EVE General Discussion

In the face of the CSM minutes...

I suggest you read each separate background in full and form them into three collective questions, one per topic.


1) CCP resource allocation:
CCP Unifex was hailed as a man of change, the company was said to undergo a vast operative reorganisation.

The minutes told the community that the three publicized major and broad game-play affecting projects: Crimewatch, POS-infrastructure and Ring mining are vastly underdimensioned.

Crimewatch is postponed indefinately. The two remaining projects: POS-infrastructure and Ring mining are said to be carried out by the same design team, and forced into a relation of priority.

Meanwhile CCP are perfectly capable of changing missiles, V3 shaders, new- and old ships, WiS or clothing store assets, assorted graphics-heavy art-projects like preview representations on the websites and the like, all at once.

Why can they manage so many art-design projects and so few game-design projects simultainously?

I thought art-design was supposed to be a high-intensity, resource demanding and time-consuming part of the gaming industry. I guess not.

I realize peripheral teams can exist low-intensively next to important core-design projects, as long as you can deliver on the prioritized projects.

When those are postponed and down-prioritized, why do the peripherals still exist and continue to deliver?

What do that say about dimensioning and reorganisation of the company?

Why do the CSM not call out CCP on this? I see Unifex in the minutes. This was his primary task.




2) The priorities to Flying in space:
In the priorities imposed on the game design direction, why are CCP prioritizing POS-work over Ring mining and why do you, the CSM, chime in with nods of agreement in the minutes?

It was said, after the mea culpa, under much applause at PR-events such as Fanfest - that focus should be entirely on Flying in space, over the foreseeable future.

Do not get me wrong. I sympathize with people living in Wormholes, relying on outdated POS mechanics. I understand that interacting with POS is not the most thrilling aspect of the game either. Especially not if you are a PvP-player who do it out of necessity to store your Supercapital or while you would rather be out in fleets with your free, fully insured, moon-mineral and SRP-funded Drake.

The POS-work do not entail Flying in space though.

It does not encourage more ships in space. That was the promise of focus going on from Crucible, and now that is prioritized down.

Ring mining- and similar initiatives, or mining as a whole, assume all those things. It's a question of flying in space, giving all players more content as all players are affected by ships in space per The Butterfly effect. It affect us all, because we interact with each other, not just those poor souls that interact with POS.




3) The potential of Flying in space aspects in POS-redesign:
In addition. Why is there, in the CSM minutes, no focus on- or discussion around Flying in space aspects of POS-work?

You could discuss potential to make POS themselves more eligable targets for spaceships, corporations and alliances of all sizes and dispositions. It would make them more appealing for all of us to interact with.

Why is that discussion limited to practical use and art-design oriented resources such as modular design, docking and the like? It could be focused on time-based mechanics of POS in contrast to volume-based mechanics that feed cost-effective Drake-blobs of 100's and "16-17 Titans".

If that is not considered yet, how do you suppose it would find it's way into the comming Winter expansion? Is that yet another postponed project?

CCP's effort since 2011 was said to focus on Flying in space, and your term as CSM was meant to encompass Flying in space.

Where is Flying in space?

All i see is new art-design, pr-projects and postponed or queued game-design projects.

I am here to play a game, foremost, not take part in an immersive space-simulator or play other games with my spacefriends in a vast community.

Please go into more detail on CREST and answer if https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=140598 will be possible.

As to Supers, are they worth the effort to change atm, given the number of things like corporate management and POS's that need fixing or a complete re-build. Given that they only exist in Null and that so little people live in Null compared to Hi, frankly is attention needed for Null at the moment.

How about looking at the physics of the game. This forum post/discussion refers: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=141740

Taking into account the current PLEX spike us space poor seem to be experiencing the last week: When ( or better at what price ) does CSM7 believe that Dr E should start dumping confiscated PLEX onto the market to stabilize thier prices?

Threee days after posting the thread and there are more posts in 2 thread pages by CSM people than 'likes' on CSM members' posts. How about instead of lounging around on everadio where they toss out softball questions and cradle your nuts you guys get around to realizing why the playerbase thinks you're a bunch of cretinous hacks and address actual things in EVE.

I suspect you may want to go back and see how given your statement on what you intend to do with the show my accusations might ring truer.

Something I didn't know:

EVE residents: 5% Wormholes; 8% Lowsec; 20% Nullsec; 67% Highsec. CSM 6: 100% Nullsec residents. EVE demographics vs CSM demographics.

But now I know why ther's always talking about nerfing/buffing nullsec, and that CSM thinks everybody is filthy rich

I know, the CSM is elected, so it should be a democratic institution, but how do they represent the 80% non-nusec dwellers?

Just a question from a not so rich eve citizen.

CSM 6 also did more for highsec than CSM 7 has done at all. Your point?

As a space impoverished Drone Region dweller I'd like know what the CSM thinks of the state of Drones as an enemy type in general, and the state of the Drone Regions specifically. I'd also prefer more than the canned "Not all space is equal," that some are fond of. Of course not everywhere is equal, but being the worst relative to everywhere else doesn't mean it has to be awful in and of itself.

Since UAXdeath was elected on a platform of 'fixing drone space', and he didn't mention anything about the drone regions in the 128+ pages of the published CSM notes even once, does he feel that the current state of the drone regions PVE is sufficiently improved despite the lack of any item drops or faction/officer spawns, or does he simply not care about the drone regions now that he personally no longer holds space there?