Winter Expansion - Desperate times

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22.‬ New nebulae background
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Look pretty neat.

[Comstar]

‪25.‬ The glorious return of Engine Trails!

Well, that and the T2 command links, I might come back.

[Gets]

Dev blog: Eve will have a launcher that keeps the game up to date like Steam except better than Steam does currently, which is easy to say since Steam doesn't really do it at all. Also it will let you change graphics settings before launching the game and maybe let new players fiddle with character creation while the rest of the client still downloads.

You can try the launcher now by patching Sisi. Mac users need not bother.

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3070

[Thrawn]

So uh, lots of these changes look like good relevant stuff that people will actually care about.  Sweet.   

[tgr]

It's almost like they're apologizing to the playerbase.

[ajax34i]

Shrug, they've apologized already in Hilmar's "I'm sorry" letter.  Apologizing costs them nothing; they can do one a day for free w/o much effort.  Personally, blogs are fine, but I am going to wait until the stuff is implemented, and then compare EVE with the other games I'm interested in for a decision of which to play.

[tgr]

The proof is in the delivery, but all these videos and blogs have done much more to soothe my mind wrt EVE than the initial apology letter ever could. CCP does, after all, have a history the past few years of either underdelivering or not delivering at all, and talk is cheap.

[Gets]

A lot of good things are already well on the way of implementation. Like on Sisi you can drag your ship fittings into the market quickbar window.


:jizz:

[Amarr HM]

What happens then? I'm assuming it finds all your mods for you in the local market.

[Thrawn]

Two steps forward..one back.

Apparently scamming of any type is now not allowed in the recruitment channel if what I'm reading is true.  Although I guess you are fine if you just PM the person you want to scam and don't actually scam right in the channel which wouldn't be a big deal.  Anyone know for sure?

[Brolan]

I'm starting to wonder if the bean counters are in charge at CCP now?  Is Eve going to be nerfed into a space version of WoW?

[Gets]

No and anyone spamming the recruitment channel with bogus promises is doing it wrong anyway.

[tgr]

Two steps forward..one back.

Apparently scamming of any type is now not allowed in the recruitment channel if what I'm reading is true.  Although I guess you are fine if you just PM the person you want to scam and don't actually scam right in the channel which wouldn't be a big deal.  Anyone know for sure?

Except the wording says that you can't use the channel to find the mark either. Which means that eventually they will start to use the excuse "I was in the recruitment channel, they must've seen me there and contacted me on a different char" and still get results.

[Gets]

The logs show nothing, your honour.

[Gets]

Dev blog: The fitting window will show DPS. Performance will be better too.

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3074

[Gets]

Titan tracking issue:
* "Immune to all forms of Electronic Warfare" will also make you immune to remote "electronic assistance", that is: remote tracking enhancers and remote sensor boosters.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=340151#post340151

:flashfap:

[squirrel]

Oh fuck yay!!!

[tgr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12N16xiwwzw

 

[ajax34i]

 

[Gets]

This changes everything.

[TripleDES]

Now that people made fire under their asses (both players and bankers complaining), development of EVE is suddenly surging like a motherfucker. Strange, huh? 

[tgr]

Positively shocking.

[Count Nerfedalot]

and they still probably only have a small fraction of their 300+ employees working on it, which makes the past year's hubris all the more outrageous.

[Phildo]

and they still probably only have a small fraction of their 300+ 200+ employees working on it, which makes the past year's hubris all the more outrageous.

FIFY

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Now that people made fire under their asses (both players and bankers complaining), development of EVE is suddenly surging like a motherfucker. Strange, huh? 

I'll admit i didn't expect much from the drama campaign when it was started, but this is some delicious crow to eat.

[eldaec]

Much as I like to give goonswarm credit for shit, you may want to consider...

1) Shit gets developed over time.
2) The CSM gets an early heads up on what is coming.
3) The drama wasn't that long ago.

If Mittani's thing affects anything it will  be the CSM elections and the summer patch.

Also, if the ship spinning counter shown in video above actually triggered the leekspin song in game that would be a special kind of terrific.

[Gets]

Everything that's coming in the next expansion is now on Sisi: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=33561&find=unread

Here's the Eve-Online: Crucible login screen: http://youtu.be/IdSfIwA9tJk

And the new warp animation with enginetrails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOoCgPcoPJQ

And the new cyno-out animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywA2cDBG12c

[Amaron]

I found this dev post which seems to explain what the point of the new T3 Battlecruisers is:  https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=295391#post295391

    * Supposed to be good as a damage platform against larger ship hulls (read battleships, capitals targets) while being difficult to hit themselves by those ships due to decreased signature radius and increased mobility
    * Better aimed for small, fast gang support than battleships due to their increased mobility
    * Provide a learning bridge between battlecruisers and battleships, while being themselves a little cheaper than battleships
    * Due to their large sized weaponry, supposed to be at a severe disadvantage against smaller hulls, especially at point blank range
    * Have significantly less standing power than battleships, or even other battlecruiser tiers, thus less proficient in static engagements, where their mobility is less relevant

[ajax34i]

Less standing power than other battlecruiser tiers = after you fit the guns you won't have PG for any sort of tank?

[Gets]

No, they have a lot less base hitpoints. Tornado has 1800 armor while a Hurricane has 4688.

I'm enjoying the fact that you can push the jump button even when not on the gate, making your ship go to the gate and jump through. You can also set autopilot to a station and it will warp to 15km from the station and approach to dock.

[ajax34i]

What about multiple waypoints, how does that work when the waypoints are stations?

[squirrel]

EDIT: This has been covered. I have zero clue about multiple waypoints. Apparently if you set a station as destination autopilot warps you to 15km and then approaches and docks, or so I've heard, I haven't checked it out.

Also - remember the monument in Jita that everyone was shooting as part of the Incarna protest? Apparently it's space rubble in the winter update with this description:

This was once a memorial to the winners of a riddle contest sponsored by late entrepreneur Ruevo Aram. After standing proud for half a decade, it was destroyed in late YC113 by capsuleers who were staging a mass uprising against an intolerable status quo of intergalactic affairs. Today, the ruins of this once-great work of art stand as a testament to the fact that change is the universe's only constant.

[Amarr HM]

That's pretty awesome.

[Pezzle]

A few years ago that would be awesome.  If they continue to add little points like that to the game it would be awesome.  Right now, as a single event?  It is fluff.

[Kageru]

Compared to patch notes in which the most exciting addition to the game was new pants in the Nex store it's enough. And a recognition of an event that wasn't in their favor is pretty cool.