EVE General Discussion

Like the Hacking Game ? God that was so brilliant.

Speculate away, but be sure to sprinkle on top a good giant dose of disappointment. That's from 2 years of learned experience most indeed.

You get a like for asking for it. But the reality is CCP has spread themselves too thin for us to get any decent content any time soon. Maybe if they just spent the Valkyrie resources on Avatar content instead of wasting it as an exclusive for a device that isn't even out yet and already has competition.

The rift is open source hardware. Means the complete instructions for making one are public and anyone can make, distribute or sell anything made from those instruction. It will take a metaphorical 5 minutes before Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo begin making their own cheaper, subsidised and more popular version that Valkyrie wont work on. Well done CCP, well ******* done.

Ps: I am not bitter at all.

I'd love to see more mobile structures and hacking skills and politics added to standings.

Mobile jump beacon echo - can be deployed off Jump bridged and used to lure jump bridge pilots away from the pos
Remote autopilot hacking skill - flags you but if successful you can a) see pilots auto pilot route and B) modify it
Rewrite standings code as whatever it's original intent was, it has been long abused.
Some tools to start chipping away at local intel as well.

Stuff that shakes up the status quo a bit

If its that similar im sure Valk could be tweaked for use on it if they use even close to the specs that the rift uses

More Drake

Sov mechanics that actually allow the little guy to take some of the empty null. An industry revamp that makes building stuff not such a crazy click fest? a re-balance on force projection?

Well then CCP will have to back-track some. Let's hope they've not signed anything because they have publicly declared it exclusive to the Rift. Exclusive means exclusive I am afraid.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-05-eve-valkyrie-is-an-exclusive-oculus-rift-launch-title

The introduction of wormholes didn't make any other part of the game obsolete. I believe the OP was trying to say you don't have a power creep like you have in games like Everquest or World of Warcraft.

In those games you are in a constant cycle of replacing equipment as you level up. There are places in the game that get left behind for newer and shinier areas of the game as new content is added.

Apocrypha was an oustanding expansion concept, but it also took a level of crunch effort that's not realistically repeatable now. And it laid up a store of problems that contributed to a lot of the grief in the following :18 months:

Realistically, we're not going to see another Apocrypha class expansion released in a single 6 month cycle.

CCP Seagull laid out her vision at fanfest last year in the keynote speech.. That's what's going to happen. Rubicon, Odyssey, and the expansions that follow them will all be building up to that. CCP have a "to do" list that needs to be completed before we can see that vision of player built stargates and new space finally realised, and they're on it. For exapmple, one of those items is ship balancing, and that project has nearly completed its first iteration. Another was exploration, and that was addressed in the last expansion. There are other items of similar magnitude, and I'm sure that you can probably guess most or all of them if you think about what still needs doing. Meanwhile, CCP are gradually introducing the new tools that will be part of that vision, such as the deployables.

If CCP deliver what they showed us, then a lot of people engaged in everyday EVE activities are going to be very happy with the summer expansion. People expecting another "Apocrypha" will be disappointed. They're always going to be disaapointed. I think if CCP execute it well, it'll be more like another "Retribution".

And don't forget that a significant percentage of the next expansion will be delivered in point releases; the days of giant expansion changelogs and patchnotes are over. (It's worth remembering that we haven't even had all of Rubicon yet!) There is an emphasis on making sure that the core game experiences are good, and gradually infiltrating new features rather than a sudden dramatic "OH WOW" change as we got in Apocrypha.

I know it's not as exciting to anticipate, and it sure does make the marketing guys job harder, but it's a better and more productive way to develop the game. It's a change that the players begged CCP for years to make.

Okay, maybe wormholes was an extreme example. I understand that Apocrypha was kind of a one time thing. But something of the size of Incursions maybe?