EVE General Discussion

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?

What would the future be like without the game?
I can think of very few companies in any field, let alone gaming, that couldn't use some CCP influence. That being said, eve will continue to grow, and immerse us, until we all get podded IRL.

2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

Stations we can walk around in with our characters. So I can rob you face to face.

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

I fear nothing in internet spaceships.

In February 2011, I wrote this prediction on my blog and I stand by it. Mostly. I accept that my time travel device may have skipped across a couple of singularities to one where Incarna deployment went a little smoother, but I was pretty on point with the Hollywood connection and the "retinal imaging projection systems" (read: Oculus Rift).

Now we just need the "cold fusion hyper-clusters", "virtual reality networking solutions" and "third party planets" and I can start claiming to be Nostradamus reborn. ;)

Iceland to Be Renamed 'New Eden' (first published 17 Feb 2011)

[This article has been reproduced with the kind permission of Time Magazine and originally appeared in their June 2019 issue.]

The astounding rise of the once quiet northern european island nation of Iceland into a commercial superpower is to be celebrated in a 'renaming' ceremony held by the Icelandic government later this year. Iceland is to be renamed 'New Eden' in honour of entertainment industry juggernaught CCP Games' commercial achievements and service to their country and to the world.

An improbable story to be sure, but the contributions made by what started life as a modest, yet ambitious, games development studio aiming to provide an immersive online 'internet spaceship' experience cannot be overestimated. After an initial ten-year period in which they were considered niche and were overshadowed by then market leaders Blizzard, their enterprise and dedication to a truly open 'sandbox' experience eventually provided CCP with the platform to exceed their competitors and surge into other markets.

The appeal of their flagship product EVE Online was infinitely broadened in 2011 by the introduction of real human avatars in the 'Incarna' revision of their futuristic world. After a low-key start, the then cutting-edge character creation and world interaction attracted an increasingly larger audience. The subsequent release of the initially console-only DUST 514 first person shooter enabled a further demographic to be drawn into the universe of New Eden. Utilising the same technology in World of Darkness, a gothic vampire MMO, continued to build the momentum. But the real masterstroke was the release of the Machinima toolkit that allowed users to make their own movies using the game worlds.

By 2013, the quality of user-created movies was often surpassing professionally-made television series and CCP found themselves courting the likes of James Cameron and J.J. Abrams. In 2014, the first EVE-based Hollywood movie, 'New Eden' won box-office acclaim (although purists claim that the entirely fan-made 'Clear Skies' television series, which aired on SyFy earlier the same year, was the real watershed) and cemented CCP's position as an entertainment superpower.

Meanwhile, with the explosion of interest in EVE Online and associated products, CCP's technological infrastructure was threatening to buckle. This gave rise to pioneering efforts in the field of technology and the invention of cold-fusion hyper-clusters, which was a quantum leap in the field of computing. This allowed for the millions of users to interact in a smooth virtual environment and finally eradicated the lag that had plagued busy game areas for years.

CCP's in-house technology team then went from strength-to-strength and the introduction of their retinal imaging projection systems in conjunction with Microsoft's Kinect technology allowed unprecedented levels of immersion. As well as revolutionising the entertainment viewing experience, by 2017 CCP was providing the 'de facto' standard total immersion social and business networking tools across the globe.

In 2018, the licencing of virtual real estate within EVE Online allowed the digital distribution of third party 'entertainment suites' - essentially games produced by third-party developers that were narratively consistent with EVE Online's universe - which gave birth to infinitely diverse 'cultures' on individual stations and planets. Player-run organisations within the universe could licence developers to practically build worlds for them. Many real-world corporations started to lay claim to systems and hire player alliances to protect the space above and defend their property on the surface beneath.

Today, in 2019, CCP stand literally and figuratively on top of the world. Iceland is now ranked as the 8th strongest economy in the world and is accredited with contributing to leading the world economy out of the austerity period. They continue to provide the most immersive science-fiction simulation available whilst simultaneously being major players in the technology and movie industries.

Whilst they have their detractors and some religious groups have expressed their objections to the renaming, there is no avoiding the fact that the future will be in New Eden.

And now the whole world is watching.

1.
Wandering bands of Low Sec nomads perform hit and run attacks against sovereign territories. As new pockets of NPC null-sec are discovered, they serve as a breeding ground for future grognards and for line recruits to the surrounding sovereign territories. Engineers are in high demand to build mobile fortresses and or sky centers (the ground complexes for space elevators and their matching orbitals), lightning rods for conflict in space and on the ground.

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Mobile modular starbases provide both a home for wormhole exploitation, and an integral part of the logistics chain for commerce among the sovereign territories and high-sec.

3.
My biggest fear is that there is no place for the newcomer, and no fun for the veteran, if power in the game consolidates to only a few.

Alright here we go !!




A decade from now we will step into the VR-chamber (Virtual Reality) with our gaming suites fitted tightly. This chamber is totally white with a white desk in the middle, in the corners are little laserpointers that will track every movement of us via our suites. We initiate the startup protocol and the chamber darkens, when the startup sequence has finished we pop up in our Captain's Quarter able to walk and look around 360° left/right/up/down. Eventually when you undock you take place behind the desk which will by then project the cockpit of your ship. The rest of the chamber is again a 360° projection of the game as it is now, but now you can just turn your head to look behind you instead of drag your mouse over the screen, of course this is still possible via the desk which is still projecting all of your cockpit functions and belongings.

My greatest fear is that in this simulator I will forget that it's a simulator and I actually start searching for drink and food inside stations or in my spaceship! Or that due to the movement in space I get so motion sick that my dinner will end up on the controls of my cockpit.

I hope I will ever be able to make this journey described above!



Since I'm not a native English speaker/writer there might be grammar mistakes.. CCP is of course allowed to correct any of these grammar or spelling mistakes if they choose to publish this part in the book :)

Cheers,
Natalion

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?
i would expect to see an increased player base and a lot more politics involved as capsulers grow in numbers

2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

I would really ike to see more focus on industrial/invention aspects of the game as it is what i enjoy the most, I feel that the system is a bit in need of love by CCP

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

I 'm afraid to see the game becoming simpler, the best point about EVE is that you never cease to learn and the level of experience of the player and not the character is what turns tides of wars and forces players to think rather than just follow pre-set parameters. if the game becomes simpler ( like it was done with probe scanning ( arrgh! ) ) any newbi can use the features as soon as they log in for the first time which destroys the hard work the older players have put in place to learn about it

EVE is the player's game, it is shaped by both CCP and the community, very rare and quite extraordinary bond between game makers and game enthusiasts. Let's leave it that way at least for another 10 years.

Oh, and mark my words, the progress with "AI" can surprise us all...

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?
With PC gaming changing with the much higher graphics and the Oculus Rift system, EVE would be a great game with the Oculus Rift really, EVR was a very nice game made using the Oculus Rift. It would be interesting to see how EVE is with the Oculus Rift if it does come.
EVE will still be great and remain great, I am sure of that.

2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?
Dust 514 is still being updated and improving, so we may see much more connections with EVE and Dust in the future. I always look forward to the next expansions. EVR in fan fest and E3 really shows how EVE could be like in the future.
Walking in stations is also something that can have a very high potential and I would be very interested to see it when you meet other characters in your station etc. Possibly corporation recruitment and things like that you dock up at a station then do your interview at the corporation office, I'd love to see how WiS works.

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?
If the Lore, backstory becomes spoil and if other players start changing PVP to become very bad, since EVE is very highly player controlled players could spoil the game. However EVE is EVE, and I love it since I first started playing it.

Call Rollard

I see an Eve future, where I am docking my Hurricane battle cruiser, replete with custom camo paint job with skull and crossbones on the side showing how many kills it has achieved, the hull showing signs of previous battles. As I dock I think about the enemy that has made the mistake of also docking here. I look forward to entering my cabin quarters to get cleaned up and re-uniformed, fitting my concealed sidearm, so that I can stalk the corridoors of the space station, seeking out my enemy. A brief but deadly encounter ensues, where my enemy has his life taken and I can claim his ship as mine.

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?

More immersive, more interconnected. I want to pick up my phone, and call one of my friends. Moments later, I strap on a VR headset and am thrust into New Eden. My battleship cruises in low orbit over a planet and I watch as my friends dropship lands on the planets surface. From there I coordinate their assault and provide covering fire, resulting in them taking over one of my rival's factories.

2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?

Interconnectivity with DUST 514, and the polishing of both games to make EVE the de facto space opera MMO.

3. What is my greatest fear for the game?

That CCP won't be able to strike the balance between keeping EVE, EVE and yet opening it up to more players. I know people who want to play but have heard about EVE's learning cliff, or have heard about the cutthroat nature of the game. One of my favorite things about this game is the endless options and opportunities. I don't want the game dumbed down or made less cutthroat. (And this is coming from a hi-sec carebear). I want CCP to be able to entice those players to come and try a different brand of game, one that I think they'll enjoy.

1. What will be the game be like in in the future?
Don't know, don't care...I'll be playing either Star Citizen and or Elite:Dangerous - because they will have avatar game play - something CCP refuses to add.


2. What feature am I looking forward to and why?
None...there is nothing CCP can add short of full blown avatar game play that will keep me playing EVE once Star Citizen comes out.


3. What is my greatest fear for the game?
None...I am just playing EVE to get my sci-fi fix until a better sci-fi game comes along. :)