EVE General Discussion

If they do explain it this way the ship needs to be vulnerable. I'd prefer not to sacrifice immersion and EVE functionality.

Edit: And CCP, can you please apply the Blocked Poster logic when you are replying to a post. It's no good seeing the same crud you blocked when you reply to the thread.

Frankly, I find it hard to buy, lore wise, that a capsuleer (immortal in his pod) would leave the pod on his own, let alone leave behind a ship crowded with 3,000 cannon fodder.

Why undertake a potentially hazardous ECA (Extra-Capsular Activity) himself? Why don't just send some crewmen to do the dangerous stuff?

Or, in case a capsuleer just needs the thrill, why don't use a expendable "drone clone", kept in sinchrony with the capsuleer in his pod until something nasty happens to it or it is put back to sleep until next comission?

In a way, I don't buy that capsuleers and DUST bunnies are entitled the same immortality power. DUST bunnies lose their physical body identity in the cloning process, whereas a capsuleer keeps his physical appearence intact. Also DUST bunnies experience their own death, whereas capsuleers are mercifully euthanized as soon as the pod breaches (and yet the continuous resurrections take a heavy toll in capsuleer's humanity).

I can see capsuleeers using disposable DUST-like drone clones while they keep command of their ship and safety; also envision such clones as having abbilities specific to them (hacking of ancient computers, stealthiness, improved combat abilities... controllable through the appropiate skills, and available through appropiate clone upgrading with "clone modules"... like the cyborgs from games such as Syndicate or Deus Ex)

Furthemore, I can see how capsuleers would lead those "drone clones" into deadly gladiator arenas, for the fun and tears... losing clones as they lose ships for the thrill of PvP... (snippet: "Did it hurt when i twisted that gladius into your guts?" "Not more than when I blew your Tengu, I guess")

But what i don't see, no way, is any sensible capsuleer risking his life in a ECA, nor DUST- cloning being as proficent as pod-cloning. Capsuleers must keep an edge over dust bunnies.

And all in all, whenever I was not driving my unfortunate "drone clones" into the mouth of untold perils, i still would like to meet someone and waltz around the ballroom in my favorite station.

Hi all,

This is just a small update to say that we (Team Avatar) are still monitoring this thread for WiS feedback, and we are not just a "PR" stunt. :) Those of you who attended the Avatar round table at Fanfest got a small glimpse of one of the WiS gameplay prototypes that we are working on. So we are progressing.

As for other implementations that we are working on, Tattoo's, NeX items, etc, these are all mid-progress work that we have the opportunity to finalise and get out to you, but these are not our main priority.

You also know that CCP Karkur on Team Avatar is also working on constantly improving the UI experience via small, but highly useful changes. I would also like to point out that she also works on her weekends to incorporate as many of these as she can, and also work on the character creator as well as she is very passionate about it, so yes the team is doing other things as well, but our ultimate focus is most definitely on WiS gameplay.

Finally, as this post has somehow turned into a mini novel, we want WiS to work as much as most of the people in this thread and have collated a ton of ideas from here and Fanfest.
But lets all be realistic and honest, it's not going to appear overnight as we are a small team, but saying that, there will be enough new FiS content to almost make a bittervet smile coming your way as well, so you should have plenty to so in the interim.

PS: Fanfest was great and I hope to meet more of you next year, although the round table was a little too early after the dev pub crawl the night before.

Fly reckless till then.
CCP RedDawn.

Hey,

i think it would be nice, if we get a room like a local or something similar to meet players.

Frankly, CCP RedDawn, CCP about WiS is like the guy who swears to run a marathon sometime in the future but meanwhile won't walk to the store around the corner. It requires faith to take that seriously, you know.

Mitanidrama aside, the two longer threads in the forums are about avatars. And one of them is not even a feature: "rate the avatar above" is emergent social gameplay, based upon the character creator.

There si no way to knwo what peope would do if you as much as allowed them to be together in a CQ, let aloen provide them some avatar interaction tools.

"Gameplay first, social later" is completely wrong; it's the completely opposite order of "achievability".

And I don't really think CCP is so thick as to not get where the bigger bang-per-buck is, or what people are asking. You (CCP hf) are pretty aware that social gameplay is the thing you could deliver right here, right now, but also you (Team Avatar) won't agree that your company merely doesn't haves the commitment to do so.

5 developers part time is no commitment, is a PR stunt. A good willed one, but come on, we all know there's a store around the corner and all you do is to stay home planning about having a plan.

Where will you go this way? Nowhere.

I'm sure the Devs really appreciate you telling them what to do, and that they're doing it wrong, and how EVE is going to fail if they don't do what you say. Passively insinuating CCP might be "thick" and not committed is also just so darn motivational to people (Devs) that are simply working with the resources they have!

Wasn't your account supposed to expire already?

What?

4/30 unfortunately.

Maybe a new name of Team Reanimate ?