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Finished the notes, a few comments. While the most of the content was fine I'd like to give some opinions and notes on a few things.

Getting more industry to null. I can agree to making it better but please keep in mind that the different areas are supposed to interact with each other. Giving null too much of resources (or penalizing the production in high) will take the base-level production out of high sec. As it stands the high sec produces low-level minerals, tech 1 items and faction modules to export while importing everything else. Null produces tech 2 materials, high-end minerals and high-level modules for export while importing the basic stuffs and tech 3. If the null industry is boosted too much it becomes nearly self-sufficient obsoleting much of the high sec. I think it's something that needs to be taking into consideration.

CREST. I think the option to steal stuff has to be regulated, at very least to the level of very fine control of what and for how long it is accessible. It's one thing to convince a player to give their stuffs to another player in game and another writing an out of game app that has an access to your inventory. If we go with the analogy of "giving the car keys to a stranger", how many you think will give the keys? Is the work done on the CREST worth the few people that are willing to trust other people to not steal their stuff for no specific reason? If I can't trust a major app like evemon to not one day say "screw it" taking trillions of isk from the users after years of awesome service why would I want to use this feature at all? Things like this have happened before with player services and why would this be different?

Loyalty rewards for being in a player corp. While it's a sound idea it needs more thought. If I have a character in a one-man corp and two in npc corps do I qualify? How about all in one-man corps instead of socializing with the other people in the npc corp? Does it even go with the sandbox setting to say "You can do whatever you want here but if you do it this way you get an extra token"?

Skillpoint respecs idea at the end of the customer loyalty section, page 111. No, Hans. No. Bad CSM! Bad! I don't care what your reasoning is but these have no place in this game for any reason. This thing has been through so many times you should know better by now.

POS revamp is exactly what perfectly fits into that new development direction.
- It affects everybody in the game in every corner of the universe. No favoritism towards playstyles.
- It can fit into 1 theme: "industry"
- The answer to the "why?" question: To fix old broken or unnecessarily overcomplicated parts of the industry. To give more options for new tactics. To have a base ground for planned future changes (like lowsec buff, null/wh rework, corp management etc). To give some kind of "housing" system where the players can be more attached to their homesystems.

I can understand that it can be too much work to implement it at once but pushing away the idea with design philosophies feels like just cheap excuses.

Good read, the new expansion strategy feels solid and the hints about expansive expansions coming in the future are juicy indeed. I'm very worried about the modular POSes not coming. Building custom POSes, small sandcastles in the stars would be wonderful for both increasing conflicts and to please builder-types.

My pics for the most interesting topics:



We really, really need a new drone UI by summer expansion. It shouldn't be postponed anymore, it's been troubling players for years, and now the current empire NPC AI changes cause drone micro-management challenges also to the players with much less skills and ability to adapt.

Different drones and purposes? Yes, but they are used in the same way- select target, command drones to engage target. Even if we wouldn't get "drones as modules", we need at least these changes to groups and shortcut bindings:

X number of default drone groups. Groups can be named by user, but DG 1 named "Ogresasdasf" is still drone group in slot 1 and manu item includes the group #.

Keyboard Shortcuts (no defaults needed):

Launch Drone group 1
...
Launch Drone group 5 (or up to any max number you see appropriate, five is just the minimum)

And then for each individual drone, drones are assigned a number on launch:

Drone 1-25: Engage target, Return to Drone Bay, Return and Orbit.

This shortcuts are accompanied by number display and small buttons on each drone row in the drone window, before damage bars.

Also please fix the group folding/expanding behaviour of groups- currently launched group opens collapsed, and returning group expands, it should be opposite. Drones in bay should also have the damage bars visible.

These fixes would go a long way.



Trebor, many players are simply not aware of third party tools, or interested in installing them in order to play a game, and even less if terrible websites and crude interfaces. CCP providing a decent fitting tool would be a massive improvement for these people, and as a result we would have to suffer from less terrible fits and stupid forum questions.

Furthermore, I'd very much prefer a web-based, cross-platform fitting tool that is always up to date and comes with a direct link to ingame fittings.

Pyfa and EFT are really nice applications, but their mere existence should not be an obstacle for CCP to develop the game and the services they provide- and ship fitting is a core mechanic of the game, not something to be left forever in the hands of 3rd party developers.



New icons, finally, especially the Neocom icons are very dated.

Again, finally! Nested dropdown menus kill every UI. Finding the correct opening from an unordered list, then navigating a cursor through a geometric maze of tiny little corridors just to execute one single command or access another menu is simply the worst possible solution in every use case.



ZOMG <3 yes yes please! Simple settings options for station gamers: "Show/hide docking sequences" might be appropriate.



EVE is doing extremely well <3

I'm not sure I would agree that POSes represent a "small and singular aspect of the game." Either way CCP recently redid FW; which only a minority of the players engaged in. Bounty system, anyone? Where is this line drawn?

If POSes was painless to set up and use, represented better opportunities than did stations, and were scaled to also function as an individual pilot asset - I would expect more people to use them more often.

Listen CCP. Two Accounts canceled! Two from me. I know many others that also canceled during your daft new bounty system!



The problem is not the confusing thing that some one assume that you are attackable in highsec. This is daft ****. Every one knows that you are not attackable in highsec because of the bounty. AND THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!! The problem is the bounty what you get if you type something into an help channel, or for declining a convo etc.



Daft lie. I allone know nearly 40 people who hates this system. In the german help channel only!

Half way through the minuets:

POS's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Your wrong if you think changing POS's will only effect a small group. POS owners are a small group because of the POS's themselves, change the POS and more people will use them!
ATM a POS is restrictive, irritating, and a hassle. Give people a modular POS that they can fit to their own needs and more people will use them.

I loved the idea of making my own secret hideaway, maybe with a few guns, a small shield and a maintenance style hanger. Cheep and simple that i could work on and improve.

If an alliance wants a huge POS that mines a moon, has a JB, can hold a few titans, and has some mega deathray, so be it. Thats what it feels like now. But make something for the little guy, the small corp or the individual, and you will have a huge asset to the game.

Calm down. Bounties aren't that big a deal. My tiny little low-sec RP pirate alliance is the third biggest bountied alliance in the game. We don't have people beating down our doors looking to collect.

I do not wish to have a bounty because for a question in a help channel, for declining a convo, or for declining to go into a player corp etc.
The current bounty system is just a griefing tool. NOTHING MORE!
I have NEVER done something illegal! I just play AND PAY (!!!!) the game for nearly 5 years! ANd now I got an a$$kick from CCP's like Soundwave and Punkturis who thinks that it would be cool to grief old players with a bounty, but exlude the WHOLE CCP-staff from bounties. Try to spend a bounty on Soundwave or other GM's; DEV's or Volunteers!
Loyality Awards for old players? LOL! I have a bounty on my head for nothing. Thats fair CCP? Why should I pay EVERY MONTH in real money to play a game where I got hate from the developers?
I do not calm down. After 5 years continued subscription with a lot of money You can not expect that I do this! I just close all my accounts!

But could you please explain what is the problem with having a bounty? As you understand, you can also place a bounty on anyone if you see it appropriate.



Why does the bounty grief you? AFAIK it does not hinder your gameplay in any way. Please explain why this is a problem.

I explained it with: "It is a griefing tool." I got bounties from pilots I never meet nor I had done a harm to them.

And your argument "It does not effect my gamestyle" is not correct. It effects my game style. I am proud of my reputation and do not wish to have a bounty sign for NOTHING!

Example: For me the WANTED sign is the same as some one would say "fugg you" "dumb a$$hole" or would otherwise harass me!
I am not a criminal; I never want to be handled like a criminal without a reason!
I demand the border for not beeing able to spend bounties on chars with positive security rating. EXACT as it was before Retribution!

Ask yourself why CCP has exluded themself of getting bounties! They know that CCP Soundwave will be the most wanted. They saw it on the testserver! If he deserves the bounty is not the question now. But he would be the most wanted because he was it!