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New Dev Blog: The moments that define history

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#221 - 2011-09-23 04:32:19 UTC
Erik Finnegan wrote:
Watch this space; it fixes EVE.


Indeed :)

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lceman
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#222 - 2011-09-23 04:42:08 UTC
maybe this year you will fix the issue with r.a.m's its so redicules you guys broke this and have not fixed it yet.

its so annoying you have to have the ammount of r.a.m equal the build amount and not the actual usage amount like in the old days if you need 20 you only had to have 20, now when you need 20 you have to have 2000 cause thats how many you are building.


7uck1ng get you sh1t together ccp, it aint rocket science.
T'Laar Bok
#223 - 2011-09-23 04:44:26 UTC
I can tell you that this is one of the moments where we look at what CCP does and less of what they say.

hmmmm.... cant help thinking that sounds somehow familiar .

Amphetimines are your friend.

http://eveboard.com/pilot/T'Laar_Bok
Officer Spawn
Perkone
Caldari State
#224 - 2011-09-23 05:33:28 UTC
Thanks for this CCP Zulu, for confirming CCP still has nothing but contempt for its playerbase and still believes contentless picoblogs are actual communication.

The only thing of any substance in your 'blog' was a reference to the Torfi blog which did have some real content. It was about making Space Barbies prettier and rolling back some of the dumber changes made to that minor feature, EVE Online.

With the additional announcement of rolling back to a pre-Cold War text font I would predict the next years will be spent slowly rolling back EVE to 2003. First supercaps are removed, then the wormholes, the Drone Regions, normal caps, POSes, constructed outposts and T2 ships. It will be bold, Fearless and hilarious to watch.
Cedric deBouilard
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#225 - 2011-09-23 05:39:11 UTC
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:

Right now in a sinister conference room, arguments are being made that it should be spent on :awesome: flashiness and exploding planets.


^^ Definitely not this, people won't buy any new awesomeness if the base game is broken and its been that way for years.


Trebor Daehdoow wrote:

Meanwhile, a plucky band of rebel developers champions a radical proposition -- that development should be refocused on fixing existing problems in the game. Stuff like POS's, the user interface, mining and manufacturing, Sov, and a host of other annoyances that plague the current community.


^^ This and only this. Fix your foundations before building on top of it.

and again, watch what they do, not what they say.
Jussa Tetas
Terminal Innervations
#226 - 2011-09-23 05:47:25 UTC
Very nice words being said over the past week or so. I really do enjoy a bit of feature foreplay, but at some point I just want to "do the dirty". Show me the meat. plz.
Steph Wing
No Dukks Given
#227 - 2011-09-23 05:49:16 UTC
Decadence wrote:
UbaH wrote:
When I hear "moments that define history" I think new ships, not shinier captains quarters.

Apparently "moments that define history" means "we'll fix the stuff we broke"

It's not even "We'll fix stuff we broke."

It's "We promise we'll tell you something about fixing stuff we broke. But not right now."
Xtraneous
Sam's Space Guys
#228 - 2011-09-23 06:00:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Xtraneous
They still let Zulu do dev blogs? Roll
Naradius
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#229 - 2011-09-23 06:01:10 UTC
How can I comment on a blog with no content?

OK...well it does say CCP are worried (maybe even a little panic is rolling around the corridors of their offices)...they may even be shitting themselves when they look at subscription numbers and the recent press.
This blog speaks volumes about what is happening inside CCP at this present time...unfortunately, it says very little about saving/bringing back the game we love.

Patience is wearing thin.

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
Bratwurst0r
DARK ORCHESTRA
#230 - 2011-09-23 06:03:35 UTC
Vergy good, love it.

Now, there doesn't have to be a war between "flashy features" and "redoing 0.0/sov/ect".

Combine the two. Implement 1 flashy thingy for your marketing departement, and the rest is reworking the mechanics so that the gameplay gets better in general.

But, we watch what you do, not what you say, right?
Rakshasa Taisab
Sane Industries Inc.
#231 - 2011-09-23 06:18:30 UTC
Steph Wing wrote:
Decadence wrote:
UbaH wrote:
When I hear "moments that define history" I think new ships, not shinier captains quarters.

Apparently "moments that define history" means "we'll fix the stuff we broke"

It's not even "We'll fix stuff we broke."

It's "We promise we'll tell you something about fixing stuff we broke. But not right now."

Seriously, are you guys that blind to reading between the lines?

It is obvious the moments in history refer to the struggle for resources between the good FiS devs and the :awesome: upper management retards.

Nyan
Riggs Droput
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#232 - 2011-09-23 06:38:29 UTC
Thank you CCP for wasting another 5 minutes of my time. Where I read your dev blog, re-read it to see if I was missing the joke. Then highlighted the entire page to see if you hid something in there.

Since I am at work and you wasted 5 minutes of my time I will be sending you a bill at my current rate. I expect the 15$ to be paid in full and on time.

Thank You

Riggs

I would rather die on my feet, than live on my knees
Muul Udonii
THORN Syndicate
Northern Coalition.
#233 - 2011-09-23 06:55:06 UTC
Interesting (sarcasm).

So either:

A) The expansion due out in 2 months will not contain further itertations World of Eveness and Macrotransactions, and you are lying that direction has just now been refocussed.

OR

B) The expansion due out in 2 months contain very little as you have just thrown away all the work put in so far to refocus on what the player base told you to refocus on 2 years ago.

OR

C) There is no refocus, the expansion due out in 2 months is further iterations to World of Eveness and Macrotransactions, other cosmetic changes that should have been done half a decade ago, and what is really happening is the end of the '18 months of no Eve Dev' we were told about 16 months ago.


Either way, I call bullshit. I've yet to see this 'exciting' dev blog you were going on about earlier this week, is that going to come out later today?
DarkTemplarCrimsonWolf
The Smokehouse
#234 - 2011-09-23 07:18:13 UTC
-puts down torch and pitchfork- I'll be patient... but if the ships don't get some lovin Imma put a pitchfork on my pitchfork so I can fork while I fork you with it.
ChromeStriker
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#235 - 2011-09-23 07:20:43 UTC
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:
Begun, the Feature War has.

:awesome: flashiness and exploding planets.



Out of contex quote!!!!

No Worries
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#236 - 2011-09-23 07:26:40 UTC

Haters gonna hate.
Btw, suicide is definitly the most cowardly act one man can make.

But asking somebody to commit suicide, over the internet ...
... is even more cowardly.

*shakeshead*

sheep.


Also, plenty of information in that short message from Zulu!
Looking forward to what's coming up in the future !

Keep it up, CCP ! :D
Pesadel0
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#237 - 2011-09-23 07:32:14 UTC
What a bad devblog, if anything this is one of the worst ever dev blogs ever.

And to the CSM , lol at bitching you didnt receive any information, for me CSM would have been scrapped because it doesnt serve its purpose.
Gridreign741
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#238 - 2011-09-23 07:48:30 UTC
Zulu, good man, willing to stick your neck out with precious little armour, I take it you're happy that the bulk of Incarna work is complete and CCP are cautiously ready to move on to -other- ?

If -other- is undecided may I suggest you force the player base to chose, force us to take a survey/poll similar to character customization, a pop-up when players log in, not a poll on the forums, in game that cannot be skipped after a week (to save players getting stuck with it when trying to log in for ops)

it will show the players their collective wishes in direction rather than the back and forth between CCP and the community of recent times. Don't make it a half hour borefest of a survey, make it an easy 3-click poll, e.g.

would you like:

a) new ships
b) fixes
c) new features

then the following week, publish the results and ask a new easy poll, dumb it down, make it easy to hear what the players are saying as a whole rather than the cacophony after every CCP post, then at the end of the day it is what the players want, nullsec PvPers will have to put up with the wishes of highsec economists, pirates will have to put up with the wishes of miners, let the playerbase thrash it out please.
Floydd Heywood
Doomheim
#239 - 2011-09-23 07:52:46 UTC
The blog makes me optimistic.

However, I'm wondering why it was released, instead of waiting another week or two and then release a dev blog that contains the specifics this blog only promises. Why put yourself in this position where everyone can and will say that it's just empty words again?

I can think of one rather unsettling reason: Activity and subscriptions are in free fall and the blog is intended to change the mood and stop or at least slow the decline until you're ready to announce the real stuff. After all, world markets work in this fashion, psychology.

Be that as it may, the blog clearly indicates that the 'refocussing' will change direction along the lines of the well-received previous blog by Torfi, and that can't be bad. And if the CSM was not involved in this blog, shouldn't that indicate that what was previously communicated to the CSM still holds? I mean, there isn't much in this blog that the CSM could disagree with, since there really isn't anything specific...
Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#240 - 2011-09-23 08:04:36 UTC
Solstice Project wrote:
Btw, suicide is definitly the most cowardly act one man can make.

But asking somebody to commit suicide, over the internet ...
... is even more cowardly.

*shakeshead*

sheep.

not only do you fail at reading comprehension (there is this thing called "context"), you also feel the need to besmirch the memorial of a decorated serviceman and fellow EVE player.

What have you done that puts you into a position to judge the dead?

wish there was a way to negrep...