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Chickens, eggs etc.

Looks good to me. Glad that you've come up with a good approach to moving forward and keep this game (lifestyle?) alive and improving.

Let us now proceed with the hashing out of the details.

I'm anxious to see how you're going to do parallel delivery on material that seems to require heavy recoding from the ground up (i.e. POS+Ring Mining)

Taking what you did with the Inferno point releases and prepping the code foundations up to 6 months before release seems like a more plausible in scheduling, but also means CCP needs to know what they're doing *gasp* 12 months ahead of time?

So, that means that Modular POS coding is already happening, to start on assets delivery in the winter sprints as we speak. But , according to CCP Seagull, apparently the expansion pre-production stage is starting up soon. Shouldn't that be for the Winter delivery pre-production planning?

Whatever is happening for the current expansion should already be 6 months in development (much like the foundation for Crimewatch was delivered in Summer while the actual changed landed in Winter).

Guess we'll see in Fanfest :) I'll buy you a beer if you impress.

The Incarna question has been asked an answered by CCP Unifex recently.

While I wouldn't mind seeing tweaks and releases of assets more or less together at this point, I agree with him that any major pushes forward in this area is not a good use of the team's resources right now.

Let the World of Darkness team in Atlanta chew on Carbon avatar based gameplay with enhanced animations, interfaces, multi-avatar performance and such. When significant work is done there then CCP can look at adapting that to some new functionality, hopefully with meaningful impact on EVE.

If CCP has a way to get this to us sooner in a way that would work (like say adapting Unreal 4 or some such, leveraging the work done for DUST) then great. But I think it's a loser to be pushing for signifcant dev resources for incarna at this time.

Sorry to say it, because I'd love to see EVE become that perfect simulation of all aspects of future life in New Eden as much as anyone.

It's not clear to me what the role of Creative Director is now. Can you please clarify?

It is going to be truly interesting to watch this new process play out, and the summit was a good start (as people wil see when the minutes come out). But the next big test will be in the coming weeks as CCP develops its first expansion release plan using this new philosophy.

I think I can safely speak for my colleagues on the CSM when I say that we are all looking forward to being involved in this process, and keeping the community informed about its progress.

Two blogs! Whoooo

We just have to wait to see the end result. The last 3 expansions delivered.

Yes.



Not exactly. Nothing should be assumed about what is or isn't in the pipeline at the moment. This is the -beginning- of a whole new process, a clean slate, this isn't the process that's been happening the last 6 months inside CCP. We'll be working with CCP to come up with the theme and feature set for summer, and by the time summer content is delivered, I'd imagine there will have been time to make much longer-term plans. However, the feature set for 2013 is very much -not- in stone at the moment.

This certainly looks like the right direction to me and I wish CCP Ripley & CCP Seagull every success in their new roles.

If Retribution could be considered as the prototype for the theme approach then the future looks very bright indeed.