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well, this was a very good description of the focus of CCP for industry.

I like it.

Could you please do this for other facets of the game?

One facet I would like to know about (and I am certain I am not alone) is CCP's opinion of ganking, especially in high sec.

This is great for a DEV blog,

The only thing I miss, is the READ MORE HERE button. If you are an expert in the field of what is described here, an even deeper analyses of choice would be great. Make it forum links, discussion paths, etc.

When is Planetary Interfacing going to be updated? The UI for PI is outdated and antiquated. At least change the white on white on white of the extractor heads that make it horrible to manipulate on ice planets.

Can we not get some sort of figures (ie: numbers) in the scan lines?

Also, the radius of the planets is not scaled when you place PI objects onto the planet. Why does the size of the object not scale to the size of the planet? The extractors and factories are exactly the same size irrespective of gas giants or white dwarf sized planets. This makes it hard to calculate the distances needed for links that eat the CPU exponentially. Scale of structures is very important and neglected.

PI is a part of Science and Industry, it needs addressing too please

Thanks for posting thi devblog. I thought that you were ignoring invention, so it is good to know that you intend to look at it in the future.

How far are you guys willing to go? Currently, I can't easily calculate the profits of my invention jobs without creating a spreadsheet. Some people may think this is a good thing but not me... Are you planing to build some ingame tool replace the necessity to spend hours creating spreadsheets?

Gotta say that as a dedicated industrialist for the last 5 years almost ,that im not welcomeing the new changes.
CCP says its refined and focused on industrial work, but in fact what they have done is make it harder for us to make a liveing out of it.
you have taken away the ability to remote reserch,copy and invent from stations to pos's while saying that its easier and quicker to stick multi million if not billion isk BPo's directly into pos's for a time advantage.

Lets get real for a second.
No experianced industrialist in there right mind is going to put a billion isk plus bpo into a pos to copy or reserch with the new system as its too much to risk if we get wardecced and attacked.

And it will happen as i personaly know people in game who are swapping corps to get ready to solely wardec indy corps who have pos's, so they can take em out in the hopes of bpo's drops from labs.
So all you have done is create more war and conflict and encourage assholes to be bigger assholes against the people who make them their equipment.

Secondly forceing industrialist to travel all over eve to make profit from stations near and far is just shortsighted. i wont be doing it and neither will many others ive talked too.
In fact what we are going to do is stop manufacturing for the market and just do it for oursleves, as its all just too much effort for too little gain.

Bitter Vet you may so. i say im a realist.

you reduce the isk people can make from one patch to the next and expect people to just suck it up.
well this little bunny has had enough.
i run 13 accounts and 30 toons and have finaly decided to call it quits with industry work as its just getting all too hard.
the last 7 subscriptions have lapsed and wont be renewed and am just going to operate on 3 accounts. and thats if i even keep playing.

The problem in this game is theres just too many assholes who seem to get there kicks from makeing other people's lives hell. And the number of them is increaseing from year to year, makeing it harder to recruit new players and even harder convinceing them that this used to be the best space MMO out there. Which of course now its not anymore thanks to CCP's short sightedness.
I agree its hard to cater for all players. But it can be done.
Ive sent CCp many emails over the years with idea's and suggestions to keep indy people interested in the game and to keep new people who come into the game safe. all of which have fallen on deaf ears.
So keep going down the path and this game will be reduced to just one thing. Another game to look back on and say, yes i remember eve. it was really great game onece upon a time.
Something to think on.

Okay, but that space is only safe because of a very large player-based effort to make it that way.

If nullsec does not get big advantages over highsec, then there is no real incentive to go out there at all. Or, you do what a lot of nullsec people do, and have highsec alts that fund the nullsec activities.

What I don't understand is why you think highsec should be very rewarding compared to nullsec and lowsec, when highsec offers a lot of relative security that is just provided with no effort on any players behalf? I do not understand your rationale behind that.

I think "big picture" blog posts are a great idea, since it gives us a better perspective on what you are trying to achieve with the various mechanics and systems.

I agree with a previous poster that it might be more useful a little earlier in the process though, before details are released, since we can then frame a lot of details in terms of the higher-level concepts.

But overall, good job Greyscale, I am approve. :)

I have been an Eve Player now for over 6 years. I have been an active Online Game Player for close to 13 years and have tried many online games over those years. I have to admit, the CCP Devs have been the absolute best, hands down, in communicating with the Eve Online Player Base than any other online game I have been involved with. Most online game devs hardly ever try to communicate with their player base and usually end up shoving whatever developments they come up with down their player base's throats. Even though the CCP Devs/Management have not always been on good terms with the Eve Online Player Base, at least there is communication... which the vast majority of online games just do not come close to having. The thing I like is if a CCP Dev Post comes up, I have a choice of reading it or not... but it is still there. I like this, and it is a damn lot better than not having any post at all. Most other online game dev/player base communications involve fixing what has already been developed... with most future development already fixed in stone in a five year business plan... with hope that the game lasts that long. CCP Devs at least post what they would like to do and ask 'what do you all think?'. A discussion can take place and the CCP Devs can decide if they wish to continue this line of development or tweak what they are doing, and move on. I like this... and why Eve Online is the longest running online game by far that I have played continuously over my online gaming experience... having shelved so many others.

Now I have to admit, CCP has done things with Eve Online that I have not really liked... but so what? CCP is a business. They need to balance making money and pleasing their customers. Basically, I feel they have done the best in the gaming industry in doing that. As long as the CCP Devs believe that the Eve Online Player Base owns Eve Online, I will find it hard to move on to another game.

But but but....for every account you drop a new player will add 2 because industry is "easy to understand now", and of course, null sec players will be adding accounts on a one for one mapping with every high sec industrialist account dropped.

In the end, I expect Eve's sub base to grow to 2 million by end of 2015 (once the same wisdom is applied to T2 invention), and by end of 2016, will have surpassed Wow.
And when the new null sec cartel controlled star gates are allowed to be built to territory exclusively controlled by said cartels, well then, every household across the world will have an Eve account, and CCP will be larger than Facebook.

Great blog. Thank you.