EVE General Discussion

I doubt it too, but I bet avatars will feature in the advertising though. Any how it looks like jesus features are coming in an attempt to retain their engaged player base.

Read page 1, in essence avatar content in eve online as an expansion of game play.

Probably the latter, sc is going to be twitch based and they have a scaling engine that handles transitions between ship to avatar etc. Good use of modern technology. Eve will probably behave better server side though as combat will be instanced in sc or so I hear.

So I've found a game which is 0) non-instanced giant 1) sandbox 2) with PvP, theft, hilarious player courts (!), territory control, craft, vessels, alliances, housing, multi-person mounts, etc. 3) and it has native support for DX11 graphics and avatars are comparable to EVE's toons - it's using CryEngine 3 - while animations are much better and 4) it's free (PvP&PvE is free, craft and thievery require modest payments). The only downside - it's fantasy - but I can live with that as long as there is a lot of action (so far there was a lot).

Good luck to CCP competing with new generation of sandbox games like that with EVE's uncomfortable core gameplay from 2003 without expanding it with new/additional core (avatars).

Some of the things people frequently ask for are actually the low-risk areas : Corp meeting rooms, bars, etc.
I can see why some capsuleers would want to stay in pod forever, but I can also see that some would prefer to stretch their legs from time to time.

We already have a vanity mirror in the CQ. A ceiling fan would be nice though, it can become quite hot in there, especially since we can't open the door to let fresh air in.
And mind you, EvE is already in Beta!

In other words, you are continually patronizing WIS by nitpicking on minor details that might or might not be implemented. Instead you should look at a bigger picture. You might not like or be interested in the future development of WIS in EvE, a lot of others are.
Including me, for a broader immersion into the Science Fiction universe EvE is.

Hillmar, as CEO in the company that might indeed be your job, but the quality of your performance while doing it is questionable, optimistically speaking.

Taking in consideration the options you've made in these last years regarding the Reinvented Wheel™ in avatar gameplay development (and its failure to deliver), the side projects development (and the state in which they can be currently found), the human resources management, the Somer Blink scandal and impunity given to those involved (having your boys unstick and close the thread? hoping that it will dissapear from General Discussion section of the forum and new player attention? I see what you did there ), one could say that it's not a job you have done too well.

Take for instance the marketing expense of millions of dollars you've chosen to make every year with these phony promotional videos, paying to have them spammed on Youtube ads.



Hillmar, the best publicity your game can ever have is not the one you're spending millions of dollars with, trying to convince and illude people with imaginary gameplay.
It's the one made by people who come play your game, telling everybody and their parents to come play it because of how great it is and how blown away they were by it.
Wouldn't this money be better spent on having the people you fired still working at the company, giving them the tools they need to work and develop avatar gameplay and the other EVE features that are in need of attention?

Many people who work at the company might agree with this, but at the fear of losing their jobs too, might not want to speak out. I dare you to make an annonymous internal poll on the opinion of the company's employees about your performance as the company's CEO and the options you've made in the last years, and to release the results publically.

A "Jesus Feature" is any feature that promises to change the game forever as we know it. The "build your own stargates, dream with me!" is also a jesus feature just like Incarna, Tyrannis, or the Dominion were supposed to be.

Funny thing, interpretation - it seems CCP meant "Jesus Feature" as something along the lines of a feature that's meant to redeem everything and be important enough to neglect core aspects of the game in favour of it. Which was what sparked the riots of Incarna - it wasn't the fact WiS is a bad idea, it was the fact CCP neglected old issues in favour of a shoddily implemented, hardware-melting pointless feature.

Of course, such is the fate of definitions not set in stone - they are prone to being wrapped the way most fitting one's point of view. Meh, c'est la vie.

It seems that CCP are doomed to keep on repeating the mistakes of the past. I mean will these guys ever learn.

The other question we all need to ask is are we receiving good value for money out of our monthly subscription payment or plex or whatever for our preferred play style.

I personally don't think I am at the moment as I'm not seeing any WIS development. I also don't care about POS's as our alliance only runs a handful and the funny mechanics are not a big issue for us. I also operate in NPC Null/Highsec and occasionally WH space where sov is not an issue and in doing so I tend to fly solo or in small gangs with a handful of good friends. I admit we've had some nice modules created that are simple to deploy in the field whilst you can also argue that ship balancing benefits everybody but I'm not feeling the value for money or customer satisfaction that I used to have.

Now I wouldn't mind betting that the Nullbears that clash daily in big fleets are also getting the shaft from CCP as all they've had at the moment is ship balancing when they want SOV overhauled. What about the low sec guys? Other than ship balancing they haven't had much attention from CCP just like the folks in HighSec who apart from ship balancing and recent buffs to mining barges also haven't had much love from CCP. Where's the much needed PVE overhaul? That would benefit about 70% of the game's population immediately.

Yes there's been some minor improvements and quite a lot of dumbing down (exploration anybody) but when I first Joined EVE online nearly 7 years ago, we would have all of the above in a patch. Expansions were something really special. So whether you support WIS or whether you want to see it die in a fire the question you should ask yourself is 'Am I getting good value from CCP' I would say that whatever your preferred gameplay you probably are not.

It's obvious where all of CCP's cash, energy and value is going though and that's on Dust, WOD (a turkey), mobile apps, Valkyrie and other secret stuff we're not allowed to know about as evidenced in the heavily NDA's and deliberately delayed CSM minutes. With Jesus features underdevelopment despite CCP promising not to until the game was fixed we can all take comfort in the fact that everybody has been lied to and none of us are doing well out of the present EVE experience.