CCP announces Tyrannis delay

I wish CCP would make an Eve TV show on HBO.

Planetary flight man, that's the shiznitz!

Nah it is always coming in winter, every summer they say next winter.

Well, actually, I found that the one part of the dev blog with which I disagreed. Anybody can get on Sisi and check it out for themselves, so it's not exactly "unfair" (though it is an advantage).

Not all players know about Sisi. In fact, the vast majority don't even visit the forums or EVE website. Even if they did, the effort threshold for setting up a test client and getting in to test stuff out is still too high to expect everyone interested in Tyrannis to do it. So on those grounds, I think that delay is a great way to level the playing field for all players.

There's also the possibility that they may be planning to introduce the new planet tech through some in-game event or storyline planned for after Tyrannis goes live. I'm always disappointed when a patch brings new tech with nothing but a line in the patch notes explaining the technical side and nothing explaining the story behind its creation. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed on this one that they have a bit more buildup to this.

Hmmm, I could agree, but I mostly disagree there. First of all they don't usually release half-finished stuff ... and tbh eve expansions might seem small compared to say ... WoW ... but then again someone who looks close enough will notice that WoW expansions are dunkey balls ... new map with reskined characters ... 2-3 new skills and 5 new tallents.
The only thing that actually changes is the lvl cap and new raid content. So same old same old.
EvE on the other hand changes the way the game is played with each and every expansion ... and there are 2 / year!
I repeat ... they might seem small but compared to other game's expansions that seem big but aren't rly, well EvE does ok.

But this expansion consists mostly of planetary interaction - a framework for Dust, and is limited to 6 planets per character which can be done relatively passively and is hardly a major profession.

There has been a leak of alleged patch notes, most of which are just bug fixes and typos.

Other expansions have added more to the game, even if they were only half-finished features.

And planetary interaction is a half finished toy.

The planetary UI is entirely out of place and buggy, which now leaves us with 3 distinct UI styles (classic, fitting, planetary interaction).

The actual resources gathered are nowhere near enough, especially given the limit of 6 planets per player. This presents two options: if NPC sell orders are removed, POS fuel prices are going to skyrocket (stock up now), if they aren't removed, then planetary interaction is entirely pointless.

Try it out on SiSi if you don't believe me.

You admit that they frequently make epansions with half finished features, how can you, at the same time, claim that this is just a framework they will build on? They have absolutely no track record for finishing features. COSMOS? Quantum Rise? T3?

As it stands, Tyrannis consists of Spacebook (which is actually pretty cool), bug fixes, and planetary interaction. Planetary interaction is a boring, buggy, rehash of POS mechanics (which are themselves, STILL buggy). It's kind of fun to layout colonies once or twice, but it's far from being a substantive feature.

They could probably make it interesting and fun, but they're more committed to a 6 month release cycle than they are to quality products.

I think they should go from 2 expansions to -> 1 expansion and 1 bug release patch.

Each expansion they put out breaks the game in horrible ways as they're in habit of releasing half-done crap. This is actually the first time they've even tried to fix things before release and that says a lot about the current state of the PI.

And they still haven't fixed the fleet lag that Dominion introduced...

Yeah, it's basically a reaction-chain minigame on planet surface that you can play on your own.

Not worth coming back to EVE if you've managed to get out

Thanks I will keep an eye out till Incarna comes out then. :)