Isaac Starstriker
Amarr
Solaris Operations
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Posted - 2009.02.12 06:18:00 -
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Edited by: Isaac Starstriker on 12/02/2009 06:19:46
 Originally by: Ephemeron
Originally by: Omber Zombie
since this post is actually related to the issue being raised - the CSM did bring it up with CCP. It is being looked at, it's just not coming in Apocrypha.
AS for "they can work on 2 different things at the same time" you do realise how big this next expansion is right? They had 11 different teams working on things, they just couldn't fit the blackops review into this expansion in a meaningful way, so it was bumped.
Alright, lets say you are right.
Do you know how long it would take an experienced game dev to add fuel bays? 1 day
Sure, it may require 3 days of testing. Lets say that if all the stopped working on expansion pack and focused just on fixing game balance issues - the simple fixes, nothing major.
They could do most of it in 1 week. They could delay release of expansion by 1 week and put a lot of fixes to game balance that so many people want. It's easy. But they are not going to, it would be against their spirit to let the player be happy.
I suppose when CCP was a small company, they had the spirit of going against mainstream, they had balls. But now that spirit is probably buried under layers of bureaucracy - even if there are devs who want to make good game changes, they become incapable, just cogs in profit making machine. At least - this scenario gives some excuse for their bad judgment. I'd hate to think they actually do this on purpose.
I seriously doubt it will take "3 days" to test, develop and get the fuel bay out. There is numerous balancing issues, the code writing needed to do it, and make sure fuel bays won't break the code on the game and that they will actually be recognized in the game. Also, you have to do numerous debugging checks as well.
As an amateur code writer, I know for a fact that the fuel bay idea is not simple. Even from a coding aspect.
If it took only three days to introduce fuel bays then the next expansion would have been out already.
Since it hasn't.....I'm more inclined that this idea is not so simple. Especially since they've released it on the test server and I heard there are several problems with features in the expansion. So what? Are they incompetent after all these months? Or are they human....
--Isaac
P.S. CCP used to be more cavalier with their ideas in the beginning. The only problem is, it ran them into numerous problems. Neither way of doing things is perfect. But at this point, CCP feels this is the best way. I'd suggest next time you comment about game issues, don't attack the company. Its pointless and makes your argument look weak because your attacking the company, not the issue at hand.
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