Jita Park Speakers Corner

Howdy all. Apologies for not checking the thread the past few weeks; I've been changing jobs and moving continents (back in Euro TZ now). I'll keep an eye on things here tho again starting.... now.



When the CSM actually started it was essentially a resurrected idea that was rushed into reality in response to the T20 scandal. It likely would have happened anyway, just not as soon. I don't really recall much serious back and forth in terms of the direction of the game before CSM 3. I was a dev for the first 5 iterations of the CSM and it was a highly regarded concept by some CCPers and an online terrorist organization to others. CSM 5, 6 and 7 have all worked to try and improve the relationships and processes so that it's worth everyone's time to be involved.



This is something I've poked the hornet's nest about a few times now and the best I can tell you is that you probably shouldn't hold your breath expecting much in the way of ~Incarna~ advancement in the near future. Unless CCP pulls something out of their ass at FanFest that the CSM is unaware of, I have heard nothing that would lead me to believe we are going to see much iteration on space dolls or their living quarters soon. I have mixed feelings about it because, on one hand, it seems like there is a lot of potential there. On the other, CCP is very laser focused on getting the 'spaceships' side of the game working as well as possible. Short of a full blown player rabble about how CCP needs to stop working on spaceships in the next 12-18 months, I'd be surprised if CCP does much with this stuff. But, as I said, maybe I'm wrong and there is just something they are not telling us. I doubt it tho.



Anything like what you are talking about will likely be part of a much larger overhaul of sov and null-sec. The sov system is an unfinished, boring, time vampire. The entirety of null sec needs a massive update / overhaul. This is something the CSM has been pushing for aggressively and you will hear quite a lot more about leading up to the December summit

Yep, I was waiting on an updated response to this. Basically, the QEN was a huge amount of work for the Research and Statistics group and it was decided that their time could be better spent on other projects. I'm pretty sure this was also announced at FanFest but my memory has faded over time.

Could they just make a monthly economic data dump of selected statistics for the stat-junkies to pore over? I'm sure that the playerbase would be delighted to do the actual report for them if they did. Indeed, I can imagine it being as popular a service as Dotlan or Eveboard.

There is a bit of white noise that we are trying to cut through with regard to this very thing. Those old reports were put together from a LOT of raw data and obviously gone through with a fine toothed comb before release. There has been some discussion about how much of that data will be made available through CREST and this pretty much ties right into that. I wouldn't expect a solid answer until near the end of the year, but in the absence of CCP Diagoras' random stat updates (among other things), I think that CCP should certainly make some of the info 'public record' on a regular basis if they don't plan to release a formal report anymore.

Not to be pedantic, but was the "yep" on giving up on WH stabilizers?

And TY for the response, didn't realize you were IRL busier than normal!

Could you do us a BIG favor and tell us when CCP is changing over the skills for the racial BCs and destroyers?

They have been severely lacking in a date, and just teasing us.

:)

Yeah just trying to ask very taboo questions. Was hoping for a more exact response. Its just CCP Fozzy or someone recommending to train them now, that got me going, very inconvenient for me, but later on I don't mind training them up.

Also what are some passwords for entering Jove space. (By passwords I mean two passwords, and by two I mean account names and passwords?)

Is it okay to say that I don't really care?

Quite honestly, I have nothing but respect for the CCP folks that work a lot of extra hours to put this stuff on for us, but the 'Open' is really the furthermost thing from my mind as EVE is concerned atm.

Is it because of CCP Dolan? I suppose he was a competitor for CSM last time, so it might be a bit personal when you go back to iceland this winter.

Eh? Personal? Why?