EVE General Discussion

I want to believe the major changes are not in limbo of endless reiterations. Not sharing a state of those changes leaves me only with that.

There is absolutely zero negatives to their new schedule.

If you can't see how the game is moving along, you've had your eyes/mind shut.

Game has a fantastic amount of new content added. T3 Destroyers? New ship skins? Drifters?

op appears to be grumbling that the Patch Notes file doesn't require 22 pages of printout or "something equally as inane".

oh man... kids don;t know frustration until they have spent 20 min blowing and pushing on the cartridge to get it to work. Good times

i personally like the more responsive shorter production cycles, yes less stuff coming out but with several new ships. new skins, some ship and mod rebalances, i dont see much to complain about versus their previous production model but really both models work and it basically comes down to preferance i guess, so i respect your preferance as being as valid as any other.

Except with CCP the old model did not work. Look around, do you have any idea how much stuff never got intot eh game because 'there was not enough time, we will do it later... OH SHINEY!'

Would you like a list?

At least with the new model they seem to be taking there time to be sure stuff is done right, and if its not, correcting it faster.

No she didn't and no they aren't.

Combining both models and keeping expansions much more flexible in terms of themes and timings than they were before.

Good on CCP for learning that some aspects of the old style were useful (full featured expansions rather than partial releases of major changes) while still maintaining flexibility and the regular release cadence for less major features and changes.

Seems likes best of both Worlds approach, so we'll see how it turns out.

except that's not what she said. i think you need your ears checked.

Keep doing what you're doing CCP, ignore the whiners.

OMG:

- Patches can be done any day if needed. / no change
- small addons and corrections stay like they are. / no change
- Theme based connection changes will be packaged, to recreate "expansions" FEEL. / LITTLE change!

Those 6 week rythms do not feel like continous expansions, when in fact they realy are.

I am under the impression that carolines star, the drifters and coming citadels are stuff that could be easily, called an expansion.
However, sadly it does not really feel like it.

Those bigger changes will now be hold back and aprised as those expansions that they are.

EDIT: those 6 week changes are not bad!
They are the best thing that can happen.
Changes can be introduced fast and corrected fast if needed.
Fozzy sov will be improved in shorter cycles.
This is important for a "PROGRAM" like EvE, which has an abysmal load of complexity.

Where I'd have to disagree with the OP is - these many and thin updates have in the end transformed the game significantly, and in some profound (though not widely liked) ways. Change it massively suddenly, or incrementally? Reminds me of the bullfrog in the pan of water. Turn the heat up gradually, and it won't jump out even when the heat is lethal. Try to drop it in already heated water, it leaps out and runs away.

People playing this come from "other games" where they're accustomed to a certain amount of seasonal "xpacs" or "updates". Coming here and expecting this to be like that is of itself unreasonable. How things end up is obviously the true mark. At this point, the discussion isn't "aren't there too many updates that don't do much?" It's, "Is this radical transformation of the game that occurred so far this year a good thing?"

That discussion is in other threads.