EVE General Discussion

I hope they take their time with this expac, if its not done i'd rather they finished it than pushed it out for more dorrar! Tbh if they really worked at a decent expansion I'd buy it (i know they are usually free). If they can't think of anything actually new and exciting, i'd rather they spent their time optimising the current stuff.

Maybe for our paid expac should be EVE 2.0... (i know never gonna happen) But fresh code? om nom nom!

That explains why the discussion on marauder iteration has been swallowed by a black hole...

Shipes rebalancing should not be the only theme of a patch. This should be a living and ongoing process.

I think it is time for one or two new, really awesome features. And I don´t speak about the hacking-minigame for example, there you know how "awesome" it really is, if you had done it the second or third time...

Going to be a long wait then,, ohh yeah still waiting.

TBH, I would not mind seeing a nice chunk of actual new content every now and then. Once a year perhaps, make winter expansions add new content and summer ones work on itterations
Not saying that balancing was not desperately needed, quite the contrary but still...
What I'd like to see is more npc nullsec since that seems the logical next step for folks who want a change from say lowsec but cant be bothered doing the whole sov thing. Maybe introduce some kind of 'sov-lite' space in null with a modified (and fixed) version of FW plexing mechanics for sov control. Again, let's emphasize fixed aspect so that everyone doesn't start the obvious 'stabbed cloakie plexers will ruin it' talk.

"Fix everything" is not a realistic goal. EVE is too big, too dynamic, too heterogenous to ever have "everything fixed".

The goal is to put in place an ongoing processes to make sure that things keep on getting fixed and that EVE doesn't end up once again in a position where there's a titanic backlog of horrible glaring problems. There is now such a process for ship balancing, and the other dev teams have been pretty pro-active in firing suggestions and requests for opinions on other long-standing issues as well.

I personally am satisfied that CCP Seagull has plenty plenty ambition to add New Stuff To Do, New Places To Go, New Ways To Be into EVE. I am also satisfied that she has a coherent, realistic plan based on the resources she has right now to deliver it.

I also fully expect that plan to make a lot of people super mad and angry and disappointed and ragey rage, because there are simply far too many EVE ecologies for them all to be evolved as fast as the inhabitants could wish. Most of us would agree that (for instance) an expansion that reworked faction warfare, added smuggling and black markets, introduced pirate faction warfare and allowed pirate faction player characters (with corresponding additions to the character creator) would be a pretty damb excellent expansion. But that "excellent" expansion would leave totally untouched:

0.0 Sov
Economic rebalancing
W-space
Drone space
WiS
Mining
Exploration/Hacking/Arch
Capital/Supercap mechanic reworks
New Player Experience
PvE (including plexes, missions, epic arcs and COSMOS)
Incursions
Local vs active scanner vs probing mechanisms

To name but the first dozen major areas of gameplay that haven't been looked at (or at any rate improved) for half a decade.

Right, and now compare that with the scope of the last couple of "expansions" and do the math... next REAL expansion, introducing actual, extensive, NEW content, arrives in the year 2020'something.

Exactly... can't say what it will be, though... I know I'd prefer 2, but 1 surely is the more conservative (and, also never ending) way... then again, nobody has ever called CCP "conservative", I believe.

are you suggesting that this IS happening
world's coming to an end?

Maybe you expected to change your battleship to a big human like structure with sword and shield?