EVE General Discussion

I disagree.

I've been playing more with my DS lately and the touch controls are inferior to traditional controllers in my opinion.

-Your hand occludes the screen! It's bad if you can't see your entire HUD in a fast situation. Changes happening on a list are easier to spot than rereading the list after losing visual.

-Vulnerable to misinterpretation by the software. Was that a double tap or did you just tap something and try to wipe right after? The options here are either imprecision or input lag, neither of which is preferable.

-Bigger arm muscles have less precision than fingers. Your buttons are located close to each other and easily accessable with just your fingers. On a touchscreen you need to move your hands back and forth unless you want to occlude the screen. This results in slower reaction times and lower accuracy. Not by that much but still.

-The need of a stylus. I find it unlikely that you could fit everything on screen in a game with so many lists as EvE without one. People with bigger fingers need bigger icons and bigger font for lists you can interact with, not to mention getting fingerprints that show clearly in sunlight. This of course means you still have a pointer and not a buttonlike approach, unless you want to accidentally select other items.

The only thing I can think of in favour of the tablets is mobility. Even then it's not that big of an advantage as we have laptops that are nearly as portable. If you want to play in a bus or car pool, then a tablet will be superior because you don't generally have enough room to set up a mousepad.

Tablets are usable for showing f.ex various information, but for actual gameplay which is time-critical? I don't think so.

There is only so much battery life and CPU power you can squeeze into an ever slimming down device.
So I fear your optimism is a bit over the top.

I find my 22'' monitor too small for EVE, can't imagine fitting all the windows I usually have opened into eight or ten inches and still being able to precisely pick what I need from the overview or fleet broadcasts.

I'd end my post here, but there is one more thing I feel I need to address:
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Seriously dude, good luck writing a couple hundred lines of code with an on-screen keyboard. Unless you mean one of those, but then again you basically got a small laptop.

I own an android device and have played a wide variety of games on it.

Touchscreens suck for games. 'Nuff said.

My 23" touchscreen agrees with you.

If there was less right clicking, sure, EvE would be a great candidate for touchscreens. But IMO the best touchscreen functionality currently in the game is activating mods, and that's about it.

I don't know if it has been said, I am too lazy to read every post, Windows 8 on tablets will be here by the end of the year-ish. So the solution will be install Eve on new Windows 8 tablet, viola, Eve on a tablet.

Doing a specific version for android or ios I cannot see as being profitable and just because there are some pretty games on a device does not mean they have a great GPU, and with 90% of the android tablets on the market be made on the cheap, not to mention the horrid fragmentation in OS, resolution and specs, coding a game like eve for it would be a nightmare, at least in my limited opinion.

Put it on iOS? Are you kidding me? You know that if CCP made an iOS client that Apple would demand 30% of every subscription right? That is the apple way when you get into their ecosystem.

Again, have a little patience and just wait, while I personally don't believe the average windows tablet will be able to handle eve all that well, I am sure if you shell out some extra dollars you can find one that at least half-ass works.

As long as IT professionals know what they're doing, it'll never happen. Nobody is stupid enough to believe that Tablets are the future of gaming...... Oh wait, YOU are! Shame on you.

Sounds like you want to play a different game, which should be easy to do. But EvE is a little too complex to start eliminating sources of information from the screen. Sorry, EvE without the information provided by chats, scanners, the overview and even the inventory screens is a completely different game.

And yes, you can connect a keyboard, drawing board, and a few more useful peripherals to a tablet. At which point in order to use it you then have to mount the tablet on some sort of flat surface to operate it. I don't know, maybe the top of a desk or something...

A problem with your comparison. Landlilne phones had stopped being upgraded since the days of the Dinosaurs. Ancient tech for the most part.

Whereas PC parts are being innovated every day.


High end consoles were not the death of PC gaming, neither will lol tablets.