EVE General Discussion

They still have to balance Industrials, redo fittings(it is sad that some TI stuff is actually better or as good as T2 stuff), then they need to address POS's. CCP has a ton of stuff that needs done. Good thing they have a skeleton crew working on it.

Now you know how it feels

You keep using this word... I do not think it means what you think it means

I would love, new T3 ships and mods... why isn't this a thing yet? New space to explore.. not neccessarily Jove space, but new space. WiS would be nice to. Oh, how about fixing the Sov coding?

I'm jumping on the "ain't broke don't fix it" bandwagon.

I'll take slow progress over the next 20 years rather than an explosive amount of new content paired with Free To Play and Microtransactions. I know it might not seem like these concepts are related, but the more conservative CCP is with Eve development (and man are they conservative/careful now... holding meetings about industrial rebalancing, etc) the less chance there is that a horrible revamp of some kind will bring the game down. Seeing as every other MMO on the market has basically died a fiery death by the 10 year mark from one stupid decision or another, I think it's great that CCP is moving slowly and carefully.

I really think we don't need any more ships/mods unless they're extremely well designed. There are already hundreds of ships, and CCP is right when they say that it's likely that new additions at this point just end up hurting the game. If anything, the game would be improved going the other way, aka making T2 more expensive and bringing the named mods back to usable status now that some rebalance passes have happened...

That said, I hope CCP is keeping some "premier features" in development. Even a slow careful dev cycle requires some groundbreaking features every once in a while, and since Apocrypha nothing has really taken Eve to a new level (Incarna doesn't count.... unless they finish it).

I want my world of darkness mmo dammit. I'm gonna play a Tremere clan vampire.

Lowsec, into the dirty underbelly of New Eden it is supposed to be. Yes there are already threads with fine suggestions on how this should be done but I cant be bothered to link them again.

But as for the OP, I am tending to agree now, alot of fixing and tweaking has been done and that was a fine thing. I think it is now time for more new content.

When it can generate enough money to be considered a flagship game that can sustain more than itself.

Because if a game company only has one egg in the basket, it's not going anywhere. Even they get bored of designing the same thing for years...even if paid to do so.

EvE has to grow. It has to bring in the mullah. It has to compete so it can cut better deals and get more to offer more.

Eve needs more IS Boxers.

Okay I'll take this in a civilized manner.

1) It's is not that CCP is incapable of developing anything new, it's that they've chosen not to because we told them to. Look at the riots of Jita after Incarna. They're doing new things but in small incremental ways. Our largest concern as a community is that CCP moves on ahead to new features without ensuring that the old ones are maintained. If insist on letting those old features die in favor of the new ones then you're going to remain a d VERY unpopular person here.

2) DUST isn't harming EVE development in the least. They always maintain the same teams for EVE. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3295939#post3295939

3) DUST was not a engine rework like Incarna was, they're using the Unreal 3 engine so that part was very well established. The complicated part was working on CREST, the API that allows for a multitude of applications to access TQ and interact with it. They had to work with CREST a lot to get that connection between the two games to work. But as you can see now DUST is getting all of its holes filled in. All the factions are getting their equivalent suits and weapons. Not much of this is really "new" either.

4) EVE being a 10 year old game makes it fairly unique. It needs a lot of maintenance. They got to make sure features and thing built 5, 10 years ago still work and function today and/or are improved upon. There was certainly a lot of part of the interface that weren't very intuitive the first time. It's better to make "new" features by making the old ones more accessible and usable again. It's more efficient to add things that way.

The good news is, we're probably a year or so away from some really awesome new stuff happening. T1 tiericide is done and T2 migth even be finished by the end of the year. After that we might see some changes to industry, PI, and null sec mechanics and cap ships. I cant think of anything else that they really need to fix...and from there we can start getting some truly new things again :D

Among the things CCP has talked about as new developments being:
-Player built stargates
-Incarna style explorations
-Ship damage and shield/armor/hull reactions to shots. :D

And we still have DX11 and tessellation to look forward to as well as procedural lighting (so that lasers light up the hull of my paladin :D)