EVE General Discussion

As they have entirely different development teams I dont understand what if any impact DUST has on the development of EvE

personally
- i don't do industry: what do you want from me regarding new 'expansion'?
- i don't care about 0.0: whatever new structures CCP provides they won't change my game in a bit
- i don't do exploration since 'loot spew' and minigames. Whatever CCP can do for exploration will not affect me (unless they revert all changes to it)
- i like drones and what did CCP do to them? Improved NPC AI.... Nerfed Omnis, then they nerfed Omnis again (cycle time). They can't fix interface and instead of it looks like they will reduce amount of drones. I always loved idea of hordes of drones and what now? 1-2 pityful drones? Why not make the same to guns? 1 gun ship anyone?

So if you ask me i don't wait anything good from summers expansion. Yes, there are people who will enjoy it. There are people who will hate it. And there will be people like me who will just download 1-2 Gigabyte patch and find nothing for them in it.

Add here new bugs (and we know how CCP QA dep works).

And you still want people to be excited?

I will note, loot spew is suppose to be removed this expansion

1. Make everything more expensive so hopefully people will have to buy more PLEX from CCP.

2. Fix just enough bugs so people would not rage quit.

I do not know what game you think you are playing, but as someone who has been in eve since near the begining, i can tell you that you honestly have no idea what you are talking about. I can list, off the top of my head fifteen things that are, by most peoples standard, broken or unfinshed. The current fixing is only in year 2 and just Started. WiS came out summer of 11, the summer of rage right after, oracal, which was the start of the 180 was winter 11. Then you had crucible in 12, another expantion i can not for the life of me name in 12, odyssy in 13 (start Of the 5 year plan) rubicon,and now the unnamed expation. Not everything has
has been addressed, and here is my list:

PoS`
SOVEREIGNTY
PI
MINING
MOON GOO
INDUSTRY
HIGH VS NULL
TECH 3
CAP SHIPS
WiS
Dust interlink

Ok 11 off the top of my head. All need to be relooked at, before being abbandoned for the next big thing. CCP is on year 2 of a5 year plan. My hope is alot of repairs and a slow buildup. Then drop something awesome. I would rather wait a bit more, then get a half assed unfinshed new feature that takes 10 years to looked at aand fixed

i think they need to revive TomB from whatever the heck he is doing with ccp

You've got a lot more patience with CCP than I have waiting for them to run a hamster wheel of old features for the next 5 years before they deliver anything new.

I've seen first hand then botch up iteration (FW vet here - is it not on your list coz you saw them iterate and thought it was fine now?) after years of waiting.

Iterating old features is necessary and all , but new content is what gets players excited and logging in (or back in) to play. Wormholes was the last new major content update, and even that is looking tired. The game's always had tonnes of potential, just now I have wisened up to realising in my gaming lifetime Eve is unlikely to ever fulfill that potential.

Pity.

1) *After being here fir 10 years I kinda learned to take the good with the bad. And personally speaking, i think then taking the time to FINALLY fix stuff, is good. They are giving us small little things, some people may not like this, but i can stil log in right now and play eve just fine without something new. And what i do in eve is the insane crap, you know, running a corp, mining, managing 30 pos' that cry everyday (god that sucked before fuel blocks, thank you CCP!) etc. It has taught me that small things can make a huge improvement on my game life, more so then a blotched new feature.

2) yea as i said off the top of my head, and i thought i actually added FW when i wrote that list, my bad.

3) my guess tbh, is that we will get tid bits to excite us this year, last year was laying the ground work, Rubicon was the start of what is to come. I suspect we will get more info. But i would rather have snippets then 'guys we are doing thos grand thing, look how.. whats that? oh we cna do 1/2.. no 1/4.. oh no just one thing... ok well this one cool thing" Id rather be told EXACTLY what is coming, not some hair brained idea that gets changed 50 times before we get it.

Unfortunately i'm a ccp fan boy, i have no interest in any other mmo's as eve has ruined me lol

*edit: made an assumption that i corrected

It's hard to leave a comfortable niche. I don't expect anything ground breaking, or even engaging. They'll stay where they are until they can't anymore... Then they've got a lot of decisions to make. That day may be sooner, rather than later. Time will tell.

Sandbox:
Throw a bunch of interesting content and mechanics in and see what the players make of it. Cut off things that threatens to take over the game but live everything else in. Throw them a curveball every one in a while to keep things interesting. Your job is to make the sand not the castles.

Themepark:
Carefully design how all of your content is used and what role it should play in the game. Try and control economy and income for everyone. Meticulously tune everything for "balance" because you have set the game's goals not the players.

There's so much hypocrisy in EvE really.