Posted - 2010.08.13 16:02:00 - [1]

 

Beginning Monday, August 16, we will be publishing a series of blogs outlining our initiative to tackle the infamous lag monster. CCP Zulu's newest blog provides us with a look at what's in store.

Posted - 2010.08.13 16:27:00 - [15]

 

Nnngh, can't wait

Posted - 2010.08.13 16:42:00 - [22]

 

Edited by: CCP Oveur on 13/08/2010 16:43:31
Edited by: CCP Oveur on 13/08/2010 16:42:50

Originally by: Doof Hardcastle

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so it took you 8 months and another large expansion and dozens of threadnaughts to realize that holy **** we might have actually made stuff worse? Oh wait, no it was just the public relations fiasco because people outside of eve finally heard about how **** you are. That was what elicited response in under a week.

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Yes, that was totally the reason. You saw right through me. It's why we now spend 20% of the time of the largest MMO development team in the world, on a 7 year game, just fixing bugs.

Well, we actually have been doing that for a very long time.

But you are right, we did listen and moved a lot more focus on fixing lag specifically than just fixing in general. More on that later in an upcoming blog.

Originally by: Doof Hardcastle

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Congrats, you're douches.

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I love Jersey Shore just as much as the next guy so I take that as a compliment

Posted - 2010.08.13 17:09:00 - [29]

 

Originally by: Bajsek

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Then it must be a very strange coincidence that this blog followed right after people started to ***** about EvE on internetz. And we thought those two things are somehow connected... silly me.

So.. 18 months?

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No coincidence. Happened something like this.

Dude: "Hey, since we're focusing more on lag, maybe we should tell everyone about it as well so they see the progress and what we're thinking"

Me: "What, you serious? I don't understand half of that ****, you think 350 thousand EVE players will be interested in semahors?"

Dude: "That's semaphores Nathan. And obviously not everyone is as dense as you. I mean that in a good way."

Dudette: "Yeah, and those that do understand can perhaps explain the stuff to others as well."

So here we are. Tech blog bombardment. Hope you like it.


And on the 18 months, which is largely attributed to a meeting with me, which meeting minute I didn't get to read before it was published, where I could have explained this better, is as follows.

We deliver expansions every 6 months. The winter expansion is being planned on Monday and includes improvements, fixes, content and new features, including quite a few of the stuff listed on the Evelopedia prioritized list. We also spend 20% of the time fixing stuff, as one does.

The summer expansion is planned in January and will follow the same pattern. Improvements, fixes, content and new features with 20% spent on fixing stuff.

The winter expansion in 2011, and this is where the 18 months comes is, has a major theme change. Improvements, fixes. Not so much new features. Still 20% fixing. Because from there on and for the foreseeable future, we will be improving all the stuff we already have.

That's why I said "no new features". Everyone is working on improving what we already got. And there is so much we already have that it'll probably keep us busy for more than a year revisiting features.

And that's delivered in winter 2011.

And it's less than 18 months.

And I like to do short sentences.

I should probably turn this into a blog.