EVE General Discussion

Out of Pod experience is over here

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=261

Except that DUST uses the Unreal 3 Engine and doesn't effect DUST at all.

The CARBON engine WAS going to be used for World of Darkness but they decided to cut that out and use some other engine.

To the OP though, the out of pod experience as you call it, better known as Walking in Stations, WiS for short, was meant to be a much larger experience including being able to goto bars and hang out with people, playing mini games, gambling, being able to create stuff like storefronts, talking to agent face to face, trading contraband (since you cant trade ti with the market or contracts), holding meetings in corp offices and etc. There has even been talk about doing exploration inside of things like sleeper structures to find special items and resources that would only be find in those structures.

Sadly all the WiS development has largely been put on hold due to how badly the original deployment went. The CQ completely removed the old ship hanger and any attempt to turn it off was met with a static picture looking at the locked door out to the station. For the few that DID enable the CQ it was even worse in regards to performance, often overheating graphics cards. This, combined with many other factors (the introduction of the NeX store and the threat of pay-to-win items and the fact that many problems with the game have been left unfixed in favor of this badly optimized single room) spawned the Jita Riots. The time period is now referred to as the Summer of Rage.

People were canceling accounts left and right and the economy of Jita crawled to a halt as all the protesters filled the population cap, preventing many from being able to login to or jump into Jita. An emergency CSM meeting was even called to try and fix the issues.

Eventually CCP agreed to at least finish the other 3 CQ (we only got the minmatar one for the longest time) and to dedicate MUCH more of their time to fixing the things they had neglected so much in the spaceship gameplay. It was also decided that the plans they DID have for WiS were also way off the mark in regards to what the player base actually wanted out of the feature nor did much of WiS plan actually contribute anything to real gameplay besides just being a social mechanic.

Since then we've gotten Crucible, Inferno, and Retribution, the main features of these being totally redone and rebalanced sections of the game like faction warfare, mining barges and all the cruiser and frigate changes. They still have a long way to go on this path but WiS development isn't completely dead just on hold for probably the next couple of years. Just keep using the normal ship hanger in the mean time.

And btw the minimum requirement wasn't changed for Incarna and the character environments as much as it was for the new version 3 shaders that all the ships are slowly being updated with. The only ones left as far as I know are capitals and freighters and orcas :D

WiS

Oh hey, this thread again. It's been far too long since the last one was on the front page of GD.

WiS is dead. I don't know why we still have WiS functionality installed, that occasionally gets annoyingly activated, if WiS is dead. Should just remove it and put it back later if the plan becomes to re-implement it.

It still provide a great peace at mind to all those players that were previously alienated by lack of a true "character" from the pre-Incarna days.

If you are talking about your Avatar in your Captains Quarters, turn it off if it's causing you problems.

If you are talking about the V3 graphics updates, they aren't done yet... and are primarily done to enable new features yet to be introduced.

If none of the above, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Well, there WERE plans for walking in sleeper stations to find and fight over artifacts, effectively injecting CCP's own version of Day-Z into Eve, but i believe those plans were shelved.

WIS is not only shelved ,the idea of WIS will never come to this game ever.
CCP promised a lott of stuff ,they can,t deliver.
The joke named carbon engine,proves to me that CCP is unable to handle their own software.

the wish of deliver some WIS experience turns out to be a complete joke.
and we have to thank CCP for this.

I never got the whole "The Sims With Spaceships" dealio anyway, so I'm glad it's been shelved. You want to play The Sims ... go play The Sims.

EVE is a spaceship game.

I know a lot of you treat it as a social platform that just happens to have spaceship stuff going on in the background, but that's not what EVE is supposed to be.

Anyway...

As I said, I'm glad WiS is shelved because FiS still needs to be improved.

You want WIS, play Dangerous or Star Citizen, this is Eve Online. There will be a several space sims coming out in the next few years. Who knows, one might actually be decent.