Xaen
Caldari Sniggerdly Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.05.27 18:00:00 -
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Wow, you've nearly reached the point of frustration I was at about a year ago.
But it's all pointless. CCP is always going to do whatever they want and to hell with the players. I complained incessantly about the UI for about 3 years before I gave up.
It seemed so strange to me. Every other MMO out there has a strong modding community and the UIs are vastly better as a result. So why was EVE so different? Why did it alone seem to disallow one of the greatest features an MMO could have?
Two things that mattered seemed unique to me:- EVE isn't beholden to a publisher. So things that would affect the entire player base don't necessarily get the attention they should. Little bugs, UI problems and balance issues languish forever because no developer likes fixing bugs instead of doing new, fun stuff. I know this because I am a developer. I get paid for it & everything.
- The client uses python. I'm kinda speculating here, but I know that most other modern MMOs use LUA for the UI and C++ for the game itself. EVE seems to use some mixture of python and C++ on the client side. The /LUA:OFF flag notwithstanding, I think the client isn't easily moddable. But this needs to change if EVE is to survive.
I guess EVE will just continue to languish as it currently is with a player base that is increasing barely faster than the world population growth, but much, much, slower than the growth of the number of the world's EVE-capable personal computers.
Now Akita, you could continue your eloquent, articulate, and bitter posts about the things that I are wrong like I used to, or you could give up like I since have. I'm still training skills on the off chance that I might want to play again someday, and having new toys I can play with will help, but I haven't seriously logged in for fun in weeks. I may eventually quit and stop caring, because CCP obviously doesn't care about the things I care about. They're perfectly entitled to do so, just as I'm perfectly entiteled to stop paying them and stop playing.
Or you could throw in the towel and go play something else instead. I've gone with Warhammer Online. It's all about PvP including drops from players, experience from players, and more pvp levels than PvE ones. Additionally, it has near instant PvP action instead of the blue balls that are typical of many EVE ops. So send me an EVE mail if you'd like a free trial account mailed to you. Just include a working email address. Mythic will actually reward recruiting new players with stuff that will make you level or travel faster if you recruit enough people (four and six accounts respectively)! So unlike EVE, I have a real incentive for this aside from it being a fun game. - Support fixing the UI|Suggest Jita fixes|Compact logs |