tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post3022306534404730771..comments2024-03-05T12:41:20.217-05:00Comments on Low Sec Lifestyle: Oral Lore. Oral History.Sugar Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15437978687639772023noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post-77598419585593973762014-06-16T15:14:40.158-04:002014-06-16T15:14:40.158-04:00"I stumbled upon a confession with escalation..."I stumbled upon a confession with escalation and expedition. When I was reading patch notes from 2006, they were called expeditions. However, the Evewiki article calls them escalations."<br /><br />And have you run into parts of the EVE Wiki where they refer to various different missions or FW sites as "dungeons?" I am almost in favor of not updating those pages just to prove that was what CCP was okay with calling them at one point. Dungeons. In space.Wilhelm Arcturushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033496821708933394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post-89467359542206893242014-06-12T18:17:53.174-04:002014-06-12T18:17:53.174-04:00CCP does have a volunteer team for maintaining the...CCP does have a volunteer team for maintaining the wiki, but I've heard response times on volunteer apps are absolutely glacial, if you hear back at all. <br /><br />I guess it's possible that the people who'd be vetting volunteer apps were among those laid off, or if not, are swamped with other tasks due to the decrease in workforce. <br /><br />It's a shame, really. I love the Uni's wiki -- it's an absolute goldmine -- but I wish CCP would dedicate more volunteer and employee hours to keeping the official wiki updated.Suzariel Kel-Patenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09141394814063525048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post-87954130281847662402014-06-12T10:47:18.242-04:002014-06-12T10:47:18.242-04:00This is such a sticky difficulty. The game is evo...This is such a sticky difficulty. The game is evolving so quickly, keeping the Evelopedia current becomes a resource intensive task. At the same time, devoting recourses to that worthy task detracts them from the crucial iteration work/rework underway (and there’s still soooo much to do). It’s a struggle between healthy game mechanics and decent education about those mechanics.<br /><br />I too often find myself on the Eve Uni wiki. With Eve Uni being a crowdsourcing triumph, CCP ends up lacking the resources to compete. At the same time, Eve Uni is a volunteer player organization meaning granting some sort of “official” status to the Uni wiki is not only fraught with favoritism, but troublingly unstable - volunteer player organizations occasionally collapse and what would CCP do then?<br /><br />Eve players have a long history of utilizing game mechanics in unanticipated ways. Accordingly, it’s well nigh impossible for CCP to keep up. When an unanticipated use is revealed, CCP has to decide if it’s an exploit or not, if it needs tweaking or not, etc . . . As these aren’t simple questions, such decisions can take a long time meaning the Evelopedia must lag the current meta since they can’t really update it accurately until they know what accurate actually is.<br /><br />On a more conceptual level, it’s worth asking if the producer of a sandbox should be instructing players about how to play in the sandbox at all. It’s just not very sandboxy for CCP to be telling their players how to play the game. Oh my! I seem to have written myself into a “CCP should do as little player education as possible” stance. Appears I’ve Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.<br /><br />Sugar Kyle, your approach to Eve is continually provocative.<br /><br />DireNecessity<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post-5990396102588386032014-06-12T08:47:28.538-04:002014-06-12T08:47:28.538-04:00I agree, The Eve Uni wiki is wayyyyyy better than ...I agree, The Eve Uni wiki is wayyyyyy better than the Evelopedia. There's really no comparison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post-87091501418855594642014-06-12T07:48:59.248-04:002014-06-12T07:48:59.248-04:00I've given up on Evelopedia - I go straight to...I've given up on Evelopedia - I go straight to the Eve Uni wiki instead.<br />If it weren't for the taboo about CCP being involved with player groups, i'd say turn the Evelopedia over to EveUniAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561998031457981240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238324579504790.post-7638041483434092832014-06-12T04:04:31.452-04:002014-06-12T04:04:31.452-04:00I don't often agree with Gevlon, but when he m...I don't often agree with Gevlon, but when he mentioned sometime back that it would be a good idea for CCP to put a paid staff member on just getting the EVE wiki current and up-to-date AND complete, I did indeed find myself agreeing with him.<br /><br />EVE has quite a nerdy audience and my natural instinct (like that of many nerds I suspect) in most games when I need info I can't find is to go look at the wiki. With EVE I gave up long ago, since most info simply isn't there.<br /><br />Kaeda Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954843678698092456noreply@blogger.com