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Ripard Teg
Senex Legio Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.01.13 08:04:00 -
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I propose that CCP be requested to invest one team of developers to the perpetual job of iterative development of past expansion's content.
CCP has been extremely resistant to further development of past content. In some ways, they've been positively dismissive of it ("nobody ever uses rockets!"). But now, they've gone and done something very silly: they've proven then can create and invest a team to do this. They just don't want to. But now Team Gridlock is out there, they're doing excellent work, and they're really thinking about, working on, and making progress with problems created by a past expansion.
I propose that when Team Gridlock is done, they or another team of developers immediately be put to work thinking about, working on, and making progress with problems from other past expansions. This would be a perpetual development team in EVE, constantly making the past expansions better. It would not be folded into development of new features, ever.
There's no shortage of work for this proposed team: 1. FIX LOW-SEC FACTION WARFARE, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE. 2. Do a new iteration of COSMOS missions with rewards that don't suck. 3. Develop some new Sleeper sites; doing the same three sites is a bit dull. 4. Continue developing and expanding PI. 5. Retune the early-developed L1-L4 missions. Some L1/L2 missions are stupid-hard for a starting player (I'm looking at you, The Blockade). Some L4 missions are stupid-easy (that'd be you, Massive Attack). 6. Develop a few more L4 missions. People have all the current ones memorized. 7. Give us the T3 frigates and weapons you promised us. 8. Make certificates not suck. 9. Engine trails! Cyno effects!
The list goes on. These are things that are never going to be worked on because the current development teams are so focused on new features. These new features are released, then systematically ignored until three years later, they're FW and COSMOS missions.
So, formal proposal: I propose that CCP be requested to maintain at least one development team at all times whose focus will be continued iterative development or repair of past content. -- Ripard Teg
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Ripard Teg
Senex Legio Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.01.13 08:08:00 -
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Supporting my own proposal. -- Ripard Teg
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Ripard Teg
Senex Legio Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.01.13 15:22:00 -
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Yeah, the suggestions on what such a team would work on are just that: suggestions. There are probably 25 other things I could have put down instead.
The point is that we keep asking for one or another single item on this list instead of just asking to change the dynamic of how CCP operates. If there's a whole team devoted to making past features better, there's no limit to the number of items they'd eventually get to. -- Ripard Teg
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Ripard Teg
Senex Legio Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.01.17 01:08:00 -
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Quote: As the meeting closed, Arnar informed the CSM that in the Incarna development expansion cycle (starting in January 2011), Team Best Friends Forever (a large team which is currently working on Incursion) will be dedicated to a project of implementing a collection of small fixes and iterations to existing issues in the game. Their current backlog has been drawn from CSM crowdsourcing lists, forum threads, and internal backlogs.
So, half the job is done. The other half would be proposing to CCP that this team be made perpetual. -- Ripard Teg
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Ripard Teg
Senex Legio Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.01.30 21:51:00 -
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Originally by: PC l0adletter Didn't they allegedly create/repurpose some small team for things like this? I could have sworn I read that somewhere in the 30whatever pages of CSM minutes, or maybe that "small things" thread that Akita T(?) started...
They currently have two teams working what I would consider iterative development of past features: Team Best Friends Forever is apparently dedicated to CSM-specified low-hanging fruit and strongly supported issues from the Assembly Hall. And Team Gridlock is working on lag (which I consider a "feature" introduced by Dominion ).
A lot of stuff is not on the Assembly Hall list, though, so the main push would be to keep Team Best Friends Forever perpetual.
As I state in a blog post I wrote on the subject, Incursions and Incarna are just going to rot on the vine unless CCP makes iterative development of past features part of their culture and DNA. -- Ripard Teg
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Ripard Teg
Senex Legio Get Off My Lawn
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Posted - 2011.02.04 16:11:00 -
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Heh, yeah, I'd forgotten about treaties. Good catch. :) -- Ripard Teg
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