EVE General Discussion

How many years will we have to wait for some new space to be added? For space to be so vast and infinite you cant do 2 jumps in any system in eve without tripping over someone.

Where is the exploration? the far reaches? why isn't the outer rim 500 jumps from empire instead of 4 jumps in a carrier. Not sure how many years its been since WH space was added but we need about 10x the space this game currently has to give it anywhere near the feeling of what space is actually like.

Incursions were nice, we need a TON more stuff like that, and also.... Jovians? The non existent figment of our imagination that we will never actually see ingame.


bullet points

• +10k new systems in K-space
• +5k new WH's
• Make C4's not suck.

This is a good start.

There will be new space. But to get to it you will have to activate a new type of jump gate...via a hacking game!

Exploration at its finest!

OH WAIT... I know....

Change the hacking game to spit out jump gate parts that you have to race around and pickup... Eventually, you'll pick up enough parts to build a new jump gate to the UNKNOWN.

We love running around after tiny little containers that you can hardly see and that make lots of cute noises eventually dissolving in a puff of magic smoke. It's fun and educational!

-- Zen

What I would like to see is CCP open up a pure form of exploration where systems have not been discovered yet and placed on the Map.

The exploration would be similar to how the Analyzer Interface works.

Each time you click on a location it would either Green Go or Red Stop. Green Go would mean that a large enough gravitational source had been located for a Titan Class Surveyor Ship to warp to without the need for a warp or jump gate...I forget which it is again?

Once the Titan Surveyor Ship had arrived it would begin to build a Warp Gate back to location where it jumped from so that other ships could have access to the new system as well.

There would be two type of Warp Gate Contracts.

1.POWGC - Privately Owned Warp Gate Contracts - Contract is issued to an empire by Concord to explore a certain area of space and establish a foothold in that space. Such space would effectively be classified as being 0.0 to -.4 by Concord and would be open to dispute once the system had a Concord Station constructed.

2.FOWGC - Faction Owned Warp Gate Contracts - Contracts issued to a Corporation of no less than 25 members to explore a certain area of space and establish a foothold in that space. Such space would effectively be classified as 0.0 to 10.0 by the NPC Faction issuing the contract. Such areas would not be contestable unless events like Faction War took place.

Who knows what will be found out beyond the Great Barrier.

Then these systems become placed on the map, and either they are limited & are all built in a matter of days by people, ala WH databases. Or are unlimited and EVE dies because everyone owns 10 systems of their own and no-one ever meets anyone else because they have no need to travel for anything.

We don't need more systems. We need more substance inside each system.

I'll give you 4 reasons we have not had development of new space:

1) Post-Incarna Debacle layoff of 20% staff

2) World of Darkness

3) Dust 514

4) Eve: Valkyrie


That's it really.

And also it's why POS mechanics are still so horrific.

(rant over)

increasing space by ten fold would mean a LOT less player interaction and PVP.
this is not a good thing...

From the last Fanfest.

CCP Presents: EVE's five year vision

Senior Producer Andie Nordgren spoke about EVE's plans for the future in a very clear manner all throughout Fanfest, and in CCP Presents she gave a run-down of the new approach CCP is taking to development. Normally EVE goes from expansion to expansion without much in the way of long-term direction, and the vision of the future of EVE changes beyond all recognition on an almost annual basis. Now developers have a five-year vision for where the game is heading and why, a three-year roadmap for how to get to that vision, and a 12-month plan for specific development of features.

Because of this new process, the crazy far-future ideas on space colonisation and building your own stargates presented in yesterday's EVE keynote are more likely to actually make it to the live game than previous big visionary ideas. They're part of the five-year vision that the entire EVE development staff is getting behind, so it should be only a matter of time before true space colonisation becomes a reality. When it does, we'll be able to build stargates aiming into the unknown and settle completely new solar systems. Also part of the five-year plan is an investigation of immersive flight and combat in EVE, which could potentially bring more twitch-based controls to the game.

Source

Not all of us want to go somewhere with 5k other people flying around. Its space, if I want to go to places that have no one there, it should be viable for me to set off in a direction and not stop until I hit Montana.

Totally enjoy not having you or anyone else around. I can pay to play my way? No. I pay money to CCP so everyone else in the game gets to dictate to me how I can and can not play.

The groups of people that wish to impose their will on me decide for me how and when I can do anything, this is in essence why EVE has a very small, teeny tiny player base, you can see it if you look closely beside that red plus in the overview.



This is the view of a new player. Which is why they leave.

I pay to play so I can blow people up, and educate them as to why they should not play EVE.