Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Use Splashtop Remote Desktop client.

It works just fine for the things you want to be able to do.

Too much work to do, to make something that isn't of high importance to the game, and will not increase revenue, so it's not going to happen, I think.

BTW there is another problem, of Android OS and it's versions. Only newest smartphones and tablets have new OS, and manufacturers don't bother to upgrade OS on devices even several months old, they want customer to throw away old device and buy new one.
Also, every Android device manufacturer modifies OS slightly for it's phones and tablets. How much , and whether it can affect complex application like MMO client or not, I don't know, but together with the above it creates a nightmare for support, with hundreds of different Android devices running various Android OS versions.

From the point of support, iPad is much better target. One vendor and one OS, where even old device has upgrade to newest OS. But anyway, it's not gonna happen.

CCP is behind the times. There isn't even a a mobile version of EveGate or EveOnline websites. People are going to ask for the feature because it is useful.

I would suggest keeping the chat features a priority. That adds interaction, the basis of any MMO. From there, you should be able to do everything you can do in a station.

PC-to-phone voice-chat and evemail alerts on your phone, anyone?

Long-term, there should be an Android version of the Eve client. This is very far away, but the technology is fast approaching. So are adoption rates.

You can remote desktop over the internet just fine. So if you have wifi or a 3G/4G device, you can make it happen quite easily.

I would like to remind all of you small episode that have had place not so long time ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNTUEUr3C1s

We don't need full client on our phones or tablets. (I cant imagine me playing EvE on Smartfon O.o)

We need 2D app that will allow us do things in easy windows/tabs almost like in browser:

• Market operations (based on station you are in)
• Manage skill queue
• Chat with corp (should be also in EveGate)
• Eve Mail (like on EveGate)
• Corporation/Alliance management
• View some content that are now available via API
• Industry jobs (producing/researching)
• POS managing?

No moving your character from station! Any action that will allow you move out will need almost all game mechanics! So everything what you can do on your phone/tablet would be based on your current position ingame!

Planetary Interaction

• PI manage

would be nice thing and tablets are ready for this, but this need full 3D view of planet, so i think this is out of list.

Why its not so hard to do?
Its A LOT OF JOB to do such thing. I know that coz im working with such things everyday.
But huge amount of job has been done already!
New API and stuff we have on EveGate shows that. Most of features we need on mobile App need http requests (including chat and marketing).
I thing bigger problem would be with making server side system that would manage with http <-> game database

Other games that made that step:
Guys from Blizzard made that step. You cant play full game on tablet, but you can take your phone and manage your market, armory and other stuff. WOW Armory
Chatting
Guild manage
Market
I dont play WOW, but this look cool. Would like to have such thing for EvE

For me? I don't need full game, but i would love to be able to talk with friends or manage my orders when sitting in train or during job break. So everything that could be done via http requests.

Fly safe.

Fully endorse Seloena's post. This is exactly what EVE would need to expand beyond the PC at home. Welcome to 2011 :)

That's why nobody is asking for full client. And yes, Android client will never happen, nor will Linux client (unless M$ decides to feel charitable and releases full DirectX specs and/or source code to the public... fat chance at that).

+1 for basic chat/mail/market client. Alternatively, allow this from EVE Gate IF the character you're logging in with is docked to avoid any exploits + give us a proper mobile version of the site.

It's far less of a problem than you might think. It's actually rather easy to target a older version of android and then having the app work on all systems being newer. There are only some small features you can't use in the oldest versions, but even the cheapest tablets will run at least Android 2.x (more likely 3.x) so there's lots of space to use. iOS would be far less likely to be a viable platform in my eyes, due to their restrictions regarding payments, subscriptions etc. and I'm not really sure if such an app would be allowed by them (as you have to pay a subscription fee and they aren't seeing a single cent of it).

Also, revenues, they could sell the mobile client for a small fee like 3-4 $. Don't think that would drive people off who are really interested (and own a credit card for Google-Checkout; which I lack right now).

I think this is impossible because of security reasons. If you will allow changing market orders and skill queue to be modify via API, than it will be equal to CCP putting "Bots are allowed in the game".

But i agree, that f.e. extending EvE gate by adding there features that could be available out of EvE client would be cool idea.
Most of mobile phones can explore standard pages. This will still make the risk, but not much bigger than in client - making autoclicker for web is easier than for client coz web text can be parsed.

Also actual technologies allow to create webs only for mobile phones (1 page looks different on normal browser and on mobile phone).

But im sure the main problem is the security.