EVE General Discussion

I predict EVE will be dead.

Just stop here and was already painful to read for a non English native, sry


I've got 3 typical answers for your question :

-who cares?

-when we get there we'll see!

-I'll be giving my money to someone else by that time.

2013: CCP Games realizes that every piece of advice uttered by player Istvaan Shogaatsu has been worth gold, improved the game, and increased subscriber numbers. Recognizing the divine correctness of his will, CCP hires Shogaatsu as creative czar, a newly created position with oversight into all aspects of Eve Online, and Dust 514.

2014: Following the implementation of Shogaatsu's "Veteran Player Initiative," where Eve's most dedicated and long-term players are awarded with the ability to create powerful vessels befitting their status, subscriber numbers soar to 80,000 concurrent/750,000 subscribed. Many lapsed veterans are drawn back to the game. The sudden spike in population fills CCP's coffers with hitherto-unseen amounts of funds, and under Shogaatsu's blessed advice, 15,000 further star systems are added to 0.0 space in a gradual campaign of exploration, mapping and gate-building which is left entirely up to the players.

2015: CCP Games becomes the largest, wealthiest business in Iceland. Eve Online, now relatively seamlessly integrated into Dust 514, makes the move to the newly launched PlayStation 4. While Eve Online's subscriber numbers are level at 100,000 concurrent/1.5 million, Dust 514 becomes "the reason people buy a PS4" after Shogaatsu's comprehensive re-design of planetary surfaces, and implementation of mass-destruction/tectonic effects, allowing players to bombard a radiant Eden-world until it looks like a ball of fire and challenging Dust mercenaries to fight on a planet as it was unmade around them.

2016: CCP Games completes a hostile acquisition of Sony's Playstation division.

2017: CCP Games completes a hostile acquisition of Sony Corporation.

2018: CCP Games completes takeover of Iceland, with 91.3% of the nation's population employed as GMs to manage the New Eden combined universe population of millions. (The remaining 8.7% are employed in 'shroom farms.) CCP Games renames Iceland to Sexland, tourism economy soars.

2019: Istvaan Shogaatsu, now scientifically proven to never be wrong, assumes command of NATO. All non-compliant nations brought brutally to heel by exoskeleton-armoured orbital drop troops trained on a strict regimen of Dust 514. Military resistance is swept aside.

2020: With mankind united under the golden leadership of Imperator Shogaatsu, and the hopeful vision of the future provided by the New Eden simulation (now subscribed to by 23.873% of humankind) all scientific research turns toward the conquest of space.

2023: The Indonesian betrayal.

2024: The extermination of Indonesia.

2030: Beginning of the first Decade WIthout War in recorded history.

2040: First child born on Mars.

2045: Fusion power.

2050: Peak oil. It comes largely un-noticed.

2075: Global pollution levels reduced to pre-industrial-revolution status.

2100: Establishment of Titan colony. First auto-constructor ships leave for Gliese 581.

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So yeah, basically do what I say or the world ends. Step 1: ships for veterans!

It will happen, they have already over taxed everything you can drink eat or breath, even sex directly and indirectly are controlled and taxed, you just don't realise it because you are educated to not do it.

Internet is just at birth but countries like France are already over it to find ways to tax you by all possible means for "each click" (oc it's not per click but by content etc)
-for the meanwhile their banks, just like American banks, haven't reimbursed public money they got to get out of "crisis" while still publishing hideous profits and taxing country debt interests for billions of our money

Awesome stuff

They are solo friendly. I went into a shitload of C2's to ninja sites while the residents were nowhere to be seen on DSCAN.. Get some balls.

Well........ I want ******* FOOD in eve, I didn't eat for 6 ******* years. DO YOU REALIZE HOW HUNGRY I AM?

I predict a real world all out economic collapse with everything and every one going belly up and standing around scratching their ass wondering wtf happened as most keep their heads buried in the sand dreaming of space Barbie and Ken station humping.

You don't see me dying anywhere along that timeline, do you?

Some plans take time.

Iceland to Be Renamed 'New Eden'

[This article has been reproduced with the kind permission of Time Magazine and originally appeared in their June 2019 issue.]

The astounding rise of the once quiet northern european island nation of Iceland into a commercial superpower is to be celebrated in a 'renaming' ceremony held by the Icelandic government later this year. Iceland is to be renamed 'New Eden' in honour of entertainment industry juggernaught CCP's commercial achievements and service to their country and to the world.

An improbable story to be sure, but the contributions made by what started life as a modest, yet ambitious, games development studio aiming to provide an immersive online 'internet spaceship' experience cannot be overestimated. After an initial ten-year period in which they were considered niche and were overshadowed by then market leaders Blizzard, their enterprise and dedication to a truly open 'sandbox' experience eventually provided CCP with the platform to exceed their competitors and surge into other markets.

The appeal of their flagship product 'EVE Online' was infinitely broadened in 2011 by the introduction of real human avatars in the 'Incarna' revision of their futuristic world. After a low-key start, the then cutting-edge character creation and world interaction attracted an increasingly larger audience. The subsequent release of the initially console-only 'DUST 514' first person shooter enabled a further demographic to be drawn into the universe of New Eden. Utilising the same technology in 'World of Darkness', a gothic vampire MMO, continued to build the momentum. But the real masterstroke was the release of the Machinima toolkit that allowed users to make their own movies using the game worlds.

By 2013, the quality of user-created movies was often surpassing professionally-made television series and CCP found themselves courting the likes of James Cameron and J.J. Abrams. In 2014, the first EVE-based Hollywood movie, 'New Eden' won box-office acclaim (although purists claim that the entirely fan-made 'Clear Skies' television series, which aired on SyFy earlier the same year, was the real watershed) and cemented CCP's position as an entertainment superpower.

Meanwhile, with the explosion of interest in EVE Online and associated products, CCP's technological infrastructure was threatening to buckle. This gave rise to pioneering efforts in the field of technology and the invention of cold-fusion hyper-clusters, which was a quantum leap in the field of computing. This allowed for the millions of users to interact in a smooth virtual environment and finally eradicated the lag that had plagued busy game areas for years.

CCP's in-house technology team then went from strength-to-strength and the introduction of their retinal imaging projection systems in conjunction with Microsoft's Kinect technology allowed unprecedented levels of immersion. As well as revolutionising the entertainment viewing experience, by 2017 CCP was providing the 'de facto' standard total immersion social and business networking tools across the globe.

In 2018, the licencing of virtual real estate within EVE Online allowed the digital distribution of third party 'entertainment suites' - essentially games produced by third-party developers that were narratively consistent with EVE Online's universe - which gave birth to infinitely diverse 'cultures' on individual stations and planets. Player-run organisations within the universe could licence developers to practically build worlds for them. Many real-world corporations started to lay claim to systems and hire player alliances to protect the space above and defend their property on the surface beneath.

Today, in 2019, CCP stand literally and figuratively on top of the world. Iceland is now ranked as the 8th strongest economy in the world and is accredited with contributing to leading the world economy out of the austerity period. They continue to provide the most immersive science-fiction simulation available whilst simultaneously being major players in the technology and movie industries.

Whilst they have their detractors and some religious groups have expressed their objections to the renaming, there is no avoiding the fact that the future will be in New Eden.

And now the whole world is watching.

[From Freebooted, February 2011]

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I predict eve-onine will be dead, lost, and gone within 8-10 months. It's already on the way out. Too little to late CCP, your goose is nearly cooked and you don't even know it. CCP jumped the shark when they started selling isk. EVE became PAY to win many moons ago, the sandbox lost all its sand, and CCP in general are walking around with blinders on. Herpdy Derp lets watch it all go down in flames. By the way i'm sure the IRS will be interested in your isk for real life goods transaction. How are you gonna get that past them? CCP crossed the line when the offered a video card for in-game isk. Its a damn slippery slope and your now at the bottom of said slope. 8-10 months is all i give eve.