EVE General Discussion

The 10 mini expansions a year is pretty exciting.

where did you get that number?

Please assume that most of this is utter BS from a new lead that just bailed from WoD right before it sank who's trying to look good.

He's also promising an end to high sec and that all NPC stations will be destructible.

I don't see that happening and still keeping a subscriber base. In other words, i don't see that happening.

it's only problem if you're downloading from the third world or still living in 1995

New UI = win. Infinite slots and new cost scaling = epic fail.




While mex is high priced, even the new ninja miner grabbing the mex ores is NOT going to come CLOSE to a barge mining veld. Even with a single miner counting as 3 with 100% + 50%, it will still be less than 1/5th the yield of a single strip, let alone a parge with 3 strips.

None of the mining changes comes CLOSE to making it worth it to go mining in low in a T2 mining frig instead of a t1 barge. Still off by an order of magnitude in terms of profitability.




Simply means removing regression test. In a 6 month cycle, you should have 5 months of development, with new features tested within each cycle, then a month to look at all the stuff that wasn't supposed to change, to make sure it didn't get broken by changes to other code. Drop to a 5 week cycle, and you slice out the regression. Test new feature in isolation and ship, crossing fingers you didn't break anything unintended.

It works well in a fairly simple application like SalesFroceDotCom that does one thing, and pretty much only that one thing. In complex, highly integrated systems like EVE? Well, we can expect WAY more defects than the VERY high defect count we've seen up to this point.

I think it will happen and won't be as drastic as it sounds. Having sec status be more of a gradient instead of clear hi/low/null divisions, in conjunction with player held stations in empire space could go a long way towards this while still preserving pve play-styles.

Except he didn't, he said "all player made things".

I ran the numbers again in a "back of the envelope". Probably like 4-5x as much ore from barge as from fully trained Kronos. The point remains. While the mex ores do pay a little better than veld, it is not CLOSE to 4-5x that would be needed to downsize into T2 mining frig.

While it is a romantic notion that a fleet of these ships will be sneaking into low sec to ninja some super high value ore, it is incredibly unrealistic to think it will actually happen given the finances.

Give this thing the mining power of a barge (1000% bonus to laser instead of 100%) and an ore hold the capacity of a freighter's cargo hold, and MAYBE, just maybe we would see a fleet of them in low sec.... of course, the real use would be to transport ore around high sec.


The venture is used for the week it takes to get into a barge... then tossed aside.

EVE never deletes accounts. Why? They want you to be able to resub and pick up right where you left off, wallet, suffs, skills, etc fully intact.


Unsub. Come back to years later. Hours for PLEX. Log in. The station and all your stuffs is gone.... logout.

Less drastic. Go on vacation for a week. Come back.. all your stuffs gone. Unsub!

Not going to happen!

Wait... WHAT?