EVE General Discussion

There has been a lot of speculation as to whether there is a tech issue holding up Incarna development. So far, that is all it is, speculation.

We really don't know how Incarna scales yet. We don't know if our Avatar models put a huge amount of strain on it, or if it being linked to our hangers does, or if in fact that this is an issue for the engine at all.

I would say it is much more likely that the lack of comment is due entirely to PR reasons. CCP has a legitimate concern that anything they say about Incarna at the moment is likely to raise a storm of controversy... which is something they very much want to avoid for now.

Much better for them to wait, let people enjoy the new expansion, let old wounds heal. Develop another expansion based primarily around FIS content and Dust Integration and see how things stand. Once the Dust controversy (you know it's inevitable even if it's integration goes perfectly) sorts itself out they should have a pretty good idea if it's safe to broach the subject again.

I would like for that to be the only thing to it but one aspect of Incarna which caused so much anger was that it offered no content. Then the 'speculation' about if it could offer content. I don't know anything for certain but I think that CCP could have thrown a few buckets of water on the flames by showing us all the content it would bring. Wouldn't they want to show us that it wasn't a complete failure? Their silence is pretty telling.

I hate to break this to all you Barbie dress-up people, but you are not going to see WIS in any enjoyable/playable fashion anytime soon unless or until:

1) EVE becomes a fat golden goose for CCP again, enabling them to staff and fund 3 different and sophisticated projects simultaneously like they were when Incarna was released.

2) Dust 514 is a huge success.

3) Players stop noticing when CCP takes 2 years off from doing real development of FIS and also keep subscribing during that whole time.

We have what we have now because CCP's management bit off more than it could chew, and gambled that players would swallow a half baked "expansion" that included a ham-fisted attempt at introducing MT into a subscription game. Because there is next to no competition for them in their niche market, it was probably easy for them to believe they could pull it off. Sometimes when you gamble, you lose.

The only reason CCP got so much done with FIS with the Crucible patch in such a short time is because they are fighting to keep their jobs during a bad worldwide economy after receiving lots of bad PR and a significant reduction in their subscription revenue.

For those of you who have only been around a couple of years or less, the TL DR version is this:

CCP promises a lot of stuff, but they only sometimes get around to delivering and finishing said stuff.

I think WIS is a good idea but not to go overboards with pets etc.

I like the idea of a corp room being built into a station, so you can hang out with corp buddies. fun fun

Well yeah thats my 2 cents lol

I'm watching Locked Up Abroad, I'm hoping the drug smuggling in WiS is a bit like this.

CCP? you are there? hello?

thank you ,if they are allowed to talk bout it.

From what I read Incarna is at 15 to 20% of its original crew but still working slowly on its original design.

fine with me,but its speculation.

I WANT WiS. I'm not a fan of pvp, could care less about it. The more pve content the better. And ya, I know EvE isn't a pve game. But welcome to the sandbox, its what we make it.

I WANT WiS to be functional. I have CQ now, I dont use it, because after the initial usage you realize that there is nothing offered but I believe in the concept of it and I REALLY appreciate the devs expanding the game in a new direction.

We have seen some of their ideas for WiS, and we know that Dust is coming. This only seems natural. The amount of complaining to me (and this is only from my perspective of the game) seems immature.

I've put in my .02ISK