EVE General Discussion

Single player Avatar in an MMO ... they mine as well call Incarna "mining".

I am reading it differently, you want to hone your social skills in a internet spaceship game before you even try socializing with real people in the real world.

I can't decide if it is tragic, sad or just pathetic. Or all three.

yeah, I'm not entirely sure the point of that... wouldn't an avatar just get in the way of a whiteboard? Or a shared star map? I'd rather have those features without a clunky avatar interface.

I never got this one either... even if you had a shared map that provided real time intel, but required you to be docked in a station together, that seems to defeat the whole purpose of having real time intel. Just screams "I've never PVP'd before!" Hell, I'm not the most prolific PVPer myself, but I know I don't want to dock up every 3 minutes (sometimes requiring several jumps to do so), walk 30 minutes across a station, wait for everyone else to show up, then finally be able to make a decision about what your fleet's gonna do.

A shared PVP tactical map would be handy if the in-game map was good enough to not spawn at least 4 popular substitutes, and would be made useless if it required you to be in a station. I mean as it is, I can't recall the last time I opened the star map on purpose instead of using dotlan maps. Think I'd prefer the dotlan guy make a tactical map rather than CCP did.

And wouldn't a map for large scale strategic planning only really be used by like 3 people in a whole alliance, while the grunts just fleet up and follow orders? Makes this a very expensive feature to add in, that nearly no one will use.

People keep talking about WiS feature ideas, but mostly they boil down to a guy sitting in front of a screen showing a character sitting in front of a screen. Wasn't there a youtube/onion news parody about that a while ago? And now we want to make an awful joke into a real thing?

You're not doing your side of the debate any favors with horrible posts like this.

You don't have to. Just keep buying those ingame PLEXs with your Billions of ISK.

ITT: Entitled MotherMoon plays a game about spaceships, and is surprised that it's about spaceships.

I am surprised they seem to have dropped the idea altogether until later on. I was expecting the big interface with Dust players to be part of Incarna content...somewhere where you can see a tactical map of what's going on on the ground during Dust operations. Seems a bit hard to coordinate over the chat alone when you have no visualization of what's occurring. Maybe they will build that into the planetary display somehow instead?

If you can make that judgement in a sandbox then it is unambiguously not a sandbox.

Here's a better example.

In mass effect 2 there is a galaxy map where you get to fly the little ship and pick levels. This could of been done just as easily and more effectively with a menu instead of a little spaceship flying mini game with no content. However for some reason the game designer decided to keep this feature.

For some reason it seems players get more feedback from the space ship than a nice simple menu like in mass effect 1.


See I'm one of the players that loves being bale to fly around the universe, even if it could of been done by selected the planets from a menu. It's more IMMERSIVE for me, and other gamers that share my outlook on games.

IMO people wanted "Walking in Stations". AKA bars, gambling, corporation hangers, etc. They did not want a non-customizable 4 by 4 closet that does exactly the same thing as the buttons on the right side. Why on earth would anyone actually use the featureless POS they called Incarna?