It was said that this thread is no place to talk about the "missing things" that many are still waiting for, or the "bugs" that continue to frustrate so many, and yet I see some of those people in this thread hailing the coming of something new with a style of map we haven't seen yet, and getting excited over anticipation of what this teaser is all about.
There is no shortage of posts by players who defend Calypso against other planets, and THE planet to be, where all is possible because of being first and where most of the population is, so things are a bit easier to accomplish, but it is THE planet that players seem to complain about the most - the evidence is in abundance and clearly accessible - maybe because it was the first?
And there's something I'm not quite understanding .... tell Kim about the bugs and he'll fix them right away - really? If that were the case, then all of the support cases sent in should be closed by now, yes?
It continues to absolutely fascinate me how easy it is to distract some in this community into a somewhat altered state of consciousness - like getting a new toy on Christmas morning when you know your favorite toy is still broken, or pieces of your favorite puzzle are still missing and haven't been found yet - will they ever?
I like new things, I like progress, I like advancement, I like new technology, and I love creativity in our universe, but I also love stability and for things to work as they are meant to work FIRST, before bringing in something else that is going to make an attempt at distracting my attention away from the broken parts, only to find yet again that we have even more broken parts, and sometimes even broken parts that we thought were already fixed.
All planets have broken parts, as well as the structural integrity of space and anything else that MA is responsible for that is not covered by PP development, so my question is ...
While we love new things to play with, why aren't you fixing what is broken first, and working on stability that we deserve as players before engaging the small development teams that you have on this kind of stuff ... really ... is there someone within the organization who can honestly answer this question? - it's not rhetorical.
And another question to those celebrating this teaser ... are you really happy with how things are on Calypso (or overall, anywhere in the universe), really? And you don't consider this yet another distraction to keep your minds off of what isn't right with the need for more focus on what is wrong? If all you're waiting for is the next new thing, then please don't ever complain when it doesn't work properly.
I'm Calypso-born, and have endured every VU for 8-1/2 years, and have loved our expanding universe to the nth degree, even writing about it for as long, but it gets tiring and sad when you continue to see it grow and never really get fixed. It's like a child with a disease that has no cure, just a new remedy now and then to take our minds off the real issue at hand. Nothing ever really changes.
You can fancy whatever arguments you choose, but as a 10+ year old MMO with an RCE, have we really advanced that much? I would say we haven't, know why? We are really not at a level that screams retention, are we?
One thing I respectfully ask of you before you answer ... please don't defend just to defend, but give this a bit of critical thinking before making your response, and also ... rudeness is not necessary, I understand civility quite well.