The blog's timestamp says it's "27.03.2013."

As I do not use them Im not familiar with them, so: Is it possible to ask a question in the Facebook or Twitter thread even if you do not have an account with those services?

Answering questions is nice, though I really dislike creating new accounts there and there. I guess I'll rely on not being one of a kind and that many people will ask questions similar to mine.

Yep, it's pretty much most important question regarding this blog: can we have a question thread here on the forum?

I just wish they will be recorded too for the sake of people who haves issues following spoken english live...

They will be recorded. As it says in the Dev Blog, they will be available for playback on twitch.tv and uploaded to CCP's Youtube channel later

(...) See the DeviantArt design a ship fiasco.

Why Facefuck and Twit? Seriously, why? Why why why? These things are not the future, they are just momentary passing trends......

...thanks for disenfranchising those of your playerbase who aren't social media junkies....

...Why these questions couldn't just be harvested from an official thread

upcoming full release of DUST 514 in May with GÇÿUprising'

Did we just get a stealth announcement for the official release date for Dust?

I see from the above that many people will not have access to any of the methods CCP has provided for asking questions, including me. Under the assumption that CCP really means "We want to be able to include everyone" and will thus look at this thread for questions, here is the main one I would like answered:

Given a finite budget it is impossible to spend more money on feature A while not taking money from feature B. CCP, you have said that WiS will not be developed at the expense of FiS. Given the above, does that mean you will NEVER finish WiS? Are there any plans to finish WiS, at any level?

You can read all about Uprsing here.

It is not exactly a stealth announcement

Yes, The Uprising update is not a secret. But this is the first time I've seen mention of a "full release of dust 514". Is Dust coming out of open beta with the release of uprising or is it just worded strangely?

Are these video blogs going to be replacing the written dev blogs as the primary source of development information?

I hope this is not the case as it is far easier to look back through a few written blogs to find that little nugget you needed clarifying than it is to sit through a few hours of video.

As for social media ... Turelus said what I feel, please dont go there.

"Players should also see things in a whole new light -- literally -- as day/night cycles will also be implemented to increase the sense of realism. And as for realism, Fannar noted that these cycles (along with the direction of the sun and the shadows) will be accurate to the actual rotation of the specific planet within EVE."

Wait a minute here. CCP how are you going to rotate the planets when there are fixed district beacons? Are those beacons going to rotoate with the planet as it rotates, so they always stay above their districts? That will have them moving at 500 m/sec to 1000 m/sec. Or... well... Just what are you planning?

So for those of us who weren't there, can anyone sum up what they DID say?

Is this from the Q & A? Do the planets even rotate now? I was under the impression that they were effectively in fixed positions. Maybe they mean that it will reflect the district's location on the static planet, and whether it is in the light district or dark. It would definitely be much more interesting if the planets rotated though, especially if each could get it's own unique rotation speed. I wonder how big of a coding hurdle that would be. I imagine pretty significant.

I'd personally love it if ships synced with a planet's rotation while in orbit, thus getting to experience a sort of sunrise and set. Even better if we get a graphical cloud layer depending on the gas content of the planet, that simulated different colors at the horizon and within the cloud layer depending on the gas! Okay, too many dreams. But at least a rotating planet would be nifty.

You can watch it after the fact in CCP's twitch tv channel under videos. link is here for the 1st one and as im such a nice guy ive typed up the questions asked and timestamped them (which took me aaaaages!)

02:10 - how long till eve players can make dust items for dust mercs?
04:18 - how will dust interact with planets in 0.0?
07:52 - will eve player need to transport dust equipment in 0.0?
09:50 - with dust merc able to take side will standing come into play?
11:05 - wheres Foxfours Shoes?
11:40 - tidi causing issues between eve and dust?
13:18 - will eve pilots and dust merc have the same level of access to isk when both economies stabilise?
15:38 - has the team discussed using dust514 in places other than planets? eg taking over stations.
19:02 - will we ever be able to use the same character in dust as we do in eve?
19:55 - will there be orbital strike missiles?
21:15 - will orbital bombardment be iterated on / made more interesting?
22:55 - Dust in Wormholes?
24:02 - will galactic map come back and how will transportation in dust happen?
26:55 - Will dust affect planetary Interaction?
28:22 - will we see ships crashing into dust maps / planets live?
29:33 - how will the proposed changes and day/night cycles be achieved in eve?
32:10 - how long will orbital artillery / planetary defences take to get to us?
33:45 - is there a possibility of killmails or battle reports in eve showing the kills eve players did to dust mercs?
35:05 - will dust aurum and eve aurum be interchangeable?
35:45 - will alliance support features make it into dust soon?
37:50 - will dust installations have player built shields to protect them from orbital bombardment or ground attacks?
38:46 - will dropping dust514 mercs from orbit from eve into dust maps / districts ever be implemented?
39:52 - thoughts on any ideas for alternative combat mechanics to use against the enemy in dust battlefields?
42:09 - are there any advancements to communication and organisation in dust514 coming soon?
43:20 - will there be player created installations in dust in the future?
43:56 - will dust players be able to make courier contracts to eve players to move stuff around eve?
45:25 - when will we see patch notes for dust514's 'Uprising' patch? (hint - get on with it!)
46:00 - will we have more of a direct link when organising with dust514 commanders to see the tactical situation?
46:45 - info and ideas about corp management and role in dust514,,,
47:50 - any iteration on the in game eve voice in chat channels with dust players / commanders?

Here is some honest feedback:

1: Taking question only for the audience, gave a very random feel to it, at times it looked unprofessional and something done at highschool. I'd have a person behind camera provide questions, and a supplemental list of questions that brings in important stuff that you want to answer on. Also important to make the questions answareble by the panel. No one wants to listen to someone say that other people not there can answer it. It just makes you feel that your not serious, or are unwilling to have that particular question answerd.

2: Sound is as important as picture. It ruins alot if these scenarios happen: You got dropouts; This leaves out important parts of questions and answers. You have low gain on a microphone, or use the wrong type of microphone; Your noise floor starts to melt into speach and turning up the volume on the masters only worsens the problem. Both these issues were present during your videocast.

With streaming content becoming much more prevalent today, we at CCP are embarking on a pilot program over the next four weeks which will allow you, the players, to ask questions directly to a panel of developers on different aspects of EVE Online and DUST 514.

Rather than spoil all of the details in this short intro, please see this blog post and let us hear your comments.

I have been watching those streams 2 times.

I think that the idea of taking questions from the chat is cool, but not in that case.
Because there is A LOT of flood in the chat. My questions dissapears in a few seconds.
And you can't just say "shut up and type your questions after the line --------". Doesn't work.

So my proposal is to take questions before the videocast. Collect them on forum topic, and take the good ones about the different areas of the game.