EVE General Discussion

CCP has finally managed to make an expansion that undeniably made the game better by a considerable margin. Fozzie and co. have started the process of balancing ships, and it seems like they're doing a pretty sweet job. Bounties are hilarious and functional. Highsec protection has been buffed and hands are being held (this is a bad thing, by the way). Salvage drones, when they actually work, are pretty useful.


But what's the next expansion going to be about? Sure, balancing ships and all is nice, but Eve badly needs a lot of other stuff overhauled. POSes and corporation management are antiquated shitpiles. Sov warfare is miserably unfun. Nullsec hasn't seen anything new since Dominion, which, though marginally better than the previous system, completely failed to deliver anything past the basic "claim space" functionaility, and even that breaks routinely. Wormholes haven't been touched since Apocrypha--though perhaps that's a good thing, because CCP has a habit of breaking working things. Eve's industrial capacity is terribly broken in favor of highsec NPC station production. Mining....well, it's mining. Everyone does it afk in Mackinaws, which should have told CCP something, but after the recent dev blog on the situation it appears as though the economists are stuffing their fingers in their ears and shouting "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" as players point out how bad the mining barge changes were. CCP removed functionality with the jukebox--I can't believe I'm saying this--that they managed to not replace with something else, despite the jukebox being completely broken, so Eve's sound is somehow in even worse shape than before. Ship explosion effects are distinctly worse. Lag, thanks in most part to CCP Veritas, is mostly gone, although the major fleet fights that used to cause it are also absent at the moment, so there's that. Dust is supposed to be released ... some time in the future, but as of now there's nothing concrete tying it to Eve Online in a meaningful way.


There's a whole bunch of things CCP could be working on. So, what's planned?

In what way may i ask

I have learned not to expect what CCP shows at Fanfest to ever make it into the game unless they're releasing it within a month or two of the event.

By the way, I'm still waiting on space elevators, CCP. Chop chop. How 'bout some of those fancy-pants sov improvements that were promised during Fanfests past?


CCP likes to throw out cool-sounding ideas that they've spitballed at Fanfest, not necessarily ones that they will act upon.

You really do have a knack for being an obnoxious butte, Krixtal.

In regards to Pyro, yes, they'll announce what they already have partially coded. But since they don't say "hey, we've already made a lot of progress on feature x" because that would be stupid and defeat the whole point of NDAs, it's difficult if nigh impossible to tell the difference between what they think about maybe doing :18 months: from now and what's a definite feature for the next expansion.

Hopefully battlecruiser and battleships. Again, hopefully that won't take a year and we can see it this spring/summer. After that I think minor t2 buff to make them slightly superior in response to the new t1 buffs..hope that can be done in a simple patch, not an expansion.

Then realistically dust will be rolling in and who knows what all that could bring...likely some capital and super cap changes as they will likely play more role in the planet interaction with dust.

More pirate ships !!! Their are some combinations that do not exist

And with the battlecruiser changes would come the skill changes. Allowing for pirate Destroyers and Battlecrusiers with mixed racial training.

I'm hoping they at least mention something.

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In all seriousness, I can kinda understand it, as far as raw "gameplay" terms, if you aren't a bounty hunter or wanting the new destroyers, the expansion really didn't add anything sizeable to work on, so I can kinda see the request for information.

But CCP is usually really really good about telling us what they're working on, I'm sure we'll know sooner rather than later.

They said in a recent interview the Tags for security status thing is coming up, but I can't find that article now. Overall they are still going to focus on improving existing systems for the next year or two according to this interview. This interview suggests that might include some new features though (so for instance while the new POS system is a new system, it's also repairing an old system... at least that's how I read it. What do I know though...)