Reggie Hamond
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Posted - 2006.09.20 22:46:00 -
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This is my first post on the forum and will probably be my last. I will try to keep it short so that people don't get too upset at about what I am about to say.
Here is the deal. I have only been playing for about 3 weeks now. I skipped the trial account and bought the game from the eve-online site directly. Yes sometimes the lag is bad. Yes sometimes even I get dropped, and yes I have even been almost wiped out twice.
If all of you that keep threatening to cancel, stop threatening and cancel. It doesn't do ANYTHING except fill the forum with useless complaining. Nobody cares if you are a veteran of 2 or 3 years and are going to cancel, because Eve will still be here. CCP will continue to do what they have been doing for the last 3 years. I personally am in it for the long haul irreguardless of the lag issues, or the crashes or the downtime.
CCP has also made every effort to explain to you what is happening, and to tell you what is coming (ie DEV BLOGS). They are also making every effort to fix the problems that are occuring. But you must also understand the nature of what Eve is under the hood. I would venture to guess several several million lines of code to start with. Being a light duty programmer myself (largest project ~648,000 lines of code) I understand human nature to make a mistake (You can not tell me that you type everything in and have NEVER had to hit your backspace key). I also understand that trying to find one single mistake in even a 650k line program takes a VERY VERY VERY LONG TIME. Even a large team of programmers may still have difficulty in locating the exact cause of the problem within a small amount of time (except if they get lucky).
My suggestion is this. If you think that for one minute you can write a 3D application or a 3D game in the same scale as Eve, go right ahead. I'm sure in about 15 years you'll finally get the framework down.
Personally, I am just tired of jumping on the forums when I can't connect to find out if it's down and for how long, and not getting those answers, but a bunch of complaining about downtime and threats to cancel.
My piece being said, I will continue to wait until it comes up and then I will go back to playing.
All I ask is that people use the forums for what they are for. Not to blast people for doing their job as fast as they can.
Keep up the good work CCP. I am behind you 110%
-Wolf
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