EVE General Discussion

Covering the Keynote for Velicia again!

HILMAR
-Thanks everyone!

-CCP has gone through various phases.
-3 year phases.
>>Innocence > EVE 200k Subs > Internal Expansion > Deliver the future
-Fanfest go through stages too!
-Montage of Fanfest so far
-Charity raised 1.5m ISK (icelandic)
-Thanks to CSM6
-Big voting turnout in CSM7
-10,058 votes for CSM Chair 1
-CSM7 is :
The Mittani, Two Step, Elise R., Greene Lee, Trebor D, Kelduum R, Seleene, UAxDeath, Hans J.... (Moved on too fast, didn't get the rest)

-EVE Future Vision Trailer played


HALLDOR, CTO
-Technical Things :
>>Graph showing Crashes per day.
>>>>Advanced parsing to show minute by minute issues
>>More frequent Releases
>>>>To do this, requires certain goals
-EVE Launcher
>>Why are we doing this?
-Old EVE Patching over HTTP gave CCP no control on delivery
>>New System lets this be reported.
-Release individual files as updates to your game
>>Programmer can check fix and release it immediately to fix issues right away
-Move login procedure to Launcher to login to EVE, possibly using Google cred/Facebook cred to log in to EVE

-New VIVOX Client for EVE
>>Would rather have something out of game, not in game.
-Configure voice chat the way you want to.
- Vivox Beta @ (www.downloadc3.com)

CREST
- Opens up to all other platforms.
- Team Cobra Kai
- From EVE 1.0 to Trinity to V3
- Normal Mapping - Illusion of Detail
- When you get close, it's fakery, 2007 state of the art
- If you take the camera and do a close up it's obvious
- Normal mapping is an issue for massive scale changes
-2012 and DirextX 11 - Tesselation
>>Allows you to generate triangles
>>If you can do it, should you do it? Nvidia partnered to show demo with this technology.

TONY TAMASI

-Demo of what we can do > Asteroids flying with a Sansha supercarrier whizzing by and colliding. through the belt.
>>Close Up of carriers details, pipes in clear modeled detail
-NVidia took the base assets and used tesselation to make mesh that wasn't there originally - normal mapping. Compare before and after. The detail is in the normal map. But now the tesselation can.
>>Wireframe comparison of normal mapping then tesselation.
-Showing colliding rocks against Supercap bouncing off models.

HALLDOR
-Should we do it?
- The work of upgrading the Engine and renovating - Equivalent of 5 man years of work. or 1 scrum team for a year.
- Trinity was 50 man years.
- Phat L00t

Tony Tamasi
-Nvidia Prizes GTX 680, GTX 560
-Buying your Ticket for PLEX
-ISK > PLEX > Fanfest (Stage Dive Optional)
-Lasting memory, bruises.
-ISK > PLEX > GTX560
-WTF. o.o

-$19.99 PLEX , 20 PLEX = 1 GTX 560

One per account.


HILMAR :
- Launching EVE players into space
- Video to introduce program

-CCP Stands For the Classified Cosmonaut Project

-If you want to make an applie pie from scratch you must first make the universe.
- We created the EVE Universe, and now after 15 years on this universe
- Countless hours of simulation.
- We are finally ready to take our first actual steps into space.
- Keeping the Cosmonaut project classified has required us to keep layer upopn layer of deception.
- It has taken us many years to fund and build this advanced facility
- It has taken us years to build this crack team of scientists to fulfill our vision
*Hamster on floor*
*Scientific physical experiments*
*Crazy scientists talking*

Hamster Astronauts - Skywardsphere
http://www.ccpgames.com/Skywardsphere/


DAVID REID
- Chief Marketing Officer at CCP
- New to Company, but following CCP for a long time.

- First Story on CCP jouney
- 2006 article on Murder Incorporated on PCgamer, "The Heist" caught his attention.
- Interesting to him this was true behavior from an audience of gamers...
- CCP didn't interfere because there was no EULA breaks.
- Didn't get a chance to think about it in 2007 -
>>Left Xbox
>>Recruiter called asking if he heard of CCP
>>Did you hear? CCP bought Whitewolf.
>>Interviewed in Reykjavik.
>>Didn't work out and moved on into a marketing agent in other games.
>Lone wanderer.
>>Worked NCSoft
>>Was seeing the change in asia F2P market.
>>MMO pattern was that launch had big peak of users, and then faded to minimal community.
>Moved to CA to work for Trion.
>>Not as much innovation
>>Marketing, RIFT
and yet...
- EVE The subscriber curve grew again.
- 2011 Game of the Year
- EVE Online.
>>Was clear that he needed to be in CCP
>Joined in January.

-Assuming world doesn't in 2012.
>>Return to the Core
-If you're a gamer and you see what they're investing in.
-Titans of industry - Investing in the shallow end of the game industry.
-Industry returning to the core of hardcore gaming slowly.
-"Don't make it easy" - "I want consequences".
-Epic Achievement and Loss - and noone is doing it better than CCP/EVE
-All of a sudden F2P games don't have to suck.

-Things changed with League of Legends. F2P but hardcore, and fabulous success.
-World of Tanks reinforces the F2P.
-With this in mind - How to take F2P to apply to core games.
-SONY partners competitive versus XBox
-PS3 (FREE2PLAY Network)
- DUST coming to PS3, Important change forever

- 2012 Laws of CCP Marketing
-NOT Going to : Don't make EVE something it isn't. Hardcore game for real gamers, don't need to make it easy, don't need to change the business model, there's nothing that has grown year over year, marketing doesn't need to change this product to bring in new player.

- We don't need more Jesus features to get new players.

Going to :
-Launch Dust as AAA shooter
-Targeted at BF3 Player, Halo
-Most will never have heard of CCP.
-They will notice that Player contract, then get sucked into CCP/EVE
-They can enjoy that day to day moment.

NEW INTERFACE Weapons hitting shields. Pictures of your target, seeing actual damage, new cleaner overview.

Newer and improved tactical view with actual tactical data. Toggle and switch to a cleaner picture. Still see your enemy getting blown up.


New avatar gameplay.

Exploration and deep exploration. Find a distant location, explore it, get welded in and shut down. Derelict stations.


HILLMAR

>EVE is HARD.

>EVE is REAL

>EVE is CONNECTED - Cloud, Mobile Devices, PS3, Web, iPhone, PS Vita,etc.

> Fanfest 2013. 10 Year Anniversary.

April 25th 2013.

If Dust explodes in awesomeness, we'll need to rent TWO venues most likely.

THANK YOU.

To really Thank You - One last thing.


We have been working on something.

HOLY **** GO WATCH THIS.


http://youtu.be/GI53ydJaus8





(Sorry this last post took a few. I was still recovering from the trailer.)

Keynote is still going and loads more to add! Keep your eyes on the thread.

War Dec system is going to be pretty much a serious move in this direction

Just to expand on this, we had impacts on shields when the ships was in shield, then impacts on the ship when the ship was in armor, causing armor damage, and then finally impacts when the ship was in structure causing visible damage to the ship. Looks amazing if they can do it.

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THAT OVERVIEW!!!!

Thank you so much for this bulleted point version of the keynote. Very useful!

More like
-They'll enjoy that day up until that moment

According to CCP Diagoras yes mine is the only one

/c

YOU, yeah YOU, the OP.


You are awesome. Thank you for this.