EVE General Discussion

You missed my point, and whether I raided in EQII or WoW (didn't) has no bearing on EVE.

I don't begrudge role players their trinkets and costumes and paintjobs. Heck, I'd like some custom paint for my ships, and wouldn't mind a better wardrobe selection. I played D&D growing up just like every other self-respecting geek.

What I'm saying is there isn't any plan other than vague ideas and wishful thinking. There's never been any roadmap to follow, no list of features to look forward to, nothing. All they gave us were some pretty tech demos, a lot of talk about ideas, and people ran with their own imaginations. Computer games don't run on imagination. Someone has to program in all the things.

what people are missing, when it comes to the RP discussion is this:

You are all RPers. In THIS game.

EVE is quite frankly the Ultimate RP MMO. even people who despise "RP", are, through the course of their gameplay, RPing. and U Ain't Even Know It.

no, I'm not talking about the pseudo-RP in other MMOs, sitting around in a Tavern typing /emotes all day. I mean moving, fighting, earning, living, in a living, breathing world where your actions have meaningful impact.

pretty much everyone, from denizens of the Intergalactic Summit forum, to the random hi-sec miner, to the most vicious, ruthless pirate, to even the staunchest anti-carebear Nullsec PVPer, is really playing a Role, in *this* game. The way the game is designed, and particularly the Politics of Corps and Alliances make it so.

that is one of the things, to me, that makes EVE so brilliant. and thats why I keep coming back to it, time and time again.

Uh. No.

I do this for a living. Everything but lighting is a pretty seamless and painless import on virtually all asset pipelines. In fact, that's exactly why you've seen this boom in middleware with engines like unity, epic's unreal engine going indie friendly, etc.

Textures are literally bitmaps. Shaders are written once for an engine and reused endlessly by filling those texture channels. Sound effects are the most copy/paste friendly assets in the whole of game development.

Animation is done on a handful of applications that have standardized file types which are then used by specialized importers on a per-platform basis. If you've animated a space dude running once, there is very little to keep you from using that same dataset on a mac, and a PC, and a console, and an iphone.

In fact, its EXTREMELY rare in this day and age that separate staff handles modelling and texturing at all. Most studios require a modeller to also be a competant texture artist, most of the time including generation and retop from high to low res models and getting all of the diffuse/spec/normal/whatever exotic stuff your angine uses finished before it ships to the animation and rigging guys, and in most cases large studios tend to only pick up people that can do all three for character assets, and at the very least modelling/texturing skillsets for environments.

I don't know where you're getting your information, but it is absolutely false. You actually can just use assets from DUST and skip 80% of the work if those assets are artistically appropriate in their new context In the case of Space hulks vesus planet battles, the judgement may very well be that they are not.

You know what annoys me the most about the locked door?

I am an explorer, and beyond the door is a side of New Eden I haven't seen yet.

Necro alert. IB4L.

This is the oldest thread ever.

Open door or no more talkie talkie.

Actually, we do, and by lore there is a crew in all ships bigger than a shuttle.

When the wreck diving feature was under consideration there were three options for who went in: A crew member (being directed by you), a soft clone of you, or yourself. Only in the last option would you be unable to fight your ship if you got attacked.

The only gameplay involving an avatar that I want is with a titan. Stop trying to turn my game about internet spaceships into ******* hello kitty online.

Crew in ships:

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/New_Eden_crew_guidelines

What enters the exploration site:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1569956#post1569956

"We do have various ideas regarding death within a site as there will indeed be dangers for you to overcome, including other players. (if we, Team Avatar, get our way)

Here are some:

1. Death will be like the standard pod kill death but then that leads to the issue where your ship is still docked at the site.
2. You enter sites with a clone rather than your actual avatar.
3. You enter sites with crew members rather than clones."

I'd not send myself or a clone... It wouldn't make any sense. I'm a capsuleer, not a freaking space station ninja.
That is where I think many thoughts go wrong. If I check my skill list, I don't see a single skill in there that makes me some kind of super-fighting machine in close combat. I pilot ships. DUSTies kill people up close and personal, but I'm not a DUSTy.

Also, if enemies are on that station, it doesn't even account for the fact that a battleship could send in a hundred while a frigate could send in much fewer crew to fight for the site.

Then obviously the development should rather be one that allows us to carry DUSTies on board our ships.
A good reason to hire some of them into the corp then, because atm I don't see any reason for it.

They are dangerous, they like to fight man-to-man, they have clones... Why make a capsuleer something he clearly is not?

Meanwhile, give us some social zones! ;) There is nothing more meaningful than my virtual beer when I hit a station!