EVE General Discussion

You didn't answer the question.

Other than the gallente ships, i quite like the designs. Everyone has different tastes so try to atleast say that you think they look bad instead of just saying: they're bad ;)

I'm not surprised with rusty skins: dear CCP are masters of content nobody was asking for + I'm sure they have much better skins but planned to sell them for more than couple bucks and just afraid (after monoclegeddon) to post expensive items in the cash shop without slowly boiling the frog beforehand.

So just wait few months for new skins in next expansion (I think it'll have "Pimp my spaceship" title).

That's because food is a terrible analogy for your point because no one in the food industry does that anyway. It's however VERY common in technology industries in both hardware and software. It's just that most of the time this process of trying out ****** versions tends to happen at the internal level before you see it as a product or it's tested by a special user group, but even those sorts of things are becoming less common, especially for something new.

But here's something that you also need to understand. The technology world is founded on and its back is made out of innovation. Even if A isn't new, and nor is B, putting them together to make C is. Or maybe they're making A and B from scratch. The point is, because technology is based on making something new it's hard for business men to gauge it. How do you get the market value of a product over a 3 year period if it's never been done before?

Because of this the tech business world has a concept called "MVP", Minimum Viable Product. A lot of tech is expensive to do, especially in manpower where engineers command six figures of salary....and you need to hire multiple engineers...

Instead you scrape together what you can in small investments make a pretty ****** MVP (but one that still make use of your primary feature or technology), and start selling it. You then take this revenue and feed to back into development and use it as justification for larger investment to expand, get better customer service, improve design, adding features, etc.

This is why we're seeing more games showing up as paid early access on steam and why betas involving money are more prevalent. Budding development companies need some revenue to show the investors "see, we made money, now fund us so we can hire more people and make more money". Or in some cases, like with Rust and certain KickStarter projects you get all the money you need from that MVP right off the bat and you throw it all into development.

In CCP's case they already have an established market so what they do is they roll out test versions of features, collect data for a few months to a year, and then iterate. This way they don't break anything too significant nor do they change game mechanics too drastically in the long run. An example of this is the removal of the hacking loot spew mechanic this summer (which will have had a lifetime of one year) and the second pass we had one T1 frigates and cruisers with 1.3 very recently (also a year since initial overhaul).

One short term soluton would have been to allow us to use the NPC ship skins. The code is already in place.

Actually no, it isn't. Those are still entirely separate items so it's no easier to make player flyable versions of those than it is to make them of any previously created but not available skin. The steps of: Create new object > Clone old objects stats to it > Associate with different skin; are all the same.

Someone who wants to die in style. I see it as being no different than expensive mods or rigs. Actually, I find it preferential to the mods since at least currently it can't drop.

I want a hot-pink widow.

But general consensus has no bearing upon what you as an individual want to see, which was the question.

That would be RMT.