Keeping the players entertained with new toys is necessary from a commercial point of view, but has the unfortunate side effect of making the game less accessible.

Although the introduction of t3 sounds good, unless they are very careful about the capabilities of all the new kit, it just represents artificially extending the game as surely as raising the level cap from 60 to 7,000,000 or whatever the heck blizzard have implemented now.

certainly a t1 ship can be very effective, but all thing sbeing equal a t2 ship will stomp it every time. what hope does a t1 cruiser pilot have against a tech three ship?

telling people to blob up to beat the t3 jockeys doesn’t work because the large power blocs are the ones rich enough to outfit their entire fleet with the latest spacebling, and your 100 man fleet is still going to suffer at the hands of a battle-hardened fleet with superior equipment half your size.

or need a jumpclone at a npc station ;)

dam that sec grind , having access to delve to do it in helps like… (or any good 0,0 reagon).

I have no links, but im pretty sure that numerous discussions on a theoretical new tech level put it as having some heavily specialised features. Not just the next set of gear.

Repeat all of the above for the ship customisation bit.

- there is no “endgame” in EVE. You can join a number of 0.0 alliances right away through their executor corps. Even a low-skilled newb is a good addition flying a tackling frigate for them.

- you don’t need to grind money through mindless ‘missions’. Many many corps are stinking rich, in the realm of trillions of ISK with daily incomes of billions. They give you free battleships with rigs installed, for exchange against your loyalty. Hell I even know a corp that will take noobs right after the trial and they get access to any kind of ship for free.

- I’m myself one of the many EVE billionaires who make ISK through small time trading. There’s a lot of ISK in the game and it’s easy to divert some into your pocket. Thats right, it’s a bit more involved than AFK mining asteroids but manipulating the market is a great game in itself and has always been part of the space opera games. I don’t think anyone has done this part better than EVE.

Wormholes aren’t instanced so it should be end up being for more than solo/coop.

No, Wormholes and the systems they lead to are not instances.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=919090&page=1#21

Trust me, it’s difficult to play an online FPS with blasts going off outside your window.

I do think it will be a long time before players like me get their mucky hands on them, due to rarity, hyperinflation (over pricing) and skill requirements.

Change is always good in my opinion.