These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE Information Portal

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

Dev blog: If you are reading this and NOT a CCP Dev...

First post First post
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Tarvos Telesto
Blood Fanatics
#101 - 2012-12-14 08:05:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Tarvos Telesto
Cant wait for my container with random stuf, i wish it generate Titan ship ;) of few mining foreman mindlinks so i can sell them for a lot isk ;) just kidding, waiting for any gift that may even be a visual and non vauable things :D this random stuf realy sound great.

I hope this random stuf generate a lot unique stuf so everyone may feels spcial, but i wont cry if stuf become a copy of copys, gift is a gift and i take it like is.

Thanks CCP.

EvE isn't game, its style of living.
Ribikoka
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#102 - 2012-12-14 09:08:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Ribikoka
WoW!!! Again useless snowball launcher gift. What a surprise.
Cynosurza
Northern Freight Unlimited
Young Miners Christian Association
#103 - 2012-12-14 09:45:57 UTC
Why the hate for non-missile factions? I can't fit it to any ship except ones with missile hardpoints :(
CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#104 - 2012-12-14 10:37:48 UTC
Lirinas wrote:
It's good to see Snowball return after a very long absence.

I only have one concern//question. Was it intentional to make the "Festival Launchers" actual require a Launcher hardpoint? I'm pretty sure the old Snowball Launchers only required a high slot - no launcher or turret hardpoints needed.


It's a requirement that became necessary with the addition of the launcher models in Inferno.

Game Designer | Team Five-0

Twitter: @CCP_Fozzie
Twitch chat: ccp_fozzie
CCP Falcon
#105 - 2012-12-14 10:44:36 UTC

I had much fun yesterday, travelling the trade hubs, and shooting players in the face with my balls of snow Cool

CCP Falcon || EVE Universe Community Manager || @CCP_Falcon

Happy Birthday To FAWLTY7! <3
The Antiquarian
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#106 - 2012-12-14 11:03:11 UTC
Beautiful effects. Can't wait for the firecracker.
CCP FoxFour
C C P
C C P Alliance
#107 - 2012-12-14 11:36:24 UTC
iskflakes wrote:
Vincent Athena wrote:
jwingenderowns wrote:
Firstly, thank you for the gifts and another great year.

Secondly, WHY THE **** did you have to get rid of the old snowball launchersQuestionAttention You alluded that the answer would be in the dev blog, but then nothing. No technical or logistical reasons for ruining a perfectly good collectors item that some people have had for years. WHY were you not able to release this new festival launcher as a *GASP* new item - leaving our old launcher alone - is beyond me. If you messed up(and fixed!) the Ishukone Special Edition Shirt then you can fix this too...

Nothing like having something stolen from you for Christmas.

They did explain it. The snowball launcher was never released as a collectors item. Each year it was gifted it was compatible with all previous releases of the item, all snowball launchers would launch all snowballs. They decided that consistency with previous gifts was more important than catering to collectors that were collecting an item that was never intended to be a collectors item.

The number of eve players that have snowball launchers are far greater than the number who collect them, so they they made the decision that benefited the majority. Because of what CCP did, I and many others will have multiple festival launchers for launching multiple fireworks at once.

Edit: CCP, there is actually a middle ground you could have done. Change all the in-game snowball launchers to have the same stats as the new festival launchers, but leave their name as "snowball launchers". That way people with old units can have multiple launchers, but collectors will still have a uniquely named item.


I would like to point out that the festival launchers are in the "Special Edition Assets" section of the market.

How are we supposed to interpret the meaning of this market group, if its contents are not actually special edition?


This market group represents items that can only be added to the world by CCP.

@CCP_FoxFour // Technical Designer // Team Tech Co

Third-party developer? Check out the official developers site for dev blogs, resources, and more.
Utremi Fasolasi
La Dolce Vita
#108 - 2012-12-14 17:11:29 UTC
Ribikoka wrote:
WoW!!! Again useless snowball launcher gift. What a surprise.


It's not useless. It's very useful for a brilliant explosion of snowflakes.

A lot of grinches and scrooges about these threads.. the scrooges are more annoying though, more obsessed with counting their space coins than just enjoying a game.

Thankfully the needs of the many outweigh the whines of a few.

How about some Special Edition Space Carbon in those stockings? And with an extra catch that it can't be contracted or sold on the market. Twisted
Noah Vale
Heaven's Harvesters
#109 - 2012-12-14 18:01:38 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
Lirinas wrote:
It's good to see Snowball return after a very long absence.

I only have one concern//question. Was it intentional to make the "Festival Launchers" actual require a Launcher hardpoint? I'm pretty sure the old Snowball Launchers only required a high slot - no launcher or turret hardpoints needed.


It's a requirement that became necessary with the addition of the launcher models in Inferno.


Come out Gallente! Don't hide! What's that? Don't have a launcher slot! HAHAHA! Maybe next year they will give us snow drones! What about you Amarr whose your god now?
Noah Vale
Heaven's Harvesters
#110 - 2012-12-14 18:08:26 UTC
"I Got A Launcher! I Got A Launcher! And you don't got one cuz you on the welfare and your daddy is a Gaaaaleeeentee!" Don't you just love it?! Thanks CCP!
Noah Vale
Heaven's Harvesters
#111 - 2012-12-14 19:21:50 UTC
Just one question: Can I use defender missiles vs Snowballs without getting concordokkened? You are all sworn to secrecy! I am pointing at you!
Logicycle
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
#112 - 2012-12-14 20:04:12 UTC
Thanks for the Dev presents!
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#113 - 2012-12-14 20:24:33 UTC
Noah Vale wrote:
What about you Amarr whose your god now?

Dragoon would like a word with you. As would anything with the Khanid Inovations logo on it.
Ambo
Rattini Tribe
Minmatar Fleet Alliance
#114 - 2012-12-14 21:33:27 UTC
I love you guys Smile
Bob Niac
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#115 - 2012-12-14 23:28:10 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
Lirinas wrote:
It's good to see Snowball return after a very long absence.

I only have one concern//question. Was it intentional to make the "Festival Launchers" actual require a Launcher hardpoint? I'm pretty sure the old Snowball Launchers only required a high slot - no launcher or turret hardpoints needed.


It's a requirement that became necessary with the addition of the launcher models in Inferno.


Lirinas: Instead of bashing, why not suggest something constructive? Let's try:

CCP can you give out T2 mining crystals so we can make our own snowballs? Since they are T2, they can break .. just set them to a high volatility rate?

Or:

Hey .. Can we get some turrets, too? Maybe some civilian class lasers that cycle holiday colors, but do no dmg?

Even better:

CCP, How about giving us drone users some love? I would love to see some vanity drones next year! Perhaps racial drones that glow like light bulbs on a tree? One color swatch per race? (gallente would be blue, green, white, etc)

See? That wasn't so hard!

[u]I <3 Logistics:[/u] Pilot of all  T2 logi and my shiny Archon [deceased.] Also a Chimera which may or may not be horrid. I don't make games, I play them. I get that ppl are passionate about change. I post here to plant seeds. You see your idea as is? Holy **** you win! So let's post, and see what the DEVs and our peers use.
Omega Tron
Edge Dancers
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#116 - 2012-12-15 02:30:28 UTC
CCP Dev's
Thank you for a great game and for the presents. Here is wishing you a happy holiday period. See you all soon in game.

CCP's sand box is EVE Online.  The sand is owned by CCP.  We pay them a monthly fee to throw the sand at each other.  That is all that is here, so move along. Nothing more to be seen.
CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#117 - 2012-12-15 09:37:46 UTC
CCP FoxFour wrote:
Myrkala wrote:
Hmmm...

It seems I am only receiving 3 (THREE) snowballs for the festival launcher and not 300 in the redeeming system? Straight


Each "snowball" as far as the redeeming system is concerned is a stack of 100. Just the way the system works. :)
CCP Atlas has fixed this display issue internally and we will deploy that fix next week; when the fireworks will be handed out you should see the total number (number of stacks * stack size) instead of just the stack size.

Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson | Senior Development Director | EVE Online // CCP Games | @CCP_Explorer
CCP Explorer
C C P
C C P Alliance
#118 - 2012-12-15 09:54:46 UTC
Lirinas wrote:
It's good to see Snowball return after a very long absence.

I only have one concern//question. Was it intentional to make the "Festival Launchers" actual require a Launcher hardpoint? I'm pretty sure the old Snowball Launchers only required a high slot - no launcher or turret hardpoints needed.
Indeed they only required a high slot before; but since then we have added missile launchers as models on the ships, as turrets have been for a long time, and we needed to make sure there were slots available on the ship model to accommodate multiple launchers should you buy more from other players off the market. A module can require a missile launcher slot or a turret slot or neither, we didn't want to experiment with what would happen in the code if a module required either.

Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson | Senior Development Director | EVE Online // CCP Games | @CCP_Explorer
Hannott Thanos
Squadron 15
#119 - 2012-12-15 10:54:48 UTC
CCP Explorer wrote:
Lirinas wrote:
It's good to see Snowball return after a very long absence.

I only have one concern//question. Was it intentional to make the "Festival Launchers" actual require a Launcher hardpoint? I'm pretty sure the old Snowball Launchers only required a high slot - no launcher or turret hardpoints needed.
Indeed they only required a high slot before; but since then we have added missile launchers as models on the ships, as turrets have been for a long time, and we needed to make sure there were slots available on the ship model to accommodate multiple launchers should you buy more from other players off the market. A module can require a missile launcher slot or a turret slot or neither, we didn't want to experiment with what would happen in the code if a module required either.

As a fellow programmer, I just wanted to say, I know dat feel.

while (CurrentSelectedTarget.Status == ShipStatus.Alive) {

     _myShip.FireAllGuns(CurrentSelectedTarget);

}
pussnheels
Viziam
#120 - 2012-12-15 11:09:33 UTC  |  Edited by: pussnheels
i hate snow and i don't care about this seasonal thing , and if CCP really want to give something free why can't i have a new useless unique, but good looking ship collecting dust in my hangar

I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire