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Art Presentation

The Art department made a presentation on the recent work that they have been doing, and what they will be working on in the near future, including new ship destruction effects, ship redesigns, new ships, ship appearance customization, and more.(...).

So, no more CC options and no more WiS assets...? How unexpected.

So, no more CC options and no more WiS assets...? How unexpected.

Team Avatar have already clearly stated that they're still at the stage of prototyping gameplay concepts for WiS. Do you want the Art Department to spend their time designing visual assets for one particular idea only for the project to take a completely different track and consign all that hard work to the scrapheap?

Fear not, there was actually quite a bit of discussion about Incarna and avatar content, we had an entire separate session dedicated to this feature that was a lot of fun. CCP is being very careful to make sure development resources are allocated fairly with regards to what the majority of EVE players are interested in (catching up on long-overdue spaceship content) but I was really excited to see the direction that EVE's avatar gameplay is potentially headed.

All of the attending CSM members were really engaged in the discussion too, a lot of cool ideas were generated during this session and almost everyone in the room talked far more about WiS stuff than they probably would like to admit!

The promise of the biggest banquet ever in the future is not a solution to the present starvation. And CCP is starving both the WiS minority and the hisec majority.

The promise of the biggest banquet ever in the future is not a solution to the present starvation. And CCP is starving both the WiS minority and the hisec majority.

Boy, you're definitely a glass half empty guy aren't you?

We've been over this issue before so I won't belabor the point, but CCP is a business. Last summer's subscription numbers spoke volumes about what *most* EVE players want from EVE, and where they wanted the developers to be spending their time and money (spoiler alert - its spaceships).

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75% of the players are in hisec.

No they aren't. This has been proven wrong to you repeatedly even though you don't like to admit it, so at this stage, you're deliberately saying untruthful things (like someone who publically says they're going to unsub, but doesn't).

Also known as "lying".


If you want to progress the WiS debate, then the first step is to stop discrediting both yourself and your stated goals with these dishonest, easily disproven statistics.

marketing guys are becoming increasingly uneasy

Source?

My mail inbox & the funny stuff going on with the offers they send to my accounts.

Factional Warfare

CCP reviewed CSM's prepared FW summit notes and there was an in-depth discussion on things that need to be tweaked in FW. CCP is committed to further work on FW to polish the work done in Inferno.

We got a demo of some FW UI improvement designs that look very nice.

There was a broad discussion of what to do if one faction steamrolls another. CCP's general position is that they want to wait and see if this becomes an issue, and in the meantime will address issues that clearly need immediate attention.

CCP is adressing the wrong issue. Lack of iteration is bad, but what is killing the game is the lack of long term subscription hooks a.k.a endgame for all the people who don't play it the right way and choose to stay in hisec.

Interestingly enough, it is CCP itself who claimed that 75% of the characters log in to hisec. I used to say it was 71%, then CCP Diagoras tweeted it up to 72%, and at Fanfest it already was 75%.

Of course, you are free to disprove that and claim that most of those characters are being logged in just as a filler so hisec doesn't looks too deserted, but my own guess is that people logs in to hisec to conduct business there...

If you deliberately chose to avoid 75% of end-game content and stay in the starter area for the rest of your character life, CCP won't go out of their way to change the game to push the end-game onto you. In fact you should be happy that EVE allows you to stay in one small area doing your little favorite thing over and over and still gives you some sense of progression. As far as I know no other MMO does that.

You do know that characters is a far cry from "players", so why do you keep going on like this other than to just be intentionally inflammatory?

[Interestingly enough, it is CCP itself who claimed that 75% of the characters log in to hisec. I used to say it was 71%, then CCP Diagoras tweeted it up to 72%, and at Fanfest it already was 75%.

Everyone has characters in hisec. Nullsec, lowsec and even wormhole players have characters that never leave hisec or atleast spend the majority of their time there. Market, hauler, missioning/incursioning, locator and industry alts for example. Or even characters that have originally been created only to reserve a name. ALTS.

This means that even though my interest in the game is nullsec, some of my characters (who have very low skill points compared to my "main" characters, who are in nullsec) sit in hisec 24/7.

Please stop saying 75% of players are hisec players.

75% of the characters log in to hisec