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Well, maybe we dont want 'cool stuff', perhaps you should have consulted us before committing to that.

Cmon... you have leaving something for us ragers.

Ditto to that sentiment.

"Watch This Space" is a post that is worse than useless. Give us details, or shut up about it until you can give us details. This whole "bait the player-base with vague assurances of future content" got stale months ago.

Giving you details means nothing. A post on the forums does not make a thing so.

Go count how many 'details' and promises devs have made over the years that panned out to nothing. Talk is cheap.

I hope this includes fixing warp tunnels and bringing back engine trails. That would be a significant part of winning back my faith because both are important to me and both represent fixes that are overdue.

Fix what needs to be fixed then bring new stuff. Please for the love of god stop bringing out broken content which you then take months if not years to fix with contant patches. You end up patching the patches that were supposed to patch the patches. Don't rush things but don't take too long, give EVE the attention it deserves and requires. Only then will the trust be put back into CCP, for now we are angry and will continue to be which you should understand why (saying something won't put our minds at ease, we want to actually see something happening).

CCP Navigator,

I am seeing a pattern here. In general the "rabble" (quoting Zulu) has been at least receptive to what anyone having a red or blue tag has to say. Unfortunately for CCP Zulu, there it appears there is residual anger toward him from the subscribers (at least those that pay attention to the forums).
Additionally, there is a perceived loss of credibility. Also, it seems like he is apt to lose his temper at times...

IMO the only person who is capable at this point of generating more "heat" is Hilmar.

I am sure Zulu is a good person and is generally repentant. I am sure he loves the game.

However, (again IMO) he should be very careful blogging and posting. Where a post in jest is received as such from other devs, a "watch this space" post or something similar from Zulu is akin to a war dec.

I shudder to think what fanfest will be like if Zulu or (have mercy!) Hilmar go on stage if this is not resolved...

Good Luck We are all counting on you....

QFT

This would seem to have been an excellent oportunity for the Hilmar to post something. If the whole company is changing direction wouldn't the CEO be the best person to tell us? Isn't Zulu the Lead developer for Eve only? They have other games right?

I doubt anything Zulu posts before stuff is actually delivered is going to be well receieved by the rabble, but he knew that right?

The vocal community of Eve is going to be the death of Eve.

CCP has at the last fan fest offered a Balance approach to gaming, 50% resources to Fixing the old stuff and 50% adding new stuff.

Now I am seeing to sides saying fix what you have and the others saying we want more bling!
I hear the community start complaining about resources being diverted away from Eve and put into 2 additional product lines like World of Darkness and Dust 514 that will be using Carbon Technology.
Technology battle tested through the play of eve.

I have been up till now: CCP is a level headed company sailing though the chaotic waters of public opinion swayed by the currents of the Vocal Minority. Till I saw this statement:


Over the past days and weeks, CCP has been doing extensive and intense introspection and revitalization. The result of this is a refocusing and reprioritization on a scale unheard of within our company.

/\ /\ /\ This is what scares me. CCP wavering to the demands of the Vocal Minority who, for the most part are bitter old vets that have exhausted their niche to the point it is simple wash and repeat and press the I win button a few times. They have lost the wonder, the mystery of learning. Now they feel they are experts and “DEMAND” explanations, nor the smallest of items, like: “Watch this space”

The Eve Community has to take responsibility for its action, think of the pros and cons of what they say. Think of a fix, or positive suggestion before just blurting out in anger.

If you are so bitter, I strongly recommend cheating on eve, “sorry CCP” go play some other games casually. See what they a have to offer, then return to the forums, mention to people what worked and didn't work in other games. Stop making generic comments like Fix Blasters, tell us what you would like blaster to do or change but still be different than Lasers or Projectiles? Tell us what unique attributes other games have that differentiate the different choices of ammo.

In summary it is the response threads that are full of trolls-galor that make me just want to read the Dev blog and ignore the responses. I personally like the Features and Ideas section. Where Dev responses are far and few between, leaving the trolls who are looking for Dev attention out of that section.

After thought
What would be the effect if Devs never Directly responded to people. Never a quote.
First make a post, then though several alts post clarifying questions probing to find the root cause of the problem and then make a summary final post 3 days or more later. (But make sure that this process is explained in advance. )

I think they should be in F & I more than in Eve D.

CCP is looking for direction and many, many ideas go unanswered in that subsection. A response here and there as to what is acceptable and/or feasible could really steer the conversation there in a productive direction..

The PI 2.0 thread is the best thing I've ever read in there. Sure the Dead Horse PoS thing is good, but I can't even wrap my head around how they'd go about replacing current PoS's with the modular ones without it being a catastrophe for one group or another.

The PI 2.0 stuff is brilliant, and can slide right into the current system.