EVE General Discussion

I'm entirely the wrong person to ask.

And so it begins...

In the spirit of Alien, and the aforementioned PVE experience in Dust, Rogue Drone hunting? I'm not sure what, if any, sort of combat you have planned for WIS, but involving rogue drones seems to be a convenient way to add a pve combat experience, or sleeper drones...since you guys seem to like wormholes.

Heh, I suddenly got a weird clash of Incarna/Diablo/Minecraft images in my head.

I do like the idea of going through an outpost, and having your friends picked off by drones.

"Maybe they don't show up on infra red at all!"

Followed shortly by

"*insert alliance name* We are leaving!"

the last thing we need is tools that let players start mod'ing this game until it's just completely out of hand. an example that comes to mind is the custom skins that seem to be coming our way. I'm all for custom skins on my ship, but with realistic EVE colors to choose from. I swear if i start seeing pink fuzzy or zebra striped ships flying around i'll dump my 5 accounts and never look back.

I seem to remember that CCP stated that they are going to be very inactive in regards to WIS because they seem to not know what the players would like them to do with it. I think partly because they are trying to think of a way to effectively implement a huge station environment for us to interact in and how do they fill the open space.

Some things to think about here:

1.) we got the new character creator which gave us a full body feel
2.) then we got the captain's quarters but we were stuck in it. when logically, you should dock and be in your ship, then be given the option to enter your captain's quarters if you want to. we had to fight to get the hangar back, protest even. when we got it back, it seemed CCP had the attitude that they gave us something stupid (in their eyes) back that the players wanted so badly. TO ME, I wanted it back because of the immersion of the transition from space to captains quarters. I'd argue now that we should have a brief cinematic that shows our character leaving the pod and arriving on the platform (as previous teaser videos advertised) AND we should have the option in our game settings to turn that off. So my point here is that how much people were screaming for ship spinning back because they love their hangar, my support of that had another purpose as well. smooth transitional immersion to the captain's quarters.
3.) we got all racial captains quarters and they look awesome IMO

So now CCP seems like they do not know what to do next. well let's do something simple instead of something large.
If we have a corporate office in a station, give us a CORPORATE OFFICE to walk around in, only with our corporation mates.
Give us a "situation room" that we can use for planetary interaction and control, add support for DUST 514 there as well.
Give us the option to set the office access to different levels "some may only want the directors and CEO of their corp allowed in this room to keep it from getting too crowded". Give us the "invite to" option "captains quarters" and/or "corporation office"
you could also make it so this feature is only allowed for a Corporate Headquarters so each corporation only gets one of these rooms. This would be a player corporation only option.

This would be a nice little step in the right direction.

It occurred to me that these "hazardous exploration sites" may end up being the first area in the game where walking avatars can interact with each other. This brings up the odd idea that these sites could be kept from de-spawning (by keeping at least one person there) and used by role players as meeting areas.

Team Avatar, maybe just providing meeting areas rather than having the players re-purpose exploration content would be better?

Confirming that we did see a neat demo from Team Avatar. I personally think it has some great possibilities, and I urged (and continue to urge) CCP to share their ideas with all of you as early as possible. There should be a few more details in the upcoming CSM summit minutes as well.

Please urge CCP to allow them to put this stuff into actual development.

I would literally like to play this stuff before I'm dead. Seriously, I don't have 5 years to wait for them to do this ****.

I would urge CCP to not turn WiS into FiS on foot and give people tools to build worlds rather than weapons to shoot each other, just in case that the people who don't shoot each other were a majority of the player base and CCP was essentially wasting them with all the combat PvP bullshit.

Very tall order there...

Don't really mean to shift any development, just get team avatar moving forward. I really don't expect to much of anything to happen until after Dust is released anyways.

I just literally don't have 5 years to wait for this. Anything that would help them get this out in say 2 years would be lovely; I think I'll still be well enough in that amount of time.