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The good news is that the 18 months are over and it feels pretty good. We had about 4-6 weeks of actual development time to put this release together and I honestly feel that this is the best release we’ve done in years.


18 months minus 4 to 6 weeks


lol and everybody is happy good job CCP


what where you doing with the rest of the time ,sleeping,drinking ?????????
What EVE related stuff you made in those 16 and a half month .
Oow i know know Dust...........................Dust in our eyes



waiting for being flamed by people having DUST in their eyes.

Simply amazing how much you folks accomplished in such a short time. I am very impressed. Soundwave, I want to have your babies......

I think this is the best patch yet. Corp BM's and fuel blocks, as a w-space dweller, are the things that will make my game sooo much easier to play, up the tempo of pew pew opportunities, and allow my horde of peons to join in on the fun without having to dump a jetcan at a planet or in a GSC.

I'm also very interested to see how the hybrid buff goes - I trained large blaster spec and Gal BS 5 just for this. I've got a 1700DPS Kronos I'm itching to try out now it might concievably hit something. This was way overdue.

The tier 3 BC's I reckon will need blancing in time, but we'll see. The supercap nerf and new logoff mechanics will stop nulltards playing dead to avoid the bears. Stopping PL hotdropping Cynabals in Amamke with 4 supers is long, long overdue and will hopefully tempt more people into brosec.

Lets hope that your upcoming buff to EWAR frigs and making Black Ops ships more usable amounts to something, hint hint.

Let's see, 4 hours to download patch. Fails. 3 hours to run repair tool. Fails.
I run repair tool again, it says another 3 hours, but what did it do for the previous 3 hours?
Or I can download full client (1 day and 13 hours.)
Damn, I only had a four day skill training.

What am I supposed to be excited about again?

BTW, the new orange background for the forums works really great with the orange lettering.

Just don't abandon Incarna :(

Summary,

You ignored us all for 2 years while you played angry birds and read vampire novels, then tried to squeeze more money from us with NeX, partially delivered the only single player multi-instanced, GPU killing MMORP in the world, we all screamed, you panic and in 6 weeks proved that every time we asked for improvements in FiS and you told us it was "too hard" you were lying, then you blamed it all on WiS.

So now WiS is dead, a feature a lot of us really wanted and the one thing that would dramatically increase the subscriber base of Eve won't happen.

And we should queue the balloons and party!

Uhm, sure. Woot! You go you awesome FiS-er devs!

This was a nice overdue major patch, some is nice eye candy. And it shows you don't have to do that much to placate the shouty minority. Four to six weeks every 6 months, I want that job.

But I don't see how I can ever believe another promise you make since this expansion proves just how much you've ignored the game to date, how little effort you would have had to make to deliver anything we would have wanted and how you now seem to lack any hint of vision to deliver anything more than incremental "more of the same".

We wanted awesome new sci fi game experiences and we got "new coke".

I do sound bitter, I know but CCP, you seem to have caved, you seem to want to throw out the baby with the bath water. WiS is important to your future. Where in this dev blog was a hint we will ever see the experience deplicted in the fanfest video of a real full sci fi world. Deliver that and you will be game dev gods. Continue increment rehash of the Eve that exists now which is what this expansion was (not even the whole Eve of today! ) and you'll be only know by the handfull of folks working on an Eve emulator server when you are gone.

Dammit CCP! Give us a dev blog that shows you still have that vision!!

Issler

Producing so much shiny content in only 4-6 weeks is a fine effort. I've been working towards a software release for December at my own employer....what was meant to be minor bug fixing only, turned into add features X, Y, Z and fix a much longer list of bugs. Managing a late direction change for release is hard to do, so well done. I look forward to seeing what you can do with longer dev cycles with your new and improved focus on the stuff people really care about.

Cheers,
Mat

OK, I'll bite, what the heck are you talking about

Issler

To another 8 years.

Very, very good, Soundwave. You truly have lost the dumb.