Jita Park Speakers Corner

I am sure that a "future of EVE" blog will come out at some point, probably after the Winter Expansion. But I would not expect it before release planning for the Summer 2012 expansion is done, and IIRC that will happen a bit after the CSM summit at the end of September... er, November.

I'll take that as meaning "No, we will not ask CCP for this devblog.".

I am also sure a "future of EVE" blog will come out at some point. Wether that will adress Incarna, I'm not so sure about.
Either way, folks like me would like to know about Incarna's fate quite a bit sooner.

when will the crimes against posting end

If the answer is "No" there is no need for planning.
If the answer is "Maybe", then they would only have to say what needs to happen before they even start working on planning for Incarna (like "after hybrids are fixed and and CCP Phantom has deleted 1 million posts").
If the answer is "Yes", then all I ask for is an educated guess with enough marging for error (like "before 2015"), not much planning there either.

I'm not so sure about the rest of your post though, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of people who could arrive at that conclusion. They would be wrong of course, as I am clearly stating here that that information would be of use to me, and others have done so in other posts as well.

There is no sound in EVE.

In case you are talking about my posts, I added some smiley's.

There is much more pro Incarna 2008 than pro Incarna 2011 supporters... In other words much more people want Incarna if Incarna is what they want it to be. Real Incarna is not about NeX, it doesn't ignore the lore and it does have (sandbox) content.

This isn't black and white issue where people can just be divided to 2 groups. It is rather safe to say that quite many "want similiar incarna what was promised and tech demoed to them long time ago, but don't want to prioritize it over entire FiS development or see Incarna used as WoD test bed".

Obviously atm there is plenty of catch up on FiS todo, but if CCP doesn't address the Incarna in some point, there will be another storm coming. CSM7... yes - perhaps they should be ready for that.

I'm not asking you to promote or champion Incarna. I'm asking you to request a devblog. I really think the few man-hours it takes to write this blog is not too much to ask. I also find the idea to start an entire campaign/have one candidate just to see if people want to see this devblog ridiculous. I think you are basicly asking me to do your job.

A few side notes:
I think that WiS might actualy help stopping the subscriber curve stagnating.
I am not so sure about the pro-WiS types being very small in number. I would like to know how you arrived at this conclusion.

As you may know, I oppose the view of the CSM being a political body. I think the CSM should function as a communication relay between the players (ALL players) and CCP. In relation to this, I would like to point out one of Hilmar's concerns:

I know, you probably don't agree with him, as you didn't agree with me when I said something along these lines, but I point it out anyway in the hopes that how you value Hilmar's thoughts more than mine, even if they are similar.

Just look at the sperg-infested threads about WiS. The space Barbie fetishist bloc consists of four or five people and their sock puppets.

While WiS is something I personally would like to see at some point in time, it's still not something I'd say is vital for the game as it is right now. The FiS part is currently in a very sad state, and probably the most cost-effective place for CCP to spend their time at this point. Having WiS won't help in the long run if the game itself is declining in popularity because the drama and allure of 0.0 isn't there anymore.

And I expect they will go back and expand on incarna, once they've stopped the sucking chest wounds in 0.0.

Just fyi, I wasn't even talking about lag. Just to make sure I'm on the same page, you think 500 fighting in one solar system is huge, and should be laggy? It isn't, at least not if the system has been reinforced. Even fights up to 1000+ are "okay" on a reinforced node, but at this point supercarriers are usually always in the picture, and their fighters/fighterbombers suck up CPU like a wet sponge.

But lag isn't even the major problem of 0.0, the major problems of 0.0 are, I think, ones of motivation at this point. And the causes for this lie in the rewards we can reap while in 0.0 (I'm not talking about moons, those are more corp/alliance assets than personal assets, at least for normal alliances/corps), how hard it is to take/lose space (look at how IT Alliance's space still being on the map months after IT Alliance basicallly ceased to exist, because people just couldn't be arsed to grind the structures) etc etc etc, and unless you had the possibility to bloody the other guy's supers time and time again, either through your superior supers or fleet designed specifically for taking one or two supers each engagement, you'll end up with supers dropped on your face.

In other words, the barrier for entry for smaller alliances are in my view too high, which means that 0.0 isn't getting as much new blood as it could've gotten, which means it's stagnating. And I blame this largely on 2 things, 1) the sov system, and 2) the rewards for the individual pilot.

Personally, I wish they'd either make SOV descriptive instead of prescriptive, i.e. the actual SOV would be more an indication of who spent most time there rather than being dependent on a structure being shot, but the main thing I wish CCP would manage to implement is a system where you can have, say, multiple fleets of 50-100 running attacks on multiple systems, so there'd be something more to do for alliance leaders than just go "take this system. now take this system. now this.", there could be feints and big pushes etc. Anything, just not the current system where we either see fierce resistence (and up towards 1000+ in local) for a few days, only to be replaced by nothing but structure grinds because the other alliance just gave up and moved away.

The rewards for the individual pilot should also be a lot higher than hisec, because it's more risk to be in 0.0 than in hisec, logistics are harder than in hisec etc etc etc, and I'd want to incentivize people to get out of hisec and into nullsec so there's fresh blood out there which are enthusiastic about being there, and to have fight with.

As for going black-out on Incarna, if you've been around eve for as long as you say you have, then CCP going blackout on a feature shouldn't be news to you. They revamped the entire SOV system 18 months ago, and apart from a few timer changes and a few resist tweaks to SBUs etc, they've done nothing to add to this feature. In fact, it wasn't even the SOV revamp that was planned, it was a part of the featureset planned for that expansion. Sound familiar?

To be honest, the SOV itself being reworked to encourage multiple small fleets in the manner I hope for is probably not going to happen, but it's a pipedream I think would liven up 0.0 again. What we're looking at right now, though, is a few buffs and nerfs to ships and weapon systems to make 0.0 a bit less of the supers online it has been the last 12-18 months, and that'll probably be it before they change their focus yet again. It'll probably have some effect on warfare, since we don't have to be as worried about getting hotdropped by a supercap fleet with a minor support fleet, but I wish CCP would go further.

Once that's done, then CCP should at the very least look into people being able to have other career possibilities in hisec than is currently the case, and also expand on their framework of incarna.