Jita Park Speakers Corner

The main 'farms and fields' candidate is absent this time around.

Destructible Stations...





...Insert fields.

the biggest problem that must first be addressed is in clearly defining highsec, lowsec, and nullsec. The problem is that lowsec is highsec lite (half the players, half the fun), and nullsec is a schitzophrenic rampage between highsec and Chicago gangland. right now the roles are pretty blurred, and there is no compelling reason for one to be your home over the other. And honestly, there isn't a change of feel when you transition from lawful space to lowsec, to 0.0.

This is one of my big hobby horses. We're supposed to build space empires in 0.0, but we don't have the tools to be much more than space mongol hordes.

Pretty much this. I think most of CSM7 would say they were encouraged by the discussion a year ago but the problem is that conversaton ended and it's not showing any signs of being picked up. We'd like to change that and get the information collected from those threads to be fashioned into the visioning document they were originally supposed to be for.

Can't reinvent the wheel if no one's made the wheel yet.

Yeah I think a big unified vision document would be good with CCP basically saying how they see each area of space and how DUST fits into each area and how each area should effect the other. Including what type of activities they want to see in each area, what type of players they want and where the risk/reward should be.

It'll be a pain in the arse but totally worth it as it will provide a road map and instead of trying to design features and fit them into the game it will allow them to stop and think "Wait, does this fit in with our vision?"

That article is kind of wierd.

People in this thread wanted an unified vision. That article offered being a **** to everyone as an unified vision. Not really sure that is a decent unified vision. or at least one devs could support. I mean it is a vision, just one that most people can't get behind. Its actually makes me laugh reading it and thinking about how null hasn't seen much action from buffs lately.

Seems CCP wants a lot of drive in null sec. As goals or activites that really drive the game or alliances at least. Suppose being a **** is a drive and gets people motivated, just not sure how to buff that I suppose.

With everyone being a ****, that moon mining and stuff satisfies me pretty easily. Hopefully someone can write an article that has more ideas towards a drive force, that is different from being a ****, or hoping some people work, so you can easily rip them off and they will keep playing, so you can keep doing that.

In terms of big-picture thinking and planning, CCP has been a mess for years. We see grandiose statement after grandiose statement on where they want certain aspects of the game to be, followed by disjointed collections of quick-fixes and unintended consequences which shunt that aspect in the complete opposite direction. We see Greyscale's 0.0 brainstorming megathreads, then the work from it gathers dust in a dark corner while 0.0 continues to stagnate. We see senior CCPers enthuse wildly in the gaming media about how events like Hulkageddon are awesome and how EVE is awesome because of them, then see mining ships granted hitpoint buffs which consign the idea to the ashes of history.

Depends on what is meant by 'destructible' since there's a variety of options beyond 'Apply DPS = station is gone'. If CCP screw it up, then yes, you're looking at the depopulation of sov 0.0 since there's even less incentive for anyone to go out there. Do it right, and things get interesting.

Agreed. What we need isn't more destruction, its more creation. We know from games like Minecraft that players love being given leeway to do whatever they want. The more freedom of operation you give someone, the more you give them to build, the more personal they can make something, the more fiercely they will defend it.