EVE General Discussion

I've been making games for seven years in a variety of companies and the last few months of prototyping work have been some of the most energizing I've ever done. I really want to make this into a reality for EVE and really want to make it well.

Hey Team Avatar that's pretty cool what you guys are prototyping. I now hope for and anticipate wis as long as it is not just a bunch of dudes dressing up emoting each other /dance in a station. I mean you guys release very little info so I've been assuming the worst scenario for months.

You stop it now, your just toying with us, this is just cruel, but in a good way, like waiting ti your wife goes to sleep then secretly reading her copy of 50 shades.

FYI please don't stop...we've been waiting for so...so long, please, just another crumpet, just another log on the ole fire, we promise we won't tell anyone, if you can't trust a MMORPG game forum then who can you?

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I like the idea of customizing characters kind of like we do with ships. You could create a new player market dedicated to character customization where people could replace their bones with alloys so they could carry more artifacts, infuse their skill with nano-machines to help reduce the effects of radiation, ect.

I'd be interested to hear your initial thoughts on what happens when two opposite groups are in the same structure. Lets say group A (3 pilots) enter the structure and then group B (10 pilots) later arrives at that same site. Group B might send in 5 of their pilots to kill the group A avatars in the structure while the remaining 5 pilots form group B wait outside...

Lets say group A manege to kill the 5 enemy avatars in the structure with them. Have you considered letting avatars take control of the structures defenses (like pos guns or maybe give them control of sleeper drones) so that they have some means of effectively fighting the guys outside?

There is an ongoing R & D project relating to DX11, no dates yet though.

Thank you ;_; I played WiS at fanfest 5 years ago. It's been really crazy waiting so long, just to get incarna. If you can take what little was put out, and refactor it into a real game, not second life, then you will be my hero.

Thanks for answering this. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys can do with DX11 features.

That is the wrong lesson to take from last summer. The effect that Incarna had on EvE was causing CCP to neglect EvE, using Dev time (paid for by Subs) to make items that we'd have to pay for again. The single station and price point were bovine icing on the fecal cake that was Incarna.

At the time, I think there was 1 team at CCP working on EvE because of Incarna.

CCP is taking the right lesson from last summer, by the way. If the summer was really about being pro-Incarna, you'd expect a continued hemorrhage through last winter rather than the start of a recovery.

I dont know how to say this without sounding condescending, so please accept that, and if you can, answer 2 questions I have.

Did you work for CCP in 2008?

I ask because that was the first time I was told "soon" on WiS.

I understand that you are working on the project currently, so I accept your enthusiasm.

So I have to ask, in all seriousness, would you be exited about it if the tables were turned and you had been waiting 4 years?

I sincerely desire a response to that, but thank you for your time either way.

I actually like this idea a lot. I like exploration in general and EVE could use more different types of co-operative PvE activities. Add to that the possiblity of meeting competing individuals and groups and it's starting to sound really good with a sweet PvP frosting. As a nice bonus the plot and dialogue in that demo was better than in prometheus.