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New dev blog: If you have 18 months, you can probably make two babies. Or not, it's up to you.

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CCP Guard
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2011-11-29 16:51:22 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Guard
CCP Soundwave lead three teams into battle and now they've delivered Crucible. In his new dev blog he talks about the past, the making of Crucible, the future...and how to survive bear attacks.

Check it out here and leave your feedback for Soundwave in this thread.

CCP Guard | EVE Community Developer | @CCP_Guard
Eo Prime
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-11-29 17:12:29 UTC
First!

Awesome +1
Velicitia
XS Tech
#3 - 2011-11-29 17:13:59 UTC
Quote:

...considering they were on loan and made the transition from sparkly vampires to spaceships extremely quickly.


because internet spaceships is srs business

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
CCP Soundwave
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2011-11-29 17:15:02 UTC
Velicitia wrote:
Quote:

...considering they were on loan and made the transition from sparkly vampires to spaceships extremely quickly.


because internet spaceships is srs business


Damn right it is
Jerek Mothas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-11-29 17:16:14 UTC
Love this. Can't wait to get ingame and see all the new stuff.

Failfitting ships since 2007.

"Those who control their tongue will have a long life; opening your mouth can ruin everything." - Solomon
Max Von Sydow
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2011-11-29 17:19:01 UTC
Inb4 Chribba
bomb1911
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-11-29 17:20:22 UTC
Good job CCP you have kept to you word and you are processing awesome stuff again.

keep it up Lol
Athar Mu
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-11-29 17:20:24 UTC
SO excited!! Just got home from work and currently installing the patch...best patch for...well a long time. Great job!
Floydd Heywood
Doomheim
#9 - 2011-11-29 17:20:30 UTC
We got a lot of great dev blogs lately, but I think this is the first one that tries to be funny – and actually succeeds. Awesome Bear
Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#10 - 2011-11-29 17:22:59 UTC
Well said, carry on.

PS: If you cut out the MT ballast, even ambulation can be an essential, fun part of EVE, eventually. But first fix what needs fixing, update what needs updating and innovate the space of our space sim.

- [img]http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/janus/ceosig.jpg[/img] [yellow]English only please. Zymurgist[/yellow]
Charles37
Bookmark Both Sides
#11 - 2011-11-29 17:31:22 UTC
This blog was bearly readable.

Glad to hear that the future is bringing more spaceship content as well, and excited to get home and play around with all the new features that have been introduced today.
Xanthanan
Seniors Clan
#12 - 2011-11-29 17:31:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Xanthanan
The tone of the devblog says it all, Soundwave is happy and he has good right to be, rarely has there been so much spaceship content in an expansion for this spaceship game. It looks very pretty Big smile

Oh and what do you kids mean by floppy disc? This?
ElDiablo DelRojo
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2011-11-29 17:33:18 UTC  |  Edited by: ElDiablo DelRojo
Welcome back to EVE, CCP. We missed you.

Crucible sounds phenomenal and I can't wait to see what you guys cook up with more than a month or two of dev time. <3 Soundwave!
Vanessa Vansen
Vandeo
#14 - 2011-11-29 17:33:38 UTC
I like Big smile
Jerek Mothas
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-11-29 17:33:40 UTC
Oh, and I almost forgot!

I approve of this message and/or service. Bear

Failfitting ships since 2007.

"Those who control their tongue will have a long life; opening your mouth can ruin everything." - Solomon
Dierdra Vaal
Interstellar Stargate Syndicate
#16 - 2011-11-29 17:34:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Dierdra Vaal
I, too, am looking forward to this release which is filled with many fun and useful features! :D

I do have some questions...

Quote:
We had about 4-6 weeks of actual development time to put this release together


I thought Eve expansions came out in cycles of 6 months (roughly), so that figure seems unexpectedly low. I would expect a figure closer to 20 weeks (5 months or roughly 5x4 weeks)?
* What was the other time spent on?
* If this was the result of a 'last minute' change after/around the recent layoffs will the summer expansion contain about four times as much spaceship content since you'll have the full 6 months?

And hoping against hope and my own common sense, any chance you can shed light on plans for the summer expansion? :P

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Komen
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2011-11-29 17:34:17 UTC
First!...page.

Do not ever inflict '18 months' on your subscribers again. Damn shoddy.

Also you're forgiven and I will be re-subscribing.
Komen
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2011-11-29 17:36:11 UTC
Dierdra Vaal wrote:
I, too, am looking forward to this release which is filled with many fun and useful features! :D

One question though...

Quote:
We had about 4-6 weeks of actual development time to put this release together


I thought Eve expansions came out in cycles of 6 months (roughly), so that figure seems unexpectedly low. I would expect a figure closer to 20 weeks (5 months or roughly 5x4 weeks)? What was the other time spent on?

And hoping against hope and my own common sense, any chance you can shed light on plans for the summer expansion? :P



Did you not follow the part where they stopped doing Establishments and some other things to put together Crucible instead?
Moonaura
The Dead Rabbit Society
#19 - 2011-11-29 17:42:08 UTC
Bravo to all the folks at CCP, brilliant turn around and exactly what was needed. Death to the 18 months indeed!

"The game is mostly played by men - 97%. But 40% of them play as women... so thats fine."  - CCP t0rfifrans 
CCP Soundwave
C C P
C C P Alliance
#20 - 2011-11-29 17:43:03 UTC
Dierdra Vaal wrote:
I, too, am looking forward to this release which is filled with many fun and useful features! :D

I do have some questions...

Quote:
We had about 4-6 weeks of actual development time to put this release together


I thought Eve expansions came out in cycles of 6 months (roughly), so that figure seems unexpectedly low. I would expect a figure closer to 20 weeks (5 months or roughly 5x4 weeks)?
* What was the other time spent on?
* If this was the result of a 'last minute' change after/around the recent layoffs will the summer expansion contain about four times as much spaceship content since you'll have the full 6 months?

And hoping against hope and my own common sense, any chance you can shed light on plans for the summer expansion? :P


Regarding time spent, we worked on two other projects which were put on hold/scrapped due to various reasons, but the chief one being the change in direction for EVE (back to FiS).

Can't promise you x quantity of stuff, just that we'll continue to do this stuff :)
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