HALLDOR FANNAR AND NEW TECHNOLOGY

CCP's Chief Technology Officer, Halldor Fannar, discussed new technology projects CCP aims to provide for their products. Specifically, Fannor covered the support of DirectX 11, which was rolled out through the Rubicon expansion. CCP used a number of new techniques, which allowed for a smoother release. With the improved system of providing support to this sort of technology, Fannar stated that new graphics performance and other features are coming soon to the game. CCP, as a company, are focusing on enhancing the EVE Universe experience for customers. The mission Fannar has for his team is to unify the service infrastructure to amplify the emergent gameplay EVE, DUST, and Valkyrie players expect. However, there is an issue; an identity must be made for each game, which means one player is known by three separate identities. For example, in EVE the player name is PlayerEVE, but in DUST 514 they are known as PlayerDUST, and in Valkyrie they are known as PlayerValkyrie. This complicates various aspects of playing the games, and is an accessibility barrier for players.

Because of this issue, Fannar and his team want to make it so that there is a single identity that is shared across all three games per player. There is no longer a PlayerEVE, a PlayerDUST or a PlayerValkyrie. There is simply an identity known as Player, shared across all three. During the preceding presentation, CCP t0rfifrans discussed how, in terms of lore, this fits into the universe. The Guristas broke the code for human cloning, and have enhanced it to the point of allowing the consciousness to be sent to different clone types.

These clone types (in actuality, your character in its respective game) allow for a seamless transition from the space battles in EVE to the ground warfare in DUST/Project Legion and back. Currently the software is in development, but it addresses a long requested feature players asked CCP for since the first announcement of DUST 514. CCP acknowledges that this will be a challenge, and that they need to take the unique player identity across all the services (EVE, DUST/Legion, and Valkyrie) and place them into a separate area. By changing to this new design, CCP will be lightening the load on the Tranquility server cluster, which will help improve performance. It was also stated that this new format will eliminate the need for downtime.

so each game has its own skill tree and progression, but they are all on the same toon name, so you swap from game to game, with the same toon name. but obviosly each game has its own skill progression,,, rather than having 3 separate toons for the 3 games