Developer Preference for Certain Members of the Community

Summary: The Developers of EVE are unfairly allowing some people to benefit as payment for their contributions of the community.
Link: EVE Forums Link

Ok, so we’ve all heard about this big compression nerf coming up with revelations 3 with modules going up in size (100 meter BS weapons LOL nice one CCP) by a lot expecially capital ship modules (which is dumb anyway). Most people just think that this is being done because of the whole thing with jump freighters (which will be about as popular as Polka and look like it) + blockade runners and all that stuff but I think theres another reason why this be being done, and it goes back to us not being able to trust the developers of this game. I really wish CCP would just get bought by people who weren’t such bad managers (Sony would be awesome – eve on the PS3!) but anyway I feel that this situation needs to be bought to life.

CCP and the Mineral Compression Nerf is because of certain Players

Lets take a look at some of the evidence:
1. Mineral Compression nerf is mostly used for low-end ores like trit, pyer, and mex
2. Minerals like that are mostly found in high end space
3. New ore types are probably going to be found in highsec
4. There is one person who does a lot of mining of low-end ores in empire space

With all this in mind you can conclude something huge: Chribba (and hit veldnaught lol) is responsible for the mineral comp. nerf because the developers owe him for the stuff he made. Because chribba made eve-files, eve-tube, and eve-search + other sites, he is getting special treatment

How? Well let me explain it to you if you havnt figured it out already. Heres whats gonna happen:
1. Mineral compression is nerfed
2. New minerals are put in empire space giving more trit, pyer, and mexallon
3. Less ore is taken from high-sec into 0.0 even with jump freighters
4. Prices of trit and pyer go up because of new ores to hurt macrominers*
5. Chribba gets even more rich!

*the new mineral banamine (I think that’s what it’s called) is useless but macrominers will be unable to tell easily

Since trit output it nerfed by mineral compression it’s obvious that whatever methods people use to bring minerals out to 0.0 to build will be decreased, even including the new jump freighters and the boost given to blockade runners (space transports need one). But wait, there’s a different way for people to move lots of trit and such out of empire, a different way of compression related to the new capital industrial ship – the compressed minerals like compressed veldspar. Who mines veldspar all the time?! Chribba.

So he starts selling all this compressed veldspar for crazy prices and makes huge profits as a result! But what about macrominers who help keep the price down? Well CCP has been helping Chribba out here too (and I’m not surprised). The new minerals like banamine will make it harder for macrominers to turn a profit because they’ll be mining it and other types of veldspar.

This is a really stupid idea! Forcing this mineral compression change onto us (for the benefit of the chribba) is a very poor way of showing support for your players, even if he did make several eve website that look ugly anyways. It kind of helps to fix a problem but it creates more problems in its place, kind of like a few useless modules (capacitor batteries and flux capacitors anyone?) but that’s a different issue. But my point is the same.

Forcing this change on us is like overreacting to global warming and forcing us all to buy carbon points to drive our cars (yeah, that sure is an inconvenient truth eh?) or like combining American and Chinese food (I had some last night and it sucked) but either way my point is that they’re trying to fix a problem my making things even more convenient and adding or combining things that should stay separate. At the same time if we keep adding all these things (will we add more high end minerals to 0.0 now?) it’ll become too much for us to use very well and it’ll increase lag because of all that extra crap in the database too. When are all these things too much CCP? Not to mention lag-causing.

So what can we do to help fight this kind of thing? I have an idea. Whenever you lose a ship to lag or to anything related to lag (like desync), petition to get your ship back but not as a ship but as the minerals…this will put more trit and pyer into the market in 0.0 and low sec so Chribba wont be able to make as much money – maybe if we put him out of business he’ll get depressed and moved to Kusu island or something (Singapore sux anyway)

So start doing it ppl! Maybe if we can force CCP (using their own game model “players make everything”) to stop favoring Chribba they’ll at least have to find other people to hook up with though I bet considering some of their GMs they all are getting it on (especially at fanfest).

Theres more to this story that involves none other than SirMolle and Seleene (of MC) but that’s a political story so it’ll be in the alliance forums.