Well aren't you the cheerful one.

(I'll try and drop by IRC every once in a while to say hi and listen to feedback, but my productivity is destroyed if I am online all the time, so I have to turn of my irc client most of the time)

So who's CCP Seagull, really?

"Meaningful" to whom? To players who already fit into EVE and need no new gameplay to keep playing for years, or to players who could fit and subscribe forever if they were offered something else?

EVE is a massive universe, but it haves no room for casual players who can't compromise nor to solo players who fail at socializing.

You can't add that to FiS. WiS is the only chance that the misfits find a place in EVE without spoiling it to the rest.

Well, it's good to see thet there is a hope to see eve actually evolving in the way of the sci-fi universe.

For me, bad thing about eve is that is focusing only on combat, and mostly PvP combat.

Thare is no people in CSM that i choose. And most of them are 0.0 players - no wonder we don't have support for the new content like WiS, mining, real exploration of space and planets, maybe solo gameplay alternative (it's good that there is a lot of oppertunities for groups in this game, but why we are forced to do it ALL OF THE TIME by the lack of content for solo payers? I like to be in a group sometimes, but i'd like to have my own interesting things to do, so i will turn the chat off and actually relax of all this other people's problems and bullshit, and feel myself as a captain of my own ship).

And the players who wants more than just this PvP game are playeng less, and caring less about the forums and stuff. I'm dropped this game in 2011 and didn't seen anything interesting enough to return since. But i'm active subscriber - i wonder is that is all that mater for CCP...

So in the end we have the impression that spaceship combat is all that all people want.

Oh, there are some Incarna guys on this page. Why are they always ignored by CCP? There is a lot of interesting things that can be done through the avatar gameplay. Or the 0.0 goverment will cry again?

TL;DR no new content for hi-sec.

tl/dr: almost nobody gets a whole pizza expansion, but almost everybody gets a nice tasty slice every expansion.

I'm about 99% sure about the answer to this question, but due to an alliance mate who only has Reading Comprehension up to Level II and who is trying his best to be a pain in the ass (or a troll), could I please get an answer to this question:

Does this announcement (in any way) mean that the BC balancing/skill split will now happen on Feb 12th instead of this summer (as announced by CCP Fozzie)?

thanks in advance to anyone who bothers to answer that stupid question

the skill change is scheduled for our Summer expansion 2013

I'm about 99% sure about the answer to this question, but due to an alliance mate who only has Reading Comprehension up to Level II and who is trying his best to be a pain in the ass (or a troll), could I please get an answer to this question:

Does this announcement (in any way) mean that the BC balancing/skill split will now happen on Feb 12th instead of this summer (as announced by CCP Fozzie)?

thanks in advance to anyone who bothers to answer that stupid question

I would like to see something happen with Incarna as well, but you are not making a convincing case; you're just complaining about how terrible EVE is going to remain until you get the walking in stations system that you want. I will not be easily convinced, nor hopefully anyone in charge at CCP, that now is the time to make such technical investments. What vision are they supposed to work towards? What are the features supposed to do? How is it supposed to make the Eve Universe bigger and better for new and old players alike? Until someone can answer those questions legitimately, while working within the confines of available resources so that CCP's Flying in Space investments and investment capabilities will not be compromised, CCP should not be adding any WiS features.

I would like to see something happen with Incarna as well, but you are not making a convincing case; you're just complaining about how terrible EVE is going to remain until you get the walking in stations system that you want. I will not be easily convinced, nor hopefully anyone in charge at CCP, that now is the time to make such technical investments. What vision are they supposed to work towards? What are the features supposed to do? How is it supposed to make the Eve Universe bigger and better for new and old players alike? Until someone can answer those questions legitimately, while working within the confines of available resources so that CCP's Flying in Space investments and investment capabilities will not be compromised, CCP should not be adding any WiS features.

I would like to see something happen with Incarna as well, but you are not making a convincing case; you're just complaining about how terrible EVE is going to remain until you get the walking in stations system that you want. I will not be easily convinced, nor hopefully anyone in charge at CCP, that now is the time to make such technical investments. What vision are they supposed to work towards? What are the features supposed to do? How is it supposed to make the Eve Universe bigger and better for new and old players alike? Until someone can answer those questions legitimately, while working within the confines of available resources so that CCP's Flying in Space investments and investment capabilities will not be compromised, CCP should not be adding any WiS features.

I see your point, but my opinions have been scattered widely all over the forums since Incarna. i also have got my own trolls ("Barbiesinspace" Ghazu and "Habbohotel" Scatim helicon among others) to slander them.

Yet let's paint it this way. Incarna was released without asking players what did they want. And since then, CCP still hasn't asked players what do they want for WiS. They've come as far as to develop a kind of prototype that involves exploration, dungeon raiding and even FPS (the less they talk about it, the weirder it looks in my imagination), and yet nobody in CCP start a devblog and ask "What shall we do with avatars?".

They don't even interact with the community, as there's a few threads going on and essentially CCP devs can't bother to come and say "hi" as if they were giving a **** of the whole matter.

So, "What shall CCP do with avatars?"

So far I can provide a short list of dont's:

Don't make them compete with nullsec for risk/reward, else they will be slain as happened to incursions and Level 5 missions.
Don't make them "theme park ride" as that don't belongs to EVE (that's my biggest irk with the "prototype").
Don't make them "group enjoyable only" as that won't adress the issue of solo players.
Don't make them "second job-ish" as that won't adress the issue of casual players.
Don't make them "combat PvP only" as spaceship content massively fills that niche to exhaustion.

Abridged version: do not make avatars "more of the same".

Yes, things being discoverable is neat, but what should be the threshold for having to find content? Should you have to launch a probe every time you enter a system to find if there's any content at all? Maybe it would be better if the solar system map showed you a rough indicator of what PvE content is available before you launch any probes.

I'm not against leaving really neat stuff buried far away, so long as it doesn't create an unnecessarily large barrier between players. As things are currently designed, ESPECIALLY when it comes to basic ship blasting PVE, I think this barrier is too large.