EVE Information Portal

While I generally like the idea of making things easier on people who have multiple accounts, I'd prefer to see that sort of thing manifest itself more in terms of being able to tie multiple "game" accounts into one "CCP" account so you can have them all centralized in the account portal, all work off the same billing info (rather than a copy of the billing info for each acount), all require common credentials when logging into the game... that sort of thing. Actually merging the accounts themselves to me gets tricky and opens up a big can of bookkeeping worms (especially with the way training works on a per-account basis). Nothing insurmountable, but also nothing that really *needs* changing. Really the main thing that *needs* changing is the ability to switch between characters on an account without having to completely re-start the client. For web-stuff yeah, use the common profile and let people switch to any character on any of their accounts, but in-game a lot of things would likely need a good long look before essentially moving from "you have 2 accounts" to "you have 6 character slots and can train 2 at a time." Possibly useful, *completely* different discussion though.

I'd also caution against persistant launchers, unless they're *entirely* optional. This, even more than the nanny/spyware aspect, is my biggest disagreement with how BF3 is handled- why do I have to burn system resources keeping *2* applications running in addition to the actual game? And don't get me started on their apparent reliance on a browser plugin...

The SiSi "launcher" is one thing, and a "multi-launch" utility for people with tons of accounts is another, but please don't anyone start thinking about an always-on launcher required for everyone that sits in the background "just in case" offering what *should* be 0 value to people who have already finished launching all their characters.

Kinda OT, sorry, but a lot of those sorts of things do seem to start out with a desire to integrate games with web portals and a lot of the features they can bring *are* nice, but IMO best done in a much less restrictive and much more lightweight fashion.

Great stuff!
Players that just came in, wanna try out a new style of gameplay or new sign-ups, definitely will work better with a playstyle guide.
Should be a guide to playstyles, not definite classes/jobs. The freedom of choice is one main factor for all loyalist players!
And the freedom of playstyle should be better marketed, with one competition coming up trying to boost their claims on 'free from jobs' gameplay. EVE must stake claim on the working formula!

For that you'd want both (maybe 3 buttons) a Like, a Dislike, and maybe a Partial

yeah... what is up with this?

Yep, and this is not the case for the new eveonline.com.

Yes pls $this->do();

So true

Huh? EVEGate? Something else beyond both EVEGate and the new public-facing site?

I watched the ccp video on youtube, the 3d ship modelling looked great. Can't wait to try it out.

Hopefully my friends will get interested when they get to see the new website and finally join me.

To: CCP Alice and EVE Mgt in general
From: One of your many shareholders (subscriber)
Subj: EVE Info Portal dev blog - stylistic approach

Thank you for issuing this very clear, transparent and businesslike blog. This is an evolutionary step forward in how CCP interacts with customers. It coincides well with your transitional efforts for the game, brand and market approach as a whole.

I feel more like a shareholder reading a quarterly (in this case weekly) report of the on going corporate activity. I LOVE IT!!!

Is it spun? Sure. Is it carefully phrased? Of course! Does it seem to really represent how you are going about the business of building and changing and improving this kick ass internet space empire game? Yes. Yes it does.

Thank you,

Very Respectfully,
Diametrix
CEO, Wavefront Industries