Player Features and Ideas Discussion

While I would love the walking in stations feature (it sounds very immersive), I'd prefer that CCP focused their efforts on improving the core of the game, which is ship combat/interaction and space flight, and related things. The child in me wants the walking in stations, but the adult in me knows that wouldn't be a good thing for the game, in the long run.

CCP has had multiple avatars in one area on internal builds, or so they have said. They handle the graphics issue by reducing detail as required to keep fps up. Especially on anyone in the background.

It's crazy that this feature was so close to completion.

Really, a bar, corp meeting room, and a station entrance gathering area would add so much immersion to the game. WiS doesn't need anything else (honestly, adding "gameplay" to WiS just hurts the core game, but a simple coffee shop style design adds greatly to the social side of Eve).

I remember just before Incarna shipped watching the update process when I did a Sisi client update. At the time the update process would flash the names of the files it was downloading. Some had names that included the word "establishment". So at one time the eve client included some assets, graphics or otherwise, for establishments.

That's how close we got.

Real Eve players don't care about WiS. The total population has only gone up since CCP did the right thing and focused on spaceships. It would be a shame for them to throw that forward momentum away so ridiculous roleplayers can play Barbie dressup in space.

Sure they do. Real Eve players care about spaceships and the industry that supports space combat.

Anybody who doesn't care about those things can go play Second Life like all the other pedo roleplayers.

CQs are terrible simply because it's just looks. Sure, if your a graphics artist, it's pretty inspiring, but otherwise it's just lag with no gameplay purpose. I can however imagine if this feature had a majority of the things that users before me have stated it'd add so much immersion. I can imagine people walking into my CQ while I'm watching the TV that has nothing interesting to show and knocking me out(or better, killing me) and then stealing all of my ships and exotic dancers.

Adaptability is key when playing an online game, especially one as long running as Eve Online. The world and the gaming industry changes all the time, and MMO developers have to adapt to that or stagnate.

The first time someone told me about DUST and how a FPS was being developed to interact with FW I thought it might be involve capturing space stations directly like the fighting in the opening scene of Star Wars. Not abstract fighting on planets but instead oldschool Quake or Counterstrike happening in my home station as I undock to join the space battle outside or even going through the "door" to fight hand-to-hand. Those space stations are massive and could quite conceivably remain operational while being fought over for days as defenders try to lock down access points.

You can probably imagine my disappointment when DUST was launched, pretty as it is. When Fweddit kicked us out of Arzad with the help of DUST players the DUST bunny contribution felt distant to say the least. The real fight was in pixel spaceships or at least that was how it felt. DUST is too abstracted from FW in spaceships.

Anyway, this is kinda what I hoped the WIS thing would become. If DUST had taken this direction then maybe the same CTF levels could have been used as a basis for shops for 'peacefully' interacting players and stuff without much more expense.

Nevermind.

All those things can be done outside of the game and don't force CCP to waste resources on things a tiny fraction of the playerbase wants. Besides, roleplayers are disgusting people...we shouldn't be encouraging them to infest our game.