EVE General Discussion

I know, me to. Unfortunately, this is just another project CCP has raised our hopes up with and then dashed them.

Given that the current mechanics behind the avatars are such a heavy strain on peoples computers, wouldn't it be prudent to scrap Carbon and remake a new avatar system that won't melt video cards?

I totally like the idea of out-of-the-ship gameplay (if it doesn't get too excessive, it's a space game after all), there are however several challenges I see at the horizont:

- Whats going to happen to your ship? You obviously have to leave it behind, and can't detect whether you've been spotted by other players and most likely can't get back to it in time before it is stolen/destroyed. There should be some mechanics to prevent the loss of ship just because I am stuck inside a structure.

- The current avatar engine is plain bad. It lags, it challenges my graphics card, the controls are slow and jerky, the over-the-shoulder view is annoying and the interaction with the environment difficult. If you want this to be successful, you first need a solid engine to deliver that properly. I don't know how your dust-engine works out for this, but the current station-engine just plain sucks in every aspect.

- Exploration currently isn't really delivering the fun it should be. This is because for once the Eve engine is not capable of delivering content outside the downtime, so if you do have a job and log on 18+ Eve time, there isn't much left to explore anymore. This is especially annoying if you actually take the risk and venture to low-sec or 0.0 just to realize that you took all the risk for nothing. In addition the hand full of very static sites don't really feel like I am actually exploring something, just because I know all these site already out of my hat.

- In addition the recent drone change - which was a major failure and I just can't say it often enough - gave a hard hit to all explorers. Ships using drones were one of the few reasonable setups for exploring, as you need to stack so many modules to be able to actually take the site, that you basically have 1-2 weapons left and nothing to boost them. Drone-boats were performing well for exploration until the AI started targeting drones, but since you have no space left to keep them on you and your tank, all you can do currently is to take a huge stack of extra drones with you. But considering the price, that pretty much rendered exploration in high-sec unprofitable.

If it melts your computer, your computer sucks <3

CCP can always sell this prototype to Maxis, so they could do Sims in space.

This kind of stop?

I submitted a story to the Pod and Planet Fiction Contest (now completed) which specifically envisioned this type of content. I'd certainly love to see it go live.

Make some kind of bottleneck resource you actively have to send your clone down to a certain kind of planet and manage, and while the clone is down there, they are completely vulneratble to that dust-like orbital bombardment mechanic, allowing others to land and steal that **** for themselves.

Basically find a way to make every celestial in nullsec a liability, while also turning nullsec pos shoots into planet shoots.

The war with TEST would have happened if GSF could have hot-dropped some kind of technetium-pooping factory on a dust planet in Fountain, causing the loss of a bunch of clones, probably with special implants they needed to extract the goo, and also make it so that they lose a skill when they die like with Tengus. - not true but still

Also, don't change jump clones at all.

Then delete pos as we know it and allow us to just have planets and modular/multiple space stations

But don't integrate dust with any of these terrible ideas, it will ruin the experience.

Basically I want some logistics guys' life to be even worse and I want you to make the game more like Warhammer 40k so my fantasies of executing exterminatus on pubbie swine something that's more enjoyable than jumping through hoops to do it to DUST players.

But they have made tessellation demo, one in the long line of demos: atmospheric flight demo, wis demo, avatar exploration demo...

Assuming that you can find a dark corner where you can stay alive for an hour, I don't see why not. It would certainly augment the survival horror angle of that gameplay. ("We're trapped in an irradiated ruin with a homicidal clown!")



Yes, the fact that the CQ is instanced, and not content in any meaningful sense of the word, is not a good thing.

I imagine that it would work out like it does in space, where high sec stations would enforce consequences but prevent nothing, lowsec stations would go after you if you committed a crime right in front of them and forget you as soon as you left their sensor range, and any safety would be in numbers (because losses would be far less serious with no ship exploding), in friends, and in self-defense to the extent that it's possible.



That's a very interesting question, and I wouldn't mind knowing the answer as well. Unfortunately, it might be years before we get an answer. I have a feeling that the more serious the consequences are, the greater the likelihood that you'll be weighing the value of loading rookie ships into your Orca.