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I again repeat my request for a full answer from CCP - when are you going to give us the racelocked art assets on all characters? Yes, I said when. This needs to happen.

And I've got to echo the words of Apollo Gabriel - why has this blog taken priority over Factional Warfare?

Some people are better at building spaceships than they are at writing code. Some people are better at writing code than they are at reading code. Some people are better at designing virtual clothing than they are at reading or writing code (but your opinion about NeX clothes may be that they're equally bad at designing virtual clothing — *titter* *snort*).

Would you really want the people who are building the parts of the game that deal with 3D models to get in to the simulation code?

I'm sure we'll hear more about faction warfare in the months to come. Just be patient. Some of the problems look easy to fix, but may actually involve several layers of spaghetti code that one of the code teams has actually been working hard on unravelling for 12 months. Any time you hear the devs talking about "carbonising" code, that's what they're doing: unravelling 8 years of spaghetti, separating it into neatly functional units, making those units part of the Carbon API (or the EVE-specific wrapper around the Carbon API or the glue that joins that to the rest of the game), and then building the improved feature from the Carbon API-based version.

This all takes time.

In the meantime, make sure you raise the issue of Faction Warfare in the Assembly Hall. The CSM will be feeding back to CCP the voices of the unwashed masses^W^W subject matter experts (in your case, the people engaged in Faction Warfare) and helping CCP focus on the priorities for the next development spurt.

Of course, when you're complaining about a portion of the game make sure you point out what's broken. Don't just say, "FW sucks" - you need to point out, "why is it possible to capture bunkers with a cloaked, AFK pilot?" The more specific you can make the example the better, especially if you include your expectations of how a feature is supposed to work.

In the meantime, enjoy the fact that you can now get some trolling value out of your ultra-expensive pants and boots.

Finally, someone that gets it.

On a related note.....

When using the capture portrait screen in character creation mode, it seems that you cannot zoom out as far as you were able to when it was first introduced. You can just about capture the head and shoulders now, but I have seen avatars that are zoomed out much further than that.

Has this been deliberately changed, or is there a way to achieve this ?

Congratulations, you just won the Internet!

Why don't you stop with this Space Barbie bollocks and implement some real content for WIS? Stuff like this simply reinforce the negative perception of this part of Eve. The whole problem with Incarna was you sold WIS to us on a Promenade, retail establishments, casinos and corporate offices. What we got instead was to walk around a beige room wearing Monocles that cost $70.

I don't know of everything the art team has planned and I don't know of any plans for race locked art assets for characters at this time, but I'll suggest it to them :)

In regards to this blog taking priority over others...that's not the accurate assumption to make. There are blogs behind this one in line that are about much bigger and more "serious" features, but there are other factors that come into play and blogs aren't published in a descending order of importance in fact. Features that get finished early sometimes get written about earlier too, not always though. Sometimes it's a matter of a healthy rhythm for blogs to come out...and although I'm mostly a follower of the "get it out and announced as soon as it's ready" school of thought, it's not much fun for anybody if for example we would push out all the biggest, most popular blog in the same week, a month prior to release

Then there are even other things. Some devs love to write blogs, some are shy...some I need to put in a headlock etc.

... and there's one budget that has to pay for all of them^^

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Where are the gallentean plastic clothes and the minmatar chains and leather ? No fashion designers among them ?

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