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Don't forget that Hilmar had the fiction department write his apology.

That's the kind of company CCP is. Despite Seagull's (naive?) enthusiasm, CCP is still in reality run by people cut from the same cloth as Fozzie, Larrikin, t20, and Hilmar.

Here are a few thoughts and questions for you and everyone who knows more about the ins and outs of nullsec:

The new sovereignty system has been in the works for quite some time, and sounds like it is going to be a rather huge project where plenty of people are involved in.

1. While I know that different parts of the development work on different things, could it be the best people from those departments (coding, art, etc) are working on the complete nullsec overhaul with structures (POS and other) so that many of the patches we got recently only got worked out with the less stellar people? Would this explain all the half-baked and leaky stuff we've been getting all along?
2. How many people are holding their breath and wait for fozziesov and see how it plays out?
3. How big will the outrage and/or the player exodus be, if this sovereignty change that had a long time coming is going to utterly fail?
4. I've seen some good and some bad mentions about the sovereignty system so I will not going to ask what you people think of it, but instead I'd like to ask how long you expect it to take until it has been shaped to something that works as intended? I mean, I hope for the best but currently I don't have enough faith in the company to think the new Sovereignty feature will hold player driven scrutiny, even if it is not a half-finished product.
5. How is the feedback going? I mean... you know what I mean. Is it the same as with icons and opportunities and starmap and all the other poop or does sov-feedback seeing brighter day?
6. If summer is the time of sovereignty, what could be the big winter expansion thing that will bring the players to subscribe / play the game? Because usually, winter gets more players into Eve. Do you think it will be the final parse on sovereignty or have nothing to do at all with sovereignty?

I didn't know that (or forgot that). But I will not judge CCP Hellmar, because there are no reasons given as to why he let someone else write the article. There could be good or bad reasons, and all is speculation then, so I will not go there.

However, the other thing you said is making me a lot more worried. Larrikin? Wasn't he a rather new addition to the company or did he go by a different name before? Anyway, someone like him who wants to remove the Orbiting, Keep-distance and Approach commands and wants to force players to navigate manually, seems to be heftily out of touch with the game and the way it is played. This is a tactical simulation or something, not a dogfight game. Or, let me put it into Eve words: The action packed dogfight game will be Valkyrie. No reason to make Eve such a thing.

Who was t20 again? I think my mind drew another blank :c

Well, we're agreeing to disagree then I guess c: Speculation gets nobody any further, and I don't see it as automatic dishonest act unless proven otherwise, for my own reasons.

I also won't comment on the entire fleet warp (or even jump change) thing, this is a different topic and I don't want to bring it up in a feedback topic for Aegis.
Thanks for reminding me about t20! Now I know what it was about again :D

Speaking of Aegis, here is the picture I forgot to upload before:

New Missile mid/low slot module icon is too big in the slot rows. Please make it smaller and more of a fancy radar dish than a cardboard box.

Thanks for adjusting the Aliastra Incursus SKIN - looks good now.

I would like to politely ask you to stop with your generalizations, since they are wrong c: What you are saying would include me and many other very calmly writing and objective people who point out issues and problems without resorting to baseless accusations, insults, hate-trains and general aggressive ramble. None of my posts have been removed from a forum moderator. That can't be said for any poster. I have also not agreed with Alexis' opinion about the named persons or other things, especially because that is horribly offtopic and my opinions also veer in a different direction.

So I'd like to ask you, next time before you make a generalization, think again who you really want to call out. And then name them. Because you are definitely not helping either with your insults and accusations. Alright? c:

I like the new wreck icons - it's very easy to tell at a glance which wrecks contain loot. Disclaimer: I liked the new icons pretty much from the start anyway.

On the other hand, anyone who's worked in a customer-facing job has run into That One, who sets out with great zeal to make the loss of their custom seem like a fair price for not having to put up with their crap.

You don't want to be That One, no matter how justified you may feel.

It is difficult for me to draw the line between Elsa's bad generalization and this here what you just wrote. While this is a reason to become toxic, I don't think it qualifies as excuse and neither does it entitle anyone to be insulting, toxic and resort to bad behaviour in general.

There has to be a difference. I'm seeing a good number of people who bring their opinions reasonable and their feedback is solid. The most toxic/trolling people I see usually don't give much feedback at all other than "I hate these changes, CCP is incompetent and should rollback." This is not feedback. This is an opinion.

Being toxic, hateful, aggressive and whatnot is a choice. Everyone always has this choice, and everyone can always choose to NOT be like that too. No matter how justified that would be, but this is simply bad behaviour.
I'd much rather see CCP's communication skills take a few steps up, and maybe even go so far to invite the people who have been giving heaps of great feedback and ideas over the years a different area in the forum or something to talk about. Because it often happens once a topic gets split apart by the hateful bile that others bring, people are much more likely to fight each other instead of trying to make the problems apparent. And reading this stuff is sometimes not a nice to stomach. Maybe we need to either expand the CSM instance, or split it up into two separate groups that have more specialization going on. If there are players are that good and reasonable with their feedback and ideas, and I'm sure there are many out there, then the least that could be done is reward this. They're giving away their free time to try improving a game they already pay for. The least CCP should do about this is being more appreciative of this. Because if they are, they're not showing it.

Now of course, we're at the point where it seems that feedback is not being taken into consideration any more or way too late, response times are super slow and all that good stuff. Recently, I had an interesting evemail exchange with someone who brought up an interesting point: Valkyrie seems to get all the hype now. Is Eve being cut short from their better developers because they're moving over to Valkyrie for the time being? This could explain why things are so rotten at the moment, including the fast paced patch schedule.

I wouldn't wonder if the CSM members on their own are disgruntled as well because they're affected by the fast changes and lack of communication as well but need to keep their opinions about this widely locked up.

In any event... the state of being between players and CCP definitely has been better once. The quality of patch content has been better once, CCP's communication skills have reached a really low level which even goes down to outright insult their playerbase and lastly we're sitting here, feeling helpless because it seems nothing we do makes a difference. I'll never ask CCP for rollbacks or knee-jerk reactions. All I ask is a higher level of quality control and being more considerate of the vast variety of players. But who knows, maybe the better QA testers really are all off to Valkyrie? And even if not, there is definitely something wrong in the bushes.

I don't want a monument to be shot, I don't want strikes or threats or dismissal and ignorance or whatever. We should be better than this, players and developers alike. Right? :c