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I haven't needed to buy anything in a while. When you don't lose ships you don't need to replace or refit them. After that the only BPO's you need are for ammo and you're set. Don't even need to mine if you loot.

So at one point sure, there was market interaction necessitated by limits on my charater and assets, but that point can be ended pretty quick with even the slightest desire, without it at most your buying ammo every once in a while. What confuses me is the thinking that a pure PvE player needs to go to the market constantly.

I also am very interested in finding out if this is true or just some more BS damage control.

Who's been tagged to fill your old position as Senior Producer? Or are you folding the two peer positions back together and giving the role to CCP Ripley?

Since there's some confusion about this: A 6-week development schedule doesn't mean that any team has 5 1/2 weeks to develop and test a feature before it gets packaged up and shipped. It has two implications:

First, it frees the teams up to take as long as they need, because there will always be a release coming up when they're done. Releases are opportunities now, not the drop-everything-and-ship-what-you-have deadlines that they used to be (see the delay of the industry revamp from Kronos to Crius for example).

Second, it makes iterative development much easier when the iterations come quickly.

The second point is much more important. As popular as it is to talk about "turning EVE over to the players," what that means in practice is much more delicate planning and design and lots of tweaking and rethinking after release, because designing around scripted NPCs is much easier than designing around unscripted players. The exact thing that makes sandboxes exciting when they work makes it very hard to build a working sandbox. Just look at, say, sov nullsec. The essential problem is that you can make what seems like a big change only to see a relatively modest effect (say, the first nullsec ore rebalance), but what seems like a tiny change can have huge repercussions. Or maybe not. The only way to say for sure is to release the change into the wild and watch.

If you think PVE has no role to play, I would point to the transformation of lowsec by the introduction of Mordu's Legion NPCs, and the sudden value of their agents. The fact is that red-cross PVE puts ships in space, and it puts them in space in places other than the predictable stations and gates. It offers terrain in the form of gates, NPC ships and LCOs that varies according to the NPC spawning rules and the kindly attentions paid to NPCs by the guns of player ships. This is a powerful tool in any sandbox developer's tool chest.

#D2Asupers

Nope.

Job spew in the office complex.

Honestly I do wish her the best of luck, as IMPROMENTS to the game are good for all of us.

However, destroying high sec exploration as a fun thing for "well trained" players and turning it into a noob fest was bad luck for a lot of us and cost me a Crapton of unreimbursed skill training an wasted high isk implants. It also cost CCP 2 paying accounts just from me. Loot spew...Really?

Taking the previously hardest to scan Grav sites and making them instantly available to any noob with an onboard scanner??
I know of at least 4 multiple account guys who QUIT (closed all accounts) over just that.

If she thought that was a good idea, we have problems.

If she is looking at the game through the eyes of a Goon, again BIG problems

If she thought this Circus thing was ready to be released.... Oh brother.



Yeah...really....Let them eat Cake!

In her defence, I don't really see what she could add to this discussion. "No, I'm not a goon spy?"

Congratulations Sugul.

Is wormhole space going to get some substantial developer created content anytime in the next year or two?

IMO wormhole space is starting to feel neglected and if you're not careful, it's going to become as dead, boring and stagnant as the old low sec.

Ps. next time CCP do Q&A, it would be cool if you used your own forums instead of a third party one.

While I share your concerns I'd like to support any new lead and give them benefit of the doubt. Everything she's said at fanfest and the AMA seems to be happening according to plan. I believe her :reasons: for being vague, at least for now. I don't demand concrete plans as we'll get that from teams in the devblog.

CCP Seagull's position requires her to set direction for the development. So far I'm not too crazy about Crius, but it is a step forward from before and it was the first step on the road map to fixing Sov, so we seem to be on track.

So marks the coming of the Black Horse.

Sorry, this is not good news to me and most of the people I play with. Following all of the changes leading up to this, this drives home that cancelling all of my subs was a great idea.

Next thing we will hear is another round of layoffs. THEN the Pale Horse will make his appearance.

As someone new to Eve... I did watch one of the videos on getting Rookies to stay longer than a few months along with other videos then I decided I wanted something a little more intricate in an online game.

Ummm...

I knew there would be an extremely steep learning curve, I'd lose several thousand metric tons of ships, make some serious and not so serious mistakes.

I knew that coming into a game that had been around for longer than two or three years with the philosophy Eve has. That I would be slogging around at the bottom and learning as fast as my brain and digits could to stand something of a chance outside hi-sec. So maybe my view is a little different than others'.

It's really hard to hold onto those new players if down here in the insta-loss KillReport area to keep at it if things are breaking right and left. I know there was an open request from Rookies as to what would keep us playing. Suggestion. Please slow down, fix what's already broken before putting out more that appears to be more buggy than releases a few years back.

The fix to the charm fix has been fixed is not what I was expecting from CCP when I arrived. I really do want to play for a long time. It's... challenging to keep slogging to get to the higher skill fun if it's busted down at the bottom.

I have no clue who is who when it comes to CCP individuals, so I also have no clue on in-house politics so I don't have an informed opinion yet. So not too biased. (but I do know WHO flies those bright yellow bees... new not ignorant )

Sincerely, Me.