Fanfest 2009

[svartalf]

EVE Fanfest 2009 - 2manydj's headlining Fanfest

I'm looking forward to Youtubes of Fanfest, so if you go, make some vids!

The creators of the highly popular Sci-fi game have opened the doors for the whole of Reykjavik to come to one of the largest and most creative parties that Laugardalshöll Convention Center will ever hold.

Does that mean IRL girls, zomg?!

 

[svartalf]

YouTube - EVE FANFEST 2009 - Dominion Presentation Part 1/2

YouTube - EVE FANFEST 2009 - Dominion Presentation Part 2/2

 

[`mongoose]

I have friends in BDCI and obviously they've had a strong presence at fanfest.

here's some notes from fanfest along with some "informed" speculation about what might be coming in december.

I've anonomised it but those are the only changes made.

Here are some Notes taken from people live at FF. I’ve added some comments aswell

CCP wants to change "stuff" but people fear change. EXODUS was supposed to be a mass move from Empire to nullsec, but it didn't seem to work so well; it became a mass exodus into high sec level fours instead.

RMR with titans, CCP thought there'd be only "three titans in game, ever." Superweapon that is so awesmoe it will never be used; shows goon/PL 27 titan video with caption "how do you spell overkill?" and the Goon/PL etc titan conga line "not only weapons but tools of joy"

Heh – they only imagined there would be 3 titans…

with DOMINION, they're introducing: new sov capture system, new sov infracstructure, pirate arcs, new mail system. goal behind the new sov capture system is designed to be less blobby - cue starcraft motivational picture.

upgrade system. old system used time purely for upgrading, new system empowers player to make decisions. the new system requires you to live in the system and use it; means no more AFK empires.

by being active in the system, you'll get "pirate magnets" - increases pirate/rat chance "ore prospecting arrays" - more roids? "survey networks" - helps with finding plexes "entrapment" - upgrades plex quality "quantum flux generator" - increases chance of wormhole spawning "advanced logistics network" "cynosural suppresion" "cynosural navigation" "supercapital construction" "supercarrier docking facilities."

So – basically the space you own must be used – the more you use it the better it gets. The more you mine the more becomes avaliable. You have to use a system a lot to get the advanced stuff. Basically your ‘capital’ will be encouraged to become a hive of activity. Start looking for some decent renters I guess. The flipside to this is that the more ppl carebearing = more targets to shoot. And of course you can disrupt carebear activity and capture space. (no more 100-200 man dread fleets)

ALSO SUPERCARRIER DOCKING FACILITIES – MAKES ME VERY HAPPY!!!

fighter bombers are supposed to balance capital ships. dreads have become anti capital ships but were introduced for shooting at POSes. no more Titan "superduperwinbutton" - targeting, no aoe. still scary and deadly but you pick who to instapop.

Dreads now = Anti Pos (Artillery)
Carriers = superiority (tanks)
Titans = anti everything
Supercarriers = big f**king heavy carriers – kingpindingalings (like xxxxx said – moms in groups will be dangerous)

No more doomsdays. No more 60 man dread fleets (will be more balanced)

speedboat pirate epic arcs that use assault firgates/interceptors. level 3s with "phat l00t."

wants to create a "advanced warfare tutorial" - pvp in new player experience

mail system will allow you to sort by date/use labels to organise/works similar to G-Mail. I'm told by CCP Gecko that it's fully functional at the moment.

as i mentioned earlier, COSMOS is being renamed to "NEW EDEN" – CCP torfi called it "spacebook"(lolfacebook) but quickly backtracked. allows a broad range of ingame activities from browser/mobile, robuts technology for game to web connectivity. haargoth joke.

new ingame browser, basd on the enginebehind google's chrome browser and apple's webkit. Provides many use ful tools - webpage rendering, javascript and plugin handling, interprocess communication. layers of awesomeness goes "webkit -> chromium -> awesomium -> chromium IPC -> python." latest tech, full AJAX support - torfi goes to google maps and zooms in on us at the convention center.

flash is currently enabled o sisi on the IGB, but will be disabled for dominion due to security/stability issues. may be re-enabled later, same goes for other plugins

So cool new in game browser based on chrome – can use google map in game – lots of other new ace stuff coming.

PLANETS in eve online will be the same planets seen in DUST 514. pic of planet; looks fucking AMAZING. clouds shadow on the water, the nightside has awesome city lights and the planets have awesome cloud systems. clouds move, the whole planets are procedurally generated; they're all but random by using sliders, and every planet will be "unique."

Sounds awesome.

DOMINION release date is December 1st 2009.

There we go – 1st Dec

can manage the lives of people on planets, apparently, but more on that tomorrow at 15:00.

ambulation/INCARNA has taken a new spin, showing a video. video of pods/changing from a demigod in space to a normal bag of meat - "it makes me sick" the video captions.

Planets to become a future resource – can walk, move, manage resources, industry build cities, destroy them, play dust…etc etc – sounds …..big?

Hilmar on stage, thakning us; says that cab drivers keep approaching him and thanking him for the business. saw me on pvp tournament heeee. round tables were filled out; even the marketing round table that had 1 person last year. alliance panel "wants to see more of putting players in spotlight."

Yeah yeah get on with it.

on another note wihle hilmar is rabbling on, we were shown the new Avatar doomsday animation earlier; it was fucking gorgeous. I don't think anyone got any pictures of it. it's a golden dragonball Z thing infront of the avatar, that shoots out infront like a LASOR. abathur explained more about the new dominion sov system; wants to shrink alliance space down a bit, make it more expensive to maintain so people bring more pets in.

See comments on space

erebus doomsday will be a beam of antimatter. oblivion will be billions of small missiles in a directed swarm, whilst the minmatar one is "a couple of huge missiles that cross fingers and hope to get where they want to go."

xxxxxxx will be happy – erebus sounds nasty - caldari is missiles – typical, avatar is dragonball z – wtf, minmater is ‘hit and hope’ – lulz Smile

pub crawl: apparently left Iceland low on beer. sent Oveur out last night to fix it but they haven't seen him since; got a video this morning. video shows nathan... well, hilmar can't work the projector. video shows wormhole space. star trek esque nathan "captain's log" en route to planet earth with emergency supplies. seenathan in a polaris frigate with a POLAR BEER keg underneath. hal-esque computer that refuses to work with nathan. hilmar and co come to save him.

nathan/oveur comes on stage. he seems to be going over the stuff that i cmomented on earlier - ill updagte if there's any changes.

Basically people getting drunk in iceland – blah blah blah

innovative use of new platforms; nathan shows picture of "wiiMine." that;ll make it more fun.

75,000 to 80,000 book copies sold.

something called EXPANDIN' DA UNAVERZE now by Torfi and Noah, so i've booted back up because i think it's about installing new 0.0 regions sometime in the far future. CCP Abathur mentioned that they want to do so and make us, the players, find out how to get there and find out how to connect it to Known space.

Basically the galaxy will get bigger in the future – more 0.0 regions – more space – but you have to ‘discover it’ – sic – star trek final frontier kinda tripe. Sounds fun.

seems to be a rehash of yesterday. new planets/stars, npe, pirate faction arcs, fighter bombers, ingame mail, new sov infrastructure/capture system, fleet finder.

More stuff – nothing new.

wishlist for future: Incarna allows you to explore stations and run own establishment. you'll be tracking down figurs frmo the EVE backstory, engage in illegal/clandestine activities. core tech is being worked on, you can gamble with "real" ISK - i assume he means kroner

More cool ambulation stuff.

Also had a chat with some people – will try to get more info. New hi end minerals avaliable by MINING COMETS (which only pass through space randomly), When a comet passes by you can spend a week getting all the juciy gold from it (and protecting it). Hi-ends will be nerfed significantly – f errogel chains will not be as profitable (xxxxxxx mentioned this to me the other day)

Will find out more…

Summary of stuff coming

Smaller empires, less blobbing, titans and moms better (titans not dding, moms actually good), carriers good, battleships still good – T3 Battleships, T3 Frigates, more 0.0 space, more oppurtunity to develop your space, much less pos warfare, more roaming, with actual goals and targets, supercapital docking facilities, missions that you can do with ceptors (goal being doing it QUICKLY), planets, cities, people, Dust (halo style combat), apps for in game browser, no more static ridiculously expensive hi-end moons making 12 bill a month.

Alliances will have to have some balance now – and can no longer be based on PL’s – hoard all moons and have infinite isk without actually using the space – style.

-End snip-

All in all - very interesting and daunting. I reckon december will see alot of unexpected downtime and bug fixing but I think that Eve might well be 10 times better and way more friendly to new players come January.

M

 

[svartalf]

Heh – they only imagined there would be 3 titans…

He says this at 7 mins 58 of video 1. Look at that funny Titan convoy!

I know at last year they had a talk from the guy who was working with them on the new lighting for Eve. Now they've actually got it in an Eve demo. This is the new lighting for Incarna...
YouTube - Eve-Online Fanfest 2009 - New lighting, real radiosity demo
Very awesome, but bloody slow progress imho. I wonder why? Could it be that they've got all their devs working on... a FPS?

YouTube - Eve-Online Fanfest 2009 - Dust 514 Demo (Part 1)

 

[LordjOX]

They keynote and Dominion talk is recommended and basically recaps what mongoose said

However I think CCP might be gaping over too much here. "Civilization" style planet interaction? DUST? Facebook for EVE?

 

[svartalf]

I guess with the "Facebook" question, that you're referring to this

EVE's upcoming social networking portal could grow to become much more.


In light of CCP's ongoing efforts to expand the EVE concept into new markets (with the console gamer-friendly DUST 514 game on the horizon and the more socially-driven Incarna project a few years out), new tools will be needed to coordinate efforts between allied elements of EVE's increasingly diverse playerbase. CCP's Nathan "Oveur" Richardsson and others spoke as to how New Eden will soon be players' "EVE away from EVE" last Friday at Fanfest 2009. If done properly, New Eden will represent an unprecedented level of communication and social networking not only within the growing EVE universe, but in the entire MMO category as well.

The centerpiece of New Eden is both character and corporate alliance profiles (which will show corp info, employment info, skill queue - and basically as much or as little about you and yours as you like). Of particular note is the Facebook-style status message, which you'll be able to change to alert friends to what's going on with you in or out of game. New Eden will also provide corporations and alliances with private forums, an important consideration given the upcoming wave of console-only players (with limited browser capability and no way to set up their own forums, should they elect to create or join an unaffiliated corporation or alliance) in DUST 514.

New Eden's similarity to Facebook's core features has led some of EVE's players to dub it "Spacebook", though it seems like CCP is taking a page or two from Google's playbook as well. The new email system will be accessible with any Internet browser via a Gmail-like interface. A Google-style calendar will help players track CCP events, shared events like fleet engagements, and even your next dentist appointment on your personal calendar.

CCP's efforts with New Eden are just one way the indy turned multi-national developer is building up the EVE IP. Tony Gonzales's premier EVE novel, "EVE: The Empyrean Age" has sold over 87,000 copies (roughly a third of EVE's current subscriber base). A second novel, "The Burning Life," is slated for November, and Tony Gonzales will reprise his groundbreaking premiere with a planned third novel. Oveur noted that CCPs branding efforts will grow to include a "strongly" increased mobile presence (including specifically support for Blackberry devices), a revitalized API including limited 2-way capabilities (for greater "crowdsourcing" and third-party app development), and the EVElopedia wiki, all of this in concert with the wide-ranging New Eden efforts. Most recently, EVE Online apparel will be available through Jinx (J!NX : EVE Online Collection) starting October 16th.

No release date was given for New Eden, only a timeframe between EVE's Dominion expansion (launching December 1st) and CCP's future EVE-related projects, including DUST 514 and Incarna. Given New Eden's diverse features set, players will most likely see a phased implementation of the concept, starting with email, profiles, and the calendar, and growing to include more diverse mobile and voicechat features as they become available.

Original: "New Eden" to Provide Communication, Organization in EVE's Universe | Ten Ton Hammer

On another note, here is the Economy Lecture: Mostly about Unholy Rage.
EVE's Economics and "Unholy Rage" Video | Ten Ton Hammer
Pretty boring, but it's here for completeness' sake.

 

[svartalf]

Former GoonSwarm CEO Darius Johnson presentation includes current ownership map.
Goonswarm's Darius Johnson at the EVE FanFest 2009 Alliance Panel | Ten Ton Hammer