EVE General Discussion

Hey, it could be for all we know, but to echo what Vaju said, they're doing the right thing by honing their focus. Focus is a dangerous thing to lack in this industry. It's absence has been the cause of many a downfall not just for games, but for entire studios.

Trust me, I know it sucks. It really does. There's been plenty of broken promises and disappointment regarding this feature and being told "not right now" isn't exactly something we want to hear. But, again I say, with this new direction they're taking of concentrating on laser-like focus, I feel confident that if and when avatar-based gameplay does show up, it will have been worth the wait.

I'd rather skip everything except the mystery code.

As most reasonable people have known for years now.

There is no plans for avatar based game play what so ever.
There wasn't one from the start and the only little glimpse was the one off prototype that was decided to be to expensive in resources.

But of course, things might change in the next 10 years.

Actually I heard "we'll talk about it next year"

Not really surprising given the state of WOD as I hear. Looking like a Christmas 2014 release maybe.

I would like to see some continued work on Avatar gameplay as it exists now, lest it fall into the state of "no one knows the code" but I think that's the best that can be hoped for until WOD matures, giving CCP a carbon-based platform that is focused on this kind of thing.

Then one hopes the improvements in carbon could be ported back to EVE or a companion game and pilots would be able to open that door.

I opened a thread inquiring wether it was recorded at all...

I didn't pay for the HD live feed. I just watched the free one. At least we know it got recorded though. So hopefully CCP will upload it at some point.

Well, apparently the presentation on "Prototyping the future" had nothing to do with the WiS prototype, rather was a technical one on gameplay prototyping & using mining as an instance.

To be frank, I am kind of emotionally exhausted ont his issue. I feel like litherally banging my head on a door. And all in all it doesn't matters much. My only gripe is how avatars have been completely abandoned and not even the simpler things are being done. Probably that's better in the long run, so we lose all hope.

The game is what it is and it never will be anything else. Some deem this good as they like what the game is, others deem it bad as they aren't satisfied with what the game is, but all in all, CCP decided that DUST and not WiS was the way to expand EVE, and also that WoD and not WiS was the way to reach to new player demographics.

I'm even tempted to agree with them and seriously consider WoD as something worth to look upon as a substitute for EVE.

No matter the potential for EVE (the whole "sci fi simulation" stuff), it's an old game and in the last years it's gone past the point where it could reinvent itself and survive. They're better betting on more of the same than try and burden the core game with new stuff which could misfire as miserably as Incarna...

they should just add social areas like bars and meeting rooms in stations, and a lookout to see the ships in space realtime, walking around and interacting with agents direclty, could be done much easier then adding dead space like exploration and action, I'm new but did not understand why everybody would be screaming about that, often you should not listen to the mob in the web too much and just do what you think is right, the people in the web are like super sensitive babys, listening to the core players alone is also not helpful as the core often does not want to change, however adaptation is the only way to success over a long period

i would say 70% spaceship and 30% avatar gameplay would be right, maybe 80/20 but the avatar gameplay should concentrate on the social part, to plan strategic battles and stuff, signing contracts, building aliances and player interaction

If I want to buy 1000 dollar virtual jeans then that is my business, not yours. Not that I would pay more than maybe an euro or half an euro for any virtual item, but still, what do you care what I would spend my money on?

I'm sorta at a loss of what to do next. You mentioned that we we need to pester the executive produce and Hilmar at fanfest. And have discussions like this. What else can we do to show CCP that there is significant support for WiS, that people want to be able to explore derelicts.

Also I think it's pretty poor that we still don't have tattoos even tho Torfi said at the last fanfest that they would be coming in inferno.