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Figured we could do with a new thread for upcoming expansions.

Transferred from the other thread:

Post-Incarna Patches
- Tornado (the ship; also: Chances are "the other races will get schematics of the Tornado from their spies, whip up some quick skunkworks designs and have comparable ships warping out of construction yards pretty quickly thereafter, if not at the same time.")
- Ishukone Watch Scorpion (for AUR + hull)
- DED site rebalance

Winter 2011 expansion
- 0.0 improvements
- Nebulae
- New font
- Customizeable API keys (ASAP)

Winter 2011 rebalancing
- Supercapitals

The List
- Cyno graphics (together with other effects, like engine trails)
- Ship painting
- Contracts API (after customizeable API keys)
- Corp interface UI

2012
- Dust 514
- Starbase revamp

2014
- T3 frigates

Rebalance: Confirmed
- Dramiel nerf
- Supercap rebalance (esp. supercarrier nerf)
- Gallente/hybrid rebalance

Rebalance possibilities
- AFs and 4th bonus
- Capitals are "more or less" balanced, supercaps are not
- Drakes are too good compared to other BCs
- BCs are too good compared to other classes, but we want to buff the others mostly

Other comments

Mining changes (no date):

Quote:This comes up a lot internally and we're narrowing in on a direction. I like to use fishing and golfing analogies for how player skill and knowledge of the task is a large portion of the experience but socializing or relaxing is another aspect. You pick the proper club or lure, swing or cast, then wait or walk. It gives you time to reflect in between times of intense concentration. We're not there with our current mining. Reynir (EVE's creator) also uses a fishing analogy but he talks about Icelandic fishing trollers that comb the ocean in groups because there is more chance of finding a big school of fish when there are many boats and one boat couldn't catch them all once found. This is how we would like ring mining to be. Small pockets of valuable stuff you need to be lucky to find. Obviously all these changes would also be done in such a way it would deter macros.

Incarna plans:

Quote:The current plans for Incarna are to get captains quarters out, then do establishments and corp offices and then move on to more NPC gameplay.

Fitting ships without boarding them:

Quote:we don't have a way of fitting a ship you're not in. Luckily we are already working on that problem.

Skill queue on EVE gate:

Quote:Yes, we intend to put skill queue functionality and many other in-game features onto EVE Gate.

Resource distribution (esp. moons):

Quote:We don’t want to create an even distribution of resources but rather an interesting distribution that has you constantly coveting your neighbor’s space.

Incursions can't spawn in rookie constellations, in Jove space, or in Sansha space.

No T2 capitals until current capitals are rebalanced and get more fitting options

Anti-missile "ewar" will come once missiles are in a sane state

API:

Quote:Here is the current unprioritized backlog:
API: Contracts
API: As a user I can view broadcasts
API: As a user I can view bulletins that are posted on the alliance's bulletin board
API: As a user I can view bulletins that are posted on the corps bulletin board
World Data
* Include Incursion information
* Sovereignity additions
* Concord war list
* List of all corporations
* Full EVE Map data
* Insurance data
* Historical Map Data
Planetary Interaction
Blueprints
Loyalty points in the API

Quote:Yes the ability to change bloodlines is planned in the future.

Quote:Intel tools - we generally don't like that a lot of intel-gathering involves little-to-no effort. We would like to make changes to make this sort of thing more interesting and involved. We're generally of the opinion that simply putting local into delayed mode is a bad fix.

Add to this winter, Soundwave confirmed they will be changing supercaps to make them more balanced, while he was at the alliance tournament.

I believe they have also stated t2 logistic cruisers will be getting a warp speed boost (to 3.75 au/s to match other t2 cruisers)

Thanks for the compilation!

Yeah, 3.75, and looks like Oneiros might get some boost.
The thread (no super-caps on it), just Logi and Dram:

http://eve-search.com/thread/1525620/
http://eve-search.com/thread/1525620/page/all - for one-page view

http://eve-search.com/search/author/CCP%20Tallest - Balanzor CCP Tallest -stalker. Scared of that dev, he congratulated SHC on 1st birthday.

Notes from the CSM meetings
http://www.eveonline.com/council/transcr...5_2011.pdf

Supercaps
They are discussing fighter- or fighter bomber only drone bays as a main nerf point. Also, the CSM agrees that titans are basically balanced. Sorry, but I call bullshit. Titans can actually track battleships with their guns, and they kill one hostile ship every five minutes no matter what. All of which makes fleets of them nearly invincible to subcap attacks. Just because they're 60b a piece doesn't mean they should be iwin buttons. But hey, that's just my opinion ...

Flying in Space (FiS) expansion theme: 0.0
Specifically: null-sec sovereignty related features, supercap proliferation and the rule of super-capitals. As announced before.

Walking in Stations (WiS) expansion theme: Establishments
Establishments, which will also deal with smuggling contraband and boosters. This includes moving interfering with smuggling contraband to player hands, including the possibility of bribery and corruption. Establishments will be the main point for booster sales.

I thought they had corp offices first, but I'm not going to complain!

Schedule
The expansion will have multiple phases leading up to the man expansion. Expect a lot of "this is not an expansion lol" forum posts.

POS Modules
There are thoughts of moving some POS modules outside of the force field to give small gangs more harassment options. This apparently might include CSAAs. Nice idea, it means that you need to actually have defenses on your tower.

No destructible outposts :-(
Not in the near future at least. Meh.

Nebulae
They're coming this time. Honest. Apparently, including 13 different features that you can relate your current position to to make you actually "feel in space". Cool.

Turret Effects
Not turrets. Effects for them. Lazor beams and such. Shell casings flying out of artillery (I'm not kidding). Also, engine trails. And maybe cyno effects.

Local gone and not gone!
Local as we know it will be gone. But it will not simply be "off" or "delayed mode", but replaced by some different mechanic.

3rd Party Apps
They're reworking the API so you can actually play EVE without the client or something. Specifically mentioned was "buying items from the market". Woah.

Aurum/MT
Quoting verbatim:

CCP is introducing Aurum and vanity virtual goods to reduce EVE's reliance on the subscription business model. The intent is to expand the business model, not replace subscription income with virtual goods income; the objective is primarily risk mitigation as opposed to increasing income.

The games industry is currently moving heavily towards microtransaction models, and the risk that the subscription model that EVE depends on will become obsolete is of great concern. Thus, having experience with microtransactions and having the infrastructure in place to move to them should that become necessary is important. That said, CCP does not have any immediate plans to move away from subscriptions as their primary source of income.

I'm sure that means they're going to kill EVE soon.

UI Rework
They want to move more stuff into the 3D world. That would mean actually using pretty space graphics in combat(!). As an example, they want to show some kind of indicator for tracking vs. transversal - that's pretty awesome, IMHO.

Distant Future
- Progressive download client
- Overview rework
- POS rework
- Remove ABC ores from w-space, or at least lower-class w-space
- Archaeology boost
- 0.0 and low-sec boosts. Like, make meta-items produceable in low-sec, and make T2 cheaper to produce in 0.0

Interesting Tidbit
The average EVE player is 31 years old

:-)

It was also revealed that there are approximately 14,000 female account holders – or more precisely, 14,000 account holders who claim that they are women.

Of 360k accounts, that's about 4%.

http://www.evenews24.com/2011/07/30/eve-...p-keynote/

Winter
Rebalancing:
- Supercaps
- Capitals
- Logistics
- Dramiel

Ambulating in Stations:
- Establishments. (Design goal: Every time you do something you should be interacting with another player. Soundwave really wants to take all the station services and give them to players – industry will be done through industry establishments that are run and priced by players that own the stablishment. - woah)

Stuff:
- Nebulas
- New Punisher skin
- EVE Gate gets more features to play EVE without the client

Summer
Rebalancing:
- Hybrids (not kidding!)

(2011-08-26 17:28)Arkady Sadik Wrote: [ -> ]- Establishments. (Design goal: Every time you do something you should be interacting with another player. Soundwave really wants to take all the station services and give them to players – industry will be done through industry establishments that are run and priced by players that own the stablishment. - woah)

Wow

(2011-08-26 22:26)Gottii Wrote: [ -> ]

(2011-08-26 17:28)Arkady Sadik Wrote: [ -> ]- Establishments. (Design goal: Every time you do something you should be interacting with another player. Soundwave really wants to take all the station services and give them to players – industry will be done through industry establishments that are run and priced by players that own the stablishment. - woah)

Wow

Love it.

(2011-08-26 17:28)Arkady Sadik Wrote: [ -> ]- Establishments. (Design goal: Every time you do something you should be interacting with another player. Soundwave really wants to take all the station services and give them to players – industry will be done through industry establishments that are run and priced by players that own the stablishment. - woah)

This sounds excellent!

I really hope the eve gate change means being able to queue skills.

CJ