Any improvements to High-Sec PVE over the years? / And is the game any more or less ''hardcore'' now

Krelian

Regarding the first question;

Well, we all have our own opinions, and I am not* going to state my personal and subjective experiences with EvE Online as facts here.

All I can say is, I effing love the game But IMO it demands too much time (as I said, in MY  HUMBLE experience)...... UNLESS..

Unless I am doing high-sec PVE agent-missions.

Only than do I feel like I can login to the game, get a few missions done, and have fun doing so (even blowing up NPC internet ships can be satisfactory to me cuz the graphics look so damn sweet while I'm doing so).

But, I have to ask..

I recon it's been about 3-4 years (with the emphasis on 4) since I last played EVE online. Have there been any improvements to high-sec *PVE* content ever since?

High-Sec exploration, agent missions, wormholes (I think they used to be low/nullsec only but just asking to be sure).

Umm,, anything?

Regarding the second question;

I checked up on the recent update released for the game, and noticed that clone grades no longer exist? We all prolly have our own different versions of what ''hard-core'' means when it comes to a particular subject or a game, but I am asking about YOUR opinions here DO you Think that the game has become any less ''stressful and/or hardcore (etc, however you wanna define it) over the years? If the answer is yes, how so?

Thanks for reading and any possible answers.

Rollerrat

If you find the game stressful you're doing it wrong.

yaminsux

They are hisec exploration, wormhole, DED but they are usually cleared very quickly.

Kyleran

Incursions, Mining, Escalations, Combat Sites, Industry, Exploration, Wardeccing, Scamming, Market Trading are all the activities I can think of right off the bat that can be done in smaller time spurts.

 

free2play

Not much has changed in terms of reward. If anything the rewards have been nerfed even further and continue to be as we speak.

 

In terms of you logging in for an hour or two for a few nights a week to run level 3 or level 4 missions, there was never anything to stop someone from doing that. "Failing" at EVE on the level you are describing is in your head. Do it, enjoy it, ignore the l33tsters. If you fell victim to boredom on the other hand, nothing has changed in a large enough scale to keep you for any length of time. To be fair though, anything they did to make it feel more rewarding would get eaten up by inflation.

Yalexy

The game isn't any less or more hardcore than it was really. The only thing that's changed over the years is the NULL-gameplay, and boy it hasn't changed for the better.

Contentwise there's been tons of new content introduced that you can do solo and enjoy it. You can run missions, you can do some scanning/hacking and you can do combat-sites. I wouldn't recommend mining as a solo-player.

The thing I do, as I do not longer enjoy the NULL-gameplay - actually that's allready some 3 years now since I left NULL - I do some mission-running and exploration/combat sites to fill my wallet, and then I go burn the ISK in solo-PvP until it's time to refill the wallet.

Within a month you can make 1 bil ISK easily with just an hour a day running LvL 4s, and that goes a long way, if you only do PvP in T1 frigs and/or cruisers.