[2019] tax changes - CCP's failure to communicate

Originally posted by MilanaO

That you are at a loss, does not surprise me. If you have time to read all this shit here means you are not working.

Originally posted by StainGuy

For a quite long i people are asking for the Lowsec Gate To Stain (LGTS)
Based on this post - when we can expect it.

BTW nice job with this Tax isk sink, have you read my post about additional industrial taxation btw?

Originally posted by Turiko

Currently i don't see any current patch notes, the last patch notes are for June and it's currently (and was yesterday, when the update happened) August; https://www.eveonline.com/articles/patch-notes. There are no patch notes for August (yet? I suppose it is yet to be posted then?)

Meanwhile, the launcher looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/DJPzorW.png . There isn't a mention of any dev blog anymore. It's been hidden, as i stated in my OP, 24 hours after it went live. Sure, it still exists, you can find it. But that means the player has to look it up and nobody is going to randomly look up devblogs every time they've stepped away a few days. Something needs to notify the player something changed before that happens.

The changes themselves is not why i created this post; the changes and their intended / expected / subjective results is a whole different can of worms other people can discuss in their posts. The reason i created this post is because any information to the players about this change posted yesterday is already hidden unless you specifically come to reddit (and that source will vanish in a few days too) or look up past dev blogs (which few people do out of the blue). This is just plain bad communication from a game to its players.

Lastly: no offense, but complaining about someone with valid criticism about the way CCP has done something with going "all of a sudden it's REEE" is not really a valid response. Visibly showing changes for people that aren't glued to reddit 24/7 is kind of important, especially (as i mentioned in my original post) during a holiday season where part of the playerbase is basically expected to be gone for a week or more at a time.That's a longer period than the time it took between devblog, changes on the live server and all information being hidden.

My biggest suggestion would be to ensure information about changes to long-established mechanics stay visible in the launcher for at least a week or two, or give an ingame message / notification if it's a "hidden" mechanic like the tax numbers. They're there, but they're tiny and everyone has seen them a million times. Notable changes are kind of expected to have notable visibility. Hiding all mention of it without digging in deeper, such a very short time after the changes, isn't exactly notable visibility.

EDIT: patch notes exist, i simply didn't notice as they're posted under June, not August, despite it being a patch in August.

Originally posted by Turiko

Okay, this honestly just further troubles things. I just kind of assumed June patch notes meant patch notes for things in June and i imagine most people will not expect information on August under the previous month.

No word on the rest? You've cleared up that there is information to be found if you look things up on the eve online site, but this still means the player needs to look it up without the launcher or game implying something changed. Honestly, i don't get why this was removed from the launcher so quickly.

EDIT: i've added a note on my OP to reflect the patch notes.

Originally posted by ericader

Why not change wormholes cloaks and kitey ships to all be less powerful and “put it in devblogs and patch notes”

It’s against your preferential narrative but show you’re unbiased for once as a developer

Originally posted by ericader

I understand logic would hurt someone who only thinks small gang pvp will somehow save a f**king sandbox pvp mmo. AND THINKS THATLL BE FIXED BY LISTENING TO PVE HUNTERS. f**k you have logic issues, but I thought you at least were more level headed than hilmar

You f**king walnut

Originally posted by Maria_Tokila

People are complaining that youre not doing the right things. Like leaving the Rorq the way it is for 3 years and its still not 100%. Or fozziesov. Nobody really had an issue with taxes but that change hit very fast.

So yay for rapid changes, but atleast somewhere in the vicinity of things that actually need fixing.

Originally posted by Maria_Tokila

All for it. I do hope the overall effects of the changes will be a positive for the game and not just a year of fk NS that in the end yields nothing but lower pop and no real changes to the mechanics that currently make life tedious in NS.

Cause that would seriously hurt the game.