EVE General Discussion

I would love to be able to walk around in my ship! Some of them are ridiculously huge. I'd also love if we could get corp-mates to man different stations on the bigger ships. WiS would also be cool. Let us set up shops or warehouses to display things we are selling that could fit inside.

Every time there is a WiS thread there are players who want to, in a sandbox game, tell everyone that they and no one wants WiS. Its all grrrr Spaceships. I like to take a moment, about once a week when these threads come up, and look at the carefully crafted avatar pictures. Lots and lots of pictures with different clothes, glasses, monocles, even lore breaking ridiculous robot arms (like mine!). Then I laugh a little to myself about how no one wants space barbies.

Except Rise is not an original developer and obviously knows less about EvE than I do. See when I joined EVE it was not just about spaceships, it was about lots more. If CCP Rise like's I can arrange to send him a copy of the back cover of the original EVE box... but i"m sure they have one at CCP...


I suggest he read the back cover.

EVE is a game about spaceships and there's an enormous amount of work to do on the in-space gameplay before players (or developers) are ready to sacrifice it for a totally new type of gameplay - CCP Rise

10 years wasn't long enough to get it right?


oh here's the back of the box

http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/5/7/1/430571_52711_back.jpg

Honestly eve was always a game about pvp and simulation it was never going to be tied to just spaceships... I remember back in what 2004 when they released wis concepts and video that was running off Unreal Engine. Hope they do something because i have a funny feeling that when star citizen comes out theres going to be alot of people leaving.

Yeah, walking around a ficticious space station....not unlike a gas station or bus station, is my idea of fun. Lord knows how boring hair-raising interspaceship combat can become. Meandering up a hallway with graphic representations of billboards and fake candy counters is just my cup of tea....aha! Tea houses....no wait....that'd be a separate structure...

You can put your soapbox away now because no-one said you would have to partake. Does everyone enter CQ when they dock? No, because there is an option not to do so if you have no interest in it. WiS was to have that option also.


Mind you, it would be a helluva a lot less boring than spinning a ship for the bazillionth time waiting for a form-up

Thanks for all the comments

Having not played for 4 years I was honestly looking forward to be able to do exploration on foot because to me it felt natural. I thought you would be able to at least walk in your ship.

I thought about it all night and I realized that it creates problems when you need to dock somewhere in dangerous space and have your ship destroyed while you are exploring. Maybe that could be an acceptable risk or there could be a mechanic to phase your ship off so that it is not attackable for a little while and only while doing exploration. I guess it would change also how you could do some hacking.

But its true that it might change the game too much but I think it would bring more players from the regular mmo crowd. I myself came from wow and gw2 recently. I enjoy eve for its complexity but I also long to be able to visit those giant stations as it does not make much sense to me to dock and be stuck in a small room on a station with millions of people all stuck in their room (RP wise).

As for the term WIS...does it mean walk in stations? Sorry I idn t know it was a bad subject, as I mentioned I am new to eve again and did not spend time reading forums before asking

whats a swotrer? and yeah its about spaceships maybe but when i dock i have wis on(cc) , it looks nice , esp the nice asses of my girl alts

We've been here before. The pro-crowd are calling for "EVE On Foot" - all the backstabbery, sandboxy, buildy, complex, PVP glory of the spaceships game, but with more boots and trousers, with rewards and loot that fold back into and enrich the spaceship game and basically contribute to the magnificence of this crazy giant game we all play.

The anti-crowd have constructed a strawman where they think the pro-crowd are asking for Pretty Space Princess Barbie Ponies: Friendship is Stellar, and are throwing a temper tantrum and lying to us by claiming that out-of-context opinions expressed by single devs are the "official CCP stance".

thanks for adding a voice to the "I'd like to see this" column, by the way, but it really is not worth arguing with the anti-crowd. Their opinions are not shrouded or hindered by such trivial inconveniences as "facts" or "reality".

I'm sure he'd appreciate seeing the original Eve box but it's not going to magically trick him into trying to destroy Eve again.