EVE General Discussion

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?

I feel that EVE is heading towards a multi-gameplay orientated future. From what I have seen of CCP's DUST and other projects, as well as the promise of a TV Series..I think that EVE has great potential to evolve and become its own platform of gaming in its own right. What is offered in EVE currently dwarfs every other mmo out there and I am really excited for the future. Id like to see what happens with Eve VR and see DUST Evolve to become more integrated with Eve itself, and I am really looking forwards to the tv series production.

2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

Further expansion of the ships currently in the game.

Why? Well Additional ship types or just adding more to each race in the current classes can have massive effects on the game that ripple. That is what truly makes Eve shine, the rippling effect. It doesn't matter if your a miner, scientist, trader, soldier, warmonger, CEO or just a pilot.

Introduce a new carrier class that's only a batlecruiser, suddenly the economically orientated players want to know how much it is to make, can they make a fortune if they produce it, who will buy it..etc...while on the other side of the table you have the warmongers. Will this new carrier be able to field any strategic elements, what happens if we field 100 of them against a bigger target, will it be cheap and effective, will it be costly and overused...and of course you have the collectors too! What will the ship look like, can we buy it or will we have to build it..etc


3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

My greatest fear is that Eve will lose the elements that make it exciting and that it will forget it needs both old and new play ers to survive.

Eve is A ruthless, beautiful universe where danger, riches and ruin lie at every corner. There needs to be a balance here, I have witnessed several friends try eve and run away after the first loss, Eve needs to accomodate the new players and welcome them into its fold, but it needs to do that without losing the edge it currently holds. Just look at Burn Jita, or Hulkageddon, or any other number of player organized events that have had rippling effects throughout the entire universe.

Afterall, we all know that Highsec is not truely 'safe', but what if it was? That would just destroy the game. Eve has got to keep up what it does best: Innovating and Risk taking.

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?

The game, if it continues to do as well as it does, will grow larger and larger while keeping the same types of people as it's fan base; EVE is unique, and has no love for annoying little children who insult someone else's mother whenever they get angry. I see the possibility of new ships being added, as well as the eventual inception of much older ships, which we have not been able to use as of now.


2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

I hope to see EVE become more and more of a visually and aurally beautiful game than it is already; space is vast, endless, and beautiful, and I am sure that the game will only look better and better. Additionally, with the production of the Oculus Rift, I am looking forward to the idea of looking around more in the game; perhaps the captain's quarters will become interesting as a result. And in the distant future, I see myself transferring my consciousness to a computer just before death, and playing EVE forevermore!

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

My greatest fear for EVE is that someone will try to adapt it to appeal to a wider fan base; the game is succeeding as it is, and it has done well. Greed is NOT good for us players, and we will openly express anger if something unwise is done to our precious New Eden.

Q. What will the game be like in in the future?

A. I think EVE will be very similar to what it is now. I see CCP adding more new ships, skills, mods, missions, solar systems, and rats in the future. I see better graphics and rendering. I see ''the door'' opening up in station. I see ‘’lone wolfs’’ being able to compete with the big corps and alliances. I see the captain’s quarters being more functional. I see the PLEX system going back to just being able to add game time to your account.

Q. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

A. The biggest features I’d be looking forward to would be:

1). Being able to break through the atmospheres of planets and moons, fly a few hundred feet above the ground, find a place to land, get into a space suit, and explore for and collect resources on the planet’s surface.
2). To be able to walk up to and go inside any PI structures that I own.
3). Do a fly-by on an in-progress DUST 514 match.
4). Dock up to and walk around in all structures in EVE including other ships that can carry ships (i.e Orca).
5). To be able to dock my own ships instead of being ‘’towed’’ in. Turn docking into an optional mini game where you have to line up X and Y axis to successfully dock and if you fail you get towed in anyways. Successful docking attempts can be rewarded with LP’s, ISK, or whatever.
6). In cockpit flight.
7. Useful Camera Drones! If I want to mine in a 0.0 system and I want to keep an eye on all stargates in that system (up to 5 of course) I think players should be able to deploy camera drones and have them sit in anchorable locations to provide intel via mini cam screens on your client that are closable, minimizable, maximizable, stackable, movable, customizable, ,and pinnable...

Q. What are my greatest fears for the game?

A. My biggest fears in EVE is:

1). That PLEX and ‘’pay to win’’ tactics play a role in your success in EVE.
2). That EVE’s monthly subscription costs rise.
3). There will be another Incarna.

With the majority of games you not really thinking what is happening when you are offline. With EVE Online you are thinking the whole day (and sometimes nights) what could have happen while your offline.

I freshly ran out of Amarrian tealeaves so predicting EVE's future is difficult. I think we will see some tablet version at some point tough.

There are two features I'm looking forward too, both have already been prototyped.
Feature 1 is 'Cities in Space'. POS's on the move! No longer a vertical stick confined to moons but fleshed out EVE Lego blocks with engines. Boldly going where no EVE POS has gone before! The reason for that is that I think we need more places in space to create conflicts, preferably move away from the 'star gate choke point'. Moving away from that will, I think, get low sec some much needed love.

Feature 2 is Ambulation or 'Walking in Space'. It would replace the current exploration into real exploration where players can dock at abandoned structures/ships and find out those are maybe not as abandoned as they thought or bump into another group of players that used a different airlock to access the structure.

My biggest fear though is that F2P or worse, P2W sneaks into EVE. I still have nightmares about 1000 dollar pants!

In an unending Universe,
where imagination is our only barrier,
EVE online will stretch on into Infinity.

Eve will undergo the usual expansion and contraction phases that pulse throughout an overall growing playerbase. CCP will make stupid mistakes and beautiful improvements, the playerbase will hate and adore them for it. Somewhere someone will be being ganked while carrying thousands of dollars worth of PLEX and someone will make thousands of dollars worth of plex through a scam, or a heist or something similar. Business will continue.

Edit : Long term? Reality will become more and more like Eve. Especially the bugs.

I think EVE's second decade will usher in a new generation of MMOs and the way they are developed. For ten years, every new MMO that came out seemed to mirror its predecessors in one way or another. Budgets increased in proportion to ambitions, and I feel we are now witnessing the slow-motion popping of this bubble. We have watched patterns emerge in the games' settings and mechanics, and we've seen trends in their long-term sustainability.

As so many gamers have grown and matured in those ten years, so have our expectations of what a virtual world should be. Meanwhile, EVE has been slowly boiling in the background, biding its time and culminating into what we've always wanted, though we may not have always realized it.

Like a teenager who fails to appreciate the music of their parents' generation, EVE just had to wait for us to grow up a bit.

Now MMO developers and gamers alike have begun to come around to seeing the values and virtues of the sandbox design. We've seen that a 200 million dollar budget does not mean a game will be great if it doesn't foster a truly passionate and devoted community. And that's what is ultimately most important in any MMO. If an MMO is not inherently designed to support and facilitate the desires of the people who play it, it is doomed to fail.

CCP has instilled in us a unique sense of self. We aren't so much players of EVE as we are citizens of New Eden. We are not tourists who visit every six months to grind through whatever new content gets released. We live here. We congregate and interact here. And by doing so we shape the game world around us. Our actions are represented not as a set of armor, but as an entire universe.

No other game can offer that level of collective accomplishment. No other game stands as a testament to the actions and interactions of its players. Without us, without the community, EVE would not exist as it does today.

Here goes the decade of exploration, and here comes the one for expansion. Be afraid Concord, as High sec belongs to us.

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?

A huge sprawling science fiction universe with tons of lore and a immersive in station/on planet environment. Huge battles, scams, spies and isk spent.


2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

I'm really hoping for CCP to add more walking in station stuff. It as of now feels very immersive and really makes you feel very weak when out of your spaceship.

I hope CCP adds hats. Hats for ships, hats for hats, hats everywhere.

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

Free to play or unfair micro transactions. F2P would just make an awkward separation of community and elitism between subscribed members/Free to plays... Microtransaction that provide an unfair advantage also would kill this game... cosmetic changes like hats would be fine as long its handled right.

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