EVE General Discussion

Recently played a game called "Entropia Universe". Great idea, loved the sandbox evironment and collecting resources. Fly / drive around in vehicles etc, even multiple players on single space ships handling turrets etc. Team raids on resources on planets, trade etc etc and so on and so forth. Game is a total sink drain on the wallet though and you can't play it for a week without dumping $30 into it, I finish up in a week with them and will never play again, but great idea there.

Eve is by far the more advanced game, seeing the same idea incorporated would be fantastic. Everyone wants a more immersive environment, edging slowly towards a more real world. Single pod single player ships have been fun, but imagine the team work involved on running a battleship, or being able to not just fight on a planet but have an operational market for on world goods too.

For most, Eve would be an escape from one life to another, and the more you can immerse yourself into that world the better.

you must have missed the bit where somebody else pointed that out and I agreed and stood corrected.

I mean, I know that's a rare thing on the Internet, but come on.

Thing is though, you can balance ships indefinitely, if we wait for other things to get done, eve will be stuck in an infinite loop and no new content will be added.

In this instance I can relate to you.

If we count that there is no known progress in massive features like POS and SOV, which are ahead of WiS in the pecking order, the loop is already on us.

That, or suddenly we may find that 50% of EVE devs have been working on a "super secret cool plan" that justifies the little stuff being delivered with the 6-month updates and patches.

I dunno how I feel about this new EVE: Valkyrie game. Just feels like resources going into another game that isn't EVE.

The should do what Sony has done with the player studio and let players design the stuff for Incarna.

if CCP implement it the way I'm sure they'd like to, then Valkyrie will itself be exactly that - a different way for players to access the sandbox and then be left to do the rest.

Kwatz! You people are so negative. Do you seriously not get how this works? The EVE Sandbox does not have to be solely Internet Spaceships. Okay? It's like Narnia. Everyone knows about the wardrobe, but the kids in the books also got there on a train and by staring at a picture for a while. It was still the same Narnia no matter how they got there.

Doesn't matter if you're playing a Capsuleer, a DUST Merc or a Valkyrie pilot, you still wind up in New Eden, and New Eden is the sandbox. Sure, the different windows on it may not all be as interrelated as we'd all like them to be - yet - but to dredge out an extremely old cliché, Rome wasn't built in a day.

I don't understand all this pessimism surrounding the idea of having different lenses and modes of access to accommodate different gaming tastes. I mean what's behind that? Do you think it's not going to work, in which case why not? And why has EVE succeeded where any other take on the New Eden sandbox is so "obviously" doomed?

Or are you just jealous about having to share the sandbox with more kids?

CCP felt compelled to abort Incarna and go into tweak-and-polish mode for a few years. Recall, at the Fanfests after it the mere mention of WiS was enough to inspire booing. Any mention of it on the forums was met with similar negativity.

Fact is, I believe them when they say that what they produced was all they could produce in the available development time for a twice-yearly expansion schedule.

And like magic, an idiot appears.

sorry to break it to you fella, add console dudes are not interested in emoting with you.