EVE General Discussion

Its not quite out yet, but from what i have heard and seen so far this expansion is going up as Best Expansion Ever to me.

Who is with me?!

Let's wait until it hits the server, before giving these accolades.

My bet: Best since spring 09.

Im a dragon hunter

This is very much true. Having said that the vast majority of players have been chiming for an "iteration expansion" for a long while now, so if CCP manages to do exactly that we can't then say "meh, no new stuff, sucks".

To me this expansion very much depends on the hybrids rebalancing, if they manage to make them viable I'll be very happy. So far though, what we've seen on Sisi, this is not the case and in fact they gave Minmatar some more boosts compared to Gallente.

Crucible is hardly anything I'd call an "expansion". IMO the only new real thing they have added to to game is the tier 3 BC's. So can Crucible be called the best ever expansion ever since it's not really an expansion, F*** no.

However CCP is buffing, tweaking alot of things in the game, and I give them massive props for gitting their heads out of thier asses. And there is PLENTY more stuff to do to tweak allready implemented stuff in EVE. And lets be honest, CCP havn't tuched the core isues of game mechanics and content at all(null sec, low sec, FW etc etc.) BUT Crucible and with the added attitude change from CCP, that definately bought CCP enough time for a massive overhaul in the "expansion" coming after the Crucible.

Keep it up CCP, I have hopes in you again, and dont slack off.

And I think CCP is going to have a hard time beating Red Moon rising, Trinity and Apocrypha. Though I'd like them to give it a try

Crucible is a tournequet patch on the sucking chest wound that was NeXCarna and a neccessary step in saving Eve from bleeding out in a dark ally.

The importance of this patch is not really its feature set but the demonstration that CCP have listened to what we the players "do" (when we're unhappy) and have committed to return to proper development and support of Eve Online.

Now the future needs to hold several Apocrypha scale expansions at 6 month intervals to return Eve Online to subscriber growth and get things back to where they were before the :18 months: of MT/NeX/Sellout insanity.

Are people still butthurt about that quote? Because honestly I never understood why.

Apocrypha

I didn't play before it so can't say if there was beter one pefore it.

Apocrypha will probably end up being better, from an expansion standpoint. However, Crucible will most likely be the most surprising expansion with the most “wow, neat!”-factor in a very long time.

But then again, this expansions is all about annoyances, rather than about real content (although we're getting some of that as well), that It's somehow not on the same scale — comparing the two would kind of miss the point.

So, best? No.
Most satisfying? Quite possibly, yes.

RMR.

Will tomorrow change that...?

/c