EVE General Discussion

Stations already are instanced outside of the "space" server. This is why it takes time to dock and undock as assets are transfered and resynchronized. As long as the station side doesn't interacts with the space side, the stations can do whatever they please (databases are ticked at 1 hz nonetheless, independently of where the asset is located).

WiS could even be twitch based as long as the interactions to the Sol mainframe were at 1 hz -that's what DUST does.

Huh... not. CCP Seagull is Senior Producer and she's in charge to implement from a production standpoint the guidelines provided by the Executive Producer.

Of course, as long as there is not a Executive Producer, she's pretty much working on her own, with an oversize production plan which, by not having a EP, doubles as a development plan.

So, making a simile, in a ordinary company, Hilmar says: "we want a Public building in EVE". The EP says "Ok, we can provide a Public Library with this parameters". Then CCP Seagull says "we have this blueprints and this people, let's do it".

Currently at CCP, CCP Seagull has produced the blueprints for "Project Hallelujah" and Hilmar has OK'ed it without an EP deciding they really want or need or can make it, and so any EP they may hire will have to carry it on for whatever other projects he figures. Prior to that, they took some scrap papers which the former EP had left on his table and released Odyssey after the CSM 7 was horrified to learn what were their actual plans for it (the actual production plan for Odyssey was determined in february on the base of whatever could be finished by the release date, and that showed, obviously).

...and ideally all of them are on different systems, and generate their own form of revenue, be it subscriptions or chash shop. No, thanks, I don't see that happening for me.

WOD already announced time ago they was going to drop the Carbon engine and go for an indipendent one. Beside, are years they have WOD and still nobody have seen not a demo, not a generic design idea but not even a concept art. Basically never started, and even if they start to devlop it the average time for a MMORPG is 4-5 years.

"EVE Universe" is simply what they was already doing, the megalomaniac project that caused the summer rage: the idea to be able to deliver and support several game titles, not merged with EVE. Nothing changed, they only rearranged it, fired some developers and gave some pubblic relation cookies to the morons shooting at a statue.

And continued doing what they were already doing.

Huh... not. Back in november 2011, there was a rumour, later confirmed, that WoD development was to detach their version of Carbon from the one used on EVE, effectively meaning that WoD's Carbon engine is no longer compatible with EVE's. Work on WoD is continuing and most of 2013 has been spent in content design; the Atlanta office has been hiring many content creators and so probably in 2014 WoD will start being beefed, so maybe in Fanfest 2014 CCP can show something really ingame.

Personally, I am still interested in WoD and its "cafe" side, but I am not too keen on the horror genre and obviously a space faring game with avatar content is more appealing to me than WoD. Specially because I never played a SF themed, avatar based MMO.

It's pity CCP won't oblige, as I've got some really nice characters in EVE.

With Odyssey 1.2, they introduced a interesting small change: new characters are now randomly spawned either at the hangar view or the CQ, in order to test wether this haves an impact in player retention.

TBH sometimes it feels they give less than a **** about their precious baby of a game. Many players seem to be a lot more passionate about the game than the people who birthed it.

Agreed 100%.

Yeah, I still don't understand why they don't just make wow-esque avatars and some station environments, war-rooms, etc.

Just because you attempted to re-invent the wheel with avatars and failed doesn't mean you need to scrap the basic concept that was perfectly sound.

Avatar based gameplay is today a well defined standard so probably the most easy to improve, they could have used a third party engine for this part of WiS.

But I think the plan was to develop their own engine (Carbon), to use not only for WiS but also for WoD, Dust, and other titles in the future. CQ and Character creator were not part of EVE development but a demo for this engine.

Now, devloping a game engine is convenient on the long run and if you can resell it or use it on several products to write off the initial expenses; but requires a company to have major focus on it.

Is not like you can carry on 2-3 different MMORPG development on different platform AND an engine at the same time. I think not even Sony, EA or Blizzard can do that so easly.

I think at CCp are great guys and devlopers but I don't think as company they're really able to mantain more than one product line. Mostly if is a product like EVE.
So if they're focusing on Dust they are not focusing on EVE (beside the daily mantainence, tweaks, bug fixes and such), if they focus on Valkirie or WoD they're not focusing on EVE... And so on.