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The Fanfest is the deadline for CCP to give us the stuff we have been wanting and asking for, for years - be it buffs, fixes, finally completed features, nerfs...whatever. If they fail to do this, either nobody will turn up for Fanfest, or a **** load of people will turn up, loaded with rotten fruit to throw at the stage.

A Fanfest at this moment of time, with this much anxiety and anger amongst the community would be an ugly sight...something that, I am sure, hasn't failed to be recognised by CCP.

I highly doubt Id see any new ships based on few things Ive suggested on the past in terms of role and function, but we will just have to see.

Aside from that I do expect several ships that are in the eyes of beholders broken or imbalanced or just plain not working.

Such as:
Engine trails which is going to make me happy seeing the homeworld feel return back.
AF missing bonus which has been on vacation long enough :P though I understand that the wrong bonus throws things way out of balance but Im pertty sure the balance cant really get any worse than super carriers vs everyone else.
Drameil misbalance
Along with many other things that need to be revisited such as scripts and ewar and the sorts.

Possibly an artistic revamp of more than one ship this time around?

Eventual removal of built in launchers on various but few ship models (ie bellecious rifter drake) to allow for launcher turrets instead?

Im no technical artist by a long shot but wouldnt a work around for the missiles comming out of a turret be solvable with a fake particle effect similar to the missile trail that meets up with the actual missile 'model' which then lights off its own engine trail at that precalculated point? I mean this would allow for macross missile spam death apperance to if the tech artist pull it off right.

I mean it would probably not require ripping the old code out that handels the acutal missile creation other than giving a missile an assigned desigantor from whatever launched it but I think that's already known by the server. Just the one that managest the particle effects being generated by the missile 'engine'.

(which btw I would rather settle for a hexagonal tube of 8 poly over a multi-poly round base cone (if i recall right had 8 sides at least so makes it a 9 poly model) as a missile model if worse comes to worse you can always go with a long box missile at 6 polys or even a single poly as a source of the trail since thats the second largest visual missiles have. Not sure how much more rendering sources you'd save between the two models though then again the last missile i managed to observe was launched by a sleeper before it lodged itself in my hull on the test server not sure if you guys updated it since then.)

to allow for a fake missile creation at the turrets that meet up as fake particles effects until the point of conjointment or arc furthest away fro the ships 'bubble' where the real projectile is animated.

This seems to be commendable wisdom / practice for all -not just for those who have their memos leaked.¹

If CCP is asking for a wish list then here's a short one...
1. I'd like to not have to run the log server every time I run the Eve Online client.
2. Log server files without errors in them would be nice to see.²

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¹In that regard, the forums are like local chat -only the character portraits can't be hidden or resized and I haven't figured out how to block people yet.
²This is in reference to non-filtered and, seemingly, non-considered bug reports.

It's kind of silly to make a huge deal out of a resource reallocation blog and then forget to mention just what you are reallocating to. If only there was some group of people with some common sense you could run your blog by before publishing it.

You'll forgive us if we've heard this song before.

What you do, CCP, not what you say.

TBH, that's what a lot of players are worried about - that resources will be allocated to "cool stuff" rather than the massive array of fixes, refurbishments, and balancing issues that need to be implemented or addressed. For example, making POS less eye-gougingly horrible to set up and maintain may not be "cool" but it's something you've been promising to do for years without ever actually having spent any time on. The same goes for addressing ship balancing issues or sovereignty mechanics or whatever.

What Eve needs at the moment isn't more "cool" things, it's a lot of maintenance and repair work.

moar leik moments that make CCP management go into panic mode amirite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPJu-Z6OIb8 ?

lol

The focus of what resources, though. That's what's missing from your blog, that's why it's just meaningless :words:

please stop that passive aggressive bs - if you don't want us as customers for god's sake just have the guts to say so and get over with it.


If any employee in a real-life store would address me within hearing range as "rabble brigade" I would have them call for their manager immediately, wouldn't you?

But maybe you like to talk like that with your friends... funny in-jokes and all that jazz.... that's fine, just keep in mind that we aren't your friends, we are the counter-party of your business transactions.