EVE General Discussion

I don't believe EVE can take ideas from a cloned version of itself. However, I can see them using the small things it does different to perhaps better itself.

Shame on me! Updated!

We can but dream for a Freelancer 2.

even NASA is gaining on CCP

belt mining

http://evenews24.com/2013/08/23/watch-this-how-nasa-plans-to-take-belt-mining-to-a-whole-new-level/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXvsi7DRyPI#t=47

I'm not really sure what to make of this..

And just think of this... neither Star Citizen nor X-Rebirth offer anything resembling the kind of avatar gameplay that CCP intended pre-Incarna.

I mean: SC avatar technology will be used to interact to NPC and FPS gameplay during ship boarding. X-Rebirth avatar technology is only implemented to interact to NPCs.

They don't have "meaningful gameplay" attached to avatars, not even in the respective game's definition of "meaningful gameplay". Avatars are in the mix for the sake of immersion alone.

But oh, guess EVE can do well without avatars. It does well without being fun, without being casual friendly, without being soloable and without being innovative. If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

Yay, exactly the same I thought.... it turned to be quite different, though. I wonder how many people actually signed in to EVE while being 100% aware of what and where were they signing into...

I recall the infortunate experiences of my first char (sadly biomassed since, *sigh*) and my attempts to shoehorn EVE into the "best ship = best game" cathegory. Losing a painstakingly bought Megathron in its maid mission was not fun at all, and of course the fit was bad in the "make baby Jesus cry" sense of a bad fit. I think it even had some empty slots, but can't check for sure...

Immigrant workers are cheap. You could hire six Jesuses to do just about anything (including being worn, whatever that entails) for around 12 bucks an hour.

well, lets hope for some moar....data and things to have.

poses and strategic fighting and empire building need more stuffs...or, it's down the drain.

and yes, Im bak.

I can see the irony in this, and I'm one of what I'm learning is MANY more that are disappointed in CCP for throwing their hands up and giving up on Incarna. From what I can tell, the one thing that blew up in their faces and set that whole mess off was that CCP was using it as a means of introducing micro-transactions. At the time, I could really understand why people would feel this way. But then I went onto things like Guild Wars 2 and Planetside 2, liked em enough to throw money into some cosmetic stuff and then realized "Wow, this is really no different!" and then all of the sudden, Incarna wasn't so bad.

I personally LOVED the release of Incarna (but not the introduction of AUR). A chance to immerse myself in a new way in the EVE universe. I face-palmed myself realizing that due to the capsuleer concept, we'd never be able to walk around in our ships though (sort of like SWG: JTL did with large ships). Anyways, I've always wanted a space game I could immerse myself in, and be a part of that world. A second life. EVE Online was my ticket, my hopes for that future, and Incarna was a nod in the direction of my dream. But it seems CCP has thrown in the towel and given up on it, and as I have seen the reaction from so many people after it's release, I can't blame CCP for being afraid to tread on that ground again. But I will blame them for giving up on it as they have ever since release.

X Rebirth looks promising, and having played past X games, I also know that EGOSoft can deliver a solid time-sink experience in a sandbox. Rebirth looks to further immersion, and this is where I'm sold. I've been playing EVE Online since 2006, and I've held my breath for so very long that it would truly evolve. But long story short, it just has not evolved enough within the span of time I've played. A little patch here, a little patch there. Do a little more work than usual and we'll call it an expansion! But nothing has ever truly revolutionized EVE Online, and sadly for my part, it's failed my hopes and dreams. Not that steps haven't been taken in that direction, but I look over the years at what has come, and look at the years to come and it just doesn't seem like it will ever feasibly happen, not without CCP taking serious risks.

So I've been talking to my wife about this over the last year (has played herself, but gave up long ago for similar reasons), and she knows how much this game has meant to me with all the time I've put into it and the hopes I've had for the future. But her and I both agree that if X: Rebirth delivers, we'll be leaving EVE Online behind (with feeling akin to a break up most likely :P, but knowing it was for the better). The shift from multiplayer to singleplayer doesn't bother me much, as I've spent the last one and a half years soloing EVE Online anyhow. So all in all, this is most likely my good-bye to you CCP. We will see soon.