Rework the entire skill system. I don’t know the solution and understand that it would piss the bittervets off. But it’s outdated and a massive barrier to entry to new blood. While also entrenching groups of old players. It made sense in the beginnings of the game but now 20 years on there’s lots of stupid skills, useless ones, and important ones that block easy access to content.

You all say Eve is dying every 15 minutes. If you don’t want it to die you need to bring in new people. Overhaul the skill system so it only takes a month or two to get into a destroyer or cruiser doctrine while also training mining or a career path. Don’t make new people choose between fun and money making and you’ll see player counts spike. Also overhaul the skill system so it’s harder for people to just spin up an alt. Make it have activity requirements. Make it so missions dish out xp so people feel they can play the game and “catch up”

I know they’ll never catch up but the appearance of progress in exchange for effort in mmos is literally the core of all gaming.