EVE Frontier is a blockchain game, aka NFT. Nearly universally disowned by majority of EVE playerbase. From what I gathered, consecutive betas get less and less players, so like most ccp projects, this one might already be in death spiral.
Honestly, I only tried it because it looked sleek. As I mentioned, the UI and the space graphic stuff looks dope. But again, not my type of game. I already think and plan shit IRL, last thing I want to do is to plan logistics even more in a video game. What really took me by surprise is that it costs $40 minimum. It's 2025 and it's an MMO... that is not F2P!? Just that part makes me think it's dead on arrival. People will just stick with the classic one and not bother.
Thing is the Frontier is already supposed to be a zoomie game, with resets in style of Rust. Its not a permanent universe, it gets wiped every month, I believe.
I thought it was aimed for the hardcore EVE online players. If it's for zoomers: a subscription model and not F2P the game will not take off.
I just looked into Dust 514 and EVE: Valkyrie (from wikipedia) and I can see they have already experimented with alternative game genres. I honestly think, from a franchise perspective they should do it again (they ard with Vanguard), but as it sounds from you and wikipedia, it might already be dead.
Even most of the stuff they implement in EVE doesn't really take off. Dust was supposed to integrate with PI, they never did that, PI itself was more or less abandoned.
dust was f2p iirc, valkyrie was a standalone game
Marauder ganks too
Krig is an excellent suspect baiter, and very nice to actually talk to. Come hang out in Why Was I Ganked?, Sargon will probably tell you all about his new scheme of sitting cloaked at the new event sites to spawn tonnes of rats which instantly kill other ships coming in to do the site. Then he loots the wrecks.
To each their own. Just a few hours ago a miner treated us to a two hour rant, including RL death threats.
Nah, that's not what happened. I used to be a goon back in the days, and it was very much a case of "don't let them know you're a woman", a lot of creeps in high positions. Not to mention Xenuria, who was an outright paedo. I did vote him for CSM, of course, but that was just to inflict him on CCP for two weeks a year.
Not out yet, it releases on Tuesday. It looks pretty bad, mining will still be dead boring. They're adding an interim ship between the venture and the barges, which is kind of unnecessary for everyone but the F2P bots, but the tech 2 version will be a cheap mining booster so I guess that at least has some purpose.
Industrialist playstyle sounds appealing until you actually play EVE and realise it's a matter of running eight clients in the background while you watch anime on your second monitor. As long as you've got an alarm set up to beep when someone not blue pops into local you only have to actually pay attention to the client every five minutes or so, it's extremely dull.
Did they finally add an alarm system? That was my major problem doing shit in Nullsec, ratting or what have you for an hour or more and having to watch that fucking spreadsheet of local users like a hawk just in case some red dots appeared.