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CCP Oneiromancer
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Posted - 2009.02.24 16:17:00 -
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As of today's Singularity patch, there is a lot of new content for you to play with.
I would like to highlight a brand new species of missions, the EPIC missions. These missions are included in a multi-chapter arc that spans hours and hours of gameplay. This mission arc is available to new players after they complete the career mission arc, but new and old players alike can talk to Sister Alitura in the Sisters of Eve station in Arnon and start the epic mission arc.
The epic missions are intended to be of low difficulty and to introduce new players to the ever-expanding universe of Eve.
Another part of the new content is made up by dozens of exploration sites distributed all over wormhole space. These sites come in all flavours (asteroids, gas clouds, hacking and archaeology, pure pew-pew) and aside from the terrifying Sleeper NPCs they also contain resources required for the Tech 3 production chain.
Go forth and try out this new content and let us know what you think of it in this thread.
If you encounter any issues with related game areas (map, scanner, modules etc), please report them separately in the Known Issues sticky in this forum section. Limit to feedback related to the content, feel and difficulty of the new content in this thread, so that we can easily sort through any potential issues and investigate them in the proper context.
Good hunting!
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Wadddi
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Posted - 2009.02.24 16:19:00 -
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Edited by: Wadddi on 24/02/2009 16:20:49 Edited by: Wadddi on 24/02/2009 16:19:16 Thankyou and where can newer players find some of these missions?.
Nevermind did not see that.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.02.24 16:38:00 -
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Edited by: An Anarchyyt on 24/02/2009 16:38:28 So, are you saying EPIC missions are going to be around to introduce newbies into Eve and of low difficulty? Or are you just talking about this specific mission?
Originally by: CCP Wrangler Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Rhys Onasi
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Posted - 2009.02.24 16:46:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Oneiromancer
The epic missions are intended to be of low difficulty and to introduce new players to the ever-expanding universe of Eve.
Wait so they're all just going to be level 1 missions from event agents designed to get players to get to know the game? Like the "Cashflow For Capsuleers" and "Making Mountains of Molehills" used to?
They aren't going to be enhancing the mission running experience for those who run higher level missions?
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CCP Big Dumb Object
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Posted - 2009.02.24 16:59:00 -
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Edited by: CCP Big Dumb Object on 24/02/2009 16:59:20
Originally by: An Anarchyyt Edited by: An Anarchyyt on 24/02/2009 16:38:28 So, are you saying EPIC missions are going to be around to introduce newbies into Eve and of low difficulty? Or are you just talking about this specific mission?
This particular Epic Arc, titled "Blood Stained Stars," is designed with an eye towards newer players, yes. Our content development schedule was aggressive to say the least. It was decided one large arc was a better test ground and show piece as are tools came online than several smaller arcs. A new player focused arc made the most sense.
However, "Blood Stained Stars" is but the first of many Epic Arcs to come. Epic Arcs are a long term feature set for us. It is starting humbly enough, but it will grow. We plan to design Epic Arcs across as many difficulties, factions, play styles, and whatever else we can think of all over EVE. There will be much more.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:04:00 -
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Hopefully that includes pirate factions. Those missions haven't gotten any love in....well forever.
And holy crap, dude, your name.
Originally by: CCP Wrangler Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Pottsey
Enheduanni Foundation
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:05:00 -
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Edited by: Pottsey on 24/02/2009 17:07:14 This is a major disappointment. It sounded like Epic missions would bring new life for empire PvE pilots. All the old talk about Epic missions made it sound like it would be great for everyone. Not just some simple arc for new players. So thats now 3 expansions in a row with little new empire PvE content.
Whats the timeframe for more archs? 6 months, 2 years? ____ Telltale sign of their presence is non-linear teleportation (www.eve-online.com/races/theodicy/Theodicy_All.pdf)
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Don Capo
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:15:00 -
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I would call that an epic fail.
First you make such a big fuss and get players excited, about these Epic mission arcs, then you state "oh sorry it's for noobs only right now".
Couldnt be worse really...
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Hirana Yoshida
Behavioral Affront
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:32:00 -
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Edited by: Hirana Yoshida on 24/02/2009 17:37:05
Originally by: CCP Big Dumb Object However, "Blood Stained Stars" is but the first of many Epic Arcs to come. Epic Arcs are a long term feature set for us. It is starting humbly enough, but it will grow. We plan to design Epic Arcs across as many difficulties, factions, play styles, and whatever else we can think of all over EVE. There will be much more.
You mean much more to come on SiSi and in the patch itself I hope? If it's only new players who get arc at their level you will have made a lot of false promises leading up to today.
There has been repeated mention of new missions as well as arcs (plural) for Apo.
What is left for everyone else if these are not included? - T3 which will be expensive to say the least. - Scrounging for T3 parts in WH, which cannot be tested properly due to map/probing bugs. - Updated graphics .. work in progress I suppose, lot of eye-sores making combat unattractive. - New exploration, again cant test, but with no way of differentiating between site types it will be 'meh' at best.
Thnk I'll just station spin and build/invent stuff until next patch if none of the missions/arcs are added, had such high hopes.
Edit: And using "Arnon", a Gallente system forces every Caldari/Amarr militia member to wait for 24hrs to quit the service or needing to fight the damn navy every 30 seconds .. or have they been disabled for the system?
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DeTox MinRohim
Madhatters Inc. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:39:00 -
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Wow, the PVE bunch really has a low reading skill.
1 - IT'S THE TEST SERVER
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Originally by: CCP Big Dumb Object
However, "Blood Stained Stars" is but the first of many Epic Arcs to come. Epic Arcs are a long term feature set for us. It is starting humbly enough, but it will grow. We plan to design Epic Arcs across as many difficulties, factions, play styles, and whatever else we can think of all over EVE. There will be much more.
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Marlenus
Caldari Ironfleet Towing And Salvage Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:47:00 -
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It's currently unclear whether any of that "much more" is going to be in the Apocrypha release. Some clarification would be good. ------------------ Ironfleet.com |
fuxinos
Caldari Guys 0f Sarcasm
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Posted - 2009.02.24 17:52:00 -
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Edited by: fuxinos on 24/02/2009 17:54:51
Originally by: CCP Big Dumb Object Edited by: CCP Big Dumb Object on 24/02/2009 16:59:20
Originally by: An Anarchyyt Edited by: An Anarchyyt on 24/02/2009 16:38:28 So, are you saying EPIC missions are going to be around to introduce newbies into Eve and of low difficulty? Or are you just talking about this specific mission?
This particular Epic Arc, titled "Blood Stained Stars," is designed with an eye towards newer players, yes. Our content development schedule was aggressive to say the least. It was decided one large arc was a better test ground and show piece as are tools came online than several smaller arcs. A new player focused arc made the most sense.
However, "Blood Stained Stars" is but the first of many Epic Arcs to come. Epic Arcs are a long term feature set for us. It is starting humbly enough, but it will grow. We plan to design Epic Arcs across as many difficulties, factions, play styles, and whatever else we can think of all over EVE. There will be much more.
Did you ever think about how you want to make newbies aware of this missionark?
I mean, Sisters of Eve isnt the kind of Corp a newbie is going to come across in his first days and even if, what could this Corp provide a newbie with, except, well..., Scanproblaunchers?
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Zhang Ramses
Chaos From Order
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:06:00 -
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No, this needs clarification. Are there planned to be Epic Mission Arcs for veteran players (IE Level 4 missions) on Apocrypha's launch date? If so, how many?
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CCP Big Dumb Object
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:06:00 -
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Edited by: CCP Big Dumb Object on 24/02/2009 18:14:58
Originally by: Marlenus It's currently unclear whether any of that "much more" is going to be in the Apocrypha release. Some clarification would be good.
Sadly no, not this round. Again, our development schedule on this release was extremely aggressive. Content on its own takes a good chunk of time to produce, and we were developing for a feature list and toolset that was--and is--still in development. We had to focus our authoring efforts for this first Arc before they were pulled to other Apocrypha related concerns.
We here in Content want awesome mission content all over EVE as much as you guys. Epic Arcs are a feature and toolset we can leverage from now on to make that happen. Though the Epic Arc feature is more or less finalized as a system, it does not mean we are done with the content. Missions and agents are just data, and do not require additional programming resources to plug in. We can constantly author new content and throw it in. We are currently discussing the possibility decoupling our releases from the expansion and point-release schedule of the rest of EVE, so new Arcs may come out even faster.
I apologize to anyone who feels left out by the design of this initial release. We had to prioritize our goals with this first release, and certain aspects had to be given a miss. But we will get there. Our tools are ready and going through final polish even now. Our only limitations are time and imagination. And crippling alcoholism.
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Kathryn Dougans
Amarr B. S. Radioactive Sheep Farm
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:18:00 -
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Well first mission is easy enough for new players certainly.
Not sure what to do next, though... nothing has appeared in journal...
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Rosur
Gallente Infestation.
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:19:00 -
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Will epic mission arcs replace the current missions eventually or will there allways be the current missions as standalone ones or only spicfic agents for the epic mission arcs?
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jackson021
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:23:00 -
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Finished mission 1 but now the agent wont offer me mission 2 everyone else in system seems to have the same problem
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CCP Big Dumb Object
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:24:00 -
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Originally by: Rosur Will epic mission arcs replace the current missions eventually or will there allways be the current missions as standalone ones or only spicfic agents for the epic mission arcs?
As of right now, our decision is to keep the systems separate. We hope that Epic Arcs will become far more prevalent, but we have no intention of going NGE over everything and eliminating the old mission systems players are used to.
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Pringlescan
GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:29:00 -
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Issue - Probing More broken then ever Patch lets us move more then probe at once however When I drop probes nothing shows up I am not connected to them. You can workaround this by relogging and hitting "reconnect to active probes" however now i am connected to them there is no box to move them around with despite everything I am trying with turning them active and back.
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Pottsey
Enheduanni Foundation
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:29:00 -
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Edited by: Pottsey on 24/02/2009 18:32:22 If there is only one epic mission please say that at least we can repeat it and see the different paths. ____ Telltale sign of their presence is non-linear teleportation (www.eve-online.com/races/theodicy/Theodicy_All.pdf)
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CCP Jasonitas
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:31:00 -
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Think of Epic Arcs as a new serving table in the Mission Buffet. Now you can have soup, salad, entrees, appetizers, dessert AND sushi. Mmm...sushi.
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CCP Big Dumb Object
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:53:00 -
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Originally by: jackson021
Finished mission 1 but now the agent wont offer me mission 2 everyone else in system seems to have the same problem
You have found the super-awesome prize! And by prize I mean bug.
We are are investigating this issue right now.
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Deva Blackfire
D00M.
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Posted - 2009.02.24 18:57:00 -
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Some love for old COSMOS? Or at least some love for COSMOS modules (be it t2,5 or sth :X).
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Kiotsu Adler
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:06:00 -
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Epic fail, you've been talking about this feature since 2 expansions ago... I hoped tos ee new arcs for all factions (incl. pirates) and some NPCs including new AI & other stuff but I guess NO.
Well just will keep grinding boring lvl4 to burn ships on w-space and pvp'ing, boh.
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An Anarchyyt
Gallente Battlestars GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:34:00 -
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Originally by: Kiotsu Adler Epic fail, you've been talking about this feature since 2 expansions ago... I hoped tos ee new arcs for all factions (incl. pirates) and some NPCs including new AI & other stuff but I guess NO.
Well just will keep grinding boring lvl4 to burn ships on w-space and pvp'ing, boh.
They've been talking about System-wide belts and atmospheric flight since 2003. What's your point? **** happens. One is better than none.
Originally by: CCP Wrangler Second, a gentile is a non jewish person
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Jason Edwards
Internet Tough Guy
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:38:00 -
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so epic missions are anything but actually epic...
and sisters of eve... jeese.
Can we get epic missions on the amarr-caldari side of the coin also?
tbh.. I wasnt expecting epic missions to have anything at all to do with lvl 4s... or they'd be brutally not worth doing them. ------------------------ To make a megathron from scratch, you must first invent the eve universe. ------------------------ Life sucks and then you get podded. |
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CCP Jasonitas
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:46:00 -
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Edited by: CCP Jasonitas on 24/02/2009 19:46:31 We can do Epic Missions across any level, with any faction, with whatever scope. It all depends on the stories we want to tell. Some epic missions will be OMG EPIC, some will be much smaller in scale (let's call those "Minor Epics" (like this one). We have tales to tell and things to blow up; you will get your epics.
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Deviana Sevidon
Gallente Panta-Rhei Guardian Federation
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:53:00 -
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Right now the epic story arc ends right after the start. After you complete the first mission, nothing happens. When you talk to the Agent again and click on continue, the Agent only gives a random greeting message. Nothing more at the moment.
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Casiella Truza
Ecliptic Rift
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:54:00 -
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Will K-space include new mini-profession sites as well? I seem to recall some mention of this a while back. While I don't expect they'll actually include T3 materials, of course, a lot of us would like to see more stuff for the hackers and salvagers among us. --
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CCP Jasonitas
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Posted - 2009.02.24 19:58:00 -
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Quote: Right now the epic story arc ends right after the start. After you complete the first mission, nothing happens. When you talk to the Agent again and click on continue, the Agent only gives a random greeting message. Nothing more at the moment.
Yes, that is a bug that we are aware of. We are working to fix it. Thanks for keeping us informed. The more bugs we find now, the better off the epic arc will be.
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