Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So there's still a small following that isn't sucking the [insert] for internet spaceships and actually still misses what we were promised within Incarna...

While the outcry from all of New Eden (during that time) was more about CCP's cash shop antics and potential to not cater to eve's loyal demographic (focused around internet spaceships) that was fixing to be left behind;

It's now 2015.

Incarna was 2011.

The fear of that narrative is gone and instead a different demographic is getting left behind.

When 2003's vision of EVE launched, it was a dark vast sci-fi blade-runneresque dystopia.

The kinds of characters we could create, the options we could give our characters; the vast culture that flaunted the difference between each race and reflected that kind of universe...

It's all gone.

It's been replaced (within the new character editor) with meh-fashioned (hardly even sci-fi themed) lacking racially-diverse people doing internet spaceships.

Incarna promised a return, one day, to that vision of EVE, the form of restoring all the diversity in options of the old editor with the technology of the new. After all, that's why the captain's quarters exists.

That has never happened. We've gotten a few dresses and jackets, prosthetic arms, and a monocle.

Minmatar hairstyles, tribal wear, Gallente exotic wear, masks, crests/crowns/gleaming golden Amarrian jewelry/iconry, implants (beyond the Solid Snake eye and Deus Ex arms), dynamic lights/lighting, all the criminal portrait backgrounds... Are we ever getting any of that back?

Not to mention the potential of things, within the universe of EVE, that could have come with the new character/portrait editor of EVE that's never made the cut:

Evidence of drug-use, monstrous implants (metal jaws/sharkteeth/menacing cybernetic eyes, etc.), pod gel wet effects (for those of us RPing recent deaths), ship interior backgrounds, capsule interior background, weapons, crew/baseliner backgrounds, holographic clothing/interfacing, and pretty much anything that would imply a character's previous profession before becoming a capsuleer... hell, even DUST gear for DUST characters. (DUST gear being an option for EVE Online players with linked accounts unless such characters breach the lore?)

Do we get to look forward to any of this potentially in the future?

Of course. For 10k AUR for a basic hair cut, 15k AUR for a fancy brooch and an extra cheap 50k AUR for a set of tribal wear.

Over half of the items mentioned in those docs are pretty trollish. Top hats and parrots... really? Whenever have the races ever had that integration? Even the flamboyant Gallente are more TRON than Victorian in their old clothing lineup.

There are many items from the old editor (stuff we once had) that's missing from that list.

My initial post contains quite a list, starting with what got left behind from the 2003 editor as well as what could be done going forward.

EDIT: Updating this post since the initial one is a bit cluttered...



What's missing from the old 2003 character editor:

• Minmatar hairstyles.
• Tribal wear.
• Gallente exotic wear.
• Rebreather Masks.
• Crests/Crowns/Gleaming Golden Amarrian Jewelry/Iconry.
• Implants (beyond the current Solid Snake eye and Deus Ex arms).
• Dynamic Lights/Lighting.
• The majority of criminal portrait backgrounds.

What would be delightful options going forward that amplify the lore and potential states of our characters:

• Evidence of drug-use. (Should this be skin options or scarring.)
• Monstrous/Menacing Implants. (metal jaws/sharkteeth/menacing cybernetic eyes, etc. - see chronicle link for lore ref)
• Pod Gel Wet Effects. (for those of us RPing recent deaths).
• Racial ship interior Portrait Backgrounds.
• Capsule interior Portrait Background.
• Personal Weapons. (From your Wiyrkomi Rifles to DUST weaponry.)
• Crew/Baseliner/Crowd Portrait Backgrounds. (CSM might especially like these.)
• Holographic Clothing/Interfacing.
• Mining ORE Hazardsuits.
• Slave Wear. (Especially Vitoc-Injector Collars.)
• DUST 514/Valkyrie suits for helmless DUST characters and/or linked Accounts. (Unless that breaks the lore.)

And pretty much anything that implies a capsuleer's previous profession prior to becoming a capsuleer...

CCP have other priorities like, making the game more fun to play. Sorry.

That is nice and all Isis, but as long as there is no gameplay whatsoever it's all irrelevant.


Also you forgot amarr veils, they were in old character creator but were never added to the new one for some reason.