Comments on: Poetic Discourse: Expansions. Are They Outdated?

By: Banton

Banton — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:44:08 +0000

This is called Agil development model, I hope they have started using if they do it correctly it can really help.

By: o.O

o.O — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:58:00 +0000

*woooosh*

By: badasskitty

badasskitty — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:00:47 +0000

after seeing the vid with ccp unifex my hopes for a kickass winter-expansion were shattered. Somehow they now roll with the new conservatism taking baby steps as he comments which roughly translates to: we will appease you with some bugfixes and for the rest we dont know shit where to go from here.

Am I the only one secretly hoping for a headshot on the Dust stuff? They barely can manage keeping eve from becoming a dinosaur let alone influx it with this outdated first person shooter bullshit

p.s. http://soundcloud.com/mealexg/the-ballad-of-delve…
(shameless plug, hehe)

By: DarthNefarius

DarthNefarius — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:09:40 +0000

Actuallty Inferno wasn't a couple of regular updates it was an absolute mess of patches trying to fix the UI which PO'd nearly everyone.
CCP kept on top of that but they streched themslveds to the MAX probably pushing back other things.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:52:08 +0000

That is a good question…

'What version of EvE are you playing?'

Personally, I'm playing the casual industrialist who dabbles around in highsec tech 2 research and production, nulsec rat farming, and occasional scordite miner. All the while avoiding the rampaging masses of rabid psychopaths you like to call 'PvPers.'

By: DarthNefarius

DarthNefarius — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:33:53 +0000

I agree with Poetic in that CCP's monitoring of changes when all is done at once is very difficult to track… but Escalation/Infero was a phased 2 patches over a month sort of as she suggested and Incursions had an immediate DRASTIC decline but CCP couldn't do jack shit because of the Inferno release prep according to CCP Affinity. Then after the Incursion community was fed the line 'we are watching very carefully what is happening' line but it was a delaying tactic .The 'rollback' was an example that they were clueless and didn't test it themselves or listen squat to feedback from those that actually did incursions until the OTA's were finally changed.

The drone region is still a mess which it'll take then another 2-4 months to make them worthwhile to PvE against with the lack of SEC status boosts & crappy drops currently. I suspect with the summer vactations & Dust release it'll be languishing behind the FW fixes due to lack of manpower.

By: Marcus Malice

Marcus Malice — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:45:38 +0000

Not the first time Poetic Stanziel has wrote a blog about things he knows little to nothing about, and it won't be the last.

By: DarthNefarius

DarthNefarius — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:16:12 +0000

Since the Incursion NERF not a single mothership site has been defeated in NULL/LO. The 'rollbacks' did not do a thing there nor has the subsequent cahnges. HI SEC Incursions barely sees 1/4 of the population it once didat its height. Calling it a FIX is like sawing off a non gangreneous limb and telling the one legged soldier he's now healthy

By: DarthNefarius

DarthNefarius — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:49:05 +0000

You are correct the Vanguards were NOT brought to thier original state. We still make fun of the mathmatically challenged DEVs that gave us the nine-tenths rollback in payouts.

By: Treston Cal

Treston Cal — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:23:42 +0000

Pretty certain they are using RAD process. Agile does not even come close to describe the way they work. Time constraints, minimal testing, and leaving the "corner cases" are all part of RAD – corner cases is where we get to exploit. The easy fixes generally get solved, while the hard ones are deemed "nonprofitable".

By: John Douche

John Douche — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:30:46 +0000

Do not draw conclusion based just on your own childhood.

By: Versuvius Marii

Versuvius Marii — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:20:55 +0000

They sure do, just like you call yourself a good blogger B)

By: trol is as trol doh

trol is as trol doh — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:58:53 +0000

Your intel is so wrong the germans have won the war.
To quote "Incursions were eventually rolled back to their original state," no only some vanguard sites eh OTA were changed and the payments were increased by 10%…..

Please go stand in the corner…

By: Dave from FA sux cox

Dave from FA sux cox — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:18:07 +0000

whats the point here?……exactly ???

By: Lugalbandak

Lugalbandak — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 08:16:54 +0000

Your right , it is broken , its too simple to farm that much isk , ppl need to plex again in pvp ships instead of stabbed fag fast frigates , its not fun anymore