EVE General Discussion

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Probably they'll find out that the answer is "yes" and so they will get rid of the CQ.

I bet this will make most new players run to the forums and ask "how do I open the door ?"

I'd be more, if at all, impressed by renders and animation demonstrations.

For each concept art:

- A 3D modeller has to build an optimized mesh of said model
- He has to rig it for animation
- A texture artist has to make it good looking, compensating for the lack of polygon complexity.

Now, we don't even know how functional said engine is and how will it be used. CARBON used by EVE is impressive in the character department, but unused due to dev focus being elsewhere. Not to mention the main author of the whole SC thing has Pie in the Sky Promising Specialization trained to 5.

Each of those people need to be paid, and - granted - they got a crapton of money from backers, but the backers didn't give them time. Developing everything takes time. If SC focuses on shiney "FISH TANK!" "CLOTHING!", I'll just put my sunglasses on, order a Margharitta and get a front row seat on its specular crash event.

And, of course, I'll stick with CCP which (despite making shoddy community decisions when attempting to reward people for contributing to said community) is focusing on core gameplay experience: spaceships. Each iteration they do their best to make spaceships more and more fun, giving you a reason to log in and play the damn game.

Visuals and nifty addons can only spice up an existing, solid product. CCP learned that lesson in Incarna and made a good decision: core gameplay before anything else. Then they made another good pick by releasing some of the NEX items for much lower prices - and we already can see a lot of people making use of them. Those who don't buy them for AUR, buy them for ISK.

Hell, even the damned monocle became something of a wealth status symbol. "HEY LOOK I'M SO RICH I CAN THROW A BILLION INTO THE SHITTER HA-HA!". I'll kind of repeat myself saying - CCP should flip the "enabled" tags on all other NEX things and just see what players do with them.

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This explain where the problem is.

Must be noted that currnetly all characters start at the CQ by defect. And if they kenw where are the forums, surely they would be asking for "how to open the door".

Yes.

A major barrier for new players apporaching EVE is just the strife to identify with the character and feel it as unique. This in EVE requires a different effort and new players are not used to this; the identification player -> avatar sounds more natural for newcomers in respect of player -> spaceship; it's a solid standard in the MMORPG culture and is a equirement for the imemrsion feeling MMORPG players expect in respect of games like WoT and so on where is not a need.

The idea behind CQ (as first element of WiS) was just to fill this gap. Also, the idea for CQ was to configure them as content delivery to smooth the famous EVE learning curve; as to say "make people to get used to EVE, to learn some basic, to discover gameplay opportunities trough ingame interactions instead of forcing them to spend days on some PDF, Excell sheet or IRC channel.

This idea behind CQ was good but of course needed to be progressively extended and linked to a proper WiS envinroment to work properly.

Separating character from spaceship also serves as a good reminder that you are not, in fact, your ship. A ship and to some extent your pod are shells - expendable tools you will lose in your career.

Dying and returning to your environment without any penalties (sides from losing your ship/implants - but you are still alive. It's still the same evil you, just in a new 'shell') seems to reinforce that rather nicely.

"Mystery Code holders will be receiving the exclusive ‘Phanca’ Cybernetic Arm to sport on their characters."

Although I have been tempted by the Collectors edition, I doubt I will pay out.

As for being anti-dust/Valkyrie. I don't think anyone is specifically anti them. I would love to have Dust for PC for example, and I will get Valkyrie when it comes out for sure. What I am against is CCP spreading themselves too thin, which is what they are doing. Especially as the only one of their other projects that has actually been released (Dust) doesn't yet appear to be pulling it's weight.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

$20-60 isn't much when there are so few people using the product. Takes a look at the active numbers of player, only a tiny portion of those will be paying. That's how free to play games work. Also, active numbers are getting worse.

It really can't wait. Spaceship gameplay is fine. They've wasted the last three expansions doing nothing but minor tweaks to it. Meanwhile, they have multiple incoming games producing more elaborate products that are directly competing with them.