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Indahmawar Fazmarai
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Posted - 2016.03.01 20:39:29 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Sorry, i mean culture of makeshift. Its here.CCP Phantom wrote:Good preparation and adequate planning are also rare because often things are done in quick-fix method to the last minute.
I think we're talking about the same thing with different words. "Improvised" = "makeshift".
CCP Seagull: "EVE should be a universe where the infrastructure you build and fight over is as player driven and dynamic as the EVE market is now".
62% of players: "We're not interested. May we have Plan B, please?"
CCP Seagull: "What Plan B?"
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REE POMANIUS
Heaven's Harvesters
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Posted - 2016.03.05 18:48:26 -
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EVE is a great game. A lifestyle really.
With the discontinuation of Evelopedia I have started thinking about EVE and how I play it and have decided to share these musings.
When you review Eve Offline (eve-offline.net) and look at the average pilots per period you see the trend:
All: 37K 5y: 46K 1y: 33K 6m: 30K 3m: 26K 1m: 22K
The question is, how does CCP reverse that trend?
Eve University is an excellent site and I have used it on occasion, the Planetary Interaction pages there are well thought out and well organized. I have used it begrudgingly (see below).
I have not used the Brave Newbies site. As with all sites setup and run by a player corp/alliance, I don't like using them as it gives them intel on me, my IP address etc (think about it next time your client disconnects). It's also interesting that CCP would advocate such a site as it shows some favor or special status to one player faction. This seems like it would alienate some players.
EVE Fitting Tool is one of those "indispensable" 3rd party tools that I begrudgingly use. Seems that this type of functionality should just be part of the game. Download at your peril as all the warnings say.
In Evelopedia, I found the details on anomalies very useful although as others have pointed out, often outdated. The trigger and escalation information documented for each anomaly were critical.
The Evelopedia/wiki type format make sense for the documentation required for a game as complex as EVE. More often than not when I advocate the game to other gamers they tend to scoff and mention something about "spreadsheets in space", or just kindof stare in amazement. It's difficult to recruit new players. Without a cogent documentation site I feel that task just got harder.
The Flight Academy channel on Youtube is awesome and this type of documentation is clearly trending (has been for more than a year really). But it doesn't fulfill the need for the reference type information that a committed player needs. By committed I mean someone who would be part of the 22K (hopefully plus) average players online stat ... after 3-6 months.
The question really isn't why are they discontinuing Evelopedia but rather why was CCP unable to maintain their own software documentation site? Like all things software, "rewrites" and "do-overs" tend to eventually win out over dedicated system and software maintenance. I hope it's just that they are investing in a better documentation system that supports both new and experienced players alike. Without it, I sadly assert the trend will continue.
Doing my best to promote my game,
REE POMANIUS
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Droidster
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.05 21:08:15 -
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Kooch wrote:Looking at some of these reviews, it really shows... Quote:American management from EA has been brought in to gut the studio. In less than a year this went from a stellar place to work, to absolutely terrible. Granted I take online reviews with a grain of salt, but it's a lot of reviews that give you a peek at what's happening/happened internally.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, EA is in Iceland? That's a joke right? |
Nana Skalski
Poseidaon
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Posted - 2016.03.05 21:36:32 -
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Lore.
( -á° -ƒ-û -í°)/ =ƒÅ¦ - my sandcastle
Every part of a game helps to tell a story. =ƒôò
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Primary This Rifter
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.05 21:50:06 -
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CCP, what about information for developers that you had on Evelopedia? https://developers.eveonline.com/resource/resources has several links to EVElopedia.
Let's see... equations? Dead link. Common SDE queries? Nope, dead link. Getting started with CREST? Nope. CREST libraries documentation? lol no |
alindak Kahoudi
Viziam Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2016.03.05 21:51:30 -
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What I can really Wrap my head around is the fact that WEGÇÖRE FU^&NG PAYING THESE PEOPLE!!!!! ITS NOT FREE, WEGÇÖRE PAYING A DAMN SUBSCRIPTION and this is a basic service, the most basic support service, the digital GÇ£instruction bookletGÇ¥ of the damn game!
Yet some stupid ppl out there think that we should be ever thankful of everything CCP throws our way, otherwise iGÇÖm labeled as GÇ£ SELF ENTITLEDGÇ¥ well, self entitled my 4ss, I pay for a service and I expect that service to be decent. IF YOUGÇÖRE MAKING MULTI-MILLIONS OFF OF A COMMUNITY FOR OVER 20 YEARS, donGÇÖt be so CHEAP and remove the wiki cause you have to pay some ppl to upkeep that sh1t... |
Shiloh Templeton
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.05 21:59:59 -
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I'm really missing all the hyperlinks to signatures and anomalies as I go about combat exploration. Having worked in IT I know how important user documentation is - even if most developers enjoy doing it about as much as quality control testing.
The thing that is really galling is how there was no notice. This decrease in customer support (in the era of new player experience lip service) should have had at least a 6 month advance notice.
Poor decision CCP.
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MERSEE AMWAH
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2016.03.05 23:33:12 -
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Unbelievable....... What an absolutely, incredibly dumb thing to do. And the way it was done is equally as stupid. Just lost respect for you CCP....thanks to whoever made that decision.
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Darkblad
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Posted - 2016.03.05 23:59:40 -
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Shiloh Templeton wrote:I'm really missing all the hyperlinks to signatures and anomalies as I go about combat exploration. (noted here as well)
ExplorationSites (no Ghost Sites): http://schildwall.phbv3.de/scansites.html#english
Event Agents (all kinds) http://schildwall.phbv3.de/basics/event_agents.html
Switch language at the top right of the page and note that there are more columns to the right in both tables!
Former links to the evelopedia now link to Steve Ronuken's https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/evelopedia/index.php/Main_Page instead But there are also links to other sources of informations, like eve-survival for the majority of W-Space sites.
NPE-ISD-Übersetzt!
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Elwha Lynx
The Senate and People of Rome Kids With Guns Alliance
10
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Posted - 2016.03.08 19:06:10 -
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Disappointing as well.
Eve is one of the most complex games there is and lack of in-game documentation one of the greatest obstacles for newer players--seeing evewiki go works directly against a fulfilling new player experience.
I hope they consider moving towards an open source wiki model. |
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Krieg Austern
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Posted - 2016.03.08 20:11:40 -
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So many dead links in Google now when searching for something. Sure some of it was out of date, but generally speaking, it had a ton of convenient info, and well indexed too.
Wish they would let someone else host it, or export the data so we could integrate into another wiki easily. |
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
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Posted - 2016.03.08 22:55:05 -
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Elwha Lynx wrote:Disappointing as well.
Eve is one of the most complex games there is and lack of in-game documentation one of the greatest obstacles for newer players--seeing evewiki go works directly against a fulfilling new player experience.
I hope they consider moving towards an open source wiki model.
You know evelopedia was open for player edits, right?
And that, in the end, players just didn't update it?
I'm running again for CSM 11, and I'd appreciate your vote.
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
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Lulu Lunette
ThinkTank Phoenix TOG - The Older Gamers Alliance
307
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Posted - 2016.03.09 00:17:07 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:Elwha Lynx wrote:Disappointing as well.
Eve is one of the most complex games there is and lack of in-game documentation one of the greatest obstacles for newer players--seeing evewiki go works directly against a fulfilling new player experience.
I hope they consider moving towards an open source wiki model. You know evelopedia was open for player edits, right? And that, in the end, players just didn't update it?
Let's get rid of the forums too then since we got reddit.
@lunettelulu7
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Arkoth 24
Phayder
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Posted - 2016.03.09 08:44:09 -
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Krieg Austern wrote:So many dead links in Google now when searching for something. Sure some of it was out of date, but generally speaking, it had a ton of convenient info, and well indexed too.
Wish they would let someone else host it, or export the data so we could integrate into another wiki easily. For now we got a working snapshot of EvElopedia on Wayback Machine - i put it in OP of this thread .
Anyway, restoring EvElopedia by hands somewhere else will be a real pain, and it will be just another "3rd party wiki". So it would be better to convince CCP to bring it back to life - if it's still an option. |
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
271
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Posted - 2016.03.10 17:08:45 -
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Primary This Rifter wrote:CCP, what about information for developers that you had on Evelopedia? https://developers.eveonline.com/resource/resources has several links to EVElopedia. Let's see... equations? Dead link.Common SDE queries? Nope, dead link.Getting started with CREST? Nope.CREST libraries documentation? lol noYes I know I could probably access these from the Internet Archive or the hosted backups, but the links are still dead. Furthermore, where are you planning on providing this information in the future?
They didn't provide an alternate way to get to the developer information for 3rd parties... yet they think 3rd parties should support EVE? |
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
271
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Posted - 2016.03.10 17:12:04 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:Elwha Lynx wrote:Disappointing as well.
Eve is one of the most complex games there is and lack of in-game documentation one of the greatest obstacles for newer players--seeing evewiki go works directly against a fulfilling new player experience.
I hope they consider moving towards an open source wiki model. You know evelopedia was open for player edits, right? And that, in the end, players just didn't update it?
There's more to the story, right? A player shouldn't just edit at will and change EVE's lore on a whim, so it'd need to be overseen by CCP, at least. I appreciate your site hosting a version of things, but in the end, you could just shut it down and leave us with nothing, kind of like what CCP is doing. With CCP, supposedly, they would be amenable to player desires in order to keep the players onboard EVE. |
Joia Crenca
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
271
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Posted - 2016.03.10 17:17:29 -
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Droidster wrote:Kooch wrote:Looking at some of these reviews, it really shows... Quote:American management from EA has been brought in to gut the studio. In less than a year this went from a stellar place to work, to absolutely terrible. Granted I take online reviews with a grain of salt, but it's a lot of reviews that give you a peek at what's happening/happened internally. Whoa, whoa, whoa, EA is in Iceland? That's a joke right?
I don't know about 'in Iceland', but there seems to be an ongoing relationship between CCP and EA. I don't know how much that has to do with CCP top level's somewhat poor treatment of their players. |
Saint Athanasius Trigentia
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
3
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Posted - 2016.03.10 17:46:12 -
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As just another F1 masher, I rarely went to the wiki. If I wanted to know something about the game, I asked corpmates or went to the Eve University site. The Eve Wiki information was far too sparse and often outdated to be of any real use.
I'd like to see an official home for the lore and for the CREST/API documentation still, but the rest wasn't worth keeping. |
Renegade Heart
Renegade Empire
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Posted - 2016.03.10 20:14:51 -
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Primary This Rifter wrote:CCP, what about information for developers that you had on Evelopedia?
Yes I think it is a real shame to see it all gone like that.
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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
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Posted - 2016.03.10 22:04:10 -
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Joia Crenca wrote:Droidster wrote:Kooch wrote:Looking at some of these reviews, it really shows... Quote:American management from EA has been brought in to gut the studio. In less than a year this went from a stellar place to work, to absolutely terrible. Granted I take online reviews with a grain of salt, but it's a lot of reviews that give you a peek at what's happening/happened internally. Whoa, whoa, whoa, EA is in Iceland? That's a joke right? I don't know about 'in Iceland', but there seems to be an ongoing relationship between CCP and EA. I don't know how much that has to do with CCP top level's somewhat poor treatment of their players.
On going relationship between CCP and EA = They've hired a few people who used to work for EA.
Did you know that one of Iceland's major exports is Aluminium?
I'm running again for CSM 11, and I'd appreciate your vote.
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter
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Geronimo McVain
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.03.11 09:29:21 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:You know evelopedia was open for player edits, right?
And that, in the end, players just didn't update it? Thats not the job of the players it's the job of CCP! In Europe everything has to come with a manual! There are laws that enforce this so I'm not even 100% sure if it's legale to distribute EVE without a manual. I don't think that you would appreciate it if Microsoft skips the help in Office just because there are a lot of good office side. Or your car or chainsaw has no manual since you can look up things in the I-net.
It's even not saving so much, because the developers have to write down how things are supposed to work anyway. Documentation is a must have. With a good CMS they could do this and create a manual with just a little extra work.
In the end it's a stupid business tactic to relay on fan sides. Battleclinic shut down, whats plan B if the same thing happens to UniWiki? IMHO UniWiki is a lot slower since the death of Evelopedia probably because of the extra load.
We are talking about the most complex computer game on Earth and there is no manual except some videos? It's the players job to play the game and to have fun and he is paying, this isn't free to play, CCP to do the tedious jobs like programming new contend AND making a manual! So in the end the players have to pay twice for eve because I doubt that UniWiki gets the servers etc. for free just to help out CCP. Whats prohibiting UniWiki to reduce the costs by just making UniWiki internal only for uni members? |
Arkoth 24
Phayder
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Posted - 2016.03.11 09:47:53 -
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For now we got more than 80 pilots signed Open Petition Against EVElopedia Closure . Not much in compare to several thousands playerbase.
I ask everyone who cares to sign it and say why do you need official information resource of EVE to be back.
At least we may get CCP's official "NO WAY!" and go home then. |
Indahmawar Fazmarai
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Posted - 2016.03.11 13:55:44 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:Elwha Lynx wrote:Disappointing as well.
Eve is one of the most complex games there is and lack of in-game documentation one of the greatest obstacles for newer players--seeing evewiki go works directly against a fulfilling new player experience.
I hope they consider moving towards an open source wiki model. You know evelopedia was open for player edits, right? And that, in the end, players just didn't update it?
Why should players do CCP's job to document CCP's software? When did CCP stop being responsible of documenting the software they release to users?
CCP Seagull: "EVE should be a universe where the infrastructure you build and fight over is as player driven and dynamic as the EVE market is now".
62% of players: "We're not interested. May we have Plan B, please?"
CCP Seagull: "What Plan B?"
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