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Thanks Jon,

Your tenure has really covered the period in which I really started to get into EVE in a big way. I've really enjoyed all the content that's been comming out. I've enjoyed the new graphics - the new stealth bombers, the stabber and tempest hulls. I've loved the new nebulae, the new UI is awesome. I've even gotten used to and like the new inventory UI. The changes have been many and really well appreciated. I've seen the TiDi in action. I've seen the new missile effects and then new missile turrets. And I've enjoyed it all.


LOL - Dude - some of us like PI. Really. I like WiS too for that matter and bought clothes.

I've also seen the changed PI - and I like that too. I've seen and been involved with fights over POCOs.

The game has come on soo much recently. It's like after Incarna, (which I actually agreed with the big man was awesome and gave EVE online the best character/avatar construction around), the FiS really moved up a gear. So much so I'm even getting weary of balance!!!

The game now is in such a strong and stable shape. Touch-wood - stability is a thing of the past - or seems to be. I've never had the client crash - not like 2007 when I first played!

I think your successor will have a fantastic opportunity to start work from a great place. You couldn't have helped engineer a better platform for someone to take over from. Look at other software that is kicking around at the moment. . . . EVE is a technological masterpeice IMO. Jita with 2K+ people online. . . Even a chat window with that many people on it is impressive.

The best thing about EVE though. IMO. Is the culture of the environment. Stable. BIG nerfs or Buffs are in the order of single percentage tweaks i think that is testement to its greatness and EVE's values, (maybe CCP's Values), subtley, consideration, precision, restraint. To be honest it builds trust.

I was bitching over the TE changes - but that was foolish - and Fozzie was able to answer.

I think you've done really well. Cheers for everything and I hope you enjoyed your time in your old roll!

Cheers

Just don' hire Smedley...

Thank you Mr. Lander! Great work.

Thank you, Mr. Lander. Enjoy your new gig! I wish Hilmar the very best of luck finding someone who does the job so well.

ps: Once you have EVE running on an iPad, you're just a hop, skip and a jump from a native Mac client, and vice versa. ;)

Thanks for your service, CCP Unifex.

@ CCP: you are just now assigning some level of importance to the mobile gaming experience? In spite of the recent social mobile gaming crash, EVE and CCP have seriously missed the boat on creating a potentially excellent interface to both their IPs (DUST and EVE).

Having relied too heavily on 3rd party developers for the past 10 years has made CCP lazy and complacent when it comes to innovating on services to its subscribers.

To avoid any potential legal entanglements with Zazzle it should be named P.i-Ville
Not catchy but not sue-able.

Thanks for all effort(s), I'll buy you a drink if i see you at FF, GL with new post.

Sounds like an amazing opportunity - I still think as far as MMOs go, EVE is closest to the ideal of what a MMO should be. I just hope hiring outside of CCP doesn't mean hiring outside of the community, because I honestly don't think someone who hasn't experienced the game for themselves can be in charge of its vision. There is a part where you need to have vision of what the game would look like 5 or 10 years out, but then there is a part where you need to know how it directly translates into mechanics and how they build on top of one another and interconnect. That's not even getting into the economic and balance repercussions of any change.