Jita Park Speakers Corner

I know we are to have a set of new minutes coming from the December meeting, but is there anything you can tell us right now (without tromping over the NDA, while not being vague at the same time) regarding the thoughts of the original document, and what was learned regarding it in December?

Its pretty clear from what we've seen at the summit that CCP has taken our design strategy and iterated upon it to build their own slightly more nuanced version that will be used to guide their expansions moving forward, starting with the summer release. They should have a dev blog out that will accompany or precede the minutes release that will give a better description of not only how they plan to approach their development efforts from this point onward, but also who they've chosen to put in charge of EVE to oversee this (they've made another staff shift since we approached them with all of this, one we're very pleased about).

So you're saying that CCP have iterated on Iterating on Iteration?

Walking in Stations is permanently iced from everything we can see. Nothing planned for 2013, or ever, until CCP changes their mindset about the feature. The rest is undecided yet (the dev blog and minutes will elaborate on this, basically CCP wants to start including the CSM in the early planning stages and will be doing this for summer in the coming month, with room for public input as well), but due to the revamped development approach, i don't think anyone should take it for granted that Feature X or Feature Y is for sure coming this year (including POS's).

That being said, what CCP shares in common with our design strategy is both the need and desire to reach beyond the "patch"-style expansions that have comprised Crucible, Inferno, and Retribution. They definitely want to tackle bigger features, which ones those will be and in what order is still up in the air.

It's in CCP's hands now. End of this week? Early next week? Wish I could say.

Soon (tm)
Ah well...

But hey, you answered, so thank you.