EVE General Discussion

Thanks for sharing that Cearain!! I've been, ummmm preoccupied the last couple of days so I haven't been keeping up with my usual blogmongering and forumwhoring. And my preoccupation has absolutely NOTHING to do with SW:TOR. I swear it!!

You mean like a blog like they promised as a consolation prize for standing up the FW'ers at fanfest .. that kind of blog?

- Just askin'

Can't believe any of you still think they know what the hell is going on in FW land, they got rid of the writers ages ago and most of the involved devs are probably long gone as well.
If they start "fixing" it now they'll break it even more than it is .. from scratch please, only way to be sure!

But it does sound like January will be jam-packed with blogs on all the big ticket items, about bloody time we got some info on what they are planning (not just for FW but for null/worms as well).

I'll say it before and I'll say it again. CCP should release said smaller tweaks in winter 2012 not the summer. In the summer they do the drastic fine tuning. One more thing: Hans Jagerblitzen, Damassys Kadesh and Hirana Yoshida one of you if not all three should run for the next CSM. We need people like you represent FW at a higher level.

Keep an eye out, Faction Warfare peeps!! CCP Guard said we should see our very own Dev Blog coming out ... Soon(TM)

Hope everyone's had a wonderful holiday season full of gaming goodness, we'll get back into the swing of things here once the next set of FW details come out and have plenty to discuss, I'm sure. I've got my eye on the webosphere again, scanning for all things FW-related - and will keep you posted if I hear anything new.

The next couple of weeks should be exciting - we have the Dev Blog as well as the detailed CSM summit notes to look forward too!

Thanks for all of you who have contributed to the cause - we wouldn't have gotten this far without you. FW's best days are ahead...

Don't want to burst your bubble but he said that the next dev blog would "shine some light" on the new features, NOT that fw gets its own dev blog.

Hell, he doesn't even say fw will get worked on, he just says it is unlikely that it wont get attention (I am aware of the double negative for you grammar ***** out there).

FINE FINE, we dont get "our own blog". I'm just thrilled to see a video where we're mentioned at all, after three years of absolute silence, every little thing seems like a big freaking deal. And it is a big deal, for those of us who live and breath lowsec and FW. This time last year none of us would have dreamed we would hear such news. We have the awesome community to thank for keeping the pressure up and the conversation about FW alive.

As for them actually working on FW though, this I have no doubts about. I think the reason for any "maybe" language from CCP at this point is more covering their ass in case whatever they are working on goes horribly wrong for some reason (incarna-style vidcard meltdowns), not a maybe because they're still deciding whether to work on FW. We're well past that phase now. The CSM said its on their agenda, Soundwave's said its on their agenda, and the "fix" we saw with Crucible probably isn't what they tasked a whole team to work on, fixing a simple coding error correction. In my previous posts I predicted we'll likely see FW changes as part of subsequent Crucible releases, if they didn't make the first cut. Looks like Guard is confirming this.

And no, I'm not expecting these changes to be mind-blowing or revolutionary. But progress is progress, I think we should celebrate and appreciate each step CCP takes in the right direction. And of course, I'll still be the first one there to nip at their heels if they start dragging their feet again!

Heels are long gone, you might be able to get a nibble at their knees though

Especially when/if they get around to making null more or less self-sufficient .. who is high-sec going to sell the bulk of their stuff to then?

I've been in a few major null alliances and in every case a good portion of the market was seeded by corporations specifically contracted to keep the main hubs stocked. Some of the items were manufactured locally but a sizable chunk was imported from high sec.

I'm really looking forward to see what they do with FW.

heres some more from a dev blog by CCP Ytterbium:

"Some final words

It is important to remember that all the above is not a "fix" for Factional Warfare. It is only the first step of many to put its implementation back into the original vision that was ours during the Empyrean Age release."

So things are really looking up for faction war.

Errrm, check the date and content of that blog.

It is 30 months (2.5yrs) old, was the 'filler' patch that populated the LP store not much else and was as far as I know the last "major" work that was done on FW up until now.

In short: It says diddly squat of what may be heading our way .. just sayin'