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Klivve Cussler
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Posted - 2013.04.03 20:28:00 -
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Good stuff here. Lot's of passion. The fact that even the people going "CCP sucks and this all sucks" are not simply wandering off and playing COD or something means that they see the potential. They want this game to rock. And it will. Possibly not with Uprising though.
Some things to keep in mind about CCP's other game releases:
Eve Online's first Post-Beta release, called Second Genesis:
Had no Tech 2 ships
Had no Conquest system at all
Had no player conquerable structures
PVE missions were limited to level 1 (now there are 5)
5000 systems with 1 station apiece (now much bigger, much denser)
Conquerable stations were added 6 months after release, along with Tech 2 blueprints
Sovereignty was added a year later, along with battlecruisers and mining barges and formal alliances
Cap ships were introduced a year after that, and carriers and Titans 8 months later.
All in all there have been 16 free expansions in 10 years.
Hopefully we can all agree on this:
Uprising will expand on (hopefully improve) the build we're currently playing
Uprising will NOT contain all of the features we want, individually or collectively
End of Beta or no, six to eight months later, there will be another upgrade, and then another, and another, for a long time.
There are features that I'm still waiting on in Eve (I want to own a club on Jita 4-4, kitten!). There are features I'm waiting for in Dust (plants, water, more than 4 maps!) But I'm willing to wait, because there's never going to be a Dust 2, just better and better and more and more for as long as New Eden has players.
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Klivve Cussler
Ransoms Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.04.03 21:13:00 -
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Quote:We dont get in
-no market or trading (never seen an mmo that you cant trade in)
-no ability to grudge match (which a lot of corps use for training, teaching, testing of stuff, friendly/fun matches)
-no pve
My point is we're not getting this in Uprising. We're going to get it. It's coming. I want it too. I want all that stuff. More maps, more depth, markets, alliances, corp tools, social spaces, station conquest. Hell I want quick matches to actually take place in tranquility instead and be visible from orbit instead of who-knows-where.
If you are an Eve junky, then you know that there will be more releases, and that they'll address the issues ab
The point of the Open Beta was not new functionality. It wasn't new maps, new weapons, or new gameplay. The point of the open beta was to let a million players loose in New Eden with assault rifles and see what shook loose. How big a draw distance can we get away with? How many players per match? How many concurrent matches? What happens when we hook up to TQ and there's a massive fleet battle in the same system? How many market transactions, chat channels, voice conversations can the system handle. How do we get the engine better? How can have textures and assets that can be downloaded from the web in a reasonable time when the game loads and still load fast and look good in game? Is hit detection really broken? Are tanks really OP? Making the maps small and reducing variability allowed devs to eliminate variables and zero in on problems. It forced high-intensity matches to maximize load. Limiting the suits to one of each type allowed the devs to refine the roles. Basically, the devs have been using the beta period to refine the core gameplay: boots in the dust shooting at each other, linked in real-time to a universe populated by half a million players who get very very bitchy when their gameplay is disrupted. That has gotten better over the last year. Less glitches, less bugs. Less honestly OP builds. Better hit detection.
Once the beta is over, the floodgates on the content that the core gameplay powers can open. Starting with Uprising, and continuing from there.
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Klivve Cussler
Ransoms Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.04.03 21:23:00 -
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Quote:BTW I'm a huge fan of your books
And I'm a Canuck, so Free Beers is awesome! |
Klivve Cussler
Ransoms Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.04.03 21:30:00 -
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Two major updates per year is the cycle that Eve Online is in, so it's probably set at the corporate level to do the same for Dust. |
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