Darth Sith
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Posted - 2009.11.21 00:11:00 -
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Edited by: Darth Sith on 21/11/2009 00:15:43
 Originally by: CCP Hammer
Hi, everyone
We have been carefully watching this thread and I want to set the record straight on a few misconceptions.
First, IÆd like to say that a single developer cannot come in and unilaterally change everything with no oversight. People are spewing a lot of hate at CCP Nozh but instead itÆs a case of shooting the messenger. He is just doing his job trying to improve the game and explain the reasoning for why changes were made. We work as a team and agree on the direction things are taking. We want the game to be balanced and fun for everyone to play. We also think about the future of the game and how it will be in years to come after our changes weighing the medium- and long-term repercussions.
We werenÆt entirely happy with the direction and balancing of MOMs before development of Dominion began. Even during the SISI tests they still werenÆt falling into place for us. They were potentially too powerful and that would have resulted in a small minority having a lot of fun at the cost of thousands who would be instapopped in 0.0. So we tried to tune them again to a point we felt was balanced, but then the role of the ships wasnÆt clear once we started to lower the damage. Instead, they started to blur with dreads and carriers.
You all made your voices clear with important feedback, we listened and reverted things back to like they are on TQ while we take more time to reassess. We could have tried to put out ôsomethingö just because we have been talking about it, but then we would be in a situation where players are getting into ships that might very well change again in a coming patch. Given the amount of work to get one of these we just didnÆt feel that was the right thing to do.
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CCP Hammerhead
Lead Game Designer
I interpret this as a team failure then since Dominion is turning into the biggest bucket of weak sauce in Eve history.
Ambulation ... nah .. CCP went back to the drawing board on that one
Supercaps .. lets take the doomsday away from titans, completely failboat on MS changes but wait .. we have capital cruise now!
Sov .. let ditch sov and more bits to have to shoot over and over .. but fear not .. alliances will have to consolidate due to cost .. scratch that .. costs have been reduced due to complaints from big alliances
T3 frigs .. nope no word on that yet
new ship classes ... nope.. spent the time on buffing faction ships.
new game content ... whoop .. a faction epic arc .. how many people actually played the others ?
Result .. threadnaught with 46 pages of flame ..
I think the message is loud and clear that Dominion is a letdown before it is even released. I can't remember being so unthrilled about an expansion in m 5 years of Eve life ..
If I make it onto the CSM, I cannot wait for my first conversation with the Devs.
Darth for CSM
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