EVE General Discussion

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?
2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?
3. What is my greatest fear for the game?


Eve will be the game to outlast all current MMO's. The dedication of CCP, the depth of the game, and the ideas the players bring forth will solidify Eve's position in history of Online Gaming for decades. I look forward to 'the second decade!'

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

I think the game will have more people playing it, more people playing.. more people for me to kill!!!
This is the best game ever! I was never into games, before I stumped into this game. My ex played all the time.. So I figure out that if I wanted to spend some time with him, I had to play this game too. To make a long story short.. He pissed me off, I dumped him and kept on playing. I just LOVE this game!

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

I would like to dress up in a sexeh long black leather dress, with a train and walk in stations.. Visit someone else's "bedroom"/ hangar have some "innocent" fun (coffee) and then kill him/her before walking back to my ship. THAT would be awesome!
And or killing ppl in high sec.. Whit out a war deck. mmmmmm jummy! There is so many targets there.. and so few to kill

• 3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

That CCP nerf all the ships I love down to completely worthless to fly and that I hoped I've never trained them at all..
OR that you guys take away pvp. I hate mining! (Points at her ex and whisper that it's all his fault...)
But the worst thing would be, that you guys at CCP found out that this was getting too boring for you... and you closed down the shop! ( I will hunt you down if you do! )

In the future people will continue to deceive to one another fun and profit, EVE will be a place where social interaction is at least as important as physical action within the game. I have always enjoyed the opportunity to shape the universe through language and concept, and I believe EVE will continue in the direction where words can harness the same power a Neutron Blaster Cannons.

EVE's mobile applications and the social opportunities they present are by far the most exciting, the ability to stay in contact with friendly and unfriendly contacts from anywhere in the world. When the right words come to mind you'll be able to use them wherever you are, in EVE words have the power to forge, fortify or destroy corporations, alliances, and coalitions.

My greatest fear for EVE is that people will stop talking; stop interacting. Killmails are a fantastic tool, but are ultimately a means to an end. That ;'end' is to tell the stories of EVE. Actions may be louder than words, but the life and depth of EVE comes from it's player driven narrative.

Hope I'm not too late!


1. What will be the game be like in in the future?
The game is going to be one of the best MMO games in history, and is already one of the only games which can directly link PC players with PS3 players.
2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?
I am looking foreword to the time when I will be able to walk around in station with other pilots because I play with some good people and would love to be able to relax with them while sitting in station.
3. What is my greatest fear for the game?
I actually have two. One is EVE being taken offline. The other is being podded after forgetting to upgrade my clone and go back to basically day 1.

I hope and expect that the graphics will stay at the state of the art, with busier-looking ships and realistic explosions. I'm concerned that the mini-games will take over: Planetary interaction is something of a stretch, but the twitch-based loot spew from hacking really puts me off exploration.

Prediction for looking back on the Second Decade...

... the Age of the Capsuleer has begun, and industrial production balances and sovereignty mechanics have continued to be tweaked and reworked, allowing for a true revitalization of null-sec beyond ratting, warring, and building supercapitals. In late 2015, CCP began to directly incorporate the political machinations of nullsec entities into the Lore. The Great Empires began to take notice of groups they had discounted as pirates and refuse, as they became aware that in truth, what lives beyond their grasp had become highly-organized power blocs with thousands of immortal pilots and the ability to project military power across the breadth of New Eden, rivaling or exceeding the power of foes like the Sansha Nation.

In the wake of Burn Jita V - a campaign that saw a near-total interdiction of freighter and industrial traffic in the systems surrounding Jita for four jumps out, the Caldari State attempted to close off access to its space to all members of null-sec power blocs. The reaction and retribution was swift, as suicide-fleets rageformed to destroy all incoming and outgoing gates connecting New Caldari with the rest of New Eden, plunging the system into a blockaded state that only jump-capable ships could escape.

But jumping supplies in necessitated the lowering of the cynosural jammers, and when the jammers went down...

1. A bitter, cold, heartless ice-queen that steals candy from babies on every gaming platform available.

And then laughs at them for having candy to begin with.

2. Coming home after a long day at the office, only to log in and land my Super Capital Ship at a star port and proceed to tend to my Casino and Strip club on a prime stretch of waterfront property located on planet-wide cities. The exotic dancers employed in my monopoly of "gentlemen's establishments" will keep absent minded casuleers "entertained" while my pirate friends rob them of their hard earned isk and ships in broad daylight.

3. Caps & Supercaps stay under-developed or get deleted from Eve... giving rise to "sub-caps Online"

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

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

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?
Internet Spaceships.

I take it we don't have to specifically answer those questions, but can instead devise our own.

Q) Now that your core gameplay has been severely nerfed, what are your plans?
A) As the new system scanner just killed small-gang ambushes in wormholes, my corporation and I have had to adapt for the future. EVE is a forever-changing game, after-all. We’ve bought security tags for everyone, so now we can start running level-4 missions in Drakes and saving for Hulks. Once we have the Hulks, we’re hoping to start an alliance-wide manufacturing push, so that everyone can fly free Retrievers. We embrace our new lifestyle, never looking back. We love highsec, and I hope we never have to check d-scan for probes or watch for gigantic unmissable pulsating grey blobs again.

1. With the invent of technology like google glass, transparent displays and its ilk, I see Eve branching out into these... venues of sorts.... as it has with Dust, its console cousin.

2. What I would really like to see going forward, is some semblance of an app, be it google, be it ipod'ness, be it whatever new peripheral comes down the pipe. But this app would enable you to talk to your corp, as well as monitor and alter your training queue, market orders, and perhaps even industrial, planetary and scientific endeavors, and I see the folks behind Eve being epicly badass and not even trying to get their greed on by charging extra for this application.

I would also look forward to the capability of training all the characters on my account simultaneously without getting bilked for more subscription fees. My account is old, but I've only put in approximately two months of play time, but I realize that since 'grinding for experience' isn't a valid concept in eve, it allows experience to be less of a competitive factor. And in light of that, in light of how experience is based on elapsed time, it would just be excellent to train all three characters in tandem, for the price of a single subscription. Not everybody has a ton of friends in Eve, it would be nice to have a single account that one could cover all the bases with.

Something else I would look forward to, some capability to compress time between one's own account, and a friend's account who recently entered the game - so that the eve-fresh friend can get some semblance of accelerated training to catch up with the friend that recruited them. The caveat would be that multiboxers would probably use this to their advantage, the software would have to compare mac addresses to make sure "friends" weren't playing on the same computer.

And I see long-distance teleporation in the future, where one can transport goods from one planet to another, one base to another, one ship to another.

Another superb addition I would look forward to, and I notice tons of games do this and it's a pity, but Eve... needs m0ar item icons. Eve has some awesome artists, they should invest some time into making new item icons. Right now they seem stretched a bit thin, imo a robust and complex game like Eve, should nearly have a unique icon for every single item. It adds to the wonder factor, a bit to the artistic factor, and it adds an additional element of desire to items (... as goofy as it sounds, items with 'pretty' or 'badass' icons would be more desirable). And it would make it easier to differentiate between items in the same category.

And another addition that would be excellent, perhaps another flavor of wormhole or stargate, that extends into far reaching clusters of constellations that would exist far off the map of the known galaxy. Perhaps a discovery of some ancient gate that a splinter group of sleepers created to set up shop in a smaller, different and far flung galaxy. Where perhaps even another faction of creatures live, or multiple factions even.

I'd like to see a greater level of planetary interaction. As things stand, its possible to set up shop on a planet, harvest the local materials and perform manufacturing on the ground, it would be nice if more items were available per planet, and it would be nice to set up some sort of starbase above the ground base, rather than resorting to customs offices. This way if Eve ever gets the capability to launch ground attacks on manufacturing bases, the orbiting base can have offensive and defensive measures to retaliate with.

3. My greatest fear, changes to what Eve represents. I've seen other games alter their mechanics, alter their foundation concepts... all in an effort to become appealing to other audiences. Eve trying to conform scares me.

And subscription price hikes give me the spooks as well. :)