EVE General Discussion

Would the typical American say "My family is gathering in Philadelphia, and I'm preparing a Thanksgiving feast for it." It's just a single family, after all. But no, they'd likely say "for them." So even as Americans, many pluralize nouns considered as singular.

Similarly, if you played for the Chicago Blackhawks, you might tell your wife "The team is coming over tonight to celebrate winning the Stanley Cup, and they are bringing beer."

From the original article I posted:

Why would you turn off your own station services? Because this is eve. There should be opportunities for skulduggery. You can now blow up your corps/alliances stuff, so it makes sense that in the future you should be able to entosis it to.

Ok, grammar aside, (btw, im british, we invented the language, take from that what you will.), CCP are still having deadlines out of thin air. Why 5/6 weeks? why wait for the next 5/6 window to release if its not ready? why not just release as and when it's ready?
If before, when they were on a more traditional release cycle, they couldn't get organised and sort their stuff out, that is their look out and poor planning, if they cannot organise themselve withing the space of 6 MONTHS, as in half a year, so get done what they planned to do, head should roll, its simple.
Their is a valid argument about having it a bite at a time, however, like I said it seems like nothing is happening, things like the jump changes (whoever OK'd that idea needs to be fired, fatigue for pushing button to start the jump drive? really?) should have come at the same time as the sov changes. They entire objective was to shake up null, so why give it in little bits? thats not going to shake up anything.
If its down to the story (drifters, poor excuse for bringing in the entosis link, by the way) there is not stopping them doing the smaller patches for that kind of thing (story), but actual changes to the way the game is played, should come in big chucks, to my way of thinking.

'on track, on track, on track, bug appears which derails things, because it's deeply embedded in the data structure': It happens. Even with the best planning, it happens. Or you lose half a dev team to sickness, hangovers and other game companies, derailing things as you bring people up to speed. That is why you have schedule slippage, and only a moron doesn't accept it.

Now, schedule slippage, with a 6 month release schedule, is really bad. Because one feature could cause delays on so many other things. With the shorter cycle, you just roll out the other bits, and wait for the next window for the delayed feature.

As for 'why have release windows', there's this little thing called integration testing which needs to happen. Where you get features developed by different teams, and integrate them down onto the same release. This can break things. So doing it willy nilly is a bad idea. Doing it on a regular schedule works.

Can't really say English was invented, more like it just happened.

Perhaps one's view on 'content patches' depends to some degree on how you play the game.
I'd still like to know why you feel it should come in large chunks.

evolved would probably be a better way of describing it.

Well, I build a lot of thing, mine a lot of rocks and try to get in on as many fleets as I can. As for why, there's a few reasons, I think EvE has started being dumbed down to apease people with short attention spans (CoD-crowd). The industury changes show that and the fact that the patches are no smaller and more often confirm it, as if they came out in one big chuck would be to much for us, so CCP spoon feed it a little at a time.
Another reason, like I said earlier, is the fact that stuff now takes multiple patches to impliment, so the game gives an impression (we know its not) that its spinning it wheels. I agree a 6 month cycle woulf be too long, so why not switch to a 3 month cycle? Then, when a patch lands, you can say, look at all this! look at X, Y, Z! Rather than a patch that only adds seekers (not a patch to me) or a patch that adds drifters etc etc.
I mean, I look back and watch the trailers for the big patches back in the day, and it was something to get excited about, now it just another patch, with barely anything in it, or very ill though out ideas (FozzieSov, motherload of bad ideas) there is nothing that brings the awe to EvE.

Because only one link can effect the service at a time. If I am using the link, then an invader cannot shut down the service. This buys time for a corpmate to come on-line and kill the invader.

But what that means is I would expect that I, as the station owner, would be supporting the service with my link, not shutting it down.

Until I tried it and shut down the service.

I do miss the big content releases, just feels like mini updates now and nothing to get excited about

You keep saying that, but I must say I do not agree. I think Eve has changed tremendously for the better in recent times.

And release schedules are chosen for more than cosmetic reasons. Smaller, "when done", patches are easier to manage, easier to deliver with some consistency, and easier to QA. That ultimately means a better experience for all of us.

Marech.

I like the frequent patches if only because CCP thinks it's better for the company.
Something has been lost in the infrequent large patches however in that historically there was a great deal of hype leading up to each patch and in a small way it was almost as if a new Eve was being released.
Really it was like free advertising once a year and I think drew in a lot of new players.

Hopefully somehow CCP can recapture the lost publicity. I do think the 07 show is a good start.