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New Dev Blog: The moments that define history

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BeanBagKing
The Order of Atlas
#421 - 2011-09-25 00:16:53 UTC
I haven't read the responses yet, I will when I get home, but I just wanted to stop by and say that this sounds pretty sweet. My excitement is tempered a bit by CCP's track record, and the lack of information as to what exactly these changes are and what they will mean for the future. However, if that dev blog is evidence of what is to come, then I'm very hopeful.
Garr Earthbender
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#422 - 2011-09-25 00:54:08 UTC
I'm going with either A) DUST 514 going into Beta, or B) DUST 514 getting ganked.

-Scissors is overpowered, rock is fine. -Paper

Steph Wing
No Dukks Given
#423 - 2011-09-25 02:00:28 UTC
Six Strangelove wrote:
CCP really needs to hire some PR people to help manage their messaging.

Perhaps those monocle sales can help pay for them?


+1 internet for you good sir
Misanth
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
#424 - 2011-09-25 02:18:55 UTC
CCP Zulu wrote:
Oh, and to the rabble brigade:


As much as I appreciate free advertisement (RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE ftw), I'm quite baffled you seriously an insult to the people who a) care about the game b) probably are longterm customers. Paying your salary means you get the right to insult me too? Why you don't spit on me too while you're at it. Roll

AFK-cloaking in a system near you.

Misanth
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
#425 - 2011-09-25 02:31:03 UTC
Darth Sith wrote:
CCP Navigator wrote:
CCP Zulu does not need me having his back but I thought I would like to chime in on behalf of Community.

We know how passionate you all are about EVE and I promise that we are working towards delivering top notch FiS content over the coming months.

Spaceships are all the rage right now, seriously, watch this space.

Fake edit - No, this is not the next '18 months' but a promise to you that we are going to deliver cool stuff Smile



OK, in one post, Navigator has said more, and shown more respect to the community then has oozed from Zulu since I can remember.

I vote that Navigator get Zulu's job.... In an instant, CCP would gain a lot of credibility back in my eyes.


Yup.

It's irony he posted that after what I posted previously:

Misanth wrote:
Hey Zulu, if you want to build up expectations, you should work for another company.

A brief blog that is supposed to leave the mouth watering only works for companies you trust, and big titles. Like, if Blizzard would've done this pre-Star Craft 2, Diablo 3, or we'd get our hopes up for another Deus Ex, etc. Unfortunately, CCP has wasted all player trust they once had, and all so-called mouth watering content you talk abut (like WiS, 2006) etc, just turns out to take you 5year+ to release and leave a bitter taste of something incomplete and far from cutting edge.

I love this game, but for the last five years I have consistently told you guys to hire a communications director. Someone that know how to communicate with players, press, and know how to release your vital information. You guys are horrible at this, and as good a game platform you have built, as bad are you with dialogue with your players.

Quite possible the worst blog you guys have released in years.

AFK-cloaking in a system near you.

Imawuss
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#426 - 2011-09-25 02:56:34 UTC
So we can expect the rest of the CQ's? Walking in stations? that smuggling mechanic you talked about giving purpose to walking in stations (i think they said they were doing that)? Oh plus the myriad of other things you should have done FIRST like Super cap balancing, Gallente/hybrid Balancing, work on 0.0, getting those new ship models in-game (you know from that create an eve ship event you apparently wasted all those artist times on) Theres more but there also lots of threads on it.

Incarna could have been a great expansion if you involved some of the major player concerns with it. But besides bug fixes (that you introduced) and a market API functionality what have you been doing for the last 4-6 months?
Alcolin
Doomheim
#427 - 2011-09-25 03:45:39 UTC
Like the NGE ... !

I hope you make some good choices CCP ... my sub expires in 9 days ... "I will be waiting to see what you DO and not what you SAY before i renew!"

But according to http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility EVE-Online is on a slippery slope and they keep slipping ... So much for $70 virtual items... Lol

EPIC Blink
Naradius
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#428 - 2011-09-25 04:13:02 UTC
Six Strangelove wrote:


CCP really needs to hire some PR people to help manage their messaging.

Perhaps those monocle sales can help pay for them?


There is more chance of CCP hiring some gaye fashion designer from a Paris fashion house, to seed the NEX store, than hire a pro PR person!


"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Largo Coronet
Perkone
Caldari State
#429 - 2011-09-25 05:05:56 UTC
Susitna wrote:
Just a suggestion for CCP Z. Please do not post or blog again
Fixed that for you...

This is my signature. There are many others like it, but this one is mine.

Someday, this signature may save my life.

Luckytania
Bullets of Justice
#430 - 2011-09-25 07:46:46 UTC
Smagd wrote:
Hello,

since I'm still subscribed on account of foolishly long subscription choices, I'll take a liberty of coming here and letting you know my opinion:

I do not trust your words any more.

Convince me with your actions, or I'm out.

Thank you.

Fly far,

Smagd

"I do not trust your words any more."

It is far harder to restore a reputation, a trust relationship, than it is to build and maintain one.

Look here for the many issues which must be addressed:
"You no longer have the confidence of the community."


:rabble:
Auric Aurumfinger
Doomheim
#431 - 2011-09-25 07:49:52 UTC
Quote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Well well. I think it's possible to over the best of user-space "fake"
> threads plus the advantages of "true" kernel threads in one blindingly
> fast combination, in less than 8kB per thread.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linus


You see, the thing is, since Apocrypha, this game has gone sideways, not forward. Show us code, don't even waste time posting blogs or even reading the forums. I would be disappointed at being read.

Focus on what matters. You guys seem to want to hug the world and it's just not clever. Remember the 20/80 rule: deliver 20% of the top requests players want and you have 80% of customers satisfied.

Go code, go!
Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#432 - 2011-09-25 10:00:58 UTC
Show us your best, CCP. You damn well need to.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.

Temulkar Blaine
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#433 - 2011-09-25 11:02:52 UTC
CCP Zulu wrote:
Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.


Oh that is really delicious, I dont think I have seen such a perfect example of the arrogance and hubris that has put CCP in the position they find themselves.

Your company is going down the tubes as your customer base is leaving in droves, you fail to address their concerns with yet another non blog and then proceed to insult them further in just one thread. Are you secretly working for Blizzard?

I do hope the CSM is taking you to task over comments like this to the community you dismiss as rabble(a folorn hope probably).

You may think that was kewl internet humour, yet I wonder if you will find it funny when the banks start forclosing on your mortgage and your asking people if they want fries with that burger?
Calistai Huranu
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#434 - 2011-09-25 11:18:58 UTC

Watching what CCP does, not what they say now. Winter need's to be better than good.

And how in the hell does Zulu still have a job? PR disaster after disaster, you'd think by now CCP would of at least barred him from ever posting on the forums.
Cailais
The Red Pill Taker Group
#435 - 2011-09-25 11:28:46 UTC
CCP Zulu wrote:
Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.


rabĀ·ble 1 (rbl)
n.
1. A tumultuous crowd; a mob.
2. The lowest or coarsest class of people. Often used with the.
3. A group of persons regarded with contempt

It's generally not a good move to describe your customers with contempt; but no doubt you were looking to be ironic?

Personally I'm not affronted. I regard EVEs current development with a good degree of sadness and disappointment at the potential lost and how far CCP chose to move away from its fan base.

Perhaps you guys at CCP can recover but you should recognise that you face a near insurmountable challenge.

C.
Chris Cochrane
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#436 - 2011-09-25 11:59:36 UTC
I find a lot of people including myself are bored with eve. This is due to the fact that some ships are stronger then others, or more to the point UNBALANCED.

An example:

My alliance like many others, have been forced to move to npc space, as the NC. and its buddies continue to drop 100's of super caps/titans every chance they get.

I believe that all the races in eve need to be rebalanced, a few good examples:

I find that gallente ewar is a joke (the long point is the only thing going for them)

The armor tanking races need a armor rep booster of some kind, as 1 capital shield booster fit with 2 amps fit properly can repair 50-100% more then 3 capital armor repairers on a armor tanked capital.

The dps from caldari sub caps do not compare with the other races, this should be fixed, possibly by either increasing overall damage, or returning the splash damage feature to them.

Blasters though an interesting and unique feature, need a option for longer optimal/falloffs as they cannot be used effectively in every day engagements, and the railguns need a better dps/ tracking comparable to the amarr.

Another change I would like to see is how sovereignty is taken. It would be very interesting if the only cap that could shoot Sov structures effectively, were dreads. At this point, dreads are sitting around collecting dust, due to the over powered supercarriers replacing them.

At this time it takes a sub cap fleet 2+ hours with 100 strong, to re-enforce/knock down 1 ihub, it takes 3-4 moms 10 mins to cut though sov structures, This is unacceptable.

Mothers ships on one hand need to be nerfed because the only counter at this point to a blob (30+) of moms would be another blob of moms, as sub cap fleets take forever to kill them.

On another hand, Moms are expensive and should play a crucial role in fleets, there ability to use projected ECM and immunity to ewar however, are the very reason they are considered overpowered.

Besides rebalancing, improving the interface by changing the local/corp/allaince/fleet/overview windows so they don't take up half the screen would be incredible, i find there are too many windows.

filtering the local chat windows so you can see only neuts/reds would be useful as well.

Changing the the corp roles checkmarks into BIG buttons that turn green/blue or red when clicked would be awesome, also simplifying the way roles work would be great.

Being able to assemble/anchor pos structures with more then 1 person to speed up the time would be awesome.

Its the little things that make or break people, if you want people to start logging in every day, playing the game and having fun, give them what they need. Give them ships that are strong no matter what race they fly, give them ships that are effective against regular ships & super caps. If you give them hope, they will play.

if not...people will stop paying...and eventually playing altogether.
Chris Cochrane
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#437 - 2011-09-25 12:03:12 UTC
Sorry to double post, i find the forums are VERY flaky atm, it took 4 tries to post this message, i think that's a bug that could be added to my list as well...
CaldeteisX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#438 - 2011-09-25 12:30:21 UTC
believe it when I see it, been all talk for a long time.
Smoking Blunts
ZC Omega
#439 - 2011-09-25 13:03:56 UTC
well im feeling good about eve now. logged into steam got 3 games for less than the price of most nex crap and ill go play them for a month or so.

when you remeber to fix your game, drop us an email pls. will save me the time logging in and checking

OMG when can i get a pic here

HaydenJD
War Crime Syndicate
#440 - 2011-09-25 13:54:48 UTC
Smoking Blunts wrote:
well im feeling good about eve now. logged into steam got 3 games for less than the price of most nex crap and ill go play them for a month or so.

when you remeber to fix your game, drop us an email pls. will save me the time logging in and checking


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