EVE General Discussion

Some kind of official statement would be fine. There's been a thread ignored for almost 2 months and frankly I think the same as you: they may have the assets and tech stuff, but don't really know what to do with it. Asking the players is the way to go. What do players expect from WiS? There's more than the broken nullsec, broken FW, broken everything. And the sooner they start asking the sooner they can devote a few manpower to the WiS technical stuff while everybody else fixes everything fixable and so so we can get some new content.



This attitude stems from banging my head against forum trolls for the last month. And also from the simple fact that none of you CSM lived in hisec since years ago, so maybe you can't experience first hand how devoid of gameplay/goals it is.



I am not talking about shiny. I am talking about playing the game. After Crucible, i am allowed to do the following things i didn't did before:

Hisec content: none (well, ganker BCs to make miners' life even more miserable)

Solo content: none (well, POCOs so big corporations can quick out everyone else from PI -amazingly as CSM are all from big corporations -insert shrugging)

Casual FiS content: none (that's a long standing tradition since i entered the game three years ago)

Let's say you are a player who only got one hour to play EVE, who wants to have fun and is alone.

Now tell me what has done Crucible for you.

And what will CCP do for you while they fix all that nullsec multiplayer PvP stuff.

Exciting, huh?

Hope you can see where i stand... in a game based upon fukking other players, a place where it's diffcult to fuk players is gonna be empty unless you add rules and stuff so people can do other that fuk the neighbor.

Incursion could had been a good idea, if weren't that they had to come out with that bullshit about "only one gets the reward, everybody else lost their ships for nothing", so now incursions are ISK printers for a few and most people stay clear from them. Almost as succesful as moving Lvl5 to places where no sensible mission runner would fly his have-fun machine that costed him months of grinding.

Great blog Seleene, thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Would you genuinely prefer for NeX items to be produced in game for lp/isk (thus generating no income for CCP)? Personally I have no interest in paying real money for in-game fluff, but I have significant interest in CCP making more money to spend on the game and if they can get that for selling pixels that have no effect on the game then I'm all for it.

Also, has anyone considered running a massive player questionnaire to harvest the opinions of players en-masse?

CCP makes money whenever anyone buys a plex - which can then be sold ingame for ISK.

If vanity items could be sold for ISK, the mechanic is already in place for people wanting to spend their RL cash on these. I have no idea what the whole Aurum mechanic was for.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. Hearing that CCP is back on the right track and is nurturing their DEVS rather than frustrating them, resulting in them putting in the effort to create well thought out content rather than just being coding cattle and doing "as told". It takes balls to look at yourself in the mirror and shout at the world that you've been an idiot, and then take the necessary steps to make good on that.

Just be careful with the "out with the old, just because", the old aesthetics and game vision is what got you here, dismissing them as old and redundant would be a mistake. Iterate on the things you have but always keep the old feel&goals in mind.

This is absolutely not true. Look beyond the two goons on the CSM.

The ways of the Lord of the Holy Veldspar are not for us mortals to know

Thanks for the write up, I had a really good time reading it. Gives me hope for EVE ♥!

Destructible or not, the prices were always one of the sticking points with me. There is next to nothing to buy there in the first place and then it costs more than RL clothing? I wrote about this shortly after Incarna's release:

MegaTransactions & Incarna 1.0



That's what I think a lot of people would refer to as The Dream, or a least a variation thereof. Yes, it would be difficult to wrap all of that up but not impossible. At the least, the idea of Alliance / Corp uniforms is an obvious and 'simple' first step in going forward. However, right now I don't think we'll see much progress on this issue. CCP has learned in a very hard way that FIRE BURNS and they will only get one more shot at trying to 'introduce' Space Doll Fashion to us again. Hopefully they will take their time with it and get it (and the prices) right.




Hey, that was just the name of the session. Convenience / vanity / fluff, it's all the same thing really - useless pretty ****.

First answer is, sure, I'd love to see player produced fluff, but that's so far in the future that it's barely even worth discussing at this point.

Right now what I'd like to do is eliminate the nonsense that is ~Aurum~ and use the system we already have. CCP already has a brilliant money making scheme with PLEX and it's corporate profitability is largely invisible to most space billionaires. I've never spent one cent of Aurum because 1.) the NEX prices are ******** and 2.) the entire MT side of EVE is pants on head ********. That being said, I've got a stack of PLEX that I'd think nothing of breaking down into smaller units to purchase sensibly priced vanity items (Flames on my Rifters!!). I mean, I bought my PLEX with ISK so it's not 'real money', right?

It's absurdly psychological, but it is what it is. At some point along the line, CCP makes money when people buy PLEX. By braking PLEX down into smaller units, there are all kinds of possibilities from letting them be used for vanity purchases to even allowing you to extend your game play time for a week instead of a month. I've never had an issue with CCP making extra money by doing cool stuff, so long as the cool stuff provides exactly ZERO game mechanic advantage.

Any news on tackling Botting / RMT or perhaps at the very least could could a DEV respond in one of the many posts regarding the subject.

Or is the subject just a complete no go area as there are no bots, there is no RMT