EVE General Discussion

LOL, you could do it in ascii, but even that would look like ****.

This bears repeating - the forums they ALLEGEDLY spent SO MANY MANHOURS "developing" is basically an already existing forum software that's been mutilated then hammer-wedged in with its round slot into the square opening of EVE-Gate.
And practically next to none of the complaints from half a year ago have been addressed.
These forums are akin to something a CS major student would throw together for his thesis project at nearly the last minute after a heavy-duty procrastination session.


The section above applies perfectly.
If CCP successfully launches this junk (as in, they're not forced to revert), fully expect this to be how it actually ends up being 5 years down the road too.
Some of the changes should have already been trivial to implement, yet... oh, look, they weren't.
And of course people will eventually stop complaining. If you force-fed people mashed earthworm sandwiches long enough, they'll end up complaining when you switch back to hamburgers.

Your analogy is much better than mine and does get to the point, and I know the squeaky wheel gets the grease... It just seems you're more concerned on having something to say. You're a pioneer, you say what needs to get said, but you're harming your own integrity as a speaker by your excessive complaints.

I want you to keep doing what you do; I want you to put problems into words and offer solutions with them. What I don't think will support you is dismissing the hard work CCP has already passionately put into everything and using every opportunity to blame them for being incompetent and untalented.

What do you think someone thinks about themselves when they are called terrible things? Can you not see that by your attitude, demands and language that you create a problem that doesn't have to be there?

Smaller avatar images on the left, that's about it from what I can tell. Oh, and it hides the character details (race, corp, alliance, etc.)

New forums are terribad, as I predicted.

Also WTB image sigs back.

As it was already said, after a 6 months wait for the "forum-fail" we get new forums, that are identical to old "fail" they introduced once already, and we still have same problems. Images? Screw that. Screw that 6 months ago, and screw that now.
That is considered progress?
Design part aside, and point they spent 72.000 man hours re-skinning a forum, they forget one simple thing, make it efficient without functionality sacrifice.

They remove session change timer and introduce a whole new universe of bugs and problems (not limited only to latest content update)
They add CQ that does absolutely nothing old hangar view didn't do even better. We have our own char now, brilliant.
Hangar view before used ~20% CPU , and a small room with 4 rusty walls and 1 char uses 100% cpu.
And WiS? Imagine hundred chars like yours in high polygon count in bars or corridors. Did CCP even think of that? Do they care that more and more people are having problems playing the game they pay for?

In a game of internet spaceships, they "try" to fix stuff that isn't broken and complicate it in the process.
While spaceships aren't important at all and they get postponed in a game about internet spaceships.
Makes sense only to CCP i guess.

I predict CCP is going to add a new feature they labor for months to develop and when they deploy it there'll be hundreds of people acting like it is the end to all they know and forget about what they were saying months later.

So when you're just plain mad it's "CCP", but only after I need to goad you on it you'll be specific?

No, that doesn't matter. What does matter is that you'll find the need to discuss failure and ignore success and as a figure like yourself, growing in popularity and maybe some authority, you need to be more responsible with your words and take the influence you have more seriously. That is, if you want to keep that influence and not be eventually seen as some curmudgeonly pundit whose entire visibility depends on being dissatisfied. Always dissatisfied.

You'll never let them impress you when you keep moving the goal posts.

Wow Akita starts a thread expressing dissatisfaction with the status of the forums and does so in a reasonably informed and logical manner.

Your response is claim that Akita is merely a doomsayer. Actually not merely a doomsayer a "curmudgeonly pundit". Way to argue the person and not the position.

The only problem I have is the tooltips with the thread preview. On a pc they are just highly irritating but on a cellphone they make browsing the forums almost impossible.
Pretty please with sugar ontop give us an option to turn the off, before I go crazy...