By Jim Rossignol on March 9th, 2009 at 7:15 pm.
EG have posted an enormous interview I did with one of CCP’s designers, Noah Ward, about the forth-coming “Apocrypha” update to Eve Online. It includes information about wormholes, tech 3, the new-player experience, and the general enhancements within the game, as well as some more detailed thoughts about how the development team actually produces patches. That last bit perhaps goes some way to answering the age old Eve-patch question of “why did they fix x when they could have fixed y?” The answer being because X actually has a team dedicated to working on it…
Anyway, go read.
09/03/2009 at 19:50 Tworak says:
Damn, almost forgot my account runs out tomorrow. BRB, PLEX. D=
09/03/2009 at 21:52 michaelfeb16 says:
I wonder how many have gotten into EVE thanks to RPS. You guys reminded me of it and compelled me to finally try it of a long time putting it off.
09/03/2009 at 22:04 Francisco says:
well im one of them, rps articles made me check the trial on steam ;)
31 days and going ;D (loving every minute, go 0.0)
09/03/2009 at 22:15 Andy says:
It’s not often you get to here games designers going into the methods they use and why Agile is better than Waterfall etc. very interesting.
09/03/2009 at 23:12 kyrieee says:
Jim, where did you get the idea that BoB were disbanded because of a missed alliance payment? That was just a really early rumour
Haargoth Agamar did it…right?
09/03/2009 at 23:51 Meat Circus says:
This sounds amazing.
I really must get myself into a new corp so I can experience some hot wormhole action.
10/03/2009 at 00:18 Polysynchronicity says:
Yo, Meat Circus. Check out “MEK Enterprises” if you’re looking for something mostly casual. We’re planning to do wormhole exploration right off the bat, and a fellow RPSer (or anyone, really) is always welcome.
10/03/2009 at 00:19 Meat Circus says:
@Polysynchronicity
Thanks! What’s your avatar in-game? I’m Grabcocque.
10/03/2009 at 09:00 Nuyan says:
I’m quite sure his avatar is Polysynchronicity, isn’t it Polysynchronicity? :-)
10/03/2009 at 11:44 Meat Circus says:
OH.
10/03/2009 at 12:11 mpk says:
I wonder how many have gotten into EVE thanks to RPS.
There was a thread on EVE-O a couple years back that went along the lines of “I play EVE and it’s all Jim Rossignols fault”
10/03/2009 at 12:39 Jim Rossignol says:
Haargoth Agamar did it…right?
Right, he elected not to pay the alliance bill, thus disbanding the alliance.
10/03/2009 at 12:59 Meat Circus says:
I play EVE and it’s all Jim Rossignol’s fault.
10/03/2009 at 15:16 egg says:
I play EVE and it’s all Jim Rossignol’s fault.
10/03/2009 at 16:41 Rufus T. Firefly says:
Haargoth didn’t neglect to pay the alliance bill, he used his role as executor of the holding corp to kick all corporations out of the alliance and then disbanded it.
That was after liberating a bunch of ISK and a baker’s dozen of dreadnaughts from the hangars, of course.
The Mittani has a nice column up on Ten Ton Hammer about how wars in EVE are lost, it covers this incident and the current 3-week ongoing camp of PR- that has incapacitated the KenZoku capital fleet.
10/03/2009 at 17:36 modulus says:
I play EVE and it’s all Jim Rossignol’s fault.
10/03/2009 at 21:04 Phil says:
I play EVE and it’s all Tom Francis’ fault.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=180867&site=pcg
10/03/2009 at 21:33 Mil says:
I don’t play EVE, but I’ve read quite a bit about it these last few weeks since BoB was disbanded. It seems that doing anything of consequence requires a lot of effort and politicking, so I’m not too attracted to actually play this game for the moment.
How do RPS readers play EVE? Small ratting corporations, big PvP alliances, something else?
11/03/2009 at 12:40 mpk says:
Um, we’re in a small PvP alliance that occasionally rats. I make most of my money selling the loot harvested from the wrecks of my vanquished opponents. Although I do a fair trade in haulers on the side.
Nothing in EVE is easy, but what you get out of it is proportional to what you put in.