CCP Prism X
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Posted - 2008.05.14 21:15:00 -
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Couple of points I'd like to address. Totally out of character seeing as this isn't General Discussion, but we all have to go a little wild sometime.
@FW: It's EVE - Style Battlegrounds!
Well, sure. I guess if that is the best simile you can come up with, then yes it's a battleground in the sense that they are made for people to fight. It's EVE style in the sense that it's non-instanced, you can come and go as you please and it will still be there. It's not a mini-game within a game, it's just EVE combat mechanics adding another reason for people to venture out of high-sec into low-sec and you don't need to sign up to get in on the fight. 
It's EVE in the sense once you're dead, you're dead. There's no immediate return point which will take you back into the fight. You go ahead and try AV tactics there and see where it takes you, mkay? You're also still in the realm of EVE as if you decide to go AFK and grind some honour through your team-mates... well you're AFK in EVE, go figure.
So, It's Factional Warfare Combat Zones: Say it with me "FWCZ's".. or FWZ's.. sounds kinda the same, don't it. You can call the Funions for all I care really, but they're not WoW-Style battleground.
@New Region? Was that hard? Can we expect more of that anytime soon?
It was amazingly complicated. I had no idea really, but it was all good fun in the end. At first I thought it wouldn't be much harder than to modify the original seeder, but things never work out easy with exponentially complicated applications. It was still good fun. I'd do it again.
Complications aside, once my lead has whipped me enough to get me to document the wole procedure along with all the anomalies encountered along the way: It will take a whole lot less time. I'd allow myself to, at the least, predict that you wont have to wait another 5 years. There's still other post-launch factors to consider, technical as well as others. For example EyjoG might be interested in the economic effect of adding a small region somewhere. Always fun to see how changes like this add the dynamic of the world.
And yeah, the drone regions always were there. So we now have a precedence of adding one. 
@New Region? It connects to 0.0!
I don't really see how that is a horrible thing. But I'm sure there would always be someone out there who is bound to see it differently. We can't go ahead and decide to never link new regions to existing regions. Always having them start as dead ends would favour the sovereign of the connecting region way too much. Never connecting different high to low or low to null doesn't work either. Reimbursement is out of the question from my point, but if you need a logical reason you can think on the horrendous slippery slope that would lead down. It would just be horribly counter-productive.
No way for us around this sadly so factoring it into our decisions is futile. When life throws you lemons you go... throw them at someone else and make a profit. I'm sure you can, somehow. There's always a way in this game.
~ Prism X
EvE Database Developer
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