Assembly Hall

Hello people,

Please keep an eye on this thread as well as our news feed, so you don't miss meeting minutes from the summit :)

Day one. PDF & TXT
Day two. PDF & TXT
Day three. PDF & TXT
Day four. PDF & TXT

What.

Minutes are already up?

I don't even.

(edit: rea that as, "I'm very impressed with this turn-around!" Now, to read!)

Holy Shhhhooes o.O

Huge thank you to CCPs Logibro, Leeloo, Manifest and Falcon for the super fast turnaround on these Minutes.

That was fast.

Keeping in mind that overall I am very happy with the new model: It can at times be a bit more chaotic and stressful. When you go from teams while having a say in what they worked on the final decision came from somewhere else, to teams being responsible for that it adds to the stress. I know I for one am still getting used to it.

Absolutely fantastic work on getting these minutes out so quickly! I look forward to reading the rest as you release them.


I am super excited that CCP wants to remove attributes. This is really something that has been a very long time coming. I really hope that this becomes a priority because the sooner this happens the better for everyone.

I also hope that you remove learning implants from Eve as they are a disincentive to PvP. If a 15 mil isk clone was enough of a disincentive to PvP that CCP removed clone grades then a 40 mil isk pod (two +4 implants) is an even bigger one.

I know that people often bring up the idea of a learning booster, as an alternative to learning implants, that only lasts for a few days and won't die if you get podded. The issue with this is nearly everyone will use it. In all likelihood most groups will take to giving them out to their pilots for free. Brave would give them out because their atron pilots will get into cruisers faster and the CFC/N3/Russians will give them out to help their pilots transition from doctrine to doctrine quicker, or get better at flying their current doctrine. It is a classic example of "if everyone is super than no one is." So skip the learning booster entirely. Also, those groups that can't afford the advantage of giving everyone free or subsidized learning boosters will fall even further behind these groups and find themselves having a hard time competing with them. That just leaves nullsec and such even more stagnant. All around it is an interesting idea that ultimately would be worse for Eve.

So please just skip any form of learning booster/implant and give everyone the same flat SP/hour. It will be the best decision for Eve.

oh wow.



that would be nifty.



that is great news.

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I would like to add a couple thoughts on day 1

Regarding burnout and disinterest, I think skill level V prerequisites should be reconsidered. Broadly speaking, one of the results would be obtaining a minimum-skilled ship sooner, while still having the deep range of "everything level V." When a ship like the Golem is within arm's reach, it promotes trial upgrades with a closer carrot, without shortening the training period of maximum specialization. The current convention of "specialization" need to be sacrificed. Things like a minimum-skilled Golem (not including guns) being 90 days away, come on, no trial player is motivated by that. It's not even that great after satisfying the minimum skills to sit in it.

"Making EVE look cool while the player is AFK." Other games have a healthy pulse when it comes to art. The utility of this art is maintaining the game's presence while the player is not actively playing. The social media support is great (the share image button--my pick would be imgur). However, you could still release more art. Even if it's just WIP scraps, and screenshots of incomplete models and art, any types of art blogs or image dumps (with a CCP Dev name attached to it) would be awesome. It's self-referential as a game and possibly immersion-breaking, but I think it's appropriate for spreading awareness while AFK. It also indicates more life on the Dev side of things.

True, There is EVE Now (the site), but its presentation is more polished and professional, and slightly corporate.

As a born Texan, I am deeply moved by Steve Ronuken's Chili recipe.

-nvmnd....

Good work! Any chance we could also have a text version? PDF is awful for mobile devices which is practically the only way I get time to read this stuff.