EVE General Discussion

I see you dislike the new sim city.

:D

Yours were not player-built cities! I henceforth and even hitherto claim copyrights to the Castles in the Sky Expansion.

Yeah well I'm leaving a link in you thread to mine, so there.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=213554&find=unread

On my SNES Sim City giant King Koopa used to attack from time to time.

After seeing some of the can and pos module "art" of the past, I'm not sure giving players the ability to build modular structures in any shape is something CCP would go along with.

Yeah... some kind of ship skinning does need to happen (I'd like corp logos/custom badges, entire skins should signify different ship variants) , although unfortunately it might be a micro-transaction feature. I really don't like the idea of micro-transactions creeping into space gameplay, even if it's cosmetic. The problem with ship skins is the extra server load, but there's some obvious steps CCP can do to counter this, such as servers automatically disabling ship skins in high load situations, caps on how many ship skins are loaded into memory, etc.

As for player cities... we already have PI. Do you really want another 6 months of dev time spent on auxiliary features? (not saying PI is bad... it was something that needed to happen).

POSs are due for a revamp, even devs confirm it. They could certainly expand what POSs can do. I'd like to see some simple player housing, where you can invite people in (private poker games, corp meetings, etc). The framework is already there, and while I don't really care about such features, they go a long way towards subscription retention and basically pay for themselves without impacting the game at large.

Or the more likely could happen and it will do nothing to subs because neither of those things have any gameplay.

Well I'm not 100% sure, but I do think that the skins are actually rendered by your CPU and GPU, and not on the server. Server would need to inform your client how to render each ship, but if we would be dealing with just color configurations, the increased traffic would probably not be that massive.

I think other MMOs have much more complex and customisable and animated characters. Even though they don't feature as massive encounters as EVE, I still believe EVE ships are a lot simpler even with custom colors.



PI is a form or resource gathering, and while I do like it enough to upkeep a 21-planet setup, unfortunately it offers no emotional attachment whatsoever. The colonies don't even resemble factories or structures. POCs are all about enabling players with a tool to create things they can be proud about. Same with ships, to an extent.

Adding immaterial value is imho the way to improve EVE. We got working mechanics, but many parts of the game are incredibly impersonal and burger-like in nature.



Exactly :) There are still game balance issues and mechanics to tweak, but generally speaking EVE is a working, established game at core, with fantastic long-term value. Like WiS, these ideas I suggest take development to another direction, improving on immersion and emotional attachment, but focus on FiS and spaceships instead of humanoid avatars.

A felt a strong disturbance in the VideoForce.... as if billions of man-hours spent playing world-building games suddenly stepped into inexistence because they did not had any gameplay.

That gameplay may not fit into EVE, but I think that CCP Unifex would like to expand and develop PI into a world-building franchise. Just sayin'.

I want those modular cities so badly, thats what I thought youd kinda be able to do with POSs.

So cool it makes me cry a little.......;-;