EVE General Discussion

Anything facilitated by eves existence that otherwise wouldn't have been as it currently is could be considered content , including this conversation for example.

confirming local spam is content and not the process of typing an reading... Jesus gus at this point you may aswll just thay every thing that ever existed is henceforth to be know as content... "I went to the content to get some content and one the way content punched me in the content".

I like this thread and everyone in it

It is. You just don't get it. Too stuck in your narrow understanding of Life in general.
You probably believe your existence has no influence on others too, hu?

I use the themepark comparison because you're making a themepark complaint. This is not a matter of depth, but of rough categorisation. You want more stuff to consume (which is the defining characteristic of a themepark game), rather than more stuff to do, even if you have to invent it yourself (which rather defines the sandbox).

Then you pretty clearly accept that there is indeed a metric fsckton of content that CCP has no hand in creating.


content 2 |ˈkɒntɛnt|

noun (also contents)
the things that are held or included in something: she unscrewed the top of the flask and drank the contents.

• [ in sing. ] [ with modifier ] the amount of a particular constituent occurring in a substance: soya milk has a low fat content.
• (contents) a list of the chapters or sections given at the front of a book or periodical: [ as modifier ] : the contents page.
• [ mass noun ] the material dealt with in a speech, literary work, etc. as distinct from its form or style: the tone, if not the content, of his book is familiar.
• information made available by a website or other electronic medium: [ as modifier ] : online content providers.

Nothing there about interactions being disqualified form being content. If interactions are included in something, why would they not count as content in that something? In fact, usage 3 seems rather applicable here: the content of a game is distinct from its mechanisms and presentation.

After all, there is content and there is content. What is the content of a game of chess? Is it the board and the pieces? Not really — those are the contents of the box the chess game came in. The content of an actual game of chess is the moves, the board states, the strategies involved in reaching the end. Oh, and by the way, apples and oranges are pretty much the same thing.

My point is that there is already a word/term for interaction and guess what that is? no not content... Interaction!

This thread is asking what people mean when they say content. I can only speak for myself but when i say content, i mean the stuff ccp puts in the game. Everything the players do is just the players playing the game.

question: when people say "ccp should add new content" what do you think they mean?

Damn i loved Police Academy! Still want to play part one from the old times on PC.

Any wormhole would be an example. When wormholes got figured out plenty of groups started heading into them and evicting other people so that they could print ISK and plenty of people still do.



It started the fountain war. Not to get off subject but what's wrong with people renting? Players who want to be in nullsec but don't like PvP or taking orders from a 'godfather' get to have all the fun they want for a small percentage of what they generate. How does it hurt you in any way?



Sounds like you are describing more of a tweak to existing mechanics which really wouldn't drive much player interaction.



Plenty of lowsec entities move around like nomads and take into account where the nearest level 5 agent is for funding their PvP.



Sounds to me like CCP has the right idea, they just need to get back to it. It's not about their being equal/better isk making activities in safer parts of space. The discussion I was touching on was about having new things to do, isk or no isk.

Instead of trying to insult people by suggesting they don't "get life" could you answer this:



Do you think they just want a CCP dev to trash talk in local.

If it matches the description, then yes. As it happens, interaction fits the description just fine and isn't disqualified by any part of it. The problem here is really that you're asking for a definition by a single word rather than a general description. That's not really how dictionaries work; they're not a list of all things that mean the same thing — that's more the job of a thesaurus.

But hey, let's do that too:

content 2 |(stress on the first syllable)|
noun
1 many restaurant meals are low in fibre content: amount, proportion, quantity, bulk, total, quota; rare quantum.
2 just as the novel's form is radical, so too is its content: subject matter, subject, theme, burden, gist, argument, thesis, message, point, thrust, substance, matter, material, text, ideas — antonyms: style.
3 (contents) she went to examine the contents of the hamper: things inside, content, load — informal: guts, innards.
4 (contents) the book's list of contents | he picked up the letter and scanned its contents: chapters, sections, divisions; subject matter, subjects, themes, matter, substance, material, text; index; constituents, components, ingredients, elements, items.

Does interaction count as a theme, point, (subject) matter, or substance of EVE? Is it part of the game's “innards” or components or elements? Sure does and sure is.

…and that's a particularly incongruous and arbitrary categorisation. You're effectively begging the question.

What I think is irrelevant. What counts is what's happening.
Opinions usually just screw up observation,
because factual reality is put through a stupid filter most call "I".

Most people who whine for new content are consumers. They have a screwed understanding of content
because of all the consumption. People nowadays are used to content as something that is being consumed.

So when you ask what people seem to want, then the answer would be: "a consumeable good".
Does that mean they understand what content means? No.