Originally by: DigitalCommunist

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Edited by: DigitalCommunist on 18/11/2009 03:15:03

SOUND

Sound isn't unfinished or broken; its there and it works. Its just extremely lacking in both quality and variety, since it hasn't really evolved from where it was when the game launched.

The sound overhaul you mention is just an engine upgrade, and its not even the first time that has been done. The same problems with sound exist with the Trinity graphics engine: they remove old limitations and introduce new technology but two years later we still have relics of the DX7/8 era because they can't author new content at a respectable pace.

COSMOS

The original goal was to paint the empty canvas of EVE with unique local content. For empires areas it started out as a single constellation where the main focus is in-space agents. For 0.0 it was gas cloud harvesting and booster manufacturing (there is some in bordering lowsec areas too for snyth boosters). There were some other ideas thrown about too, but it basically stalled because CCP realized what a monstrous task it would be to create unique content *everywhere* and then constantly balance it. COSMOS is a great vision/ambition but enthusiasm can cloud reality, so now everyone has to settle for much less than what was discussed.

Oddly enough, even though the word COSMOS applies to something completely different now I think the level of integration and functionality they want will also fall short of ambitious expectations.

LOGOS

The alliance system is currently used for protection against war declaration more than anything, which is why you have thousands of them. Even without that, there are no real drawbacks to creating one and there would be hundreds 'just cause'. That is way more than the two dozen or so CCP originally estimated and why the custom logo system was not sustainable.

Its wholly unrealistic for CCP Applebee (or whoever) to somehow sort that mess out alone. In a perfect world they would code a better ingame logo generator to work on both corporation and alliance logos at the same time.

OTHER

You missed a lot. Almost every "feature" in the game has an area where improvement or expansion was promised and it either never came or came at such a slow pace that nobody noticed or cared. Every time I hear them say something like "we are going to introduce this in a limited way for now and watch how people react so we can build up and expand later in a good way" - I know its usually just a cover for not being able to do more within the given time and resources.

That isn't to say things come out bad or lacking, they just focus way too much on hyping expansions by either adding more features or making changes that always sound great on paper. You could do an expansion where nothing was hyped, no new features were added, and every change sounded boring/trivial to an outsider - and it could still end up being the best expansion ever.

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