Originally by: Jade Constantine

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Sure when you have been playing Eve as long as we have you learn to take the rough with the smooth but you do so with the general feeling that CCP developers understand and ôgetö what makes Eve great û and thatÆs the problem now. This internal newsletter (if real) shows that one of the leading developers does not ôget eveö does not care about eve, and simply sees eve as a cash cow to be milked ferociously to fund other projects. This is about keeping the golden goose of eve subscriptions (on a drip feed if necessary) while chasing and grubbing every little loose cent he can from the player base.

Let me give you a couple of examples of how this can and does (and has already) impacted our enjoyment of this game:

1. The Captains Quarters û itÆs not gameplay its a display cabinet for vanity items. And the price of this display cabinet for you and I is that multi-client performance in stations is now terrible û if you have a bad graphic card itÆs a jerk fest û if you have a decent graphics card itÆs heat-fest. I can run 3-4 clients with CQÆs turned on û I can run it smoothly û but do I want to? Hell no because my Gtx 580 sounds like its melting my motherboard now! So I need to turn off the CQÆs on multiple accounts and as a result have more limited functionality on those accounts and an ugly wallpaper. No more station environment, no more clicking on my ship to open cargo hold, no more dragging ship to the hanger to board it. The delivery of the CQ vanity item display case has impacted my gameplay.

CCP could have made it optional and given us the option of keeping the old hanger view and added a ôdisembark shipö option to the UI but ôoh noö to do that would have meant we werenÆt being forced to look the vanity display case that marketing insisted must be front and centre if weÆre to even think about buying these ridiculously overpriced items from the Noble store.

2. If you read the newsletter youÆll see reference to saved fitting slots û and I donÆt know about you Verone but in JF weÆve run out of saved corp ship fittings. We want CCP to up the limit but is that really going to happen while the ôbiz-devsö talk honeyed words about how to squeeze extra income from players for such ôminor upgrades.ö? How long till we pay aurum for extra corp standing slots? For wardec options? For a usable corp management screen?

3. And who develops these vanity items? Yes thats right its Eve artists and developers whose salary we pay with our subscriptions. Given the choice wouldnÆt you rather have engine trails and flashy cyno effect for all players rather than a bunch of overpriced tat in the Aur store for a fleeced few?

Because that is precisely the compromise being made here -> CCP using our subs money to pay for vanity item production they want to sell back to us for greedy prices and it is something you SHOULD get mad about.

So hereÆs the thing.

The time to fight for the game we love is not in six months time when these concepts have bedded down and CCP is feeling bold enough to start selling Noble Faction ammo and +9 implants. The time to fight is now. Because this newsletter embodies everything that many of us feared but didnÆt want to believe CCP were becoming capable of. It is a massive betrayal of the compact we shared as players and developers of this game and indicates that CCP is preparing to leap down a very dark and deep path of self-immolation in the months to come.

I donÆt want to see Eve Online die Verone. That sounds dramatic I know, but gameworlds die when the dreams and visions are extinguished and that can happen through a succession of bad ideas foisted on a community by people who really donÆt have much of a clue in business.

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Originally by: Sharanelle

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Originally by: Ris Dnalor

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Originally by: Arya Greywolf

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Edited by: Arya Greywolf on 24/06/2011 14:43:59

Originally by: Bunnyy Lebowski

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I have included an image of a very quick paint storyboard to help visualize
Make Everyone Happy



Take it or leave it, thats my idea on the topic.

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+1 this is beautiful
This needs to be kept alive. CCP, It's a great idea and will keep your CQ just fine - hell, I have NO idea why you guys didn't make it like this way from the start.

CCP, I think the majority of people want two things.

1) An answer to the internal document and a promise that you will NEVER have money for in-game advantage/progression.

2) The above image implemented in game. When we dock, we get our old hanger view with the *PERMANENT OPTION* to "disembark." THEN and ONLY THEN will CQ load. This button will be part of the station and/or on our panel UI.

CCP PLEASE ADDRESS THESE ISSUES AND FIX THEM. This is probably what 80% of us players are truly disgruntled about.

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Originally by: XIRUSPHERE

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In a game where people spend months to years to conquer and pillage vast swaths of glorified rooms CCP made the mistake of thinking we wont burn it to the ground when they decide it's time to **** EVE.

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Originally by: Myra2007

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Originally by: lee Khagah

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Still nobody out there ?

AUR = vanity nothing else.

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Originally by: EVE Radio tl;dl ->

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EVE Radio DJ Xaphod :

It's good ÇÇP is discussing the possibility's of MT in an internal open discussion. Nothing is set in stone yet.

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Originally by: Dephlan Gruss

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"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. There is a fine line between Right and Wrong. You better know what side of it you are on. The moment you loose your honor-- that's when you learn the hard way. Your choice always comes back around."

It just fits in so well.

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