EVE General Discussion

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Tal

That all sounds great and I'm all for a wider range of style and design. I doubt we'll be seeing much of that in the ships and if CCP spends much time on Incarna then they risk yet another uprising even though EVE the spaceship game seems to be much improved.

Remove some goofiness from the UI and reinject it in art department!

no, just the old costumes. I'm surprised they still think it's ok to not have the minmatar gas mask, gallante plastic bits back :/

Look at Bantam.
Look at Moa.

No, I much prefer my internet spaceships to be Srs Rokh Business, thank you.

Heh, thanks.

But people seldom destroy and kill for money alone. Such people are called "pirates", and certainly they exist, but there are also 4 whole civilizations in EVE that have their own culture, lore, life, symbolisms, etc., etc. And - they are rich, they don't have to scrimp and save to make stuff to kill.

Amarr can afford gold and pointless ornamentation on their spaceships.

Gallente can afford flamboyant sexualized designs on their spaceships.

Caldari are utilitarian because their culture is corporate/fascist (Zaibatsu) - i.e. it's an ideologically driven reason.

Again, as with the other respondent above, yes, the Minmatar could be said to answer to the philosophy you're outlining. But again, they are also proud, proud of the fact that they've broken Amarr chains and are carving out their own space.

So for all the spaceships to be Caldarified, and the avatars to be Minmatarified, just doesn't suit the lore.

This is not, and never was meant to be a simple arena PvP game, it is and was always meant to be a multiplayer Elite, with a whole, complex cultural background to the Universe, which ought to be reflected in 4 unique design philospohies and looks.

If not, then let's just chuck the whole thing in the bin ffs, forget all the virtual world building crap, let's just have a pew-pew arena with a chat lobby, with spaceships that just look totally like unimaginative, unevocative symmetrical generic movie science fiction spaceships. Who cares?

But so long as there is a virtual world in New Eden, so long as there is a lore, then I'd say it's objectively the case that the art design is falling short of what it should be to represent that - it's on track to becoming bland, homogenized, and dull.

Beautifully implemented bland, homogenized and dull.

Add more doodads, pointy things and ??????? to ships :)

I did read in the Art Dept blog that they do want to add a lot more 'rotaty things' to ships.

Yay.

I like rotaty-things.

Design aesthetics have been argued for centuries if not millenia.

It won't be finally solved here.

/supported.