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Posted - 2009.01.12 21:55:00 -
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 Originally by: Cailais
Just prior to QR Corp store fronts made a brief appearance on SISI. Could a dev (or another player with a useful link) confirm if these store fronts / shops, however you want to describe them, will appear as part of the M10 expansion?
I can deny their appearance in EVE Online: Apocrypha (also known as TEX as well as M10). |
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Posted - 2009.01.12 22:30:00 -
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EVE Online: Quantum Rise had Alchemy, the Orca and Assembly Array Upgrades, but not Storefronts.
As I detailed here, during the development of Quantum Rise the focus turned more to performance enhancements.
Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson
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Posted - 2009.01.12 22:37:00 -
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Originally by: Cailais
Can we expect it in a post TEX / M10 patch, or has this feature been placed right to the back of the que?
It's not been decided. |
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Posted - 2009.01.12 23:03:00 -
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Originally by: Cailais
Ah ok. Could / can you elaborate a bit further? I think a few people would be interested - ie something along the lines of:
a) Its a feature we want, but we want to mesh it in with ambulation.
b) We thought we liked it as a feature, but now we don't.
It was initially removed due to implementation issues. In the post-mortem we determined that the goals of the feature had been unclear and once we had clarified the goals and how storefronts should be distinguished from the market and from the contract system then we had fairly different design ideas.
Originally by: Cailais
Thanks again for the swift reply -dont you guys sleep??
No, we don't. 
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Posted - 2009.01.12 23:15:00 -
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Originally by: Lone Gunman
90% of the performance enhancements were intergrated before QR
I must have missed a memo or two...
Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson
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Posted - 2009.01.15 00:40:00 -
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Originally by: Rodj Blake
I'd like the ability to ban my enemies from buying my stuff whilst giving discounts to my friends.
If they can put that sort of functionality into Storefronts, I'll be a happy bunny.
To give you more insight into why we pulled Storefronts:
Two of the initial goals of Storefronts were to allow players to easily get expert fitted ships, all in one place. In the analysis we determined that the "expert fitted" part would not have driven traffic to Storefronts since players could have just viewed the offers to get fitting ideas and then bought everything on the market, but there was no real dissemination of ideas. So we are working on other ways to solve the "how should I fit my ship" part. The "all in one place" was valid but we were not happy with the implementation and there are other ways to address that part that would be more elegant.
What we discovered in the development process is that players wanted more something along the lines of "members only" stores for corps and alliances. For example, being able to not sell to their enemies, or sell corp or alliance members ships at mineral prices (possibly even in exchange for minerals and not ISK) but to others at full price.
Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson
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