Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.11.12 05:42:00 -
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Not that I feel it needs explaining but since these threads usually lack critical thinking I'll add a bit of enlightenment here.
Cross and I have school, I have tests all throughout this week and the next. Then Thanksgiving drops and finals immediately after that. Everyone has work and I believe everyone on the CPM has a full time job. We also have real life issues because yanno, that's a thing.
That said, we also spend a lot of time doing CPM work (some of which you'll see relatively soon). Any time CCP is on we're usually talking with them. Being as they're in Shanghai, that usually means staying up late. Really late. So the only time we have left to sleep? Evenings. When we're not at work, not at school, etc.
I won't speak for the others but while I do try to get on as often as I can, it is very difficult to time manage.
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Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.11.12 17:43:00 -
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Paulus Phen502 wrote:The important thing is that the CPM is trying to stay interested in the game, that speaks to where your mind is. Again a few hours a week barring life situations isn't to much to ask though. Why be on the CPM if you don't wanna play? I'm not tracking most of the CPMs and certainly not their alts which is why the subject line of this post has a question mark. If you got a ps3 going out obviously I don't expect you to be playing much(Iv'e owned 5, lost 1 in a flood, traded and upgraded others).
My problem isn't with the CPM it's with the state of the game. How can I trust you to go to bat for the community if you don't even care enough to play the game. But it's good to see so many CPM respond, I would have expected players to comment much more than you guys, I how that doesn't mean disinterest on our part. Keeping you guys and super hot Zaria active is not my job I was just wondering if you were and if any of the playerbase thought you were. You should be enjoying the game too, and your job too. If you aren't playing at all though then why be on the CPM, that's what I was concerned about. Last I checked you can skype or be on a biomassed podcast with a controller in your hand, so unless your using both hands for "something" trying to fit in a few matches a week shouldn't be too hard. Again all I want to know is that the representative of the game are still interested in the game.
And it's a long time before CPM 3000 so I get to enjoy playing this broken masterpiece without having to be personally responsible for helping fix it, if the CPs are all about that(fixes) I'll be a happy merc. If they aren't then it may not matter cause nobody may be left playing it.
Yeah, no, it doesn't work that way, lol. 9/10 we don't voice chat on Skype so it's either hit up Skype in the debates/conversations on game design or be amazing at one handed typing... which we won't go into =P
Thing is we do a lot more than just deliberate with CCP over Skype. We formulate spreadsheets, proposals, slides, etc. A lot of the stuff I can't really share for obvious reasons but a big one that I can share to give you an idea of how much work goes into one proposal is this spreadsheet regarding the shield changes leading up to Hotfix Foxfour. We didn't spend as much time talking with the community about those changes as we would have liked but we had a deadline to meet if we wanted the changes in the hotfix, otherwise it'd have to wait for Warlords 1.3.
That spreadsheet was mostly formulated by Breakin Stuff and I but it was given a thorough look over by the rest of the CPM while they worked on their own projects (which I obviously can't go into). All of that prior to shipping it off to CCP who we then discussed the changes with and why those changes would work and other changes wouldn't work.
Since that time we've discussed a -LOT- of topics ranging from NPE, to EWAR, to weapon/dropsuit balancing, etc. That's just the stuff that we -can- talk about, even if loosely. The stuff we can't talk about makes up roughly 75% of our work.
We've even gone as far as working with ISD Mercury (the lore team for Eve) to discuss topics in regards to ways to influence the game to be more immersive and lore-savvy. Those changes though are sort of far off because they either require a lot of text (which would need to be localized) or art assets (which is something we just can't do right now). However, you can see some of that work in the recent Blood Raiders event.
So yeah, it takes up a lot of our free time - free time that we previously used to play the game. It's unfortunate but, that's just how it works. Should we leave the CPM because we simply can't offer the time to play the game any more? I don't think so. I think we've all played the game enough to have learned just about everything about it and are qualified enough to operate separate of play. This isn't to justify or excuse our lack of play, just that it isn't wholly necessary for weighing game design =P
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