Eve Online thoughts....

There has been lots happening in the wider world of Eve online. Plenty for the bloggers and streamers to get excited about but more on that later.

Not so up front were a few posts about the upcoming new version of a first person shooter set in the Eve universe. Questions have been asked if Eve really needs that "other" game and should they (CCP) even diversify? The two posts that talk about it:
http://sandciderandspaceships.blogspot.ie/2016/03/blog-banter-73-other-eve-game.html
https://evehermit.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/bb73-the-wide-world-of-eve/

Leading on from the CCP diversification question is something else I found interesting. An analysis of CCP financials from http://marketsforisk.blogspot.ie/2016/04/ccp-financial-statements-for-2015-review.html. The best TL;DR quote I can give from that post that sums it all up is:

"Perhaps where CCP has fallen down is how it uses that cash on other projects - and 2013 and 2014 was all about cleaning up that mess (including raising new equity in 2015) - and therefore its lack of revenue growth.  Eve Online revenues are back to below 2010 levels.

In summary, CCP has been cleaned up and has plenty of cash to invest in new projects (fingers crossed!)."
 
A key debate will be if CCP can put Eve Online back onto a growth path, what is CCP going to be spending its cash on and how will Valkyrie do."
What  reading that part of the article leaves me with asking the same question of Eve online as I ask about the "new" FPS they are planning. That question is, can they compete with other products of the FPS genre. Or more precisely can it competitive and profitable.
Take the FPS, can CCP produce a first person shooter that can compete and be profitable with competition the likes of Overwatch, Battlefield series and the Call of Duty series. Heck even if they make if a free to play game (It most certainly will be), then the main competition will be Planetside 2. Can CCP make a Planetside 2 killer game. I'll wait on that judgement till I see what they produce at fanfest. At fanfest this year we will get to see what is really up their sleeve.
One thing I hope is that right from the get go they make the game 100% involved with Eve Online. It's the only hook they have to make them "special".
And unlike poor Dist 514 I hope the new game has player trading and access to the Eve market and contract system as a whole from the start.   
Not that Eve online's life is going to be easy. No man's sky and what I consider to be the real Eve killer Star Citizen. Both have the potential to take away a lot from Ev online. Time will tell.


Speaking about the doom of Eve online Gelvon has made a lot of the upcoming expansion and it's changes to the economy. https://evehermit.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/chaos/
More on the changes a great post to read is http://nevillesmit.com/blog/2016/3/31/the-huddled-masses


There has been a lot of down feelings on the direction of Eve Online. The best way of reading that in posts and better than I can describe are better read from these posts:
http://www.lowseclifestyle.com/2016/03/hi-there.html
https://evehermit.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/toxicity/

CCP are trying some new things to get people to log in daily and like most of things CCP does with Eve Online, better late than never. Only when CCP does things that other games do, CCP always does it in a different way that seems to negate teh reason for doing the thing in the first place.
Eve Online dailies: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=476516
All sounds good in the dev post but if I can't be arsed to do level 4's then I doubt I can be arsed to go find an npc to kill. When implemented I'll take a spin and go kill one npc and one npc only lol. Thanks for putting more of a grind into he most non fun grindy game online CCP. Hint hint I log in every day CCP not need to make me work for that privilege. And there I was thinking I was paying for the game. I would insert more sarcasm but I can't be bothered.


When I mentioned more on the greater news my meaning was towards this next subject, World War Bee. In short the bigest alliance in the game is finally getting it's ass handed to it. I'm happy about that. Not that I've had any real dealings with the goons. Like most people in Eve my only dealings with CFC/Imperium has been to be a "victim" from the likes of ganking on the events like Burn Jita. 
I think my feelings are more drawn from an underdog feeling more than anything else. I think the Imperium/CFC have poked the Eve universe too many times and now the universe is doing more than poking back. Better reading on the subject is here:

Gelvon has been bankrolling a lot of players to attack:
http://greedygoblin.blogspot.ie/2016/04/the-long-march-to-deklein-dark-years.html

Crossingzebras has been really great at stating the way the war is going.
http://crossingzebras.com/how-to-watch-the-war/
http://crossingzebras.com/bee-careful-what-you-wish-for/
http://crossingzebras.com/bee-prepared/
http://crossingzebras.com/the-story-so-far/
http://crossingzebras.com/the-fall-of-a-tyrant/

A great blog on the day to day war details is Nosygamer.
Way more than I can link but a good starting point is:
http://nosygamer.blogspot.ie/search/label/casino_war
There is so much more detailed content on that blog and it is really worth reading.

Nevillesnit has talked about what the end of the war will be like.
http://nevillesmit.com/blog/2016/4/6/will-deklein-fall

There has been a lot of comedy value to the war and the best I've seen are the images from Eveoganda: http://eveoganda.blogspot.ie/2016/04/far-side-of-mittens.html

And I read about the the new Sindel song. Just like her other songs they state things well.