EVE General Discussion

After recent events the outlook for EVE has been looking pretty grim compared to the ideas put forward in the EVE trailer "EVE Forever: A Future Vision" at this years fanfest. Link

So to help CCP realise a future vision, and maybe just cheer them up a little. What's your future vision of "your" game?

I want to one day play the role of a general of a grand campaign on land, in the air, and in space, leading, and being led, by other players on two gaming platforms towards an ultimate goal of destroying a foe. I want to be sat at a bar in a far flung space station only to have my tranquility shattered by an impending invasion, running to grab weapons, or my ship to repel the enemy. Fighting my way from my quarters corridor by corridor to the hangar bay in order to launch into a heated battle for the planet below. I want to feel like I'm taking part in a grand space saga whose authors are the players themselves.

That's my future vision, what's yours?

I want to read the following on my corp's forums.

'dear corp mates- our monthly meeting is in xxxx station in xxxx.'

I want to be able to go to that station where all my corp mates are sitting in the corp bar, and i want to sit down at a poker table and say- '500mil in chips bitches.' while listening to the corp meeting

Then i want to walk to get up- walk to my ship, undock, land on a planet, and walk into a star wars bars much like this one and have a drink, whilst readin eve news on a hologram at the counter.

I also plan to retire from War and open a bar somewhere down the line.

To have in game cake and eat it

Like This????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKYKUHUD_58

TL;DR my future vision is about freedom and endless possibilities, player designed environments using tools provided by CCP, always something new to be seen, nothing that can't be conquered by other players. /TL;DR

This is about something i would like to see happen, not about something i think would happen.

My future vision about EVE is about players designing the EVE Universe by using tools provided by CCP.
Thus creating a massive universe with endless possibilities.
There would always be something new to explore or visit since players would be the creating the universe.

From designing something crazy like underwater cities to mobile stations as an industrial corporation, to hacking spaceships/POS, beating someone up in a dark ally or infiltrate a corporation to steal corporation owned assets.

Walking in stations is the first step towards an even bigger feeling EVE universe, i hope someday, EVE Online will have walking on planets as well (not talking about dust, that's another game).

My vision of *** (walking on planets) is something like Freelancer, but more visually stunning and complex.

I want to be able to enter a planet's atmosphere, land near or in a city and walk around enjoying the view of a blade runner style planet.
Maybe i want to start a taxi business and transport or even smuggle actual players into hostile territory with a spaceship with risk being caught.

Maybe an industrial alliance feels like creating an underwater city on an oceanic planet, and can engage in a project by using tools provided by CCP.
You would probably have to invest trillions in such a project however.
When finished players can visit the city (if friendly) or pirates can take the solar system where the oceanic planet resides in, and invade the planet in order to take control.
Players could actually rent a building or corporations could start a business, you would have to pay rent to whoever currently controls the planet.

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"Future Vision"
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For the brief time these items worked correctly we were able to look ahead and determine that this is a great deal and will save the company from financial collapse, as well as providing the tireless workers at CCP with a near endless supply of pickled herring.

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I would like to still have a game in five years

They better have some juicy news for us about the winter expansion in the next day . It would calm a lot of the forum warriors down.

My future vision is about a game where you log in and it deals with SPACESHIPS, turrets, missiles, long skill training schedules and every xpac brings MORE SPACESHIPS and fixes slowly but surely all of the half*baked content that for the past 3 years eve has been spouting randomly.


Every 6 months there would be a new set of ships, and when there's too many ships there will be new roles created out of it for them. Future Xpacs could deal with SPACESHIPS, SPACESHIPS, SPACESHIPS and yeah, SPACESHIPS too!

New mechanics implemented like small fighter guerrilla warfare in asteroid belts, swathes of space dedicated to SPACESHIP combat that comprise sectors of space that go up or down in sec status, creating islands of semi safe temp hi sec zones for people to settle and begin trading in SPACESHIPS and SPACESHIPS parts, also some people might want to go out of their SPACESHIP and walk, but that should be secondary as everyone knows, EVE is about SPACESHIPS.

Oh yeah, how about fighting with SPACESHIPS on planet's atmospheres? How about new story arcs for missions that revolve around SPACESHIPS???

Yes that would be such a glorious future, like devs focusing on MORE SHIPS and TURRET types and drones and minerals , and something you do in a SHIP, because I think this game is about SPACESHIPS no? Correct me if I'm wrong.

To do anything else besides SPACESHIPS I think might make the game odd and people MIGHT complain and others (gods forbid) might even leave!. But we all know SPACESHIPS is a sure bet. Who in their right mind would think OTHERWISE?

Ahh I'm such a gloom, I know people at the top KNOW this is a game about SPACESHIPS.

(strolls happily into la la land)