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I'm going to hold off judgement for a couple of months, but the fact CCP has brought in someone who has barely played the game as Senior Producer is severely disheartening.

Any chance we can simplify the pos so that the pos-rework can be expedited to this spring?

Make it like a supercapital ship with pos functions that can have multiple pilots or none at all. Most of that code already exists. Do we really have to wait 11 months for pos's that work for everyone? Where a player can buy a mobile base and control it without any connection to or control by a corp.

fix FW

I have 3 main concerns for your ASAP list...

1. Finish Walking in Stations
2. Overhaul POS's, and give them a WiS Component.
3. Overhaul Corp management.

/Eve-Online Player since Beta 2003

If you bothered to look around for even just a few minutes you would see pages upon pages of explanations on how a properly realized WiS environment can contribute to your PVP. WiS is not just a pretty shiny. Walking in Stations is Eve-Online's unrealized other half. An entire world is missing from this game. It has been missing for 10 years, and its continued absence from the game is doing CCP no favors.

so please excuse me if I take your comments and immediately disregard them as the ramblings of a troll.

So, I read some statements that can be reduced to "WiS is stupid".

I am standing on the opposite position. WiS IS a necessary part of EVE. Some thoughts of mine:

Now we have been connected to DUST, which connects Avatars on the one side with Spaceships on the other side. I can imagine, that some Leaders want to see their Combat-Slaves for planetside in the eye, and kick some butt if they fail, maybe.

Sometimes I am really bored here. Sure, I could go mining for 20 minutes, or canvas the belts for the 10.000th guristas plunderer to kill, or I sort my equipment-storage for the 40th time ...

OR - at the moment -I switch to STO, join a planet- oder space-action, kick some borg / romulan / klingon ass and 20 minutes later, I had some fun and disconnect.

So, what do I want to say with this?

I think, we need some WiS content, it don't have to be the big expansion with all possible features at once, but why don't you make a lounge with a live-view to the outside, where the capsuleers can meet, talk, sit at the counter and drink some quafe, and add some small games for single/multiplayer. I think this could be realized with not too many efforts ... open the CQ-Door, build a floor leading to an elevator, which is leading to the lounge. Or ... with less work: Upgrade our quarters with some games and meeting-tools, and allow us to invite people into our room (example: small corporation meetings).

Or - totally different - design some things for the POS ... why can't I help my science team at inventions or research-tasks? Some kind of minigames or else which can influence the result in a slight way?

I think there are some better ideas out there ... don't leave us alone CCP ... you promised some WiS-Stuff for years ... we did wait ... just hand us out another piece of the cake ...

For all sceptics ... think about windows and solitaire ... you don't really need a cardgame, but sometimes, it is nice to have it there ... isn't it?

Brilliant. CCP has really turned a corner.

A suggestion for POSs: my corp tries to share the load in terms of fuelling logistics. But if we give someone access to one POS we have to give them access to every POS. This creates a real security hazard, and limits the number of people we feel able to bring into our POS programme. Hence more work and tedium for the few.

Can you make corp security more robust generally?

As someone's who's built a corp up from scratch over four years of toil, it upsets me just how easily one bad element could trash it all. The espionage game in EVE is an interesting dimension, but I think it's way OP right now.

For ship fitting, could there be a mass build option, which would let you fit out 100 ships at once. Or maybe you could right click a hull (or a stack) and choose a fitting from your saved list and it would sort it out for you if you had the modules - rather than having to drag each one individually.

And how many major revamps have ended in disaster from CCP not being focused on what players actually wanted?

The current plan of doing major revamps in smaller steps is all good as far as I am concerned. True some things will be hard to change in small steps without breaking it even worse. Like the POS system for example. But doing it all in one big revamp could leave us with a system worse than we have now.

Doing a revamp like the POS system in smaller steps will allow us, the players to have more input, and response to each step, each piece they change. This way if they make a mistake, at least from the players veiw point, we can push for a change before it is to late.

For example they could fix the corp hanger access in one patch. Fix the lab slot access in another, moon mining in another, then move onto the structural changes. If they make a change we do not like, we can influence there direction and push for a fix before they take the next step. This would be much better than the old way where they would spend a lot of developer resources, and time, into a project, to the point where once it is done and released it would cost to much to go back and rework it again.

Take for example the faction wars revamp. They initially did it all in one shot. They had no idea it would be so easily exploited. They went into panic mode trying to fix it and minimize the damage. It then took several smaller revamps to get it to the current state, which is still not perfect, but much better than we had before. Would it not had been better if they had just done the whole revamp in several smaller steps, which they ended up doing anyway. Rather than waste months of work on a system that was easily exploited and had to be revamped again?

Yes, we need something else to do. I was bored by all the existing things 2 years ago (when it's became clear that we won't see anything interesting for the avatars in the near future).

In STO you can also run your "Corp", and even create your own missions, or even a campaign if you good at it. In eve you can't actually create something new. Yet another corp or an alliance? And that's all. The butterfly effect is applied to all of the MMOs then. After all, the people i met and the decisions i do affects my future game expirience in other games, aren't it?

If EVE players are creators and the game allows thet then there should be a stunning mass of content in every area of the game. More than it is in STO. With so much players, in the almost 10 years old server... But what's changed on the server by those creators? People shooting each other, the goods are manufactured and being sold... Everything is the same, no matter what. Some people quit - others will take their place and will do the same thing.

It's a shame that there is nothing interesting have been done for the last 1.5-2 years. Just polishing the old things. And there's nothing on a horizon. I think i'll finally sell my characters on summer, when skill plan will be finished. And keep just one of them. Because CCP is dead - they're publishing the nothing-blogs just to keep the players a little longer...

Things like these were keeping me in game, waiting for something interesting...
Why do you became so boring, CCP?