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CCP Goliath is one of the people who worked the hardest to put together the recent Dev Caravan events and now he's written a dev blog about our goals and our experiences which mostly consisted of dying horribly at the hands of people who really know how to play this spaceship game.

Thank you all for the fun and for the schooling.

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edit:.... nope

Hopefully this will shut up all the people who don't realize that killmails can't tell the difference between a BPO and a BPC.

I'm glad you learned the value of pointing, logistics, and bubbling bombers.

You should go out to non-incursion space and conduct some real-world titan tracking testing.

It was a pleasure podding you :D

CCP Phantom's dead and frozen body... now on sale!

Was fun. Thanks for all the fish!

I love space murders.

Very special thanks to those who helped develop the CCP Defense fleet. While the first day was a bit of a fail, I think we made progress in the next few events. Hopefully for any future PvP live event, we can have some system in place to get you guys to truly fight alongside us.

To the people I fought with, thanks!
To the people I was killed by....thanks too :) Had a lot of fun.

I have two very srsbusiness non-trolling (see: uncharacteristic) questions to ask of CCP.

Through your experiences PvPing with each of the races of EVE, have you come to better understand some of the balance issues present currently in EVE, and what are your feelings on said balance issues?

Secondly, were there any moments of enlightenment among those at CCP who are less experienced with PvP about how things like fleet composition and doctrine work?

CCP folks have now all had a chance to get their feet wet with each race, and experience the benefits and drawbacks of each, as well as an opportunity to learn a bit about fleet composition and doctrine, and I'd really like to know what the general feeling of the dev team is regarding game balance after having this experience.

Personally, I'd really like to see more variety in EVE with fleet doctrines. Over the past few years, I have seen PvP turn into mostly an exercise of bringing the EXACT ship or ships that a fleet doctrine is built upon. Part of the outcome of that is positive, in the sense that ships are diverse and some can do certain things decidedly better than others can, but part of that outcome is negative, because it leaves very little variety for the player. I love my Abaddon, but there are/were times where I got pretty sick of looking at it over and over again, because for PvP to work on the ELITE level of PL, fleet doctrines are very reliant on having EVERYBODY in the correct ships. Because there is so much range of performance of tanks and weapon systems between races and even tiers of ships within races, PvP is quickly becoming a very uniformed exercise.

I see in EVE a great attempt at keeping variety and identity between the races, but in practice I see it further stagnating variety by essentially forcing people to use specific ships for specific doctrines, because there is literally nothing else available that can do what the chosen ship for that doctrine can do. While races shouldn't ever become EXACTLY alike, there should be some middle ground somewhere where there is come crossover, so people aren't cornered into flying one specific ship or race of ships for a given fleet doctrine.