EVE General Discussion

Cautiously hopeful, yes... but you hit the nail squarely on the head with "whether or not".

Most people will temper their enthusiasm precisely because of that very issue.

I'll upgrade my interest level from "cautious" to "excited" IF/when some solid demo work starts appearing -- flashy trailers with "ooooooo" and "ahhhhhhhhh" cinegraphics don't cut it anymore.

Well, considering that we'll all be the same thing does it make sense to call us "Capsuleers" any more?

And no, we're not Legionnaires, we're Legion.

they Say that Legion will have NPC so you they will be doing missions in space with LEGION troops, the walkyries will do the same and EVE, will pretend that our fighters have little peeps inside & we get a new ship that works like the salvage drone and pretend we deploy troops to another ship

All in they own universe :) with some random event.

I am extremely excited for Valkyrie and Legion now. I will definitely be playing both in addition to Eve now.

EVE Forever. One universe, one war. - I pretty much orgasm whenever I see those words.

I think it is an exciting prospect that CCP is still pursuing massive releases of game changing content. I think apocrypha was one of the best expansions in the game because of the fact that the number of new (not to mention highly dangerous) areas to explore not only introduced more living space, but completely changed the face of the game and affected everyone in one way or another. Not to mention it introduced entire new lifestyles and professions to the EVE universe.

The newly announced additions, including the infantry combat in structures with Legion and the dogfighting in Valkyrie, are not only going to be merely part of the live universe, but will play major roles in shaping the game. It also will give players intimidated by EVE's "complexity" with something to do that still allows for potential influence of major events (butterfly effect).

I am all in favor of the planned additions in changes.

Will there be problems and mistakes? It would be impossible for there not to be. I doubt any such melding of games even exists in any franchise present or past. While theoretically possible, CCP will need to invent several new technologies that allow people from three different games to interact with each other on the live server. Dust served as testament to its possibility, but what is planned will need far more than a simple conveyed message between servers of "orbital strike launched, load x graphic in y location with z effect on surrounding area."

I will wager a guess that part of the reason that Dust was letdown in content was because CCP was trying to make a soufflé with a waffle iron: Dust was developed on an entirely different platform which CCP had no prior experience with, not to mention probably had to wrestle with Sony to get even half of the planned cross platform functionality! Getting live, cross platform events to play out the scene on everyone's screen sounds like it borders on impossible (please, please correct me if I am wrong) - I mean, having to fight three different platform owners for simultaneous updates let alone simultaneous events has proved to be an insurmountable challenge for most other companies (as evident by games on the computer but also on consoles, such as minecraft, war thunder, etc, which all have a lag between updates on the mainstream version and the ports).

Since everything is going to be on the PC (and since CCP has much more experience on the PC, and now has lessons learned from FPS content related to Dust), the announced changes are already an order of magnitude larger in possibility than what was planned for Dust. It is still going to be a challenge, but I think CCP not only has the dream, but also the drive.

I personally think that CCP is not only the only company that wants to pull this off, but also probably the only company that can.

I look forward to the planned additions and projects, and to the day I can be a capsuleer, legionnaire, and a hotshot fighter ace. Until then, I will do as I always have; enjoy the fixes and additions that get released.

TL;DR You bet I am excited, and while it won't be easy, I think they can do it.

EDIT: I just realized I typed all of that with my droid. I think I am going to invest in a thumb cast, now...

I don't think any sort of tie-in between the combat in Valkyrie, and space combat in EvE is even remotely viable, or a good thing. Drones, and fighters are only balanced, because they are reliable, predictable, and follow orders. The moment you had actual player involvement in the flight and control of drones or fighters, massive variables would come into play, rendering ships far weaker, or more effective than they should be. It would be game breaking for EvE

New dropsuit called "Fattyceptor" is introduced:

Role bonus: Can latch onto bypassing Interceptors and remove one LML from their hardpoint.
Role Bonus: Can breach through the hull of capital ships and flank fighting forces.

Absolutely... it will only ever happen on PC, though.

You think we expect to get all that in summer?