The Blackout was obviously touched as well, with Hilmar coming away satisfied with how it had been run, and the learnings the team managed to EVE Echoes ISK come away with,"It was a excellent experiment to know what a good duration would be, also in this case it was just too long. We included really nothing to our own knowledge about it following day 40, 66 times was too long."
The launch cadence was also discussed, together with Hilmar talking finding the right balance between releasing all at once versus piece meal,"The way we've been handling the upgrades, I often describe it like as if you were a sausage mill. You want to produce sausages, set them in a pack, bundle them together, and here's a bunch of sausages. But we are kind of just releasing one long sausage which has no break in it and no one wants that. Our updates are so supply driven, what gets delivered from the dev group is just released in a long stream."
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