EVE General Discussion

well i disagree and if was available you'd all use it. What games do you play that have companion apps?

Try doing the same before getting snippy.

…aaaand thus there is no longer any chance that you get caught up in things and stay on longer to provide more content for other players. So they want you to log in. See? If you had read properly, you wouldn't have needed to repeat your question and get a repeat answer.

So instead, they will leave that to the players to create in a very limited fashion through CREST.

No. It's very very simple: why would CCP waste time on something that lets you avoid the thing that makes their game vibrant: players being logged in?

Everyone understands it. You're just not getting what people are telling you: that CCP isn't interested in providing one because it goes against their interest and because it would be a waste of their time since the community would do it better on its own. Therefore, they've chosen the path of enabling community projects rather than wasting time on zero-priority redundancies.

if I made pI, set market transactions, invention or even chatted with corp to lead them in battle,I'd be creating more content than if I'm
sitting on a bus. hippie argument to login doesn't really work.

Thats my point but people here seem to think it will be the end of people actually playing on their client or something. Oh doesn't change scare us? :)

Yes I do, and that's your entire problem: I get what you're asking and I know what the answer to similar requests have been for the last half decade.

EVE is one of the most app-accompanied games you will find on the market — ridiculously so if you include everything people create to manage the meta-game. The reason for this — apparently counter-intuitively, since you seem to have such a hard time grasping it — is that CCP has chosen not to waste their time with the creation of any such apps. Instead, they've handed the ball over to the community, and considering the quality of the apps produced, there's pretty much no reason for them to change that policy. They have also explicitly stated that their primary concern is to have people logged in.

It really doesn't get any clearer than that.

CREST will start a proper roll-out during the spring, last I heard.

Funnily enough, I've done all of that on a bus before… not that PI or invention creates any real content since there's pretty much zero player interaction.

bytes in databases are content too. Since they are more permanent I would argue that stored bytes are more of what content is than streamed communication. Any logged on actions data lasts several seconds at most. from here to there and then its gone. If I make a rifter its there till its blown up which could be a long long time relative to the bytes of data that signalled the data engines to do their thing.