Durzel
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.04.19 09:35:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Manifest
fix whats broke add features that the players want reduce lag and above all communicate with the player base in the way that made EVE what it was
As you know, adding features players want might increase lag. Fixing "what's broke" and reducing lag means taking time off from adding features that players want. They are all the source of endless internal debate (passionate yelling debate let me tell you) and we do our best to balance them all.
Like you said, what can improve them all with the last item on your list.
With all due respect the problem with your list is that to my knowledge noone actually asked for planetary interaction. Maybe someone did somewhere in some long forgotten thread on Features & Ideas but it certainly wasn't something the playerbase was clamouring for.
It doesn't take a genius to realise that PI is part of the grand plan of integration with DUST, and that's fine and all, but frankly effort expended on that should honestly be really focused on fixing more critical things like fleet lag. We don't yet know what additional show-stopping bugs/exploits/lag PI will introduce, but we're soon to find out like it or not.
I consider myself quite fortunate that I've never been involved in big 0.0 fleet fights. I say "fortunate" with some sadness since the idea of big fleet fights does interest me, it seems like it is the "end game" of Eve, but seeing things like this makes me realise that currently it's just not a reality no matter what the CCP promo media would like the uninitiated to believe.
When your game fundamentally can't support reasonable numbers of players fighting in the same space without one side never loading grid and just watching their ships be blown up without any means of control - that is too critical to just be treated as "we'll get around to fixing it once we've finished retexturing this PI cargo container", or whatever.
I realise with the best will in the world there will always be bugs in the system, but I do honestly think you need to concentrate at least one expansion on fixing everything that exists in game right now, rather than adding more tinsel to attract new subscribers.
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Durzel
The Xenodus Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.04.19 13:02:00 -
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Originally by: Celeste Coeval Edited by: Celeste Coeval on 19/04/2010 11:44:13 You are all spoilt. CCP has spoilt you with expansions. It is CCP's game, not yours, don't forget that. You are not shareholders, you shouldn't really get any say at all.
Even though we're paying customers? Interesting concept you've got there - an entity unaccountable to the people that ultimately pay for its existence.
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