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My only concern is can we turn it off for old derpy graphics cards?

No, you can't really turn it off... but if you have an old derpy graphics card and want to "turn this feature off" just don't push the button

A lot of us have been pushing for an end to racelocking since the initial release of the new characters back on Sisi. Originally, all bloodlines and races had access to all clothing and hairstyles. Then, little by little, they got pared down and restricted by bloodline and race, and this was opposed, but our objections weren't listened to at the time.

The racelocks are kinda... not fun. They don't give our characters the customisation options we really want to have, and - in my opinion at least - the whole Incarna system really needs to have if it's going to work. Most of all, they don't even really make sense - I'm a capsuleer who deals in a currency of which a single unit represents so much wealth it could feed a small city for several days, but I can't find a shop that'll sell me a black flight jacket? The hairstyles were even more of an upset - the "long-unkempt" hairstyle that for some reason the Amarrians and only the Amarrians get is the natural result of not cutting your hair for a while. Why can't my character grow his hair out?

(On that subject, a lot of Intaki characters who previously had long hair have been forced to make do with dreadlocks when they'd really like that hairstyle. We'd really love it if we could)

Guard, what I guess I'm saying here is... please remove the racelocks? Yeah, it's not going to be a game-changing feature that'll set the world on fire, but it'd be... nice. Just... nice. Something to show us CCP loves us people who like to spend some time on our avatar's appearence. I'd really love those extra character customisation options, and I bet a lot of other people would too.

I want space barbies. I want establishments. I want the ability to decide whether my little shop is a haven for the fashion-conscious or a dark "edgy" dive with drug deals and exotic dancers.

For me, EVE Online is about socialising just as much as it is about blowing each other up while flying spaceships. For the sociopathic vocal minority, socialising is an activity of last resort. I can understand that you view the expansion of the game into more human and social environments as a threat to your play style. For other people, it's a natural feature of the virtual world that has been missing for far too long.

CCP have made some bad decisions about prioritisation over the last year, I'm confident that they can reach a balance where Faction Warfare gets the attention it needs, and multiplayer station environments also get some development time. Note that we've gone about 18 months since the "18 months scandal", and suddenly here we are with an expansion jam-packed full of goodies. Were all these goodies suddenly conjured up in a few weeks, or were they already in progress and only waiting for art time? It would not surprise me to find that there has been substantial thinking and first-draft time spent on Faction Warfare in that 18 months.

That there is still time being spent on the space barbies side of the game indicates to me that CCP perceives that aspect of the game as being useful. As an example of pricing versus revenue, it's worth noting that various experiments done through the iTunes Application Store and Steam have shown that halving the price of an application doubles the number of customers, but revenue remains relatively constant. If that applies to the NeX, I would expect that the few people who are buying NeX items mainly as a means of trolling the general populace are delivering a substantial financial boost - remember that one only has to buy a monocle to contribute the financial equivalent of 6 months of subscriber time.

Finally, if you think that throwing more developers at a problem will help solve that problem faster, please go and read Fred Brook's "The Mythical Man Month" from cover to cover. Understand that adding more staff to a project that is already in progress inevitably introduces delays as the existing project staff bring the newcomers up to speed. In addition, a larger team requires more communication and more formalised processes. All the extra communication and formal process box-ticking comes at the cost of development time.

So yes, all this work comes out of the same budget, but adding more staff to focus on Faction Warfare might not actually get the problems fixed faster. In the meantime, I suggest you enjoy "Crucible" for what it does provide, rather than condemning CCP for not giving you the one thing you are fixated on.

Hi CCP Guard, maybe you can tell me when CCP is going to make good on the following statement that you guys made.


Now that sounds more like it fits the sandbox of EVE, rather than this featureless NEX stuff your pedaling.

I would request the opposite. Races in EVE were once unique and distinct. Why further water down the differences between them.

Clothing, etc should remain unique to each race/bloodline and there should be more of it. Real EVE clothing that is in line with the original character creation designs and remains true to each bloodline, not this generic stuff we have now.

If you went to olden day Japan as a Westerner and dressed like a Samurai, you'd lose your head in about 5 seconds regardless of who you were.

It literally makes no sense to me why a Minmatar for example would be standing around in an Amarr station dressed in an Amarr robe and not be arrested, Capsuleer or not. The same way if that Minmatar went into a Minmatar station, the security team there would probably blow their head off with the loathing they display towards anything to do with the Amarr. They'd probably think they were a spy ... or stupid.

Capsuleers are not a power unto themselves when it comes to dealing with the main races of New Eden. Attack an Amarr NPC ship in Highsec and see how that goes.

The plain hair styles though I'll give you that one, because it doesn't make any sense game or lore wise for someone not to be able to grow their hair to a certain length.

There needs to remain unique distinctions between the races and even bloodlines other than the shape of your face.

What if they were an Ammatar? There are a lot of Minmatar who roleplay as filthy lowlife race trait- uh, I mean, Ammatar. They're Minmatar loyal to the Amarr Empire and they follow cultural and religions customs that more closely resemble Amarr than Minmatar.

Your whole screed about being arrested or shot on sight rings very hollow when I can quite literally be -10 standings with the Amarr and not get arrested when docking at their stations. If I've made a lifelong habit of blowing up their ships every time I see them (and I do) and they don't arrest me for it, what the hell makes you think they're going to arrest me for sporting their latest (read: twenty-five-thousand-years out of date) fashions?

funny you say that, i am tryng to were less cloth, in a tasteful way, ofcourse

- first of, ccp congrats on making an effort on actually looking to solve small details and improve them.
people expect things to be fixed and wait and wait and wait and the fixes never come and suddenly people get pissed off ... so it's good to see that you are refining you're game aspects and making it better for everyone.

- second ... i don't need to see the avatar preview window, to check if the avatar is wearing pants or not ... i did tried to remove my pants and couldn't, so it's a bit pointless aspect ... after all, when I'm my pod gue, i were what i want.

- but most of all, if you're puting some efort and energy in the "vanity" or what ever you want to call it ... at least do things with elegance.

- running the risk of floging the dead horse, it's disgusting to see that some items are not really that fantastic.
one of the most disgusting items, the monocle, is huggly as a dead fly, however, some players shove it in the eye, like 11 year old kids with hugly transformer dools.

- this is what the monocle could have been ... an elegant item :

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/6245/goodlookingmonocle.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9629/goodlookingmonocle2.jpg

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1401/goodlookingmonocle3.jpg

http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/8449/monoclevariationblue.jpg


instead, we got something distasteful and ugly :

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8236/stupidfkingmonocle.jpg


but why am i getting this subject now ?

to call the attention that if you're going to create more virtual avatar customisation items, you might as well make sure they appeal in a good way to costumers likings.

why don't you launch a contest similar to the ships creation ? but instead, of virtual goods.
a - establish the contest item application (cloths, shoes, shirts, pants, glasses, gloves, and all sorts of customisation items)
b - submit created items to votes.
c - award prises to the winners.

it's possible that it creates a more close involvement of the community in the virtual storage, with the close approval from you're costumers, than just risk spending time and resources in something that won't be entirely appreciated.

think about the ships creation contest. people are excited of seeing someone's created ships and fly with them now.


* you could also introduce a revolutionary change in the Aurum storage and it's market dynamics

d - make items cheaper and refund the excessive aurum
e - items would be fitted to customise the avatar
f - with the new foreseen pod killmail, that shows implants, it would show equipped cloths too
g - there would be some chance of drooping some of the cloths wille others would be destroyed (a smaller chance of survival than modules)

results :
1 - players would fit cloths cheaper
2 - cloths had a chance of dropping from pods
3 - would add value to the killmail loss
4 - players would have to go buy new items to customise they're avatars, if poded, but it would be cheaper
5 - Dynamic market
6 - other players would have a chance of looting some of the cloths, making it available to them, and perhaps they would like to experience something that otherwise, they wouldn't


maybe not everyone will agree 100% with this suggestions, i myself don't give it much importance, one thing does concern me, that so much energy is spent with items that are not elegant or really appeal to people, when those energy's could be spent in something more useful for the game.

Doh, the latest build on Sisi removed all the apparel that had been seeded in markets. Sigh. Such are the downs of wishful thinnking...