Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am aware we have a full body preview and that some ship models are displayed on the website. This still seems like a pointless waste of time compared to other, gameplay related WiS items.



I'm curious as to how you cover this in the lore. I'm a big fan of WiS, but I don't want to suspend disbelief at a capsuleer, encased in their pod and piloting a ship the size of a small moon with a crew of hundreds and thousands (Like a cake topping) disconnecting from their capsule to walk into an exploration site ...

It would completely destroy immersion of my character as a capsuleer. Are you going to be handling it through a form of EVA vehicle or similar or will it be a simulation we run as capsuleers or how are you fitting it into the lore?

Also, how will it change the current exploration mechanics? We'll still need to probe down sites; but will other players have the option to use their modules as they did before? And will it be possible to compete so I can steal somebodies ship when they are outside of it?

Yes, I had a similar suggestion but using a robotic EVA type vehicle. (Manufactured, further goodies for industrial players) However, I am after what CCP is doing. Not what we imagine as non lore-breaking.

Have you scanned the thread I posted? I made some game-play suggestion and there were some good suggestions from other players regarding station services.

No FPS shooter or RPG game can hold me for more than a few days until I get bored of it. I also do not like to PvP with FPS shooters as it, too, gets me bored after only a few hours. The entire idea of running around with a puppet is just annoying. In short, I do not like to play with puppets. Never have, never will and I did try.

Secondly, I see no point in trying to add such a game element to a game which is and always has been about Internet spaceships. All it enables you is to walk away from your spaceship and there has simply never been a need to do this. I then prefer it when CCP uses its resources on other aspects of the game, because I fear another decline in player numbers when they continue on this path, which is going to effect my game.

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So with the "Ignore WiS Button" why not use it and actually not use WiS or CQ? Or am I missing some deeper more complex problem.



Add PETS - little drone-ettes for Gallente - I forgot which post I saw this is, but would be fantastic.

These are all observant things about the avatar itself, but for WiS and interactions with others, they'd need to construct the places that the avatars would meet and make sure that several avatars could be on the screen without issue and such. When the avatars first were brought out, some folks couldn't use the WiS feature of CQ as it would cause their video cards to work much harder than without that enabled. Some of these cards reportedly, were newer, and some older. Laptop users, of course, had to stop CQ very quickly if they noticed this issue. Their alternative was 'the door'. That seems to have been addressed for one avatar. So could several avatars be viewed on a screen without that same issue arising? [/quote]

Shouldn't there be a "base-line" system requirement to play EVE?


2 ISKies: Players get one Home Station. Customizable, with pets!

Having read your last few posts I can safely say the content and ideas you have are so radically removed from the general EVE population base and the history of the game and the people playing it that implementing them would be disastrous.

Microtransactions? Really? Did the summer of rage mean nothing to you? Fluff over gameplay? No, thank you.

This is not a zero sum game. EVE is vast. Most of the content appeals to you. If some new content doesn't appeal to you, it will not not displace any of the content that you already enjoy. It will just provide additional content to attract players who want something different out of the game than you do.

Look at it this way: You're already catered to. You already have CCP vocally committed to expending the majority of their resources on the game you want into the foreseeable future. You're sitting pretty and you have nothing to worry about, unless you're disturbed by the possibility that someone might like or play parts of EVE that you don't for reasons other than yours.

EVE will always, fundamentally, be about internet spaceships. That's been settled. Do you need it to always, exclusively be about internet spaceships?

That said, thanks to Karkur and Bayesian for posting here, and to Phantom for keeping us honest. The exploration mini game sounds cool. A "boardroom" that could communicate with DUST corporate rooms, with shared maps that can be marked up by either party, would be a great use of WiS that fed right into the core of EVE: meaningful interaction with other players.

Don't stop adding stuff to the character customizer. The more variety and individuality, the better. For example, you know that software that merges two distinct faces into a third one? It would be cool to be able to generate even more face and body types from mixed parentage. Do the Sebiestor dress the same way the Brutor do, or likewise with the various Empire subcultures? It would be cool to have more than four captains' quarters: maybe the different cultures have different aesthetics, particularly more the more insular ones. Maybe a pleasure hub would have vastly different accommodations from a market, or a factory, or a naval academy. But as those don't add substantially to the core game, they should be a lower priority, maybe just slipped in here and there without fanfare. They enrich the game, just not as much as interactive content does.

And please do something about the length of time it takes to load the CQ environment. For that reason alone I spend almost all my time in hangar view.

Yes, of course.

I don't think this is a case of developing a feature and then dropping it to concentrate elsewhere more a realisation that the way we were developing WiS was wrong for what it was we actually had on our plates. Treating it as just another EVE expansion doesn't work when there is so much technology to develop and that was happening at the same time as we were trying to use it to create the gameplay, such that it was. Taking a step back lets us nail the technology we need, get an idea of timeframes for development as well as giving us confidence in providing you guys with a kick ass experience. Stuff like the social and meeting areas falls out of that development almost for free. Ultimately developing better tools lets us make better gameplay faster and the first step in that is deciding what we want to make. I realise it's frustrating we're not continuing to develop on top of what already exists but trust me it's not because we don't want to provide you guys with all the things that were promised it just that we want to do it right so that not only do you get what was promised but we are in a position to rapidly build on that in interesting ways rather than hamstringing ourselves.