EVE General Discussion

Take out the new BCs and this 'expansion' is pretty light. Apocrypha was the best imo.

PI nerf and FINALLY getting around to fixing a PILE of annoying bugs - thumbs down.

Apocrypha and quantum rise are the only ones that gave the pvp anything to cheer for. RmR = lol on all those fixas and patch upgrades. And it did kill the roaming style gangs that were present before caps came into play :/

About this, rebalancing isn't exactly expansion content.

4 battlecruisers that don't really have a lot to add and some updated graphics, of which some are back from being removed. Not my idea if I hear the word "expansion".
But well Captain's Quarters and PI Minigame clickfests weren't either. I guess I'm just too spoilt or demanding.

Also note that this expansion will make pi less viable and even more soul crushing. Massive buffs to suicide ganking. Nullsec even more tightly controlled by ccp rmt friends. Pos ownership for small entities being massively nerfed including filling up every public manufacturing slot in the game. The good stuff is just sizzle. The bad stuff is really really bad. And all gameplay changes being among the bad.

I don't think Crucible will be the big hit. I really really like the many small things to be improved and some new bling bling tier 3 BCs. The new nebuales are pretty, and really improve the immersion.

However there are still hundreds of annoyences which should be fixed, and I wonder if CCP will go for another big content patch for the summer expansion, leaving the road to make Eve a better game, instead introducing more monocles.

Especially the new player owned custom offices and the fuel blocks for POSs are, well in my opinion, useless.

I lold, it doesn't make fueling POSs much easier, you still have to manufacture those fuel blocks and that introcuces an extra step. Sure you can easily see how many hours the pos will last by the count of fuel blocks in the hanger, I still find the fuel tab in pos management more convenient, as expresses duration in days not in hours only. In addition to that fuel consumption and total maintenance of POSs is increased now that utilization of CPU and PG is always at 100%.

The new custom offices just add additional cost to players doing PI, especially in wormholes. There's not grace period as far as I understand the new system. So, again, some people fighting over things in the non hisec systems, which is already the case, but does it really add to the game? CCP should have sold this by improving the PI UI, which is still painful to use(Ever used the duration slider?).

EDIT:
Apocrypha was a great expansion. Best thing I've seen in years!

It's true, we said that. But a lot of things have happened since that was stated. Hilmar's acknowledgement that we were on the wrong path, the restructuring of the company and the new focus on EVE to name a few. Since then we scrambled and in slightly less than two months we made what's probably the second largest expansion for EVE ever, and it's all about spaceships.

I can't and won't promise anything about what we'll do next, but things have changed big time, we have massive momentum behind us, and I for one am genuinely excited about the future of EVE

I like this and agree with it. I've been holding off on too much praise until I actually see the expansion, but the way CCP has been dealing with issues lately just isn't the same. Fixing small things 0_o what happened to the old CCP and where did you hide all the bodies?! It seems like there has been a 180 degree change in direction, and I'm more excited than ever to see what this means for the future. Again, trying to hold off on praise until I see tangible results, but I hope this effort continues, I'm loving whats happening so far.

Can I hug your brain for a little while.

Just wrap my arms around it an dream.

...please