Jita Park Speakers Corner

How do you feel about highsec freighter kamikazee/suicide ganks? This is a very important issue.

Yes I do think there is a proper balance of the number of ships required to take out a freighter. Your response does matter. I have 14 slots to fill out, Nullsec doesn't make up all of them sir. Bloc guys aren't the only people out there ganking freighters, and to dismiss me immediately like that isn't the best way to address a p hot topic that people seem to care about in highsec ( my home away from home).

I would still like an answer to my question, and I'd also like to hear your response to None's question.

I wish I had a good enough memory to know what was deleted but I thank the omnipresent janitor for the tidiness.

Damn it I had my hopes and fears both raised when I saw CCP tag on my post list.

Avatar is empty. Why are you asking about its existence?

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Trust me to go Zen at the oddest times.

http://zenpencils.com/comic/109-zen-fable-the-river-crossing/

is how I feel about a lot of the anguish and gnashing of teeth people have in regards to Incarna and Walking in Stations.

I refuse to carry the anger after we set that load down. You phrase the question in an alternate way than most do, none. You are asking IF the work was developed 'outside' and then offered back to Eve, would I oppose it. If I read you right, that is. This is a very different question than 'do I think that dev time should be dedicated to avatars.'

If the development and work was done under separate billing and not 'in house' and did not steal valuable spaceship time then why would I object to there being MORE to my game. Whether I decided to use it or not would be immaterial. Making the game MORE and maybe allowing a few more people to become interested and involved would be great.

period

m

And how are avatars different from other features? Why not develop SOV warfare out of game? Why not POSes? Why not FW? Why not tusource ship balacncing? Actually, provided how avatars are an empty shell, shouldn't they be prioritized over features which, in any degree of functionality, at least exist and can be used?

(I am asking rethorically as I just can't understand your point; personally, I believe that CCP averted EVE's future by flopping Incarna and so my main concern now is that they don't remove the features i use, and maybe get them to add something I can use until either I find another game like EVE or it expires, whichever takes longer)

I think you might be underestimating how patient and stubborn some of us are.

I agree with Che, what came out as the first iteration was so far from what players expected, and the videos promised that even those who are extremely in favour of it were not happy.

We were promised proper interaction within stations, the possibility of smuggling and players acting as customs officials, and what we got was one room, with a locked door ^^

To be honest, I think CCP really really REALLY underestimated how difficult that project would be. 18 months and all they had was the character creator (which admittedly remains one of the best in the industry, for now), and a demo room. I still wish they had licensed Unreal Engine and be done with it. I suspect in hind sight they may be wishing that now too.

But that's not where we are today.

They've sunk a lot of effort into WOD, albeit a pretty much completely separate dev team in Atlanta. That team has forked Carbon, meaning changes there do not effect EVE, but it started with the same base. This was the right decision because it would be madness to try to keep EVE stable on the same code base while trying to allow WOD to advance the code to a state it could do what they need.

When WoD gets close to shipping or perhaps just soon after there will have to be some serious consideration of devoting some resources to porting some of this functionality and assets back or perhaps a full merge.

No it won't be free. But there could be a LOT of bang per isk, unlike the doing it from scratch in Incarna.

Agreed that this kind of Hail Mary Jesus feature should never again take over the lion's share of development and I am generally very happy with the subsequent spaceship oriented releases, but I was saddened when Avatar was quietly smothered in the back room. I understood not going ahead with the prototype, but I did want to see that code maintained and small improvements. Some of those hinted at features looked very nice to have, sleeve tattoos, cat suits, more scifi looking attachments, and I do fear now that when WOD bears fruit the Avatar code in EVE will be one of those things no one dares touch because no one remembers how any of it worked. Mike, when you get in there, do me a favor and poke them for me to see how that's going.

Damn, maybe I really should have run for CSM8, ah well. Maybe next year.

In the mean time, voted my last slate this morning (had pretty much been doing one a day, with ranking of how I feel about the candidates on that day). Yes, I have a ton of accounts scattered all over New Eden. I love this bloody game. Mike, I don't think you ever dropped below six and you did get two #1s. Best of luck to you and may you serve well.

To the rest of you:

Get out there and vote you glorious but unfortunately often apathetic bastards!

I like Mike!

Vote Mike Azariah for CSM8, practically a damn unicorn!