Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Almost a whole year ago, I posted this: Updating game interaction: The New Frontier ( https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2517791#post2517791 )

A whole year, and nothing.

I would like for you to consider the following. Perhaps the business people at CCP could see this and put the two together.

Step 1. Hire/Contract 2 people who are Android Devs. Cost: 2x $100,000 USD for a years salary, plus 20% in benefits and other expenses. Total Costs: $220,000. There are many VERY good programmers that exist that would be willing to take a 100k salary to do this project. Pick two good ones that are qualified.

Step 2. Using Extreme Programming Practices ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming_practices ) (an Agile software development methodology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development )), develop the following Android App:

This app would support the following, and in order of waterfall ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model ) priority:

1. Make the app secure. (If I can do online banking with an app, I should be able to do eve related stuff with far less security)
2. Be able to update Skill Ques of your characters.
3. Have a built in Skill Planning Program. (there are already several examples of community projects, such as EveMon: http://evemon.battleclinic.com/)
4. Be able to view the market, and update orders.
5. Search, create, manage, Contracts.
6. Access a mobile version of these forums.
7. View and manage personal assets.
8. Create a ship fitting tool. (there are already several examples of community projects, such as EFT (Eve fitting Tool: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24359)
9. Utilize any in-game chat channels. This includes evemails, local chat, alliance chat etc.
10. Ask the community for further development ideas (such as POS tracker, an autopilot function, whatever the community votes for)

Step 3. Sell Product: Have a 2 week free trial, so people get to try before they buy it. Sell an Android app, for $10 USD OR 1 Plex for a lifetime subscription. To recover the original investment of $220,000 USD, you would need to sell 22,000 licences.
Considering that you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000 active subscriptions, you would only need 5.5% of your user-base to purchase this product. This would not include an increase in active subscriptions which may very well happen. Also, an increase in the average "Users Subscription" duration could be achieved. Your marketing department will be able to go over all the possible scenarios.

This entire project should take no longer then 6 months from design to first implementation. Using waterfall lets you implement features as the are created (and immediately launch the product updates), rather then waiting until a fully implemented product is fully created. This is very helpful to gather feedback and confirm product viability.

Here's the bottom line.

Invest a small amount of money, 0.3% of GAR (400,000 active subscriptions, * $15 * 12 months a year = $72,000,000 Gross Annual Revenue), to enhance your user product and gain additional long-term revenues.

Don't you hate it when you are trying to sound smarter than everyone and you put a spelling error in your title?

Also, what Nariya said.

How many companies have you created and developed that have complete control over a niche market hat is stable for the last 10 years and recognized as leaders in the sector they attuate?

Do not TRY to teach people what to do.

Second.. 100k per year is a WASTE for a game programer. MOSt work for HALF than that and for 80 hours a week.

How much of your game time do you spend docked vs in space?
Try docking and seeing what % of local is docked at any given time.

Though, being docked is not the same thing as a mobile application that helps use the product.

Also, I have created software solutions that are older then 10 years. I have managed software teams for 16 years now. Because I hire, I know how much going wages are. At least in the US.
Quote:
1. Mobile applications developer
2012 salary range: $85,000-$122,500
2013 salary range: $92,750-$133,500
Net: 9% increase
Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/110712-it-salaries-2013-264063.html

EDIT: Also, Glassdoor is a very good reference as well: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/android-developer-salary-SRCH_KO0,17.htm

and Hek knows we dont need more market bots doign the whole 0.01 isk biz.

Cute wish list. I disagree with all of it. Forget your user experience, what would these features add to the game as a whole?

Then you have no idea about he reality of game development. Game developers are almsot alwasy udnerpaid because they work on a COOL stuff..

You can find professionals that work for 25k per year with far more experience and knowledge than needed to do this application you suggest. I know.. because I select those people.. and they are so plenetiful that only someone completely out of touch would pay 100k for a developer for somethign so meaningles as this app you suggest.

Company I work made something far far more complex than this as a mobile app that handles a much more complex system for professioanl usage on a very sensitive professional area(sorry cannto give precise info because woudl be a breach of rules) . Made far more money in 4 months than you suggest your app woudl do in a year.. and spent less than 50K $ to develop it.

Also.. why in hell they would pay US level salaries? Continue hiring overpaid US developers.. that is surely the best way to make competitive products.

I've wondered since I started playing why there is no app to change skill que. that **** would be VERY nice. I'd pay prob 25$ for an app that did that.

iirc Aura does most of the stuff that EveMon does :)

I have to agree with this. It's the worst fitting tool I've ever used.