EVE General Discussion

I really liked the part where Soundwave kept making a big deal a while back about how it was important for CCP to quit rushing development of expansions and to release stuff when it is actually ready for release and to actually put out content that makes sense and that players want rather than just farting out nonsense features, and then immediately after that we got Inferno.

That was pretty funny.

The panda themed expansions of other games that I don't play have exactly 0 effect on my opinion of the actions of the company that produces the game I do play.

Amen.

I find it sad that you, being a null sec = elite player, has to wait for the modified bounty system to try to silence me.
If you are so tough, why do you need to enlist the help of so many others.
Why not come after me now, and blow me out of the sky every time I undock?
Or is that too difficult for an elite PvP'er such as yourself?

BTW, I fight this losing battle of forum warfare (do you seriously think I believe I can win?), because I hate bullies.
I really don't give a damn how null sec operates, or wh's, or low, or high. I came back from living in null because I was disillusioned with the null sec lifestyle, as was the bulk of the leadership of my old corp.

What does **** me off when someone, or some group, decides to prey on another group, just because they have different values. You want to take on someone in game, and blow their ship out of the sky for territory or financial gain, or pure PvP fun, I can see that. That is what Eve was originally designed for.

But to meta-game people, or to hammer people in-game for something done out of game, that is just twisted. So when null sec groups run their propaganda campaigns bent on ruining the enjoyment for quite literally hundreds of thousands of people, just because it gives them great pleasure to do so, well, that is just wrong.

When I was a little younger, I used to beat the carp out of bullies I would meet in bars.
One thing I learned about bullies, is fundamentally they are cowards, needing to be in groups to attack others.

If you can't come after me alone, and need the help of the new bounty system, well then chum, you are a coward.

This.

Meet me in null sec. 1 vs 1 on the sun.

Also I'll still place a bounty on you, because I think other people should enjoy killing you too.

I am starting to believe that CCP trolled SONY and made them pay a huge chunk of the bill to advertise for eve online and that eve will kill dust by getting dust players interested to buy EVE. But that is my crazy theory.


Also, I love all changes coming and I will not pay any attention to the OP.

Indeed. Well, for that and for any other reason you can conceive of.

I don't know why it's making you so upset, though. It validates your persecution complex, doesn't it? Isn't that a good thing?

On a side note, I don't see how Incursions are in stone age now. Content-wise, well, they are no worse than any PvE out there, Income is decent. FW, we'll see.

Of course it's impossible. The interactions are incredibly complex and the only way to really see how they will all interact is by releasing them on the live system and seeing what happens.


So it would take years to rollout any meaning full changes.... you'd pretty much kill the game dead. MMO's survive by periodic refresh and change.


No of course they don't. You have to give this stuff to the players on the live systems to really see what the interactions are going to be like.

The test systems can be used to test the code for bugs but actual meaningful game play is only going to take place on the live system.

I've been involved in the rollout of lots of IT systems and updates. They have been tested thoroughly in testing managed by experienced test managers, with large and varied test groups but no matter what we did we never knew what was actually going to happen until the changes were released on to the full production services.
Companies can spend millions on product testing but they always seem to end up having to fix things post release.

Change is sometimes painful and unwanted by a % of your current user base but without it products and games do not survive.