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After having read the CSM minutes, my opinion is that this is the best Collaboration between the CSM and CCP so far

The expectation management has reached a new high, and it also confirms that the casual solo-playing pve loving capsuleer will become redundant.

The whole paper reads as a confirmation that the larger issues that are know about eve since more than half a decade, will probable be addressed in the next half a decade or more.

I hope CCP and the CSM understand that so far Eve Online (not dust or valkyrie) has hold it's own in a niche market place,
HOWEVER new eden will very soon have competitors; Limit Theory, Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen that so far have seen game development
that will overtake CCP's development, even when they are obviously currently behind, because
"In the beginning, someone decided to write a spaceship game in Stackless Python."

When the current CEO of CCP will show a new iteration of Incarna at fanfest, with no tangible solutions to the problems low sec and null sec instigators want, plus another round of nerfing of hisec income, you can certainly expect another summer of Rage.

Kind regards, a Freelancer

PS: the brain in the box has to show results very very soon, else it might add fuel to that rage.

So you still don't understand that this is just a pilot project?

The ship skins in the store at release are going to be a pilot program for skip skins in the future.
This will use a different functionality than if it was fully developed. The purpose of the initial rollout is to test out price points, see how skinned ships are treated by players, and learn other things.

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Ship customization is one of the biggest things coming up soon. With a rework coming soon to
how art handles customization, it will open up options in the future of adding more custom ship
skins. The exact mechanics of how this will work are still to be determined.

Art team also discussed alliance logos on ships.

You don't have to spend plex on anything. I bought my skinned ships from the market. Also, if they are irrelevant to you this probably doesn't concern you much.

So basically, if a certain group like low sec, or high sec, can't manage to vote any of their lobbyists onto the CSM, then they deserve to get screwed over by whomever is on the CSM, because the CSM members have no moral compunction to actually represent fair gameplay across the entire subscription base, and CCP is quite all right with this.

Good to know.

That explains this:

"Ytterbium opened the session by going over general changes CCP intends to make in the
summer. These include refining skill changes so you need less of the specialized refining skills "....

which was precisely the opposite of what we got, once the null sec cartels / CSM (same thing really) got done with it.
Those that think the CSM, and by extension, the cartels, don't dictate game design, should just read that excerpt.

Why does it take 3 months to post minutes?

My mistake, i've completly misread whole painting idea from previous devblog. OMG i've become forum troll...

Any chance to see:



even if its just concept we may ooooo'd too.

So according to you, niche groups deserve no representation because they cannot muster the votes required for a CSM seat?

TL;DR version = Why would players, who are labeled "anti-social", want to join a social group in eve that allows fratricide as a default, let alone wardecs costing a pittance (50m isk a week? really?!?! that's a score of full ventures mining basic veldspar)

Ship balancing section got added today.

nothing on T3's but a lot about the drone balance change and a nerf to bombers possibly needed..

CCP if you wanted to bring the rorqual back to life aswell as draw people out of highsec to lowsec, nullsec and WH-space why not simply make the rorqual a viable fleetsupport for mining operations? make it the prefered choise over the orca. That will boost the industry in the lower security regions and make people wanna go there for their industry instead of highsec also it would make the rorqual valuable again.

on befalf of the refining changes i dont mind at all that people would need to invest skilltraining into getting the best refining rates but that u NEED the implant for 100% just doesen't cut it for me.. since most people will have the specific ore refining skills at lvl 4 anyway to be able to use the Tech 2 mining crystals you could make it so that with those skills at lvl 4+implant will give you 100% refining and if they dont wanna use the implant then they have to spend 10days training that last lvl 5 in every ore they wanna refine. that sounds fair to me atleast. also why would you make it so that u dont need any skills to refine at a pos but maxed out+implant in an npc station this doesen't make any sense to me..

keep up the good work tho!

Maybe Rookie Faction Warfare of some sort? Pre-made frigs. New players have no experience in fitting ships. PvP systems for
rookies only, LPs<1mil?

My way to hook-up with EvE was in 3 attempts:

1 - few years ago. Harsh UI and weird ship steering (i thought it would be with up, down, left, right system) also i was overwhelmed
with ships and modules amount (especially modules). Uninstall.
2 - WiS. Cool, some progress, i can see my avatar. However i can't do anything with it. Uninstall.
3- About a year ago. Just a month before Odyssey. Bored. About half year after i've stopped WoW. I had two weeks to spend.
Done all rookie missions in about week (almost uninstall...). Then start to read about what i can do in EvE. Joined E-UNI (best move
so far, there are always some ppl to help you). I've done missions from lvl1 do lvl4, mined ores, mined gas in WHs, done some anoms, explored data/relics sites and combat sites, hauled for distribution missions (rep), no-PvP so far but it's not my kind of interes (never was). I was thinking of another uninstall until i found my place in EvE universe.

I think new players are misinformed what Eve really is. Nobody will tell you what to do here. You must find it by yourself. Maybe a definition of sandbox?