EVE General Discussion

That's a pretty ****** trailer (although I blame the voice acting and boring story more than anything else)

I miss the Dominion Trailer. The Empyrean Age trailer and teasers were some of the best. Super ominous. So good.

As for the trailer you linked - while I'm not certain, I'd argue that was all-ish ingame content (obviously some things were not in-game, and there were some funky camera angles, but that's to be expected). If you're talking about the prettiness and flashiness of the UI, and its integration into the 3D environment, that's been the overall push with EVE for years - it's only been in the past few that they've been able to get aggressive with it (after the redesign of the code regarding the Carbon initiative or whatever they called it).

EDIT: If you want five things -

The very opening scene is taken straight from the captain's quarters - gussied up a bit obviously, but they do that with all the story-driven trailers.
The avatar of whomever it was is the same as one we'd create - his movements seem more realistic though that may be an effect of the camera angle.
He's flying a scorpion variant which acts as a scorpion.
It shows a POS, the new mining frigate, and an alliance outpost.
The battle effects and such are all in fame effects (again, gussied up).

It's not a very good trailer, but it marks no great departure from their previous efforts.

I was talking about something else than using EVE props and assets... albeit in 0:40, they use something that doesn't exists ingame.

And then there's the little issue on how the trailer is a blatant lie with null relation with the actual bounty system.

In the Features & Ideas thread introducing the plans to rename skills, CCP Ytterbium posted this update, which includes this little gem:



Italics mine.

This could very well be relevant to avatar gameplay...

Well, from the threads surfacing after the live event today, I guess we'll have to add "Tidi and lowsec gatecamps" to the game description...

Looking at avatar gameplay and the integration into the whole "one eve universe" concept I've concerns over whether there will be direct integration of avatar gameplay or not. Not that I feel it won't be developed but looking at eve-Valkyrie, I can't see how this is meant to directly integrate with eve and is in effect a separate shard game from the eve universe we know and love.

If we do see wis in some version, will it be "based on" the eve universe or actually in it?

JC.

From what I've seen regarding SC, ccp had better get their act together if they have any plans of getting any form of avatar gameplay in place before they get trumped.

Seriously, what will be innovative about it if there is a game out there focused on both spaceships and avatars if they "deploy 2nd"?

I don't get the "wis will break eve" mentality of the diehard fis afficionados, there's plenty of space for all sorts of content and activities.

I am torn between two camps as to what "avatar gameplay will be needed for" as I agree that all key activities should be performable using the current UI so avatars will not gain an advantage over those who weld themselves into their pods but also there must be a point to it that compliments and does not detract from current gameplay whilst ensuring there is a clear purpose to the use of avatars.

I'm all for additional bells and whistles also, give me a hangar I can properly walk around in, let me gaze upon the stacked crates of tritanium and sit atop a pile of all my goods, or invite someone in and grab a ppm out of a box and lob it at them.. ;).

JC.

How could they? They are so out of touch with what their players want right now as they never where... almost in every aspect of the game, not only WiS/high sec/PVE content.

It's all about "how can players screw each other over most efficiently" with them now... as you said: A Viking's deffinition of fun.

...and (generally speaking) don't tell me it isn't so: All the frustrated (soon have been) players on other game forums (SC, Elite Dangerous), and even here on this very forums, are painting another picture. The comments go from: "EVE is going down the drain" to "it is already dead, if it wasn't for some diehards with too much money on their hands".

I never believed a gaming company can be so out of touch with its playerbase but maybe this is what the playerbase wants, I always believed it's the companies that attract a certain type of gamers and I was right, for CCP to attract the villains and cutthroats and scammers they have to have the same disgusting personality irl (out of touch, ignore everything, lie and hide etc.) yes this whole mentality especially coming from the company is pretty annoying I can understand it in game but ffs you're devs, anyway star citizen is looking better everyday to me if it's not pay 2 win hopefully, can't wait to fly a 300i, going back to MUD games till then, where I can actually do whatever I want.

Instead of providing for the entire player base they provide for some and the rest are just cannon fodder.

That's the craziest part of it. They're screwing us with our money.

FAi, I just found out that they're going to "fleetissuize" the Orca. "Fleetissuize" refers to how the Hurricane was nerfed to oblivion, and two patches later was reborn as the Hurricane Fleet Issue -roughly the same old Cane, but four times more expensive.

Guess what? With Rubicon, the Orca warp speed has been nerfed to 2.0 AU/s vs 2.7 AU/s, but, hey! the new Ghost Sites will provide a low grade Ascendancy set with a 40%~ish bonus to warp speed, so you can get your old warp speed by buying the whole set of low grade Ascendancy implants!

Enjoy your fleetissuizement! And pay for it!

The nicest touch is that the new warp speeds are going to make much worse one of EVE's worst issues: long and boring travel times.

And that poses for good development.

Well, I do my Jita runs in a cloaky ship, and certainly will be buying a muscle car... err... interceptor for when I just need to move from A to B.


Note: there is no reason to move PLEXes. You can buy them with a Jita alt, contract them to the target account, the contract can be accepted from anywhere, and the PLEX can be activated from anywhere. So. Don't. Never. Ever. Move. A. PLEX.