The thing to remember with Crucible is it doesn't offer much in new gameplay, new things to do, but what it does is polish Eve Online to a sheen not seen for years.
The first thing you notice is the new font. While it made my eyes water for a few minutes while I digested the change after using it for a while I'm very happy with it. If I had any criticism it would be the decimal points are not clear enough when viewing market prices.
The Tier 3 battlecruisers are now in game and the amount of theory crafting going on in the various chat channels I lurk in is amazing. My opinion is they are a fleet ship, solo use and especially PVE use will be short and terminal. I'm looking forward to seeing where they end up in the overall scheme of things but that will be a while.
The new warping graphics are simply gorgeous! The warp tunnel is back, the warp effects on other objects outside the tunnel is really cool and the first time you warp through a planet is amazing. I know of at least one person who has re-subbed just on this feature alone. I even had somebody pass me in warp yesterday!
If nothing else does then the new warp effects improve the game immersion factor by quite a margin.
Following on from that the new option to jump automatically when you arrive at a gate is very handy, much more than I thought it would be. As I'm relocating a few ships at the moment it reduces the mouse work load by about half, pretty good when all up I have about one hundred and eighty jumps to do. Being able to set a station as a destination and then autopilot dock there is another nice feature.
Planetary Interaction has some folks up in arms though. With the tax change, which we knew about, and the adjustment to the base value of the goods, which we didn't know about, the sky is apparently falling and the world will end soon...or something like that.
However what it has done is create a wonderful market opportunity for the more savvy industrialists and marketeers of Eve Online, I'm enjoying the change immensely.
Engine trails! I didn't realise I'd missed them so much until they returned, even one of the demon spawn mentioned they looked cool. Wasn't expecting that!
The nebula are pretty good. I'm happy with their balance as I was concerned CCP had gone more Liberace and less Philip Glass with them, it seems to have worked out well and also helps with game immersion.
Gallente buff is nice, not sure if it's far enough but at least it's a start.
Finally the removal of insurance payouts if you are Concorded, should have happened ages ago.
Yep that's about it for now, overall quite happy with the update but starting to think about what will come next, especially when the next one is due about the same time as the launch of DUST514 and can CCP perform two major operations at the same time?
History says no.
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