This post right here. This post!

sounds like it's time for new content that you "abandoned", oh say about a year or so ago. Give us another small piece of the WIS pie for starters, remember WIS was YOUR idea and vision CCP and you suckered in a lot of subs with those fancy videos you put out to promote WIS. additionally, I'd like for industry at POS's in 0.0 and low sec to have bonuses and benefits that exceed those of high sec. No, please do not touch high-sec industry, just buff the POS bonuses to be worth something. This is NOT that hard and some people will be very happy to see this improved.

Working on it! :) At least on releasing CREST. Have some legal dragons to slay still, we're taking those source code requirements out of the license for example.

There are some people who make things work - they pre-fit ships for a fleet op, they run mega-spreadsheets for the industry production lines needed to equip the war effort, build tools to manage a corporation or command large fleets. Their activities enable others to have fun in EVE. And then there are some people who instigate big plans that others can help realize. Whether in null, low or high sec, the dreams and ambitions of these people inspire others with purpose.

We can still do big things and long term things that take more than one release, because we can have a single theme run across multiple releases - and ship the "big" thing in the second or third release on a theme - or just silently work on shipping preparation features for a bigger change, like how the refactoring of Crimewatch was done, before we made any real changes to the related features.

I think a "Jesus feature" means some single huge feature that is believed to be THE solution to either growing or fixing the game - and that's what we want to never do again. But we can still do big changes to the game - just with a clear idea of what we're trying to achieve with them, and a realistic set of expectations for what they will bring to the game.

We can still do big things and long term things that take more than one release, because we can have a single theme run across multiple releases - and ship the "big" thing in the second or third release on a theme - or just silently work on shipping preparation features for a bigger change, like how the refactoring of Crimewatch was done, before we made any real changes to the related features.

I think a "Jesus feature" means some single huge feature that is believed to be THE solution to either growing or fixing the game - and that's what we want to never do again. But we can still do big changes to the game - just with a clear idea of what we're trying to achieve with them, and a realistic set of expectations for what they will bring to the game.

POSes are very expensive to operate and should provide solid utility value for their cost, but I fundamentally disagree with the idea of leaving highsec industry completely alone. I don't suggest nerfing manufacturing slots or refining percentages per se, though making the standard for refining amounts 35%, rather than 50%, might not be the worst idea ever conceived. Highly skilled players will still be able to reach 100% net yields. But, I prefer another option.

In the current game design, refining is a free action; it takes no time, and is probably a relic of vendor trash RPG design. Instead of the action being immediate, why not modify refineries to work like the assembly lines do, with a set amount of time to perform each act of refining and reprocessing? Not only would this create a new way to make 0.0 and lowsec better (more abundant and or faster slots), but it would also help address the issues in mineral compression.

Uh, POS do offer solid value for their cost.

33% increase in production volume isn't value?

I think a "Jesus feature" means some single huge feature that is believed to be THE solution to either growing or fixing the game - and that's what we want to never do again. But we can still do big changes to the game - just with a clear idea of what we're trying to achieve with them, and a realistic set of expectations for what they will bring to the game.

"Ask "What should I do now?" a lot"

I've been actually thinking about this since I started playing the game - for players uncertain about any kind of direction they want to take in the game, there isn't really all that much direction offered. Lots of option, but sometimes lots of options can be confusing to the point where you don't know which one to pick. Some people make these kinds of decisions quickly, others may find the veritable buffet of awesome options to be a little overwhelming. I know I did. I still haven't decided, 8 months in, what it is I'm actually doing in this game, and I'm kinda just running missions on default as I go without any clear direction. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though, but even making decisions about a player corp has been difficult because I'm still not sure what I want out of it. I may be settling on FW soon, but that's still a "may be".

I was thinking about some kind of tool that might be added to the NeoCon that you can click and it opens up a list of suggestions of something you could do next based on your current skills, whether you're in a player or NPC corp, and your location, and another list of suggestions of things you could be doing if you focus on certain skills, or something like that.

Kinda like the way the dynamic World Tour mode works in Forza motorsport 4, where it takes the cars in your garage into account when it suggests race events, except on a wider scope and a little info box that pops up so you can enquire about what the activity suggested entails. I think it would be a good way to give new players especially a way to explore various horizons and make a more educated choice, based on their own unique playstyle and preferences, on any specific career paths or player corps they might want to join.

We can still do big things and long term things that take more than one release, because we can have a single theme run across multiple releases - and ship the "big" thing in the second or third release on a theme - or just silently work on shipping preparation features for a bigger change, like how the refactoring of Crimewatch was done, before we made any real changes to the related features.

I think a "Jesus feature" means some single huge feature that is believed to be THE solution to either growing or fixing the game - and that's what we want to never do again. But we can still do big changes to the game - just with a clear idea of what we're trying to achieve with them, and a realistic set of expectations for what they will bring to the game.

I am not a starship. I am quite tired that this game only allows me to be a starship or a spreadsheet. I am disappointed that all future plans for human avatars in this game involve some kind of combat game, maybe even a FPS.

And very specially I am tired that, two years after Incursion, the avatars in game still are a big f*** you at everyone who trusted CCP about avatars.

Do you plan to do something with avatars before we all grow old and die?

Technical Producer
CCP Games Reykjavik

we are going into a pre-production phase for the summer expansion of EVE Online, where we establish what the theme will be and what features and changes will be part of that theme. We will involve the CSM

We want to make EVE more accessible, but without making it casual, removing sophistication or dumbing it down. We think that today there are a lot of situations in EVE where you are left without any good answers when pondering what you should do next - unless you find someone already on the inside who can tell you. So for both new and experienced players, we'll be looking at what kind of answers we are providing to this question - both as a way to better point people to things that are already in the game, and as a way to find new features to develop for play styles or time requirements where we have gaps today.

TL;DR no new content for hi-sec.

We listen in many places and to lots of data, and no single stakeholder (including the internal ones) gets to define the agenda.
The CSM notes from the "Second Decade" session from the summit will have some more detail on how I see what we should do - keep an eye out for that one.

Is it an educated guess to expect the pos rework in the summer expansion or am I beeing too optimistic?

The plan is to add meaningful gameplay that ties into the wider Eve universe. When pointed out previously, this has seemed to offend and upset you.

Following the blog just published by CCP Unifex, CCP Seagull, Senior Producer for EVE Online has more information about the future of EVE. Check out her blog right here and give us your thoughts in this thread.

Anyway, you'll probably never read this, so why am i even bothering.. *sigh*

Seagull, it's all fine and dandy mentioning the well being of 3rd party devs, and then say CREST.

But how about fixing the current API.

- Implement a proper cache, so we don't have to look at 119s on the killlog for example
- Add missing end points (Indexes, FW Progression, Incursions, Faction Info, Alliance Info, Station Details)
- Making it less unstable, maybe add an extra server or two to power it

And on the CREST side of things

- ability to interface with the CHAT system (as in, sending and recieving chat messages from channels and people live, so we can build an IRC/JABBER/WHATEVER gateway)

Oh and, come onto IRC in #eve-dev and stay around. Esp. if you actually mean you want to help the 3rd party devs give more tools to the players.


Anyway, you'll probably never read this, so why am i even bothering.. *sigh*