Yes to all, really. Yes to questions you haven't asked as well. We made sure that Art understood when they start showing some of this stuff to have videos, not just words and pictures.

It's certainly something that's being looked at, especially as it relates to things like the NPE and retention.

CCP seriously need to put another set of eyes or three on the NPE.

I started a new character the other day just to see what had changed. On the second mission I was given a shield booster (not civilian any more, cool) and expected to fit it onto my ship and use it after taking damage after a container exploded.

...but you don't start out with the skills to use a basic shield booster any more, and Aura hadn't explained anything about skills to me yet and that I'd need some for that toy she gave me.

Little things like that where a new player quickly gets confused and thinks they did something wrong makes a very bad first impression - and like the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a good first impression

Nah, I'm pretty sure we made it clear what we think of Aurum and any future plans for it. It's impossible to say with any certainty what CCP will do about it but whatever it is, I don't think it will be more knee jerk stuff like we've seen in the past.

I LOVE the idea of "if NeX must exist, make prices lower."

Everything in there needs to be 1/10 the price, and destructible.

Also, is it too difficult to allow players an ability to design articles of clothing, submit them like Alliance logos, and have CCP rubber-stamp the stuff for introduction to the NeX with a "Designed by: Person X" logo with 5% of the ISK (or Aur, if it MUST exist) go back to the designer?

This would definitely allow for unique Corp/Alliance uniforms, at the very least.

quote=Indahmawar Fazmarai said: Down side: you all forgot about the WiS crowd (alone in a CQ? That's all?),

"You all" doesn't really mean CSM in this case. The Incarna roll-out was a disaster for several reasons, not the least of which was a single (ugly) CQ and graphics cards melting. When CCP can come up with a way to actually get several dozen (at least) avatars in a shared space together, they will probably re-visit the concept of Promenades or Establishments. Personally, I just want there to be some kind of game play element attached to WiS so it's not just a fashion show. When CCP has a plan for all that, and everything I've seen thus far indicates that they do not, then I'm sure we'll hear about it and maybe see more WiS content.

We're all playing the same game. I honestly don't get this attitude at all unless you are just looking to pointless rage at alliance tags without any regard for the histories of the people on the CSM.

Dude, stop trolling. :) There were pages and pages of fixes and changes in Crucible that applied to general game play and had nothing at all to do with whatever your game play style was.

Great blog Seleene, thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Would you genuinely prefer for NeX items to be produced in game for lp/isk (thus generating no income for CCP)?

This attitude stems from banging my head against forum trolls for the last month. And also from the simple fact that none of you CSM lived in hisec since years ago, so maybe you can't experience first hand how devoid of gameplay/goals it is.

If they could come up with something like that which worked well, I would wholeheartedly endorse it. I'm not beholden to a particular way of doing this at all.

How do you always get first post? HOW? Are you a wizard?

Seleene

Are there any info on CCP giving us the option to use some old stuff (like old font and so on) or are they gonna shove new things down our throats and call it a day.

Since most of our complains and issues are mostly ignored in test server feedback. Now we have (for some) ugly font and a background so bright you cant read the letters. Is this a done thing, or is CCP gonna take a second look.

I LOVE the idea of "if NeX must exist, make prices lower."

Everything in there needs to be 1/10 the price, and destructible.

Also, is it too difficult to allow players an ability to design articles of clothing, submit them like Alliance logos, and have CCP rubber-stamp the stuff for introduction to the NeX?

This would definitely allow for unique Corp/Alliance uniforms, at the very least.

Its worrisome you used the words Convenience MTs as the name for that whole section, as that's something that hasn't been mentioned in the ongoing Aurum/MT debacle except in Fearless.

The less of Fearless we get in the ride forward, the better everybody would be.

Many thanks for the inside look.

If I may ask two questions, and I fully understand if the NDA precludes a clear answer.

1: What would be the difference (if any, other than name) between "micro-plex" and AURUM?

2: Was there any mention of the NeX store eventually being able to handle either selling BPC's, or instead being able to handle items other than AURUM for transactions (finished ships, materials, etc.)?

Great blog Seleene, thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Would you genuinely prefer for NeX items to be produced in game for lp/isk (thus generating no income for CCP)? Personally I have no interest in paying real money for in-game fluff, but I have significant interest in CCP making more money to spend on the game and if they can get that for selling pixels that have no effect on the game then I'm all for it.

Seleene

Was the future of WiS spoken of in any depth? It sounds like we won't be getting multiplayer establishments in the next year. And yet the massive reallocation of developers to all things EVE creates the impression that the man/woman power now exists that would allow CCP to do work on both FiS and WiS

I liked the part about new rookie ships.