EVE General Discussion

I dont know why you would leave your pod everytime you drop off some ore, I'm not you. And according to CCP some time in the future it will indeed be optional to leave the pod or not. If my understanding of their posts are accurate.

Just that stating it breaks immersion to me reads as you either lack imagination since you can't come up with something suitable, or you don't care about immersion that mutch anyway. Whitch begs to wonder why you stated it breaks immersion.



Then you are like me. I dont use the nex store mutch myself, as it is too expencive for me atm.

I apologice if you took offence in that part of my response. But saying that a monocle cost as mutch as something else witch is so mutch more useful. Is jumping on a bandwagon that stopped rolling some time ago. It's old, the current price is set, new items might come in cheaper but it won't change the current prices.

If the items in the store adds to the immersion of the OP, good for him/her. Then why come and single out one item in it. And why the very item that did get all that hype when it was introduced? I can't find anywhere in OP's post saying that the Monocle helps with his immersion.

To be honest unless the OP is CCP Apollo then I don't see how anyone can see the Nex store as a good thing.

Let's see what it along with Incarna/WiS has brought to the game at this point:
* Broken immersion
- Having to get out of your pod each time you dock
- No pod room
- Getting out of your pod naked and covered in pod goo onto a metal docking pier in the middle of nowhere
- No washing facilities at all in CQ
- Aren't ships supposed to break down in an oxygenated atmosphere? how do we breath then when the CQ isn't sealed from the hanger
* Diluted the sandbox
- Clothing not crafted as was touted in Ambulation
- Clothing not destructable
- Potential crafter/retailer character path now removed
- Ship painting (not in yet) could have been another player crafted feature
- Player created clothing and paint jobs could have added a whole raft of raw materials to the market
* Monetising of Game Content
- Nex items now added based on potential sales, rather than adding them for the enhancement of the game experience
- Motivation shift for devs (instant money vs content with depth)
* Removed racial uniqueness
- Generic look for avatars
- No unique clothing (Amarr male robe the exception) to truly identify each race
- Bringing in outside designers that appear to have no knowledge of EVE's lore or look/feel of the original character creator
- The designers do know this is a Sci-Fi game don't they?

If you really sit down and look at what this sandbox game has lost and what content Ambulation was supposed to have then you wouldn't be singing the praises of Incarna in it's current state or the Nex store.

So do I dislike CCP? ... hell no! I just don't agree with the direction they have taken with Incarna so far.

I feel the same. I don't really care for immersion from a game, but it breaks the back story supporting everything we were.

pre-Incarna, I lived among the demi-gods that had transcended the limitations of our organic bodies to become one with the machines of our creation. The limits of our wealth and power were second only to our immortality.

Post-Incarna, I'm a pilot with a nervous twitch living in a slum apartment.

That's good for Claire - for others like me it's the exact opposite - i guess pointing that out is not so quite out of context.




You still seem to be missing my point. In this context, it has to be brought up.

Most people bringing it up usually do so, because they'd probably buy NeX items if they weren't so expensive, so they complain. Others bring it up because it's ridiculous from a marketing perspective - remember how Bethesda was ridiculed for oblivions horse armor? Yeah - CCP take that to another level.

In the case of roleplaying/immersion it's an entirely different issue, simply because it doesn't fit into eve's otherwise quite coherent pricing structure.

IRL, I'm into expensive watches, yet I still have to find one that costs as much as 1000 Boeings.
Having that said, I understand CCPs '1000 $ jeans' reasoning behind it to some extent from a marketing perspective, yet from a roleplaying perspective and coherence of the ingame economy, it's completely absurd.

I've always thought about in as McCaffery's "Brains and Brawns" stories.

I agree. I also would like to check my imagination at the door and have CCP spoon feed the experience directly through my eyes. If I don't see it, it doesn't happen.

Yeup.

I feel Incarna/Implosion is simply an open beta test. The fact that I'm Amarr and locked into Mini quarters is simply an insult. My wife was killed during the Minmatar conflict and my daughter almost died at their hands. To be trapped inside those quarters is intolerable. I still have the door, and no CQ which is bad enough.

So I know that CCP really does not cater to RP.

This is a case of we shall judge them for what they do... not what they say.


-Max
Acting house chair House Singularity

I agree with the OP 100%, mostly because I feel the same sentiments myself. Thank you CCP.... this was much anticipated and begged for, for years. I think new loud mouths forget/don't know that. It adds to the game and if you can show that you can finish a project like ambulation.. I don't see a reason for me ever unsubbing.