EVE General Discussion

If you say so...

Just kidding. I'm well aware that not all Goons I like that... I just think their original agenda... their "mission" if you will.. was stupid.

Anyways, that's a non topic...

I suppose even this Avatar exploration was prototyped in unity. Carbon is much better than a complete lack of a decent engine, but if you ask me they would be smart to keep Valkyrie in Unity indefinitely. Well, actually if you really ask me they would do better to drop Valkyrie until World of Darkness and Dust are pulling their weight financially so that Eve development doesn't suffer for having to pull their weight.

Also, this thread hit over 80k views. Not long until it's the most viewed thread on the forum, stickied threads included. (-1).

I thought they were rewriting Valkyrie in Unity? So if it is rewritten in carbon that leads to the O-R- being used in Eve?

Meanwhile at Star Citizen,


avatar personal computer concept and hints to clothing and body armor shops unveiled

89,999 whatever trenchcoats? I hope those are just placeholder prices!

I'm all for the inclusion of wis content alongside ifs and I don't subscribe to the view that development of one will be at the detriment of the other.

I've said it before, the wod development for character development and clothing etc could be crossed over with the eve wis / next store items to a degree and could be used as a test bed for those items.

My old style avatar pre-incarna looked like she had been dragged out of the pod and shoved into a dress for a formal mugshot. The range of items and customization under the old system was immense. Surely some of the development for wod could be brought across without breaking the genre?

New zones and spaces? Take the rooms already created for dust and re-skin for eve? Take the player room and use it for a market views pace. Take the big ready room and add a big 3d ship fitting screen, where you can drag fittings to and from the hangar to your ship? Totally replicates the normal fitting screen, just scales it up and makes it something you can walk around in.

My only concern over EVR is that it doesn't interact directly with eve in e same way dust does. If not directly linked then it is an interesting sideline but essentially a shard experience rather than a single universe...

Sm.

Aye, the characters had a certain scifi charm and a huge range of variation which is so missing from the new system, plus if the pod pilots are gods amongst men, why are they stuck with a totally utilitarian look? Use the WOD items that are developed and cross-port the non-genre breaking ones. He'll, it'll even be a way of getting metrics on what items and styles are popular...

Quick win to keep the space barbies happy :).

Content wise, wis should be a pleasant distraction from fis, there shouldn't be anything in there that you can't do from the hangar interface, but what it will give is a whole new level of immersion and engagement for players old and new.

When playing the market, yes I can do it all from the comfort of CQ or even the ship hangar, but what's wrong with standing in a virtual trade house room, with maybe different market feeds on each wall panel, or links to external websites up on screens to look at and interact with rather than just having more browser windows open?

The ship hangar, yes, a series of icons to show the ships is fine, but how about being able to see the ships side by side in an actual storage room? How about seeing from your current hangar view the ship currently piloted by the person above and below you on the guest list? You change fittings or move cargo, cargo bots or fitting teams animate in the background. Hell, if I buy 1bn units of tritanium, I want to go and sit atop a pile of boxes or a huge gold pile of all my isk.. :).

Little things that add immersion but don't detract from "core pew pew" gameplay. Turn it off or ignore it if you want to , no problem with that.

Stating that all development MUST be purely focused on FIS gameplay is a recipe for disaster IMO. If the game can't develop and change over time then it risks becoming more and more of a niche environment. I'm sure that will please many but without new players with more ways into and to interact with the eve universe then player numbers and ultimately the game will fall.

If the demand is there then it would be stupid to ignore it and not invest in an area of the game players are interested in. Hire some more devs if needs be. Get a small team re-engaged fully again. The proof of concept that is EVR is a shining example of what a small team can achieve when focused.

SM.

Just make WIS everything what we cant do now but what we want to do. Doubling the functionalities is not the road to go. We have it already.

I would like to see WiS

But I think before CCP start on that it would be better to fix the Corporation/Alliance Roles & Permissions in conjunction with use of POSes & Outposts first.

It does appear like maybe CCP will design a new Roles & Permissions / POS system separate from the current system then ditch the old code/system and replace it with the new one. At least the new 'POS-type' items in the Rubicon release suggest that may be the case. I say whichever way you want to fix it this should be the primary task. Everything else should be put to one side.

2ç thought: seeing the backlash of the SOMER Ishukone Scorpions giveaway, probably they should had settled it with some NEx items rather than rare ships.