EVE General Discussion

Soon™

Or more like in a year or two or few.

Never if some of the bitter vets can get their way.

Though being a bitter vet myself, I would not mind getting what we were told we were going to get, not what we got.

Oh I read his letter. Simply interpreted (for you) it reads. I've been naughty so you get new FIS in Winter. Walking in stations (not CQs) "soon".

Dead, never to be touched again. If you want "Walking in Station", go play Second Life or in traffic.

Best bet for future walking in stations would be to license somebody else's 3d engine (the one in Rage is nifty) or just use the unreal engine that Dust has.

Use that for performance and reliability.

But before spending money on that give 1-2 developers the job of brainstorming, working with community, and basically sitting down to ask the question :

"Where is the interesting gameplay and content coming from?"

They need 6 months worth of producing a proposal and planning an answer for this question.

And completely remove the NeX store of course. All incarna content needs to be player manufactured and sold by players.

You are right of course, they do serve no purpose (for Eve Online). But like everything envisaged and delivered during the :18 months: period the purpose was in Hilmar's own words in this gamesutra interview "battle-testing" tech for use in other games.

This is the dirty little secret of Incarna you need to wake up to. It has no content because its just a technology demo really that got retasked at the last minute by greedy little MT scrubs to sell NeX.

I repeat.

There is no content because nobody ever sat down to seriously design some meaningful gameplay for it and NeX trumped any kind of player led industrial and supply content.

If you want to get angry at somebody then Hilmar has taken responsibility which he doubtless must share (to some degree) with the greedy MT scrubs who convinced him that Incarna as a vanity item display case was "enough" for those silly loyal airheaded Eve players who (after all) had bought the :18 months: jive in the first place.

Let the Jovian win, is the advice offered at the station's poker tables.

But I think WiS = Waiting in Stations now. kind of sad but oh well, Winter might have enough excitement to coast till establishments are released.

You are trolling right?

Blame the "haters" for an engine that doesn't work right despite huge expense over 5 years of development.
Blame the "haters" for lack of all non MT/NeX content.
Blame the "haters" for a mandatory deployment that overheats GPUS
Blame the "haters" for immersion breaking sloppy rollout
Blame the "haters" for unsubscribing from a game that wasn't delivering what they wanted.
Blame the "haters" for employing utter lunatics to crowbar MT into a subs based game.

Seriously.

What part of "Incarna is a glorified tech demo for a completely different game crow-bared into Eve and then hastily retasked into a NeX vanity display cabinet" are you not understanding?

Oh I see what you did there .. well played good sir.

For Winter we're getting the 3 other CQs, which should be pretty damn awesome.
Before the redirection, we would have gotten establishments.

Perhaps we'll get them next Summer?

Purpose of WiS (in the end)?

When i dance with a fake female avatar in a bar, little read hearts will pop out of our heads. Thats about it, and i can´t care less, as i don´t see much contend (in the end).