EVE General Discussion

Hopefully they'll announce something at Fanfest.

They can't deny that there is support for meaningful avatar gameplay, this thread is over a year and a half old. Even Seagull's "vision" doesn't seem to prompt the same amount of discussion.

Seagull's vision is yet to resonate with the majority of the player base as they see player made star gates as expensive and elitist or a path to goon only space.

as such it disenfranchises other players that have no interest in sov or life in null sec as it stands today.

Plus she did such a good job on exploration that lots of players don't trust her to deliver as they think that she wants eve to be on easy mode for noobs.

She means well but I personally don't see how her vision can positively add to the legend that is eve online, but I may be misinformed or lacking understanding on this.

I dunno. I felt sad when I found out things like those space tornadoes no longer exist. I joined after their removal but I still want to see them.

Things like this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgF9BkEFKww And this isn't even space tornadoes.

I would be glad to walk around as a character in a social area. But now I hear they are moving the Nex store outside the game? That's taking it in the opposite direction.

This thread seems to have been here for little over a year in total. Let us know if you plan on anything Walking in station related any time soon..

I'm getting all depressed about WiS while reading this thread and unoptimistic about eve. Blegh I think I just need to go play some eve.

Oh my.
what, why, when?!

now, I want them back too.

One time bump to fix forum.

So if CCP were to do a single iteration on avatars, would would be the minimum first step?

Being able to invite other players to your CQ for example?

Or Oculus’ evolution will fall short, EVE players will once again demand that CCP focus on spaceships and nothing else, and we’ll be back at Square Whatever The One We’re On Right Now Is.

That's a quote from the article.

The people in the comments don't seem to want "Walking in Stations" either, and they seem to know eve so probably are/were players.

Maybe. As a first step, I would personally prefer a much bigger CQ with cleaned-up character animation/interaction with their environment. The bigger CQ would hopefully serve a testbed for creating better optimized environments which I think is a major problem that a lot of people have with the CQ as it is now.

The character animations and all that are probably much more of a personal issue for me. Characters and the way they interact (or rather, the way they don't) with the environment feel kinda janky and lifeless for lack of a better word.

It's hard to go into detail without rambling on, but, if you can, try and get your hands on a game like Remember Me, Lost Pllanet, Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Vindictus, Mass Effect, Enslaved, or any number of other similar games. And then, just walk around inside one of those games. There's a sense of weight and purpose of movement that just doesn't exist in Eve. Granted, there's not much space to run around it, but still. It's worlds apart.

Same thing more or less goes for idle animations, environment interactions, etc etc. So many other games just feel like there's a "life" to your character.

Probably a lot to hope for as a minimum lol, but that's what I would prefer. Tossing more people into the same room would be nice I guess, but I dunno. I feel like that's "too minimum" if that makes any sense lol.

Sorry, but I have to disagree. A large part of people's annoyance with Incarna was that the CQ doesn't do anything. It is visual fluff that adds nothing to the game. If CCP were to spend any obvious significant resources on making a bigger more improved visual fluff that adds nothing to the game, I am pretty sure we would get the same reaction. I for one, would be pissed.

Whatever first iteration comes, it has to add content. I don't think I can stress that enough. Even if that content were something small, there still needs to be something. Getting multiple characters in the same room at the same time also wouldn't be enough if they were just standing around doing nothing. Giving them competitive mini-games like gambling, might tip it over the 'worth-while' boundary. But I think that even then, more would be required.