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Its nice to see a team dedicated to just one thing, its even better that that one thing is Avatar related.

I dont see what all the hate for captains quarters and avatars is for. I think it adds real depth to a game. When Im just sitting around chatting to corpmates I like to sit on the sofa of my CQ and watch the giant TV screen.

I like the idea of the NeX and Aurum but I havent bought any major stuff off of the NeX because who am I gonna show off my clothes too?

Also a nice idea (depends how much effort is needed to make it work) that came to me when someone mentioned "SIMS with spaceships) We could buy items and such for our quarters and have a completley customized captains quarters. Little models of some of the ships to put on my table...maybe a lava lamp. It would be just like my house in skyrim but with added sci-fi

Well done for reassuring me that one day the biohazard (or whatever it says when you try and use the button) will have been sorted and I can go and get a drink in the bar and gain -1 perception but +1 charisma for an hour...Alcohol it makes you stupid but your much more confident for it

Any upates on the ingame mini games ? Is there any chance that (in distant future) we might sit down at a table of chess with our avatars and play a couple of blitz games for isk (like in chesscube.com or any other site, just for isk and not gold) ?

CCP Punkturis, I'll be your friend.

An interesting statement, espcially the part about "violent griefing".

I'm going to throw out some "broad strokes" here, bear with me if they are a bit controversial.

For basic social interactions the current clock tick of the EVE servers, combined with other factors, is suitable for social interaction and activities with a low "twitch factor". However, this doesn't scale well with more reaction time based activities (including any form of combat).

It occurs to me that DUST will get around this by having a cap on the number of players that can participate in the same "event", and having multiple servers in various geographic locations.

If this can be done with DUST, why not with certain aspects of EVE WIS content? Apparently the framework would already be in place.

Nobody "likes" the idea of instanced gameplay in EVE, however if it were designed appropriately (and only for area's/activities that demanded a highly responsive environment I think it would make practical a great many activities that otherwise would not be possible.

You might not be able to have a 2000 person party in one of these instances, but you could get a lot of milage out of a 64 or 128 person cap for certain things.

One way to incorporate this would be...

Single person: The ability to expand your personal quarters to allow guests, the number could vary depending on how much ISK you wish to spend on your space.

"Why don't you three come over to my place, I have a den set up to have a small poker game in. Later, we can relax by the pool with a few drinks and watch the commodities ticker for awhile."

Corp or Alliance Level: The ability to add different spaces to your Corporate/Alliance Offices for meetings, entertainment, mini games, gambling, combat training... whatever. Again, depending on how much ISK your Corp wishes to invest in the facilites... and provides incentives (logical ones) to draw more players to your Corp.

"We have considered your application, and recognize you may have other offers coming in. We offer the finest facilities for our Corp Members including a spacious 64 person mini game hall, employee only bar and gift shop, spacious and elegantly furnished personal quarters with guest amenities, a 16 person combat training / sports facility, free customized paint shop available for your ships (restricted to our corporate colors, and mandatory by the way), etc."

Or you could make certain types of activities/ facilities available based on the security level of the area they are in, or political affiliation, anything really.

Just a thought.

90th!

Correct me if I'm wrong (because I'm only halfway through Templar One), but in TO didn't they figure out a way to make cloning possible via implants, without your pod, based on said Jovian tech? I'd reference the page or section, but I'm not at home. Even if not, how hard would it be to write this into the fiction :P Assuming I'm correct about TO, but pod pilots just don't have the correct implants, make us buy said implant into order to walk around in station (think of it like having to activate a ship, even if it's just a pod, after being podded in space). "We're sorry capsuleer, but it would be unwise of you to leave your quarters without activating a Mk.1 Pod Implant Synthesizer first"
Edit: Ranger 1 said something to this effect at the bottom of page 4, didn't read his comment till after this reply though.

We're still a long ways away from having this kind of thing, so theirs plenty of time for research based on material recovered from Jove wormhole tech (more game features here?). I'm just saying, if they want my support for walking in stations, it has to have a shooter element, because so far nothing else mentioned about it interests me. I have no desire to meet with my corp mates using a "physical avatar", I don't care about mini games, smuggling, booster production, or new boots.

Edit #2: and while typing this there's been more responses above me. I'll say this to those that say "leave combat out of my WIS". I think (and I could be wrong here) that if you want WIS at all, that you need the support of the FIS crowd. Having combat in stations would go a long way towards getting that broad support from the entire community. Similarly, I recognize that having only combat would alienate another large percentage of the game (industrialists/pve), so I welcome that content too. However, just as "you" (to use a broad term) aren't willing to have a combat only centered gameplay, I'm not willing to endorse anything that is only industrial/pve/minigame. Lets make some concessions here and meet halfway.

Don't try and make me feel all guilty now!

I was going to get Acac Sunflyiers corpse for you for him being mean to you in another thread.

Torfi was my first true love at CCP before you came along... It's hard to let that go, that's all. We can still be friends.


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looks incredibly fantastic. I only hope its free rather than NEX. But either way very good job CCP. Keep it up! There is one little thing. I hope you guys add more different style of haircuts to all races. Maybe even add a wider hair colors to pick from.

The current avatar is complete waste of time ... kk .. it might be cool for the noobs for a few minutes, but I suspect even the noobs turn off the CQ soon after getting their space legs.

For me, you should either expand the avatar environment or scrap it all together. I for one was looking forward to station games or even ship environment for my avatar. But apparently CCP can't walk and chew gum.

Anyway, move ahead with all dispatch in improving the avatar experience

You, sir did an awesome job building your avatar after yourself, even better than punkturis (sorry punkturis)