EVE General Discussion

Kinda reminds about possibly trying to join ISD again.....hmmm

But having been here almost 5 years and reading almost every dev blog I can get my mits on I think I have a fairly decent idea of how CCP works.

For each expansion just go down the check lists:

Graphics? Jump Effects and the V3ed capitals we got in 1.2 and new Apoc
UI? Radial Menu and updated visual styles on virtually every window that didnt already have them, new undock system
Feature Change/Redesign/New?

• Scanning (Probes, system scanner, modules, skill changes)
• Exploration (Redone sites, new loot mechanic, hacking mini game)
• POS (hanger access, new modules, usability)
• Security for Tags (new market, new NPCs)
• Industry (Mineral content of ore, ice distribution, tweaks on moon goo)
• Skills (Total revamp of the skill tree progression)
• Double Training for PLEX
• Revamped Outpost facilities

Rebalance? Absolute **** ton of ship changes and some modules changes too
New Ships? Navy BCs

probably a few things I missed too xD

They're doing a hell of a lot of iteration and dare I say this looks to be a damn decent expansion to industry

We're simply getting what we asked for from the Incarna Summer of Rage, but winter is shaping up to have some awesome potential as one by one CCP is knocking down the the rusty locks to the gate of awesome xD

Google 'Dust 514'...it's a pretty cool FPS that CCP is actively working to link to Eve! It brings new gameplay as well as cross-platform interaction! Personally I think that is a better way of 'moving the game forward' than creating a whole new set of skills that need to be learned with 6 months of training time so you can get out of your ship and stab someone! The path you are going down leads to a large number of mini games within eve making the barrier to entry for new players even higher than it already is!

Eve's populace, 1-2 years ago: WAAAAH STOP GIVING US ~AWESOME FEATURES~ AND TWEAK THE SMALL STUFF

If this post is anything to go by, Eve's populace, today: WAAAH STOP TWEAKING THE SMALL STUFF AND GIVE US ~AWESOME FEATURES~

"There's nothing wrong with complaining about an expansion you don't like. "

Or haven't even played yet, for that matter.

And hey - there's always DUST, Mass Effect and WoW . But not for me.

I like FPS and I like eve. I do not however, long for the creators of Battlefield to spend their precious time developing a capitalist sandbox style space pilot simulator game which is accessed as a small mini-game through the door into one of the buildings on Kharg island.

There's so much content in the game that is at about 10% of the potential it could have. Re-balancing expansions are much more game changing than just new ships or whatever.

Posts like this remind me of people who ***** and moan about League of Legends Champion IP costs being too high and whatnot despite the entire game being free and the game giving you the ability to acquire all champions without ever spending a single penny. Such entitlement in this generation.

Is the "expansion" everything you personally wanted? No, however it is improvement, content and it's FREE.

CCP isn't a huge company, they aren't going to crank out masive WoW style expansions. The word expansion is used loosely here, it's more of just a mega patch/version upgrade sometimes but hey, it's keeping the game alive.

I'll see you next expansion.

$15 every month, or $30 in my case. The vast majority of what CCP calls an "expansion" is what another developer would call Random Balance Patch v1.27

And how often do other MMO's put out "real expansions"?

Once a year? Little over a year?

How often does CCP release their "expansions"? Hmm?

Your $15($30) does not make you any more special or more entitled than anyone else.

I remember the first couple MMO's didn't have expansions for like...2 years. No one complained. Too busy playing.

I remember seeing a diagram back in the day in which CCP described their expansion philosophy.

Something where summer was for smaller stuff, winter was for bigger stuff.

So maybe they're just following that design plan?

Given that ccp nearly killed eve by rushing content out for each expansion without doing anything with the core game you can probably forgive them for trying to fix the game before taking a new direction. Hopefully that direction will involve spaceships and not barbie online though.