EVE General Discussion

lol, the backlash, you want to know what really went wrong? A lot of vain kiddies could not afford a monocle...

Sure they cried about this that and the other thing, but in the end it was too expensive and mommy wouldn't fork up.

Otherwise no one cared, you could after all turn if off and ship spinning is better than ever.

It needs more NEX items to troll with, they were the best feature.

Adding some kind of shared space would also help.

Oh look, it's this thread again.

A working door

There's a lot of sandbox stuff they could bring in with WiS, along with more depth and immersion. Development time and cost is really a moot issue, I don't see anti-WiS people complaining about DUST or WoD.

>oh but those are separate development teams

That's how it was with Incarna to. At least WiS is in EVE.

Hell yes. I need my Malibu Dream House.

Also, I don't just want to walk in stations. I demand to be allowed planet side so that I can hit up the local mall and laugh my ass off at the shoe store calling their central planetary bank in order to break 1 ISK.

I would **** brix to be able to dock up and walk around a Sleeper station in W-space.

I think it would be a great addition to the game if it was kept limited in scope, but functional.

Station atrium, corp meeting room, poker/game room/bar. That's it. This would add so much RP flavor to the game.

The only other benefit it could offer is a tutorial room for new players. I'm thinking a nice social environment with high-tech bulletin boards that display information and training missions (tanking exercise, tracking training mission, etc). ISD characters could actually walk around and help instead of just being a tiny line of 10 point font in a rookie channel. This would greatly boost player retention and be worth the dev investment.

Your detector needs recalibration.

Also, I did my hair and makeup because you have to look at me here.

You needn't see me in my Captains Quarters, mussed up, drooling, and with the needle still sticking out of my arm.

Incarna earned a lot of backlash because it was hyped to high hell and then failed to deliver massively. It came across as an incredibly pissy justification for a cash shop. As if they spent several years to build a marketing campaign to sell us **** that we didn't want. This is why Incarna crashed and burned. It has little to nothing to do with the question of if walking outside of your ship is "cool".

CCP went in the lore direction of "players hate leaving their ship, but sometimes you have to GET THINGS DONE SMUGGLING ASSASSINATION DARK GRITTY GRRRRRR". The problem is, we were already getting things done in our ships really ******* easily. Perhaps some of that stuff shouldn't be done really easily, but CCP don't want to remove it because it'd **** off a lot of players.

The problem with CCP was that they looked for justification as to why a player would leave their ship, when they already had the justification: It's the same reason you sit in a station spinning your ship. Because sometimes, you want to unwind. Sometimes you don't want to be out there slogging away, mining, flying, shooting, trading, whatever it is you do. Maybe sometimes you just want to sit in your station and spin ships.

So my advice is this: Walking in stations should not be about business. It should be about pleasure.

Eve lacks area-orientated social hubs. You have local, and maybe you run into a guy in a belt, but that doesn't really count. I'm talking actual genuine social hubs. Viewing galleries. Casinos. Bars. Places to hang out. Alternatives to ship spinning. Don't worry about sticking some mechanic or incentive in there; Just have entertainment. Sitting in your pod constantly is probably a bit uncomfortable. Being a god-machine is fun and all, but we're still humans. Maybe sometimes I want to step out of the pod and smell the closest thing Eve has to fresh air. Maybe I want to stretch my legs. Maybe I want to unwind and shoot the **** with the local pilots, rather than be ALL BUSINESS ALL THE TIME PIRATES SMUGGLING ASSASSINATION GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

So that's my advice on this. Work on making WIS a bunch of social hubs. Nothing more, nothing less.

And hide our neocom unless we bring up an iphone-like interface. And maybe make it first person, too. We already have mirrors.

Edit: Damn it, now I want to propose this in Features and Ideas. "WiS as a pure social hub".

Edit 2: So I did!