Alliance Tournament 8 – The Final Showdowns
July 3rd, 2010for more information! You can join CCP Soundwave, special Developer guests and a host of PVP Experts in our studio show and watch all the matches each day in glorious High Definition. You can tune in here to catch all the action and catch all past matches on CCP’S Youtube Page. You can also head on over to our Alliance Tournament Discussion channel and join us on Tournament Twitter and Facebook. If this wasn’t exiting enough, check out the new Mitchell and Webb inspired parody teaser. Watch the Spaceship, WATCH IT!!
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EVE Online Tyrannis 1.0.2 has been deployed
EVE Online Tyrannis 1.0.2 has been deployed successfully and Tranquility is now accepting connections. You can review the list of new features and fixes by at our patch notes page. Forum threads are available in the EVE Information Portal for players to list feedback and alert us to any issues that they may experience. A guide on how to use the free skill points can be found here.
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EVE Online: “The War on the Impossible”, Part 2: Democracy
Yesterday, we introduced the coming week of articles based on what we saw at EVE Online Fanfest and today we focus in on our first issue: The Council of Stellar Management. This is CCP’s attempt to bring “deliberative democracy” to EVE and in true CCP-fashion, they not only presented their design, but invited a couple people to disagree with them and gave them microphones.
In this article, we describe the system, relate the presentations of Jessica Mulligan and Dr. Richard Bartle, the debate that followed the CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson and then finally our own take on the idea. Enjoy.
CCP then said the Council of Stellar Management exists within the “physics of the world”, not to influence it. This statement though is a direct contradiction to the design presented earlier in the day, where the councilors were to serve as people, not players and to consider whatever the players want, which theoretically could and should include questions of game balance and design.
At this point, Mulligan brought up a theoretical example where the Goon Swarm convinces the council to vote that all ships be replaced with pink ponies. It’s patently ridiculous, but not really inconceivable. What would CCP do, she asked. They admitted they would not make such a change, as they would need a good reason why and none could be given. However, they argued this would never happen.
Read more after the jump.
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