My slant on CCP, Eve, and the CSP panel.

Coming over from the world of Everquest and other “Sony” based games has given me a bit of a different point of view coming into the world of EVE. First I still tend to cringe every time I do a mission for SOE. The biggest thing to surprise me is how cold blooded and ruthless it gets on the forums. EVE players have made an art form out of trolling. My guess is it has a lot to due with EVE being a PVP based game. Most of the time it can be quite entertaining, but it does tend to bury some very good ideas under a lot of bull. This is probably one of the main reasons I decided to run for CSM and to start this blog site.

I am the type of person that prefers to sit back and listen to the entire ranting, strip off the emotion and make a decision based on the facts and logic. A point in case it I remember a poster something to the effect that he/she “wanted, no demanded that this change be put in and that CCP put it in TODAY or he would quit the game!” Needless to say a good portion of the people wished him good bye and a good time playing WOW. I can also guarantee you no matter how good his idea was, CCP was not even look at it due to the way he presented it. First, any idea presented to CCP for consideration must be well though out, and worded with minimal emotion. CCP is a company, and EVE is the product that they produce. And as a company they need to look at any change put to them and see how it affects the company and the game. I am not trying to side up with or “suck up” to CCP but trying to bring to a point the following. Any idea that is presented to CCP, you need to strip any emotions from it and present to them just the well thought out facts. Demanding, bullying, whining, etc will only tent to get them to close their ears and eyes to what may be a really good idea.

As for wanting an idea implemented right now or today, sorry but I will not back it. There are most likely more than a million of lines of code in EVE, and you want to change/add code into it within a few days? That could make the “boot.ini” fiasco pale in comparison. I have seen in my own job what happens when someone put in just a “little code change” without testing or checking with other areas. The 3 lines of code brought down the entire mainframe for 3 hours right at deadline.

What I hope to bring is a calm logical voice to the CSM that can take the ideas put fourth in a very raw form on the forums and other areas, and then turn them into a well thought out form that CCP would put serious thought to. This includes ideas for all parts of the game, including PVP, alliance, mining, exploration, PVE, trading, and manufacturing, as they are ALL needed for EVE to succeed and grow.

I plan to take input on ideas from other players from reading the forums, along with other sources including blogs on this site and others, and I will also have an email set up as well. Messaging via AIM and MSN will be welcome as well.