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Mr Mieyli
Doomheim
#61 - 2015-09-26 13:38:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Mieyli
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Mr Mieyli wrote:
Why can't CCP have their own internal deadlines for projects and line them up to be released together? Publicly announcing "we'll make a patch every 6 months" means you are now committed, regardless of what ideas you actually have, to release a patch every 6 months, and if you miss that patch you wait for the next one to push out your feature. What if instead they say down together, hashed out their ideas, planned out how long the work would take and get to work on whatever features. CCP should announce the release date of a patch to match when the features are actually done and not announce the patch date at the start of the work.

I also agree with OP that the 6 week cycle leads to a "let's chuck this on TQ and see how it goes" attitude and this is bad for the game.



Actually, that's exactly what CCP are doing.

The release is '6 months, ish'. Far looser than the old system (before the last one)


The null-sec changes have been coming out piecemeal since last November, as a result nobody (and I mean at alliance level) really feels like taking risks when nobody knows how the changes will end up taking shape. I'd think for big changes like that it does make more sense to discuss your planned changes, put them on Sisi for testing and feedback, and then release them as a finished product.

I like that the new cycle gives them opportunity to release things as they are ready but I worry that it will lead to a poor work-culture by letting deadlines slip and / or releasing unfinished products.

Edit: I was unaware of CCPs change of plan and have just read the evenews24 article. I'm glad that CCP are moving towards packaging important features into big releases again.

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45thtiger 0109
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#62 - 2015-09-29 01:54:41 UTC
SFR SaFeRa wrote:
*Old Man Voice* When I was a kid, we never had updates to games. We'd go buy a cartridge for our Atari 2600, and what we bought is what we got. All you spoiled younglings have it so good, and yet you still complain and complain.


Agreed + 1

**You Have to take the good with the bad and the bad with the good.

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45thtiger 0109
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#63 - 2015-09-29 01:56:21 UTC
Mr Mieyli wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Mr Mieyli wrote:
Why can't CCP have their own internal deadlines for projects and line them up to be released together? Publicly announcing "we'll make a patch every 6 months" means you are now committed, regardless of what ideas you actually have, to release a patch every 6 months, and if you miss that patch you wait for the next one to push out your feature. What if instead they say down together, hashed out their ideas, planned out how long the work would take and get to work on whatever features. CCP should announce the release date of a patch to match when the features are actually done and not announce the patch date at the start of the work.

I also agree with OP that the 6 week cycle leads to a "let's chuck this on TQ and see how it goes" attitude and this is bad for the game.



Actually, that's exactly what CCP are doing.

The release is '6 months, ish'. Far looser than the old system (before the last one)


The null-sec changes have been coming out piecemeal since last November, as a result nobody (and I mean at alliance level) really feels like taking risks when nobody knows how the changes will end up taking shape. I'd think for big changes like that it does make more sense to discuss your planned changes, put them on Sisi for testing and feedback, and then release them as a finished product.

I like that the new cycle gives them opportunity to release things as they are ready but I worry that it will lead to a poor work-culture by letting deadlines slip and / or releasing unfinished products.

Edit: I was unaware of CCPs change of plan and have just read the evenews24 article. I'm glad that CCP are moving towards packaging important features into big releases again.



And also Agreed with the above quotes

**You Have to take the good with the bad and the bad with the good.

Welcome to EvE OnLiNe**
Yusef Brion
Big Yellow Pidgeon Inc.
#64 - 2015-09-29 05:33:44 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
"... can not even comprehend the wonders of English ... but the Americans are worst of all because they speak it wrong." - Ogden Nash.

"Look, lady, I only speak two languages: English and bad English!" - Corbin Dallas


All the likes

The more I read the forums over the years, the more I swear. To god. That the typos are intentional mistakes. Part o f the encryption.
Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#65 - 2015-09-29 06:02:52 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:

"Look, lady, I only speak two languages: English and bad English!" - Corbin Dallas

Korben Dallas, KORBEN. Do you want to negotiate that? I will sent negotiator...

From two expansions per year to six weeks cycles to big expansions and six weeks cycles. While not that minor sites respawing bug will be (?) patched after six weeks? Let's see how it will work in 2016 (citadels).

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville