EVE General Discussion

You're in the 3rd stage of grief, bargaining.

Your goal should be to achieve the 5th stage of grief, acceptance. Otherwise known as 'How I learned to stop worrying and love the CCP.'

A roadmap is not the same thing as a design document. A roadmap simply says "We will do this, and then after that we will move onto this other unrelated thing."

A design document says "This is a very specific thing that we will do, it will work like this and we will accomplish it by doing this this and this so that it works like this." It is effectively the creative blueprint to a working gameplay system. All it leaves out are the technical hurdles for the programmers to overcome.

With Valkyrie, they are trying to piece something together, but they even admitted they have been throwing out concepts left and right because they just aren't very fun. They didn't know what they were doing going into this. They are developing that entire game by simply playing things by ear.

So yea, they may have an idea of where they are going, and they may be showing off those ideas, but that isn't the same as a full design document. Of course I don't expect them to share that with the public, I'm simply saying that they clearly don't have one before they start on these projects. If they have design documents at all, then they are most likely written on-the-spot, probably on some sort of bar napkin during the middle of a hard night of drinking.