EVE General Discussion

Only joined late 2010, so I have not seen that much of the game. Of the five expansions I've seen, Crucible and Retribution were easily the best with Crucible coming out at the head.

Worst was Incarna.

But Incursion is lacking in many ways too. CCP almost completely missed the many chances this expansion offered for both immersive and emergent gameplay. It really is a pity. And it showed, that CCP is somewhat lacking in capabilities to design PvE gameplay and to integrate it with all the rest of EVE.

Best: Apocrypha and Revelations. Because of the massive improvements they brought to all kind of playing styles and even added a few more.

Worst: Incarna and Tyrannis. For promising the world and delivering little to nothing.

Going to throw in my 0.02isk despite only being around since Tyrannis.


Best:
Crucible - You fixed blasters and buffed rails. I am eternally grateful. Nothing compares to this.
Retribution - New bounty system is nice, but tbh all the others have been a bit mediocre.

Worst:
Everything else I've seen really. I didn't really hate incarna, I thought it was neat, but it was lacking. Inferno too was a bit boring.

EDIT: Although, now I say that, missile effects...

only best for me is Apocrypha because it really brought new content and i don't consider retribution as an expansion because it's only an improvement of existing things and 1 new ship which really doesn't contribute much. (Don't get me wrong. The improvement's are top notch but nothing new) So it is the best patch for me ;) But that goes for all ballancing patches i suppose.

I think incarna was even better because it was what ccp always envisioned. An mmo experience on all fronts be it in space (eve) as well on land (dust) or in stations (walking in stations) although incarna seemed pushed and ofcourse the p2w was a bad choice.

Dominion would be the worst because of sov changes which still isn't working.

Best expansions:
Red Moon Rising (Gimmeh Supers - That is all)
Incarna (Space Boobies - Nuff said)
Tyrannis (PI !!!!)

Worst expansions:
Everything after Incarna (Shelving of WiS, no planet gameplay, no avatar gameplay, no more boobies, empty CQs, 6 years of now empty promises regarding ambulations, rehashed same old FiS crap over and over again... no new Jesus features.. and so on.)

Really, the new avatars came with Incursion, not Incarna.

Best: Exodus, Apocrypha (which the devs have sworn they will never, ever do again. Then they wonder why membership is stagnant)

Worst: Incarna (fried video cards), Trinity (boot.ini anyone?)

But 7 years on, and I still play EVE. I must be a masochist.

I will play the Devils´ Advocate here and say the best expansion was Incarna!

It delivered hours and hours of funny entertainment: Not the game itself, of course, walking in that dreadful looking Minmatar CQ was fun for five minutes at most, but the forum rage itself (that certainly provided lots of entertainment as such).

Ah, and that memorable post by a Dev himself that "they are too busy locking the rage-threads to do anything else" or something to this effect... which of course caused another outcry by the community.

But most importantly, without all the rage-threads, I would never have heard about My Little Pony - or at least not at that time - with all the Pony pics that were posted on the forums.




Seriously though, I am not long enough in this game to have experienced many expansions, but of those the current one seems best: mostly interesting and new stuff with only a few things that need polishing (sound, I am looking at you!)

The Best Expansion was Apocrypha

Nothing can compare to what that achieved.

NOTHING

(Except a POS revamp)

Notice how Apocrypha is leading in the best choice, hint hint CCP.

Best:
Apocrypha
Trinity

Worst:
Quantum Rise(Though the trailer was cool)
Incarna