EVE General Discussion

I wonder how exploration will work in the TV show

That could be an interesting aspect.

The pitch at this time is: True Stories. Player based plot lines, that actually happened 20,000 years in the future. Which is a pretty interesting idea but also REALLY challenging to translate into an engaging series.

A series needs persistent characters that you actually care about enough to get you to tune back in. Some "story teller" series have been successful, "Twilight Zone" being the most classic example, but they are very difficult to pull off and keep on the air.

My thought was possibly a protagonist who investigates and chronicles these stories. Who is perhaps an agent for someone, to give more meaning to the results. A capsuleer for scope maybe, that does work for FIO and/or SoCT. Supporting cast as crew (which could change over time as people are lost with ships). Mercenary might be another possiblity (space A-Team? LOL)

So the plot lines could alternate or be intertwined between player stories and Game of Space Thrones style politics and lore, while following a fairly stable cast. (Might also be hilarious to actually use some of the PVE mission plots fleshed out. I'd watch a Damsel in Distress episode done a bit tongue in cheek, wink-wink style.)

Now is an excellent time to move on this, game tv series are heating up with the success of Defiance, and announced Halo series. I don't imagine this will last for long though, so I would encourage CCP to move on this while they have a good chance.

Also hope that some of the wonderful Clear Skies tone gets put into the series, a dark dangerous universe viewed with a certain amount of optimism and humor. Too dark or too silly could make it difficult to connect with. Dark Skies had a great balance. (Although skipped on the whole capsuleer thing, which I would hope CCP won't do.)

Like Babylon 5 and have the whole series as a single story line, but at the end of the series have a twist, in that after several thousand years as the story is told an eve race reconnects with humans from the bulk of humanity via a star gate, as new eden is compared with the bulk of humanity in the milky way galaxy just a little isolated out post of humanity consisting of just 7,000 systems.

In the game there are 4 races and you can only do so may permutations with 4 races. As the game may need some fresh blood and direction to stop it going stale, as Jove isn't an in game race.

As the lady dev called butterfly, or what name she's called said at the FF, CCP is thinking along for a future expansion to allow players to construct their own star gates.

As the last trailer says new eden is in a distant part of the universe. But how distant is distant?

I hardly think new eden is set in MACS0647-JD.

The two Magellanic Clouds are 160,000 and 200,000 light years away, enough to make you feel all nice and lonely and desperate when the natural worm hole you used to get there goes poof and implodes.

The eve story is 'when the star gates could take humanity no further', so the milky way was full...ish, but the Magellanic Clouds each with several hundred million stars each with the larger one probably having twice the number of the smaller one is empty and ripe for colonisation, and as photographs show both have lots of dust and gas nebular as in the game were now accessible via the natural big stable worm hole so humanity piled into them, like on the American western frontier in the 19th Century via this worm hole.

So, take your pick, the closer (sic) big one or the more 'distant' smaller one.

The twist in the TV show at the end of the first series incorporated into the game can be an opportunity for CCP to cope with a possible influx of new players who were viewers viewers, as the 4 eve races can only give so much scope, and a different humans from the bulk of humanity in the milky way galaxy with different ships will bring new conflicts and interesting shifts in power.

The 4 races in new eden, have had things in a cozy setting for a long long time, then these new interlopers from the milky way bulk of humanity come flooding in, and after some joy at being reconnected with new edens distant ancestors, find the old status quo is being over turned as the new comers to new eden start to change the nature of its corp and political power structures, and nothing is as it once was anymore.

And new edens humans going back into the milky way galaxy, find their way of doing things i.e pvp. leads to conflict and clashes of intrests.

Sorry for the length, but mining gets boring when you have a belt to yourself.

The way I see EVE, I believe the world Gianna Masseti has created with her comic THE NOOB is the right way to go, because that´s how EVE really is to my mind.

Personally, I adore the look, feel and execution of the EVE Online : Awakening trailer and would love to see them follow that aesthetic: note-perfect blend of CG and practical acting/effects with the requisite dark palate... the idea of seeing our ships and stations and the epic battles (both personal and fleet variety) fully realized along with the EVE score and sound effects in HD makes me a little too giddy.

Can't come soon enough!