EVE General Discussion

kk I'll float some whimsical long term notions for you -

(1) DUST boarding parties tasked with taking out specifically targeted modules on battleship and capitol class vessel

(2) "Star Interaction" allows sunspot resources to become available. A ship module triggers star flair ejection to allow EVEs equivalent to ELITE sun-scooping. New fuel types add a whole new dimension to warp speeds making what fuel you are packing a factor in large fleet combat. Star orbits become blindingly beautiful battlegrounds

(3) Jovian/Sleeper empire collapse, i.e. alpha clone reset, opening up Jovian space for r&d and introducing the fifth character class integration.

Probably closer to the truth than what most players think.

!. There will eventually be a SP limit. Probably around 300 mil SP, in order to insure the uber elite still need to specialize.

2. They will do one of two things. 1) they will become deathly afraid of displeasing the vocal playerbase and continue to not correct goofy game mechanics in fear of upsetting those that have become used to the brokenness and ragequit when threatened with a changed mechanic/tatics. The game continues to be somewhat borked. 2) or they will realize that its not about how many subscriptions you have, but the quality of the game itself. They they will make changes that will force some of the elite to change gameplay/tatics which causes a lot of rage quits and forum rage. Eve continues with a somewhat smaller playerbase, but a better quality game.

Goonswarm will control Iceland, 5 Scandanavian countries, half of western Europe and the USA.

I predict EVE will die simply because the game will be twenty years old.

Ten years? In the tech world, that's a LONG time.

- We'll have upgraded to an entirely new server which accommodates millions of players
- DUST and EVE will be fully integrated, and corporeal representations of avatars will be traversing the worlds freely
- A 3rd game, social in nature, will have augmented and tied into the EVE universe, allowing millions of people to live, fight and die in New Eden.

And, of course, we'll all be using head-mounted immersion displays.

Edit: In my vision, it will be entirely possible for an inhabitant of New Eden to build a home, become elected to manage a city inhabited by players, hop on a space shuttle piloted by a player with cargo for market in tow, disembark in Jita, put stuff on the market, stop at a pub, gamble on some DUST arena sports, push his drugs to combat pilots, get caught by CONCORD, etc etc etc

-The users will continue to insult each other every 35 seconds, because that's what good video games need.

Blue Republic will finally purge New Eden of all the scums that fly under the banner of Red Federation. The war will finally be over.