 2 TP per NPC faction choke point map layout the way it is; the server/bandwidth load notwithstanding.

I have 0 interest in it, but I did read somewhere that they were switching the game engine and have already moved a bunch of assets over.

As for anything on the horizon? Meh.

I'm still waiting for the next/last big Witcher 3 DLC - Hearts of Stone and the whole rest of the game are/were *** amazing. I technically still have a Steam backlog and as always a long watch list but nothing other than that really stands out.

Pretty sure you've seen the Factorio thread. We seriously might have to send a few guys to rehab.

I want a horns for my Scarabs so I can rename them Narwhal and Unicorn, since we're just wishing for the impossible

Thanks, I would honestly be happy with it just being limited to Alpha. I'd have mine set a Tellesis/Hershfield/Shinjalar so I could do my market stuff. I see a common complaint of newbies being the *** state of the market and it is pretty bad.

Your crazy pants must be exceedingly tight today Anni - they're cutting off circulation to your brain.

+1 for convenience

Allowing Jita to post intrusion times to Corp Bulletin means we wouldn't have to scan for them anymore either.

Good video, it has some ... errors in the facts though, like for example, everyone has their own artifacts you're not ever racing someone before they get their first...