EVE General Discussion

I think you're just still mad that CCP took away your offensively misogynistic name, "ReiPing Yu"




Obligatory joke: who's "ReiPing Yu" who now, eh?

i am not surprised at this amount of replies to this post, i do not know why people insist on commenting thing that do not contribute to the substance of the topic but instead express personal ideals, theorems, and opinions.

that being said, i am also surprised to see people confused as to the difference between changing what a game is all about, and evolving; in addition to a lack of knowledge as to who ccp games, the main people behind the company, are. in addition to what they have done, and what they enjoy doing. these are just my opinions, but they are educated opinions.

first, i will address the issue of confusion to change vs evolution. eve can evolve as a game, expand, and include addition content. this does not mean that eve has to change its main policy, and that is the developers do not interfere with the world, and instead have created a player driven universe, where the players create the rules. great examples are code, frog, and mercs. the developers allow the game to develop as players develop rules.

this is because ccp are creators. they have created a unique universe they are very proud of. this pride is stronger then greed for them, a rare human trait. i wish more people were creative then greedy. the eve universe can not exist, let alone evolve, without fiscal support. the support of in game subscriptions, is no where near the maintenance cost of the super computer and staff needed to maintain the game alone. ccp games needs other revenue then the eve account subscriptions.

any gaming company would be foolish not to take advantage of an opportunity. ccps has a unique advantage on the competition, and luck is taking advantage of timing and opportunity. the developers at ccp are creators. i am sure they would love to create a universe where the developers again did not interfere, but instead the developers developed an ai that created a universe. when you create something that is stable, you can walk away from it, and it will continue to exist and thrive. eve is stable i believe. the effort i see put into eve increases the gameplay experience, but never do they change the motivation to play eve form playing a real, unique, player driver world to that of the "common" game experience. i am sure they have done many personal things outside of publicly available ccp projects

developing an AI-controlled and generated world, that the developers did not interfere with, to me not only seems to be within their capabilities, but appears to be their passion. creating independent worlds, that they can step back from, and watch evolve and grow over time. i can not begin to conceive how they feel about their universe being considered an art masterpiece. as creators, it must be the equivalent to an earned Nobel prize.

i hope i have cleared up some things from the few comments i browsed when i came to cite this page

Do you actually play this game? Eve is a pioneer in a sandbox in which the players dictate a majority of what goes on inside a very loose set of rules with tools provided by CCP. Not only that CCP is one of maybe a handful, and i am pushing it there, that listens to the player base and makes changes to the game according to the wants and needs of the player rather than whatever they feel like doing today or whatever is going to suck a few more dollars out of the players pocket.



Im sorry are you privy to CCP's financial statements? Do you know what they take in? Spend on development? Pocket as profit? You also seem to know what it cost to run a game such as eve and to maintain it. CCP has grown this game from a mere 25k subs to over half a million in 12-13ish years. While they have been doing that they have hired more staff, opened more sites, AND continued to add content to eve as well as keep it a modern game rather than let it get outdated.

On top of this they also have been developing other games( currently working on two titles that i know of), so my financial assessment is they seem to know what the hell they are doing.



If they create an AI controlled and developed world then they are interfering. Someone has to create the AI to create and control the world. That AI is limited by the persons developing it, their technically abilities, and their time restraints to put a workable product in place.

Then this AI can only do what its been programmed to do. So it can only create and control within its perimeters. The human mind has no such limitations. An AI can only create within defined perimeters, the human mind has infinite perimeters. AIs are predictable, humans by their very nature are not predictable. Humans can solve problems on the fly, AI can only solve problems within it perimeters.

The human mind is what we need to be building our sandbox, not some souped up intel E7 processor.

I think, maybe, you need to analyze M Theory with a slice of Chaos Theory for spice instead of the life and times and New Eden and its creators. It seems that would be more your speed.

I really behind a great many causes. However I stopped reading yours after that typo.

Together we can crush the oppression thrust upon us by those who fail to proof read their walls of text.

An AI-driven version of EVE, basically EVE-WOW, is a very bad idea. The whole attraction of EVE is precisely its player-driven sandbox aspects. That's the core market EVE is serving, and it's pretty much the only game in its niche -- a situation which has served CCP extremely well over the years. The reason why it has that niche sown up is because no-one wants to compete with EVE at this point -- it would very expensive to do, and the market size, while significant and nice for CCP, is small compared to the cost of designing a completely new game of EVE's current scope that would be competitive with EVE. And that's looking at it from the perspective of another company -- for CCP themselves to do this, given the cost involved and the fact that it would at least somewhat cannibalize its own protected niche, would be absolute madness, really.

But that's exactly what this flyblown heap of steaming **** is, is it not?

The People, the Actions of the People and the creativity of the people within EVE is what makes EVE, well, EVE. Changing this would not be... EVE. Locked.