All these threads on unfinished features or reports of things never getting fixed before ADD.. er I mean CCP moves on to the next big project make me wonder what the playerbase thinks of all the unfinished work and dead ends.

so I'm wondering, what do you feel is finished work and is it done right?

All these threads on unfinished features or reports of things never getting fixed before ADD.. er I mean CCP moves on to the next big project make me wonder what the playerbase thinks of all the unfinished work and dead ends.

so I'm wondering, what do you feel is finished work and is it done right?

A ton of stuff works for me ingame 99% of the time, but when you start using umbrella categories, that premise falls apart.

i.e. even if my warp tunnel does not animate properly from time to time, I get to where I am warping 99% of the time.

There are hundreds and thousands of little things in EVE that are nearly flawless from a mechanical point of view that a lot of us take for granted because we are looking more at semantics a vast majority of the time, as opposed to actual syntax, i.e. does this [code block] execute flawlessly 99% of the time or not?

As far as details are concerned, a ton of stuff is flawless in this game, as far as projects or general mechanics are concerned, i.e. 'hybrids', 'faction warfare', 'sovereignty' none of those things will ever be finished or done, whether CCP ever revisits them or not, they are all and always will be works in progress by virtue of the fact that CCP continues to expand upon their game, and thus old content and mechanics must be retooled constantly, in theory.

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do you warp to the exact location or do you come up a little short because the gates and stations are incorrectly positioned depending on what side you approach from?

do you warp to the exact location or do you come up a little short because the gates and stations are incorrectly positioned depending on what side you approach from?

and while I'll agree that countless things do work correctly, a ton of other things do not, and they don't get fixed, ever, even with BFF doing their thing cleaning up the messes the main devs left behind.

and also yes, things expand, but whats currently in the pipe has a start and end point, a baseline of creation and implementation that defines when a project begins and is completed. Thats the issue, not expansion, starting something, implementing it in a halfassed fashion and walking away never to look back. Just like the things you mentioned, hybirds, FW, sov... sure they are works in progress, but the issue is they were never done right in the first place, and they were walked away from it in its unfinished state. in theory...

the old hanger was finished and it was perfect.

so they removed it.

The NeX store pretty much worked right off the bat (at least I haven't heard about any actual bugs).

IMNSHO, I think CCP has finished MANY things quite well, however in light of this excellence, the holes and bugs really stand out. I played for several years under the erroneous assumption that CCP was in the background working on all these fixes and all I needed to do was be patient.

Why do I say erroneous? Well in the summer of 2010 we learned that CCP felt that making new content was better than fixing old content, that is when I think the veil came down and the RAGE began. CCP has never walked back from that statement, they did make team BFF, however they need 2-3 guys/gals who's ONLY job is to track down poor work and fix it.

Done Well
Wormhole space and Sleeper AI, perfect? no but done well.
The New Probing system, and scanner for Anomalies.
Manufacturing of T1 goods
Market Data and filters
T3 Cruisers


Embarrassingly Bad
Corporate Management
Pos ship hangers and corp arrays (WHY HAVE A RENAME OPTION IF YOU CAN'T!!)
Assault Frigates fourth bonus, I mean really? 4 years and NOTHING? sigh
T3 not being buildable at POS
Too many NPC stations everywhere, nothing NPC corps having 2 stations in one system, why? the cargo cap is infinite ...

I hope the point is clear,
AG

T3 Cruisers