EVE General Discussion

I'm not sure this is going to happen in any more detail than already provided, even though as players we would like it.

The cynic in me wants to say that CCP haven't laid out the future clearly because they don't have a clear future, just a general idea.

That's probably too harsh a judgment though and I suspect they do have a plan, but that it is still so flexible at the moment that laying out a clear path now would be laying out a future that will turn out differently anyway.

Oh, you can get one.

However, given CCP's stated strategy of freely moving stuff around in the timetable to accommodate "**** happens" and various other unforeseen issues (oh, like devs being canned ) it's not really worth the paper napkin it's scribbled on.

Credit where credit is due, it's a system that CAN work.... IF a company has capable managers to crack the whip.

Truly, we live in interesting times.

I give it to the Oceanus update, before they switch to another awesome cool totally hip style of releasing patches. Not to mention they will probably miss the dates or push back content in at least 3 of those. Not including the Indy changes.

No this si a good judgement, i doubt they have all the details done yet. Its kinda liek when you go to write a story. You do an outline of what you want things to be, hero is a mage with this ability, and has to defeat the bad guy, and when he does the world is saved.

Thats the road map. Now that you have that, you fill in the details: Heros name is xxx he lives here and starts the adventure by yyy.

Thats how it works. its not set in stone just a general outline of what needs to happen to get to new space. How it happens, and when is anyones guess

I am more worried what will they do when the Greek Gods end!!! Will eve end? OMG OMG!!!

How does this minimize effort exactly? Because I said already, if this works as it should it will do the opposite.

Reach expansion, release, patch, whatever, no longer tied into a theme, with that theme not set on a locked date means more flexability.

As I said in an earlier post, in theory (as we don't know how this will work in full practice till another patch or two) This system gives them more options to repair stuff.

What I mean is this: in the old system, they would pick a theme, lets say they picked Player Owned Structures and the theme for eve online: castle. Lets say they look it, and decide the release date will be dec 2nd. 2014. So they look at pos's and discover it is going to take a year worth of work to fix them. and they need several teams to do it, So they now have two options. 1) drop the idea of fixing pos' and change the expansion theme to something easier. or 2) put the guys to work on pos' and the rest do insignificant fixes and release a weak expansion. Then the next one, out in a year, will be a pos over haul.

Now lets say they went with 2. and as they were working, got 4 months into the project and learned that no, we will need to fix these other systems first, so now we have two years of work. So they would decide to scrap it and move on.

The new system, goes like this. "We need to fix pos's, but we have all these other systems first. lets get cracking" So the pos guys get there year, but lets say in 4 months they see the corps and alliances need fixing, so they can have guys work on that, and as code is done, it gets released.

In theory, as I said but prolly did not describe it well, this give flexibility. Which is GOOD. Will it work out that way? who knows. Is this new system a sign of eve is dying? No. Its a sign of changing directions and momentums, and is not a bad thing at all.

Keep on living in your fantasy world..

they should do it in promptly released, succinct CSM minutes.

"be careful what you wish for"

"Plan" is something what looks completely different when it comes to realization.

Oh you mean in-game versions of those

I was about to be somewhat uncharitable lol