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FanFest Impressions
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Zukan Strom
Suspicious Intentions
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2014-05-03 19:05:27 UTC
So what impressions did you guys have about this year's fanfest?
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-05-03 19:07:27 UTC
Iceland is cold.

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Nalelmir Ahashion
Industrial Management and Engineering
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#3 - 2014-05-03 19:07:51 UTC
that killing is way of communication.
Dave Stark
#4 - 2014-05-03 19:07:56 UTC
shiny, so shiny.

the new ship models and the trailer and all the visual stuff. so damn good.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#5 - 2014-05-03 19:09:46 UTC
KuroVolt wrote:
Iceland is cold.

Pff. It's a volcanic island in the middle of the Gulf stream.
Anna Karhunen
Inoue INEXP
#6 - 2014-05-03 19:10:30 UTC
Art department has earned their salaries so very well.

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Cat Troll
Incorruptibles
#7 - 2014-05-03 19:11:12 UTC
I have learned that when people say "Go outside! Communicate with people a little!" they actually mean that I should kill people.

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Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#8 - 2014-05-03 19:11:20 UTC
Noticed Hilmar lost some weight since becoming a father. Good for him.

Outside of that I usually don't pay much to the hype of Fanfest, since most of what they talk about won't happen or not how they showed it.

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TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#9 - 2014-05-03 19:11:48 UTC  |  Edited by: TigerXtrm
It was my first Fanfest so I don't really have a baseline, but to me it was amazing. So many friendly people, so many nerds in one place, feeling like a VIP in Reykjavik for a weekend because your badge apparently performs miracles and of course all the epic presentations and stuff.

Except for the getting trapped in the elevator part. But even that yielded me some new friends Lol

Oh and seeing actual EVE families was both amazing and kinda weird. Mom, dad and 6 year old playing EVE together is cute. Dressing your baby up in EVE attire and bringing them to a keynote... not so much.

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#10 - 2014-05-03 19:11:52 UTC
Dave Stark wrote:
shiny, so shiny.

the new ship models and the trailer and all the visual stuff. so damn good.


Never not buy Megathrons.
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2014-05-03 19:12:28 UTC
Tippia wrote:
KuroVolt wrote:
Iceland is cold.

Pff. It's a volcanic island in the middle of the Gulf stream.


And yet that doesn't seem to make it any less cold!

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#12 - 2014-05-03 19:13:48 UTC
KuroVolt wrote:
And yet that doesn't seem to make it any less cold!

Try any other place at the same latitude without those two factors. Lol
mechtech
Ice Liberation Army
#13 - 2014-05-03 19:17:27 UTC  |  Edited by: mechtech
The 2 devs in charge of module and ship rebalancing are amazing.

The direction for Eve is great for the long term health of the game, and the new release schedule will hugely benefit the developers (and result in better content for players).

I also like CCP Scarpia, particularly when he mentioned that he wants space to be meaningful and AI to be believable. The industry changes and Mordus content point to a future where regions of space are unique and have character rather than being the copy/paste universe that Eve is for the most part. Imagine flying around and seeing a rare NPC escort of a major character in Eve lore, or docking in a high sec station owned and modified by an actual player.

This is sort of a background theme to this Fanfest, but I believe the landscape of Eve is going to get much more dynamic and engaging, which is good because it's the weakest part of the game (now that the UI is actually getting pretty decent).

Lastly, Dusties got totally screwed, but I think CCP is realizing how bad of a PR move this was. I never cared about Dust but hopefully CCP takes better care of these players that bought in to the Eve Universe.
TheMasterSenor
CreepShow K162
#14 - 2014-05-03 19:41:35 UTC
The HD stream was crap
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2014-05-03 19:41:56 UTC
Tippia wrote:
KuroVolt wrote:
And yet that doesn't seem to make it any less cold!

Try any other place at the same latitude without those two factors. Lol


Just because something else is colder doesnt mean Iceland is not cold! ;-;

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Noriko Mai
#16 - 2014-05-03 19:44:08 UTC

  • Project Legion will be a Dust like game on PC (Unreal Engine 4)
  • Plan is to have on Char for EVE, Valyrie AND Project Legion
  • One char would mean char data must be moved out of the "main server system" maybe leading to no more downtime

  • New development strategy. No more "EVE Universe" (Eve like stuff on PS3, EVE mobile, etc). Instead EVE United (Project Legion on PC, Valkyrie on PC, one char across all games


I may be more excited than is good for me. It's CCP...

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Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#17 - 2014-05-04 01:37:32 UTC
Came here expecting OP to make impressions of people at Fanfest.

Left disappointed.

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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#18 - 2014-05-04 02:01:27 UTC
Tippia wrote:
KuroVolt wrote:
And yet that doesn't seem to make it any less cold!

Try any other place at the same latitude without those two factors. Lol

Students, please sit down.

Actually, the effect of the Gulf stream makes Iceland both warmer and colder. It makes the winter warmer, stabilises the temperature from day to day, and makes the summer colder. Compare Reykjavik and Moscow. Moscow is far below Reykjavik but have both colder winters and warmer summers.

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kingduckling
The pie is a lie
#19 - 2014-05-04 02:39:45 UTC
other than keynotes,the irony/scripting and production value of the stream was horrible.Just feels in very poor taste,watching this compared to other streams from dota 2/starcraft 2 it just felt like watching a bollywood movie... here a sample http://i.imgur.com/hhzMR.gif see its funny for like 1 minute than its sad.
Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#20 - 2014-05-04 03:18:17 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:
Except for the getting trapped in the elevator part. But even that yielded me some new friends Lol

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