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Narcotic Gryffin
Digital Mercenaries Inc.
#1 - 2013-11-12 21:43:40 UTC
I've pulled hundreds of missions at this point and don't mind pulling a hundred more for my isk needs. However I won't complain about the missions hell I even enjoy reading the little info the stories have but for the storyline of the EVE Universe I would love to see an actual alien ship we capsuleers could fight. Right now rogue drones are the closest thing to this and for how large of an area New Eden covers surely we should have run into a warp capable alien species by now. Aliens = new variety in game. CCP wouldn't even have to make their ships playable just there to shoot at and at something new and interesting.

http://www.sortius-is-a-geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/history-channel-hd-aliens-thumb.jpg
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#2 - 2013-11-12 21:55:34 UTC
Narcotic Gryffin wrote:
I've pulled hundreds of missions at this point and don't mind pulling a hundred more for my isk needs. However I won't complain about the missions hell I even enjoy reading the little info the stories have but for the storyline of the EVE Universe I would love to see an actual alien ship we capsuleers could fight. Right now rogue drones are the closest thing to this and for how large of an area New Eden covers surely we should have run into a warp capable alien species by now. Aliens = new variety in game. CCP wouldn't even have to make their ships playable just there to shoot at and at something new and interesting.


I'm not even sure where to start with this.. other than "No, EVE doesn't need aliens and please never suggest such a cliché thing again."
Diamond Zerg
Taking Solo Away.
#3 - 2013-11-12 21:58:24 UTC
Sansha Kuvakai's ship looks rather alien. You should try incursions (in lowsec) then suddenly an enemy fleet jumps in and it becomes a PvP situation!
Hi.
Jeanne-Luise Argenau
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-11-12 22:54:08 UTC
im not so sure on my eve lore but arent jovian alien.
followed by new alien why not but when they introduce them it has to be lore friendly and with new space

+-0 atm
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2013-11-12 23:01:06 UTC
Jeanne-Luise Argenau wrote:
im not so sure on my eve lore but arent jovian alien.
followed by new alien why not but when they introduce them it has to be lore friendly and with new space

+-0 atm



No, the Jovians are humans who didn't lose all thier tech like the empires all did. They're at at least Terran level.

They've also messed with thier own genetics too much, and made a mess of things.

There are no aliens in EVE lore. We don't need to start bringing in really generic things like that.
Omnathious Deninard
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-11-12 23:09:01 UTC
An alien is something that is foreign to you.

Ex: To an Amarrian all Minmatar, Caldari, and Gallente are aliens.

If you don't follow the rules, neither will I.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-11-13 02:00:24 UTC
there's no scope for it from a lore aspect

irc a large chunk of the milky has been explored/colonised .... humanity is alone there
humans move through the eve gate and meet no aliens, then bad stuff happens, time passes and 'poof' you have the current eve-cluster




ps
the eve-cluster is alien free

rogue drones are human created robots that have gained free will
sleepers are much of the same, just from earlier an (failed?) civilisation cycle
Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#8 - 2013-11-13 02:55:05 UTC
Alvatore DiMarco wrote:
I'm not even sure where to start with this.. other than "No, EVE doesn't need aliens and please never suggest such a cliché thing again."

Alien Panda Bears? Lol

I am currently away, traveling through time and will be returning last week.
Marexlovox
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-11-13 04:49:16 UTC
Martian Rats, I can see this being implemented.Pirate
To mare
Advanced Technology
#10 - 2013-11-13 04:59:43 UTC
Space whales.

Also sleepers are kind of aliens to me, you just don't find them in the average mission.
Jeanne-Luise Argenau
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2013-11-13 09:12:16 UTC
ok so no alien yet.

but with all the life bearing planets eve has. There u already have alien life before terraforming also not sapient life.

I rly have to read my lore, but we have 5000 Systems connected, the milky way has billions of suns so how can it be so few settled systems when so much is explored. Given intelligent life should be seldom, and space travelling life even rarer but i see no problem with finding it should ccp decide to raise the system count to1000000 systems and more :P
Radhe Amatin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2013-11-13 10:22:31 UTC
no aliens for one reason... from a lore stand point they can easily add some kind of alien race by saying that through heroic ventures by some bla bla bla corporation into unknown space they encountered an alien race with tech rivaling our own bla bla bla.
From a design stand point it will take serious developing time to add such a thing cause you will have to add a new set of everything that's existing in game like weapons shields armor navigation not to mention a new line of ships and new skills to train, all of them to be balanced to what we all ready have in game.

The reason is that will take lots of dev time that can be put to other areas of eve that needs it

i would rather have some Rats that fly carriers, dreads and stuff like that with some high bounties(raging from lets say 25 mils up to 60 mils) and the need of some serious fire power to take one down. With the spawn mechanics like the commander rats and that will drop normal loot but in higher numbers maybe some faction but not sure about that.
OkaskiKali
Aussie Carebear OverLords
#13 - 2013-11-13 10:31:36 UTC
Narcotic Gryffin wrote:
I've pulled hundreds of missions at this point and don't mind pulling a hundred more for my isk needs. However I won't complain about the missions hell I even enjoy reading the little info the stories have but for the storyline of the EVE Universe I would love to see an actual alien ship we capsuleers could fight. Right now rogue drones are the closest thing to this and for how large of an area New Eden covers surely we should have run into a warp capable alien species by now. Aliens = new variety in game. CCP wouldn't even have to make their ships playable just there to shoot at and at something new and interesting.


I can see a place for this in terms of an alien race that use gorilla type warfare to hit and run systems in null sec a similair way to how roaming fleets work.

Lets be honest the majority of eve null sec is empty - I could see an alien roaming fleet spicing it up a bit. Alien Roaming fleet sets up gate camps and holds systems to seige forcing the occupants to defend. I like the idea in that direction.
Debora Tsung
Perkone
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-11-13 10:43:27 UTC
OkaskiKali wrote:


I can see a place for this in terms of an alien race that use gorilla type warfare to hit and run systems in null sec a similair way to how roaming fleets work.



Gorilla Type Warfare:

Beating your (possibly bare) chest, shouting challenges at your oponent and whacking stuff around.

Stupidity should be a bannable offense.

Fighting back is more fun than not.

Sticky: AFK Cloaking Thread It's not pretty, but it's there.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2013-11-13 10:57:18 UTC
OkaskiKali wrote:
I can see a place for this in terms of an alien race that use gorilla type warfare to hit and run systems in null sec

Space Monkeys?
Radhe Amatin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2013-11-13 13:33:38 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
OkaskiKali wrote:
I can see a place for this in terms of an alien race that use gorilla type warfare to hit and run systems in null sec

Space Monkeys?


LoL