Comments on: Eve and the road ahead

By: Best Xbox 360 Games

Best Xbox 360 Games — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:18:06 +0000

I’m pretty gutted by the news, too – was really looking forward to it. Oh well, back to Jita for me…

By: AnimeJ

AnimeJ — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:15:15 +0000

So because they pulled teams from other projects to focus on EVE, that makes it better?

The bottom line, regardless of all the pointless niggling, is that our elected representatives(The CSM) aren’t happy about it. I’d imagine that there are a lot of people who are unhappy about the amount of time and effort being devoted to something that is external to the core of what makes EVE, well, EVE for a good portion of folks.

Focusing down on Incarna won’t fix LowSec. It won’t make fleet engagements more fun or less laggy. It won’t fix Jita. It won’t help new players want to keep playing EVE.

Personally, I’ll be voting on this one with my wallet. I love EVE. I’m very new in the way of it, but I love the game. If people really want to let CCP know that they’re not happy about the direction development is going, vote with your wallet. Cancel your subs, and say why on the exit survey. You’ll see how to get a company to change its’ 18 month strategy.

By: paritybit

paritybit — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:18:53 +0000

You guys have totally ignored that 7 of the 9 teams working on Incarna are from other projects and would normally have nothing to do with EVE development.

By: Jager Da

Jager Da — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:41:20 +0000

I meant for the emphasis to be on the word “Eve” and all the feelings and thoughts that brings up. When you think of Eve, you think of spaceships, not prancing around with a bunch of other awkwardly moving Avatars.

“Focus on Internet SPACESHIPS(!), CCP” is what I should have said. Thanks for correcting me.

By: Morphisat

Morphisat — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:35:28 +0000

They’re actually using asp.net mvc for evegate which is quite nice. I use it at work too now. I guess using Rails or Django was out of the question .

By: mandrill

mandrill — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:29:04 +0000

As a point of correction Jagerda: Incarna is EVE. Its not a separate thing like Dust. So CCP can quite correctly turn round and say “We are focussing on EVE when we assign 70 developers to Incarna”. You might want to be more specific if you don’t want shot down as was done to the CSM.

Also Morphisat: you have to remember that they’re using Microsoft backends on everything, which will multiply the workload by a factor of about 5

By: Jager Da

Jager Da — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:18:00 +0000

I agree. I don’t really care about Incarna and walking around in stations if that’s the only thing we can do. If we could assassinate other capsuleers, sabotage ships, or other stuff, then I might care more. But having 70 devs working on allowing people to walk around in an Internet Spaceships game is absurd. Focus on EVE, CCP.