EVE General Discussion

I really like the new CCP's work. The fast response after patches is great but sometimes I'm gettin update fever. Like Firefox and all its new releases. Every time I reboot I got a ton of updates to wait for and Eve is no exception I guess its this agile stuff or scrums cause I know they had the sprint idea down a while back or maybe they got a new way to keep track of what they are trying to do and its working big time.

But is it possible for too often to be too often? And what kind of stuff do you value enough that a patch is worth more than the inconvenience.

Personally I buy a subscription and I pay by the month. I'm used to paying subscription for something new once a month on magazines so I think once a month patches would be fine but I also want more than thousand cuts and low hanging fruit. I like to see some new content on top of maintenance. Maybe thats to much and I should only expect content on the actual expansions. What kind of work unit do you guys value and how often?

Wah?

Fix all the ships!!11

Speaking as a programmer myself, more frequent, but smaller updates are almost always better than larger, but less frequent updates. If something breaks or something else goes wrong it's a lot easier to find and fix. Plus it makes the users happy not having to wait a long time for fixes.

Edit: In fact, I work with interpreted languages and don't have to compile, so it's pretty easy for me to test and fix as I go. Like when I'm making a web app I usually have 5 browsers open and each time I finish something I go refresh and test it in each. Anything that other people see is pretty much 100% bug free that way.

Patch early, patch often. ♥♥♥

At least the new launcher is working better.

Im all for the rapid small changes.

Lesser acciendts of breaking something and having no effing idea what caused it.

1 UHD map can be a couple gigs big. UI tweaks is as small as 12kbs
Database entries are extremly small as well and requires almost no code.

The most complicated thing you listed there was 'new effects' which involves animation and is probably the third largest eater in that post. However an effect can be as simple as a 2d sprite. It the 3d particle ones that are oftenly a bit more difficult to pull off requiring math and where slighlty wrong math isnt going to break everything, it would just 'look' wrong or slightly eat to much resources.

Mind you eve used to look like this.
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/EVEHistory/2000.06_Orion.jpg
And even more distrurbing is that some of the code that existed back then is still lurking around in this game now even causing weird problems.

CCP should so make a joke trailer about air dropping a metrictonn of amarrian gallente caldari and minmatar tanks and have them steam role over the ww2 tanks.

Hmm maybe not ccp but someone else.

Also where is all the infantry in WoT?

and how come a old sherman can beat a panzer? there been multiple accounts about shermans hitting a panzer point blank several times with no effect and panzer shoots back once and splits the sherman in half.

Thats not realisitc.

I used to remember the days when ccp took MONTHS to patch something obviously broken.