EVE General Discussion

I only play games on the ipad when taking a ****. I don't spend 6 hours a day playing angry birds.

yess well, I know my Raven/cal BC have become obsolete..

What about parts of EVE that are not in space ? Like skill-queue, PI, station-trading ... this should be easily solvable for smart-phones/tablets/whatsoever.
And further more I think we witness the last days of desktops though I prefer them. The next generation doesn't know desktops .. at most they use laptops ... and that's the beginning of the end ;)

This is something that i wolud like to see on portable devices too.



Oh please not this again . Read the whole thread again and youll find that desktops are not going anywhere and why (hint1, hint2 ) In fact, we are hearing this mayan apocalypse of desktops predictions since 1980s.

PCs are like boobs. The big ones are always in fashion.

I see CCP addressing these issues with such things as the new developer api. Over the years eve players have asked for many things. Features such as skill training, market, and contracts allowing for access from mobile devices. Imagine being able to connect through touch screen devices in order to interact with all aspects of eve short of the actual gameplay. There are many players that rarely undock from stations because all they take part in are the aspects of the game that don't involve the actual "space ships". I can see this also tied in with Dust 514 interaction.

This would allow ccp to accomplish another first in the area of mmo gameplay. Imagine always being able to check the market and your buy/sell orders anywhere in the game. The ability to create courier missions to get those goods from system to system. The ability to monitor and manipulate your planetary interaction from anywhere. Chat with your corp mates, check/create eve mails. Buy/Sell connects or check on the contract auction you have made / are bidding on. The blue prints you are copying/researching or the factory slots you have manufacturing.

All of this from your mobile device. I am sure there are a few things I missed that would fit into this new world order of computing.

9/10. Well done sir!

Eh, I use Linux because I don't have to mess with it constantly.

OS X would be good, too, but I don't have hardware for that except at work.

Having not maintained Windows myself in over a decade, I'd have quite the learning curve. In fact my laptop only runs Linux since I managed to brick the Windows 7 installation trying to get the driver and security updates installed.

Well, on PC you have billions of possible combinations for hardware/software. A dev can´t possible check up all of them. So there might be sloppily written drivers from a specific manufacturer that create issues with the eve-client. Or sloppily written drivers that create issues with the OS. And of course hardware that theoretically has good specs, but is actually garbage and you won´t get the expected performance out of it. And sometimes it doesn´t work because the universe just hates you.

I really think all of this talk about tablets/touchscreens replacing the PC/laptop is a bunch of hype. I believe the reality is is that desktops and laptops have reached the point of market saturation, and as the market has become saturated, existing PC/laptop has slowed.

There hasn't really been that much of a technological change in software that necessarily requires the replacement of a 2008 computer in 2013. Yet, on the other hand, there is extremely rapid turnover in ownership of smartphones - the typical person goes through several in the time a typical PC/laptop owner replaces their computer.

The entire cell phone industry heavily incentivizes the rapid, serial discardment of old phones and replacement with new ones.

So, in that regard, comparing smartphone to PC/laptop sales is a false comparison. It is really apples and oranges. On the spectrum between disposable and durable goods, smartphones tend toward the disposable end, while PCs/laptops tend toward the durable end. Something like 130 million cell phones are discarded each year in the US, whereas computers are discarded at about 10-15% that rate.

With tablets, they may be replacing the laptop for consumers with relatively minimal needs, but I'd say this segment of the consumer place are mostly not the type of people who were intensive gamers to begin with.