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Two Best expansions and the two worst expansions

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45thtiger 0109
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#1 - 2012-12-23 22:23:09 UTC
Hello EvE Community

For the Veteran players who have played eve since it started which is the Two Best expansions and the two worst expansions.

BTW the devs can have an input into to this Post.

My Best Two are ( drum roll )

Apocrypha Release date: March 10, 2009

Retribution Release date: December 4, 2012


My two worst of all time are

Trinity Release date: December 5, 2007

Dominion Release date: December 1, 2009


Expansions of EvE


CCP congrats for 10 hard years of solid work on these expansions.

CCP to celebrate 10 years of EvE why not put the old expansions on the test servers say for one month at a time and get players to play them again. " Just an Idea "

Or make a video so people can download and see what it was like when eve started up to this current expansion.

And Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year to CCP And the EvE Community

**You Have to take the good with the bad and the bad with the good.

Welcome to EvE OnLiNe**
Winters Chill
Unitas Incorporated
#2 - 2012-12-23 22:32:39 UTC
Best:

Revelations (Rigs & Exploration)

Apocrypha (Simply awesome).

Worst:

Quantum Rise (thanks for that one whole ship CCP)

Incarna (We told you but you didn't listen, people want game with their game, Incarna showed a distinct lack of game and a comical yet aggravating focus on pixel clothes that costed more than their real world counterparts).
CCP Falcon
#3 - 2012-12-23 22:40:56 UTC

So I've been playing since a week after release, and my favorites are :

Apocrypha - Release date March 10, 2009

There was just so much good stuff in this release, it's hard to pin down everything I enjoyed. Training queue (omg!), T3, Wormholes... yeah, it's my favorite.

Retribution - Release date: December 4, 2012

Retribution was amazing, and was the first deployment I saw as a Dev rather than as a player. It's unbelievable how many people were staying late at the office, or working their fingers to the bone to make sure that things were polished and set for release. So much goes on behind the scenes, it's unbelievable.

I think my two worst as a player were :

Quantum Rise - Release date November 11, 2008

This was mainly backend stuff and didn't bring a lot of new game play to the table other than a speed overhaul. For me, I would have just called it Empyrean Age 1.1, but I can understand why it was labelled as its own expansion, as the backed stuff that was done was massive, and has really paved the way for providing a larger, more solid foundation to grow EVE on.

Incarna - Release Date June 21, 2011

From a player point of view, a lot of the people I used to fly with labelled this one "Incarnage" - Enough said I think. On a more serious note, even joining the company so long after it, it's plain to see that even though a high price was paid, we learned a lot of very valuable and humbling lessons that have really allowed us to re-organize, push forward, and grow.

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Solhild
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-12-23 22:51:01 UTC
CCP Falcon wrote:

So I've been playing since a week after release, and my favorites are :

Apocrypha - Release date March 10, 2009

There was just so much good stuff in this release, it's hard to pin down everything I enjoyed. Training queue (omg!), T3, Wormholes... yeah, it's my favorite.

Retribution - Release date: December 4, 2012

Retribution was amazing, and was the first deployment I saw as a Dev rather than as a player. It's unbelievable how many people were staying late at the office, or working their fingers to the bone to make sure that things were polished and set for release. So much goes on behind the scenes, it's unbelievable.

I think my two worst as a player were :

Quantum Rise - Release date November 11, 2008

This was mainly backend stuff and didn't bring a lot of new game play to the table other than a speed overhaul. For me, I would have just called it Empyrean Age 1.1, but I can understand why it was labelled as its own expansion, as the backed stuff that was done was massive, and has really paved the way for providing a larger, more solid foundation to grow EVE on.

Incarna - Release Date June 21, 2011

From a player point of view, a lot of the people I used to fly with labelled this one "Incarnage" - Enough said I think. On a more serious note, even joining the company so long after it, it's plain to see that even though a high price was paid, we learned a lot of very valuable and humbling lessons that have really allowed us to re-organize, push forward, and grow.



It's difficult to imagine how anyone could have a viewpoint different to this. Personally, I'm struggling with the 'push forward, and grow' bit as the vision & effort seems directed to areas other than EVE. That Sci-Fi simulator feels further away than ever.
Velarra
#5 - 2012-12-23 22:55:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Velarra
Best? Apocrypha.
Worst? Exodus.

There's some good reading to be had here too:

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.eve-online.com
fukier
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-12-23 22:56:07 UTC
Form best were red moon rising and apocrypha...

Worst were dominion and incarna....
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Sanandrea
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-12-23 22:57:43 UTC
Best?
Dominion and Apocrypha.
Worst?
Incursion and Inferno
Kalen Pavle
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2012-12-23 23:02:17 UTC
Favorites:

Red Moon Rising and Cold War are kinda tied here for me. I was in ASCN during the deployment of the first Outpost and that is one of my most memorable ingame experiences. RMR added a lot of new ships to the game and was quite fun at a fundamental level if you ignored the AOE DDs.

Apocrypha was just massive and awesome.

Hateds:

Incarna. I don't think anyone really needs an explanation here.

Quantum Rise should never have been labeled an expansion, even if it was important in the grand scheme of things, it offered very little substance to the players.
Anne-Louise Chasse
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2012-12-23 23:05:41 UTC
Solhild wrote:
CCP Falcon wrote:

So I've been playing since a week after release, and my favorites are :

Apocrypha - Release date March 10, 2009

There was just so much good stuff in this release, it's hard to pin down everything I enjoyed. Training queue (omg!), T3, Wormholes... yeah, it's my favorite.

Retribution - Release date: December 4, 2012

Retribution was amazing, and was the first deployment I saw as a Dev rather than as a player. It's unbelievable how many people were staying late at the office, or working their fingers to the bone to make sure that things were polished and set for release. So much goes on behind the scenes, it's unbelievable.

I think my two worst as a player were :

Quantum Rise - Release date November 11, 2008

This was mainly backend stuff and didn't bring a lot of new game play to the table other than a speed overhaul. For me, I would have just called it Empyrean Age 1.1, but I can understand why it was labelled as its own expansion, as the backed stuff that was done was massive, and has really paved the way for providing a larger, more solid foundation to grow EVE on.

Incarna - Release Date June 21, 2011

From a player point of view, a lot of the people I used to fly with labelled this one "Incarnage" - Enough said I think. On a more serious note, even joining the company so long after it, it's plain to see that even though a high price was paid, we learned a lot of very valuable and humbling lessons that have really allowed us to re-organize, push forward, and grow.



It's difficult to imagine how anyone could have a viewpoint different to this. Personally, I'm struggling with the 'push forward, and grow' bit as the vision & effort seems directed to areas other than EVE. That Sci-Fi simulator feels further away than ever.


The worst thing is that they are so busy fixing the little things that embitter a few who have stopped contributing innovations that can attract the not decided to try EVE.

If since 2006 have not been eager to join, polishing things 6 years ago that are broken will not attract anyone new.

And by the way, is that they are so desperate for subscriptions that now even noobs receive offers "Power of 2" just registered.
Balaen Rorqual
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-12-23 23:05:47 UTC
Based on my limited kownledge.

Best:
Apocrypha
Release date: March 10, 2009

Wormholes? Tech 3 ? Easily my favorite expansion ever.

Revelations I
Release date: November 29, 2006

Rigs!


Worst:

Incarna
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Needs no explanation.

Bloodlines
Release date: March 2, 2006

A whimper.
Scatim Helicon
State War Academy
Caldari State
#11 - 2012-12-23 23:11:53 UTC
I still contend that Dominion will be a great expansion once CCP finish it.

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NEONOVUS
Mindstar Technology
Goonswarm Federation
#12 - 2012-12-23 23:51:52 UTC
Inferno and Retribution
Retribution and Inferno

My youngness shows.

What was so bad about Incarna?
Velarra
#13 - 2012-12-24 00:03:52 UTC
NEONOVUS wrote:
What was so bad about Incarna?


I think the following post probably covers it best:

http://blog.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse
Djana Libra
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#14 - 2012-12-24 00:16:07 UTC
Good: Trinity (awsome graphics update) and Apocrypha (yeah self explaining i'd say)
Worst: Dominion (will it ever be finished? Remember the phrase pre-dominion lag levels?) and Incarna (we did get a fancy door i'll admit)
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#15 - 2012-12-24 00:23:24 UTC
Velarra wrote:
NEONOVUS wrote:
What was so bad about Incarna?


I think the following post probably covers it best:

http://blog.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse


The main issue that irked in Incarna was how the Noble Exchange bypassed the player economy (the items spring into existence and are never destroyed), with a secondary quibble being the ubiquity of this luxury goods store: http://mararinn.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/aside-micro-transactions-and-nex.html

There are people who were concerned about NeX being the thin edge of the "Pay to Win" edge, I'm not too concerned about that as long as there is no concept of "soulbound" in EVE. Things should be tradable in some way or another.

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Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2012-12-24 00:50:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Christopher AET
Best for me. Crucible for the tier 3 battlecruisers alone. Apocrypha even though it's the expansion I joined on. Worst would be incarna . Not so much the expansion itself which was underwhelming but more the lack of communication from CCP. Also I did not much care for Dominion on releAse as I was stroll in hi sec days it affected me little.

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Joran Jackson
The Red Circle Inc.
Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
#17 - 2012-12-24 00:56:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Joran Jackson
I don't know if people recognized Apocrypha as being the best when it was released (I wasn't playing then) but I bet it took awhile before it got universally recognized as CCP's greatest Eve achievement.

I think Retribution will be like that. There's a lot of people who like it, but it will be recognized as revolutionary by the majority of the player base when all is said and done.

Edit: Two worst Incarna and Dominion
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#18 - 2012-12-24 00:58:39 UTC
As a Naga user un wormholes, I have at least one reason to think of Apocrypha and Crucible as the two best expansions.

But even before crucible, wormhole life was already awesome ! Thanks to the guy who got the idea of Apocrypha. Looking forward to WiS expansion (and also the POS rewamp) now.

Edit : Oh and Incarna as worst of course.....

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Hikaru Kuroda
Extheria
#19 - 2012-12-24 01:18:58 UTC
Best: Apocrypha, followed by Retribution
Worst: the broken promise of Walk in Stations, followed by Incarna.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-12-24 01:25:07 UTC
Best:

Apocrypha
Retribution

Worst:

Dominion
Dominion

(yes Dominion was that bad)
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