EVE General Discussion

Well said.

That video proves that their are different kinds of gamers. I know people who experience pants creaming upon seeing the kind of things you see in that video... It simply doesn't do a damn thing for me. I look at it and think "man, that's a whole lot of time wasting there, I prefer to do it like EVE, dock, smash buttons, undock".

20 years ago (when I was, well, a 20 year old lol) that kind of thing would have made me turn flips, now it just seems like useless fluff. The same kind of useless fluff that a few people want to see in EVE for some reason.

I bet no dev's will give any say on WiS, because there is probably no development going on with it, I think we have to accept the fact that no matter how cool WiS would be, it will be a feature that will never show up in eve, dev's have not stated anything about it. plenty of people are asking for it, but instead we get t3 destroyers and allot of useless things that would not change the game as well and WiS would experience wise. And this is saying something because I live in wormhole space were stations dont even exist, still, walking in stations would at least add a layer to gameplay that people would have wished ccp would have started working on sooner.

This is how I spent one hour yesterday.

Find Unknown Structure.
Warn friend.
Fleet up.
Explore the massive thing (is it like 200 km tall?).
Look for the known "entry".
Try what looks like a closed gate. It is closed.
Find the known "entry".
Get inside, carefully maneuvering at 50 m/s.
Advance until colission detection stops your ship.
Meet up with friend.
Pictures!

One worthy hour indeed.

i took my brother's furby on the trampoline and let go on the bounce upwards by accident

the guilt over my role in this terrible tragedy has imprinted its final words as it fell to its death into my mind forevermore. 'whee! doo-ay!'

the memories haunt me to this very day

Despite my complete ignorance of coding (both my Mum and Brother are computer programmers), I have learned that nothing is ever simple. You have to remember that there are countless functions of even something as simple as the Captains Quarters, and that many of them might react "badly" to something you consider as straightforward as adding another character.

For a start, was the Captains Quarters ever meant to be a multiplayer environment? Sure, WiS in general was, but was the CQ? Just as easily as you assume it would "of course" be meant to allow other players in, I can imagine quite easily how the CQ could have been intended as a low-resource (Heh ) interface to the hanger ui (consider it a transition zone between space and station environments), and that you didn't enter the multiplayer environment until you loaded out the door (so purely ship-players dont get bogged down when trying to just get ships changed and get out in to space).

Which means, how will the Captains Quarters as it stands cope with an "invader" character. What happens when a visitor uses any of the CQ interactable elements? There is all manner of potential for hilarious and unexpected results.

Lets go with the simplest function, the undock control. What happens when a visitor presses the undock button in someone elses CQ? You might think it obvious that the visitor would undock in whatever ship they were in when they were ported over. But is it that obvious? There could be any number of hilarious ways CCPs code might interpret that command. You might undock in a pod (since the transfer might have resulted in you leaving your ship), or perhaps it might undock your host (since you've activated their undock process, the game might not be able to tell it was done by you and not him), or even better, you might undock in whatever ship your host was piloting (it could tell you were the one undocking, but the hosts ship is the one in the "ship ready to undock" position)! In the event of any of those ludicrous events, how does CCP alter that code. How long will that take. Would the simplest way be to disable hanger ui elements when there is a visitor. What potential issues does that then create?

Nothing is ever as simple as forum commentators claim when it comes to "simple" code changes.

double post..

Can you give some links and citations on your quotes?

Personally I'd prefer the resources being spent on Legion being used to give us avatar gameplay in EVE

That was we can have our cake AND walk around it. Lol

Did you have any specific ideas which could be discussed?

If you don't agree with my evaluation of how poor the immersion would be for Jen's idea you should articulate the opposing viewpoint instead of shooting off expletives at me.

I'd only be making a generalization if I actually said I think everyone feels that way. I even qualified my post by mentioning how little experience I have with games typically used as MMO RP platforms.

Yes well the Devs can and do implement napkin illustrations. Take the feature advertised by the blue banner on your launcher, for example..

*ducks*