EVE General Discussion

You make a good point. I was just sorta thinking of a bigger CQ as a tiny stepping stone to actual content though. Like, "while part of the team is finishing up gambling (or whatever the content may be), we'll roll out this small slice for a month or two and make sure it runs smooth and works on as many systems as possible etc etc. After we can guarantee it won't blow up your computer after that 1-2 month testing period, then we'll roll out the actual content the rest of the team has been working on." Sorta like how Star Citizen or some of the games on Steam early access operate.

i guess my problem is, just based on what we have now, I don't exactly trust them to jump straight to actual content without some public testing of smaller steps along the way. If they could do it and make it good, then I'm all for it though.

Now there's an idea. Just call up a field, enter the name of a Twitch channel, and have that appear in your CQ.

I mean sure, it'd be easier just to log out and watch the stream in your web browser of choice, but it'd be a fun little feature.

Playing EVE online and using the CQ screen to watch somebody ELSE play EVE online? Entertainingly pointless, if nothing else.

You see? Corp run establishments are a perfect example of what we need.

Jita casinos. HELL IT EVEN FITS WITH THE LORE! Just so long as it isn't actually in Jita local as we don't need more in Jita local. Maybe caldari casino?

It keeps things like a local in station area from being stupidly over crowded and provides a viable mechanic to prevent this.

It took almost 6 months for CCP to add +3 CQs after initial Minmatar room was introduced. Biggers CQs will require restoration of "Team Avatar" and maybe a year of work. Just to create bigger jail cells. When CCP will be able to add anything actually interesting there will be 2 more competing space sandbox games available - with avatars and procedural planets (i.e. endless exploration). Not to mention there is already spaceship game available with decent avatar gameplay.

The first step they would need to take is building a plan to add something meaningful to EVE. They should have a design doc detailing exactly what WiS would provide as a gameplay experience. This means not designing alternate means of what is already available in game such as providing a spatial neocom. CCP needs to create gameplay (hopefully nowhere in the vicinity of an actual station). The last prototyped modules they were working on before the team was axed is the correct direction to move. Expanding exploration and adding combat to avatar based gameplay is exactly the right direction. Docking into a derelict space station to explore is what WiS needed to head towards.

Start with a blueprint and build up from that. Get some models built in Unity and go from there. It's unfortunate Team Avatar started going down the right road way too late.

CQ is a logical evolution after avatar-based gameplay actually has a place in the game. Building nothing first costs a ton of development time while not really providing any content.

I am sitting in station just wondering. What should I do right now.

I feel like I could enjoy gambling another player for some isk, instead of tossing it into a lotto machine on a random website. You could tell me to go play some Iphone app if I wanted to gamble. But that wouldn't have to do with eve so I wouldn't be interested.

another simple step would be allowing us to go down the steps in the CQ to the pod gantry. It all looks complete down there so I don't see why we can't go down there. The avatar seems to have no problem with steps in the CQ so it cant be an animation problem.

So making a comic WITH PEOPLEEEEEEEE in it doing things with their legs .and arms

So hypocrit from ccp... where is the it's spaceship game .... etc etc how should have been a comic with only Ships in it :)

DUST team has nowhere the dev/art team size as EVE. They use the same quarters as EVE because then they don't have to develop their own.

Nah. It's ok discussing this stuff. It's fun.