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Threadnaught has entered “siege mode”

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Oh my. I’ve not seen a forums thread filled with so much venomous anger since I played Star Wars Galaxies and SOE had just released the NGE.

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I can’t say I am shocked by recent events. I called this back when I was posting about how Dominion was potentially an NGE event. It seems that the quality of EVE Online has fallen since that expansion considerably.

Many people are angry and want answers but more importantly, we want accountability, honesty and ultimately our beloved game fixed.

So, am I going to rant about it here?  No, I just can’t bring myself to rake them over the coals. I can’t. If an army fails to take a beachhead, who is to blame? The generals who were leading that army.

Good leadership and organization comes from the top down and that’s who you blame when the advance fails. The soldiers may be smart, but they have to follow orders and when those orders are faulty, objectives are not achieved.

Look, if CCP is to succeed and find a way out of this mess, they need to realize that they have bitten off more than they can chew. They need help. It’s obvious that they simply do not have the resources to fix the current game play issues and release the Incarna/Dust expansions that they need for cash flow.

CCP, you have a time honored tradition of doing things differently, perhaps it’s time to get back to those roots. You need help from both a business standpoint and a technical one.

Let us, the community, help you. We are one of the greatest gaming communities out there and we are so angry because we are eager to continue be part of something that we together have spent many years building.

The CSM has people who are very business savvy. Mynxee and her in game friend Venom Orchid have collectively forgotten more about how to run a business than you will ever know. Talk to them, listen to their words and do what they are telling you. They have more to offer you than you can see.

At the FanFests, you are always telling use how impressed you are with the multitude of third party applications that exist, such as the EVE Dev billboards, EVEmon and Capsuleer. Obviously you have a number of technically capable people who like to spend time coding on EVE related applications. Get these people to sign an NDA, send them the code and let them have at it. It might surprise you what they can produce.

Thoughts?

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Dominion is another SWG:NGE….unless it doesn’t go live

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I’ve been spending the morning reading the new Dev blog on how CCP is fixing sovereignty.  I’ve also been reading the comments thread on the EVE forums (at 23 pages at the time of this blog entry) and I have to say, the majority  of the responses are not in favor of the changes.  Most people think it will break EVE Online to the point that no one will want to be in 0.0 space.

The TL;DR version is that a typical system will take roughly 2 billion isk a month to maintain once you have it fully developed.  Given all the upgrades to the space that you can add, you simply can not generate the needed income if you are an alliance that is considered small.  I have to agree with the sentiment on the EVE forums here, this simply will not work and all the thoughts that come into my head are already being spoken on the EVE forums and the EVE Blogging community.  The best response I’ve seen on the EVE forums sums everything up by Bobby Atlas and oddly enough, it’s been quoted in post number 666 (I’m not kidding), http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1210267&page=23#666.

Yes, our beloved EVE Blogging community, in a rare event, is agreeing with the sentiment on the EVE forums.  For ease of reading, I have setup a shared Google Reader page for those responses:  http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F03749674846786948488%2Flabel%2FSOV.  As more blogging articles are posted talking about the soverignity changes, I’ll add them to this shared page.

Everyone, keep reading, thinking and posting your thoughts as there are intelligent discussions going on both the EVE forums and the blogging community.

The debater in my heart is happy to see such discussion but by the same token, I am very concerned that the upcoming changes that caused this debate will simply break 0.0 in EVE.  One of two things will result.  People will simply not go to 0.0 as the risk exceedingly outweighs the rewards or many people will simply leave EVE as it’s becoming World of Warcraft in space with 0.0 becoming arenas.

Many people are claiming that these changes are going to have an NGE effect on EVE Online.  To refresh everyone’s memory, SWG:NGE was a bait and switch upgrade.  Buy the next expansion and change the game to a new game and not let anyone know about the change until after it happened.  I was there for that and let me tell you, it was not pretty.

The sovereignty changes to EVE are not another NGE.  We all can see the changes coming and that’s what makes this different.  The part of the NGE event where Sony did not listen to the players however, has the potential to happen here.  I’ve not seen such consensus of thought and discussion on the EVE forums since the proposed speed balancing.  We all remember what happened with that change, CCP listened to the players, modified what they planned and released a better patch to the game.

I hope the CCP listens to the players again and revises what they are planning on releasing on December 1.  As it stands now, they need to delay the expansion and make the changes that everyone on the EVE forums is calling for. People think it will be another NGE, I have to agree the the potential for an NGE event set of results is there.  We will have to simply wait and see.

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