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New dev blog: If you have 18 months, you can probably make two babies. Or not, it's up to you.

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Revii Lagoon
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#81 - 2011-12-02 07:11:45 UTC
All I can say is that I am happy with the direction of EVE. With the amount of work done to actual gameplay mechanics in only 4-6 short weeks. I can't imagine what a refocused developer team can do for us if they work hard for 6 or so months on this same type of expansion. Keep up the good work CCP and make sure the next expansion blows our minds out of the water.
Sarina Berghil
New Zion Judge Advocate
#82 - 2011-12-02 07:24:25 UTC
I share Soundwaves enthusiasm for the recent low-profile changes, that are big quality of life improvements for capsuleers. There is nothing worse than fighting the UI when you would rather fight space ships.


I'd love to see better usability for PI which I believe is holding it back. PI is physically painful and probably unhealthy in the long term. Keyboard shortcuts and the possibility of grouping facilities would make a big difference.
Tanya Powers
Doomheim
#83 - 2011-12-02 16:30:45 UTC
CCP Soundwave wrote:
Dierdra Vaal wrote:
I, too, am looking forward to this release which is filled with many fun and useful features! :D

I do have some questions...

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We had about 4-6 weeks of actual development time to put this release together


I thought Eve expansions came out in cycles of 6 months (roughly), so that figure seems unexpectedly low. I would expect a figure closer to 20 weeks (5 months or roughly 5x4 weeks)?
* What was the other time spent on?
* If this was the result of a 'last minute' change after/around the recent layoffs will the summer expansion contain about four times as much spaceship content since you'll have the full 6 months?

And hoping against hope and my own common sense, any chance you can shed light on plans for the summer expansion? :P


Regarding time spent, we worked on two other projects which were put on hold/scrapped due to various reasons, but the chief one being the change in direction for EVE (back to FiS).

Can't promise you x quantity of stuff, just that we'll continue to do this stuff :)



While Eve is certainly the most known success of CCP has company I'm dam sure Dust514 will be the next cheered baby for you guys, I've followed a lot of comments vids etc to try to see what and where is the difference that may indeed please to regular shooters.

While not being my self a big fan of fps games, I do play sometimes with my sun who IS a fan of those. Didn't made to get his attention on space ships but I'm very sure Dust will get him around.

Hope for all of you people investing so much for what you've build from the scratch that Eve success is just the beginning.

Gratz, nice work on this expansion Blink