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Thats good to hear. I was starting to think the only "great wars" eve would ever have were over when bob was disbanded.

Any chance at all, in between invasions, to get CCP to take a look at the forum software? Sorry if it's already been said somewhere here, I haven't read every page/post.

Dam forum keeps eating posts, it's irritating to say the least.

Thanks.

Well, to be a "Great War" the other side has to put up a fight. Since WN is not puting up any meanigful fight, this is not a great war. If anything it is better to say that we are going to "go a viking", than anything else. Look up the etymology for viking here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking#Etymology

I can't blame Mittens for that. If I could I would.

I really don't know what the issue is with null sec being carebear central for pretty much the last year or 2 but it is pathetic. If its the case that there is no way you can hold onto your territory if you go warring then ccp needs to fix that. (I really am not sure how. Maybe randomly change what moons are worth so people are always fighting to get the best ones or something.)


I don't do null sec but even I used to like to hear about all the capitals getting blown up in null sec.

I do play eve for some time and like most of the people around i also tried a nice number of different mmo's.
There is a hughe change in player time commitment lately in most online games, so my request which i like to push is.


a) Are there any plans on how to improve the "get online and get action without much time investment" in 0.0 space.
Out of observation this is a reason why 0.0 get's less and less popular. Empire offers a lot of these elements.

b) Modern warefare has some nasty "enemy knowledge" tactics. Eve has only avatar knowledge effecting tactics.
There is no module or gameplay feature influencing the knowledge of the enemy player. like decoys/illusions. Are there any designs heading into such directions or what do you think about getting such new ideas into the discussion.

c) DO you see any chance we get rid of the 1000 windows UI, is it possible or a task not able to be handled and there ccp is resignating?

that's all for now :)

greets
roth

Boat gets :smug: over his own bowel movements.

Holidays are winding down, time to post.



There's been a number of proposals kicked around over the years to split up fights over 'capture mechanics'. There's yet to be a real silver bullet though. We discussed a number of possibilities in May. I don't have a particular fixation with one capture mechanic or another, but I'm leery of CCP experimenting on sov (a la Dominion) without field-testing capture mechanics in areas of the game with less risk of catastrophe (such as FW, perhaps).



Yep, it was quite civilized compared to the unpleasantness of June. Crucible was a great expansion so we had a great summit. Incarna was an awful expansion, so the emergency summit was similarly awful.



Be useful, if not indispensable. Pick up the crappy jobs no one wants to do - pos fueling, production, whatever the organization needs that isn't being done. Then, be reliable. The most rare director is the reliable kind who gets jobs done that other people don't want to do.

Then, annihilate them.



Oh wow, I had no idea they did another film version. I love the books - all of le Carre's stuff is grand.




Yes, you're in the wrong sandbox. EVE was made by a gaggle of Icelandic Ultima Online players. It's also about the only thing about EVE, besides the single-shard setup, that makes it unique in the modern MMO market.

It's pretty awful, but CCP mostly vanishes during the holidays. They should be back now and hopefully fixing things (famous last words).



Obligatory 'eve has sound' joke goes here. From what I understand the bug hunters are volunteers, but I haven't looked into this as your post is the first I've heard of it. It might also be a known issue - ie, they know it's broken so they close it, but it never gets fixed by CCP, since bug hunters can't fix bugs, only find them and dump them on an issue list.



They're a minor area that needs adjustment, not a sucking chest wound. They're too hard to make and they're not used often, and I think they're on the agenda for looking at (iirc they were being tweaked in Crucible).



A) I've banged this drum for a while now - EVE needs some quick action options, but they don't even need to be in nullsec. Running a mission isn't 'quick action', it's 'quick stab your eyeballs out from sheer boredom'. This is why I support some kind of arena/battleground/combat simulator/whatever - the details itself aren't something I'm wedded to, but I would like to be able to log into EVE, mash a button, and be able to play for half an hour and then log off.

B) I think that a revamped intel tools/local proposal could include this sort of mechanic, such as sensor nets installed in Ihubs. Ideas involving that had been discussed back in May, not in such exact terms, but I think it'd be a cool mechanic that deserves some focus.

C) The UI is getting better with time, thank god, and the UI team really seems to know their ****. The problem is that the UI team is relatively new in the scheme of things (last year? two years, tops?) and EVE's UI is awful and ancient, requiring lots of overhauling. The concept art we saw at the December summit looked great, though.

I can elaborate about this one, since I followed it closely when it was proposed. The booster “tweak” that was to be implemented in Crucible was to remove all side effects and lower the boost amount, changing all the skills to give back the boost that was nerfed rather than mitigating side effects as they do now.

This proposal was highly controversial, since it would have effectively sparked a market rush on boosters (many DON’T use them currently because of the side effect risk alone) without doing anything to compensate on the supply end of things. The bottleneck would have caused them to become exorbitantly expensive, which many of us felt would result in less people using boosters, not more as CCP was trying to accomplish. They would have become another pay-to-win luxury PvP element not unlike Officer mods. Others objected to the change because they felt that the side effects and risk were manageable what made boosters exciting and fun, and in the spirit of EvE…instead of making them potions that you’d be a fool not to have in your cargo, assuming you could afford them in the first place.

Some booster manufacturers supported the change and would have loved to have made a killing under these circumstances, but CCP agreed that overall a better set of adjustments could be made to make boosters more accessible and usable, and that more time should be spent coming up with a better solution, so the changes were postponed for now.

(Ok Cearain - lets see if we can do this without bringing up plexes )

I was hoping if you could clarify what you meant here? I've always seen plugging one's self in socially as the key to long-term success and happiness in a game like EvE. I don't really understand why someone would try to "go it alone" in an MMO when there are a host of great single players games offering better solo gameplay.

If you're speaking about more "casual" gameplay being integrated into the game, such as content that can be accessed within the hour, whether its shorter-length PvE, or shorter length PvP such as (DOH!!! I did it, I mentioned plexing again....) In that case I agree, EvE needs more variety in that department.

But perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean exactly by "players that don't want to use EvE as social media" - are you saying those that want to log in and not interact with other players at all? Or just those that want to log in and use a matchmaking type service to grab partners for content, rather than being forced to pick a corp, make friends, etc?

Sorry if I missed an earlier post of yours explaining, I'm suffering a bit of "thread fatigue" and haven't scoured this one 100%.