EVE General Discussion

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I have to admit, I gave them some money as well. Not that it will ever be able to replace Eve. If Eve ever dies, it will be CCP's fault, not another game.[/quote]

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To play EVE we use keyboards. You canno't play EVE without a keyboard, hardly. The last 10 years we always played EVE using keyboards.

Accordingly: EVE is a game about keyboards.

ah, so EVE is a game about monitors.

Also, nobody's proposing REMOVING the spaceships, we're proposing ADDING avatars and doing things with them.

Very well said and exactly what I feel about SC. i have put alot of money into SC but will never leave EVE because of the RL sandbox that only EVE can give player.

Let's entertain a hypothetical scenario for a second. Let's suppose that some Scandinavian game studio produced and launched a subscription MMO with the setting that a greatwizard has invented a spell that transforms anybody who has it cast upon them into a mighty warrior, capable of slaying legions of lesser men if they're cautious and skilled, and even more importantly, the spell whisks their soul away at the moment of death and creates for them a new body.

Thus empowered, these intrepid men and women set forth away from the homelands where city guards will step in to keep order, and build for themselves great empires in the wilderness, fending off orcs and the predations of their fellows to set up castles and cities of their own, where they build great magical golems that march into battle at their side. Great alliances form and go to war, bands of brothers-in-arms are felled by one cunning infiltrator who is given a little too much trust and power, and one day somebody forgets to raise the drawbridge and seventy of the largest and most expensive war-golems are destroyed as a hostile kingdom sees the opportunity and charges in.

other bands of warriors explore the shifting maze of hellish catacombs that have opened up under the world, returning with demonic artefacts which they forge into powerful armour and swords. Others still live the life of a merchant, carting iron and mithril around, selling it to the smiths who forge it into blades, shields and war-golems. some raid these caravans, some scour the hills and valleys for hidden treasure, some others are simple mercenaries, lending their sword-arm to whomever offers the most Gold Crowns.

Wouldn't we accuse them of stealing some ideas from CCP?

We'd be entirely right to do so because what I've just described is EVE with different window dressing - avatar-based and fantasy rather than spaceship-based and scifi. The economy, intrigue, empire-building, sandbox, all of it - that's the essence of EVE. Whether we're flying a tengu and firing missiles or donning a suit of hellsteel plate and swinging a sword is basically cosmetic, the filter through which the actual elements that drive the game are viewed.

And yet aesthetics are important. Put EVE and this hypothetical dark-fantasy ripoff side by side and you'd find that people would choose between them based on their preference for scifi, or their inability to relate to a spaceship.

By proposing avatar-based content in EVE, what we're suggesting is that the game's got a natural direction in which it can be expanded which will provide for the people who just can't identify with a spaceship but who feel perfectly at home driving a human character around and doing stuff. I don't think the game is likely to die without on-foot content, but I believe wholeheartedly that it would be greatly enriched.

The important part is that it should be just another lifestyle choice, every bit as valid as wormholing, nullsec warring, lowsec exploration or highsec mission running.

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look what you did. are you proud of yourself?

You can play EVE without electricity. I did.

When the Server got hacked in 2011, I made paper airplanes and wrote "Guristas" on each of them. Then i got a small box, cut it up to look like my Machariel with a hole in the front and set my sling shot inside it.

Then I went ratting in my living room and made a bunch of isk (monopoly money). And i still had pubbies (my family) hating on me (looking at my like I was crazy) for being a carebear.

So yea, you can play EVE without electricity, but you still need something that looks or acts like spaceships.

the nice thing is that there's no incompatibility between being the guy in the pod and being Malcolm Reynolds or Han Solo on the side.

Your capsuleer's a wealthy sort, well able to afford a shield-emitter belt buckle and a lightweight armour vest that goes under the clothes without ruining the fit, or maybe a subdermal mesh of some kind. If you can afford a battleship, you can certainly afford a designer suit.

They'd still want to keep their head down - DUST mercs are trained to throw themselves into the fight heedless of danger, I imagine capsuleers would still prefer to use cover and concealment. Especially if dying stationside as a capsuleer came with some serious drawbacks, like losing all the SP you'd gained since the last time you jumpcloned or were podded.

Point is, there's definitely room in the lore for capsuleers to want to try things that aren't in the regulated environment of the pod where everything is logged and monitored by CONCORD. If you're a would-be independent looking for a little more freedom, any opportunity to increase your power and wealth while avoiding the eye of Big Brother would be a good one.

Hell, maybe we could even have a black-market currency that you need to physically carry around.

I don't think any of that would be thematically incompatible with the capsule.