Originally by: Genya Arikaido

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First. Mothermoon, they used to do that. Ended up not working so well. People wanted bugfix patches, then content patches, then mixed patched, and it made for quite a lot of RABBLERABBLE on the forums, and not at CCP either. It would get very ugly. In-game wars would start over what type of patch or game feature(s) would go into the next patch.

Anyway...

You guys aren't getting what CCP is doing here, and CCP isn't really doing a good job explaining. So, here you go:

CCP added a single, easy, new player oriented, Epic Arc Mission for us to TEST. Note that it's for the Sister of EVE too. The entire point being to make it as available as possible to as many pilots as possible to test the underlying systems that support Epic Arc missions.

CCP probably has quite a few Epic Arc missions already designed, and even in the database, but not yet assigned to any agents. I sincerely doubt they'd release the expansion on March 10th with 1 newbie Epic Arc mission in the game. WTS: Common Sense

Hope that's all clear now? Great.

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Originally by: CCP Big Dumb Object

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Edited by: CCP Big Dumb Object on 24/02/2009 18:14:58

Originally by: Marlenus

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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.

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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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