All these and many, many other issues haves been raised by CPM 0,1 and 2 on multiple occasions I can assure you of that.

But what has been and still is misunderstood by many in the community is that the CPM's range of influence in relationship to making CCP allocate developer time fix any one of those is precisely zero.

What I can you is that as has been stated by the Dev's on these forums and during Round Table discussions at Fanfest in the last couple of years, that every one of the issues in that list is a result of poor legacy code from the original team and hardware limitations of the PS3. Nothing can be done about the latter and the former is unlikely to be completely fixed with just patches alone. It'll be likely easier to just start again from scratch if I'm being honest.

As to how restrictive the NDA is? It's so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up its bottom, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.

So giving us an A to C list of things for us to comment/like isn't really as sutble a way of divining information from us as you might think it is.

As I said before, the CPM are not the mouthpieces of CCP, information has to come from them. Frustrating of course but that's the limitation we have to deal with.

The issue is likely that

1. Despite how much they *****, CPM can't force CCP to change its stance on communication
2. CPM may not even have direct access to the people calling the shots in terms of not letting Devs talk about anything.

You're absolutely right that the way CCP is conducting itself in this situation is unacceptable, and quite honestly disrespectful to those of us still around. The sad part is that the CPM has, as far as I know, exhausted and continues to exhaust every avenue they have to increase communication...and CCP simply refuses to budge, probably citing the same "This is just how it's done" BS they have in the past.

Are the CPM useful when it comes to offering up insight and advice on game design/balance? Absolutely. Are they useful when it comes to leading community discussions and threads? Absolutely. However in terms of increasing CCP's communication with the player-base, the CPM has not been effective but it's not their fault. Unfortunately it seems that despite the changes promised in terms of communication, CCP remains steadfast in its refusal to offer up meaningful transparency to its customers despite the literal screaming of the CPM demanding such changes.

Because if DUST has taught me one thing, it's that:

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Any one of your a b or c answers would be enough to break NDA because it's confirmation of a 'hypothetical' question.

We can say CCP is working but only if it's related to Dust and right now they're working on the battle server issues currently messing with the game.

We can't comment one way or the other about if a port is happening, going to happen or happened already. We can't comment or make inference as to a format or formats that a port may or not go to. We can't even speculate as to what we'd like to see in a port if it happens or not because there are players on this forum that will jump on anything we might say and weave it into the latest bit of tin foil. (I know right?)

It's a rubbish situation to be in but until CCP makes a statement of announcement of their intentions we can't comment on anything unless it relates to Dust on the PS3.

Sorry Echo can't give you anything specific on 1.3 at this time. Bummer I know but there you are.

And Di, read out your questions out loud to your self and you will see that any answer or combination of answers we might give to the first two would confirm/deny to anyone with a small amount of logical thought as what we know/not know about a port happening or not happening, so none of us are going to answer either of them.

And as for the third... how you even think that giving an answer to such a loaded question as that wouldn't be breaching our NDA is frankly staggering.

As some of us were observant enough to see, the Jan/Feb period is starting to feel like the target for this upcoming "update".

Sony put out a a (surprising? It's for PS3) 1.7.8 Firmware Update only last week...

Sony's Account Server has been a bit glitchy over the past few weeks...

CCP (clearly not dead, nor laid-off, nor any other goofy conspiracy theory players were getting drunk off of, ugh...) has been tweaking and resetting their Servers over the past week...

And, in case no one noticed (some of us did---we have lots of sharp eyes in Dust 514--kudos!), there have been some very subtle alterations to the way dates and times are recorded in your merc-wallet....

And now, a Security component being added to CCP's Server, scheduled for the 1st day of Feb...

All this, during the year when the game has finally been reported as turning a profit for the dev company at last...

....Conspiracy theories out the window, even I sense something intense and new about to occur with this upcoming "1.3". Will it even be called an Update? It may be something so more substantial than that... that it could rise to what Eve-Online calls an "Expansion Pack".
...There is blood in the water.

I feel safe in predicting that this next addition to the game, is going to do something way beyond anything we've referred to as Updates before.

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't CCP say that Tranquility was grtting an overhaul in this update?