Not any time in the immediate future, need core gameplay to be better first.

Need content.

Not any time in the immediate future, need core gameplay to be better first.

Not any time in the immediate future, need core gameplay to be better first.

Lack of new content is hard to deal with, but we have some new weapons on the horizon. It should do the trick untill all the core is right, which is more important imo. I can understand and I support the current direction of development.

What good is having good core gameplay if you have nothing where you can see it?

Also: When is the core gameplay good enough? When everything is balanced? Won't happen. Ever. Too many items, too much new stuff coming along with new patches.

Of course we are getting shiny new toys and maps in the forseeable future. But I'm growing tired of capturing points. No matter what weapon I use and no matter on what map I play. I want something new to do.

Lack of new content is hard to deal with, but we have some new weapons on the horizon. It should do the trick untill all the core is right, which is more important imo. I can understand and I support the current direction of development.

Not to mention you cannot balance weapons when half of them as missing from the game.

One of the changes that we couldn't get in and ready is that we would like players to be able to see squads from their own corporation and alliance even if they are full or deployed to a battle. This helps give players an idea as to how active their corporation/alliance is but also would allow you to join a squad while it's deployed and then just wait for them to finish the battle.

I don't think they've been "wasting" their time on core gameply. I think they have been successful fixing most of the core gameplay. Aiming et al. The major new content blocks would be nice at this point (flesh out racial suits, weapons, vehicles) ... i can't wait to see this game in a year when all of that fleshing out is done and they can start work on things like EvE link, economics, PvE, etc.

Mixed message here. Are the weapon and vehicle balances being pushed to 1.7? OR is it just safe to assume that you guys are just a whole patch behind now? I.e 1.5 is now 1.6. 1.6 is now 1.7 etc. etc. etc.

Do you think that a FW revamp would count as content or core? Supposing they count it as Core than I'm happy because I'd rather have an engaging FW system, with specifics rewards, the option to pick your target district and team deploy, just to name a few things they could work upon, than getting even more weapons/suits in the next months.

Maybe they count game-modes as core too, that's why I'm asking and I'd rather have them first too. If you add too many weapons and suits at once be ready to spend some time after implementing doing balance and I believe we could still use some further work before getting there (team deployment for example), but indeed, not much. It's near now.

1.6 is not locked yet is all what I am saying and that a simple push back that late into the previously locked patch can cause a logistical problem on delivery. Also when things get put back on the shelf or stove especially incomplete things as vehicles were not going to have many of the previous roles at first (repair and sensors where the first of two removed and not added back in if you read the dev post early) the developers are likely going to do more work with it.

I'll try help out but here goes of a snapshot of how things are around in the studio

1.3 just launched to the customers, 1.4 is locking and going to QA, 1.5 is being actively worked on, and 1.6 is having overall design meetings on how its going to look. All in about the same week-ish. So you can imagine how pushing back a feature from one patch as large as vehicles 2.0 and weapons (they're considered large) due to the level of technical risks they introduce. Most of the work is not like other games where they simply can copy paste another gun reskin and get away with most of it.

As for the download limbo part I will let CCP talk about that thing when they fix it hopefully.

You've got it backwards. EVE link and economics needs to come first and foremost. Racial suits are candy, EVE link and economics are the game itself.

I don't think they've been "wasting" their time on core gameply. I think they have been successful fixing most of the core gameplay. Aiming et al. The major new content blocks would be nice at this point (flesh out racial suits, weapons, vehicles) ... i can't wait to see this game in a year when all of that fleshing out is done and they can start work on things like EvE link, economics, PvE, etc.

Wasted? No. Of course not. The thing is that I'm not sure if core gameplay should be a priority. Of course it is important. But is it more important than having content?

You can't work on core gameplay or content exclusively, they both need to keep coming. Problem is if all you work on is core gameplay then there's nothing unique about the actual game, you just have generic shooter. There's plenty of FPS games out there with great core gameplay, so why would anyone want to play a game that is still working on core gameplay when it doesn't offer anything that the other games don't?

And here's what I don't get, CCP says they're not intentionally holding back racial dropsuits and vehicles, but we already have heavies and lights and tanks and dropships. How would adding the other races' version break the core gameplay? What's so different about the Amarr and Minmatar vehicles that they have to wait for core gameplay to reach perfection while it's somehow ok for the Gallente and Caldari ones to be there now? Say what you want, but I've heard nothing to convince me that CCP isn't arbitrarily holding off all this content for one grand update in the future for marketing purposes. That's fine, but be honest with it.

The lack of racial variety in a game centered around four races really irks me.
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The current monthly iteration plan with CCP working on core gameplay problems is not only the correct one, it's achieved more to fix the game in 4 point builds over three months than CCP managed in nearly a year of closed and open beta. None could disagree with that I'd hope.

Content is nice and welcome. The kid in the sweet shop part of me is pointing and salivating for it. The seasoned gamer part of me knows that unless there is a way to get those sweets from the shelf to the counter efficiently then pointing is all I'm doing.

Our goal with this was to not add filter options directly into the squad adverts as we could probably come up with hundreds of them. Instead we gave as much space as possible for squad names so that players can police themselves and find different ways of working with this. The whole sandbox and offering tools for players to work with thing.

That is not to say we will never add filtering options, possibly in the future if it is required, but not at this time.

When are we getting standing for the squad finder?