EVE General Discussion

Oh sure, Freelancer II and Elite IV both scratch their respective itches, but neither of those itches are EVE-like gameplay. All they have in common is a setting and one or two aesthetic elements.

…and by the look of it so far, the few bits they do have in common with EVE are, as you point out, getting completely spoiled by the games' respective cheerleaders.

You should read the paper (because it's actually quite good) — it's not aesthetics in the sense of “looks” but more in the sense of “invoked emotional response”.

Anyway, the point is that SC and E:D compare to EVE in much the same way as StarCraft II or Dead Space or Kerbal Space Program do. I.e. not very much, in spite of the shared space setting.

I am going to give Elite IV a chance because of my attachment to the original franchise but...

I recently tried to play Frontier and First Enc again recently and yes I KNOW its not right to compare a 20 year old game to EvE, but when I compare them to original Elite, Im left feeling that the original was more akin to EvE than the two sequels were, and that has always made me nervous regarding the "Braben Only" version which in David's own words

"Fixes what's wrong with EvE Online"

IMHO you're wrong, I'll be be giving both SC and Elite Dangerous a spin, but not for the same reasons I play Eve, I doubt that I'm alone in that either.

Expansion wise, hopefully there'll be another expansion of an Apocrypha like nature at the end of the 5 year plan. What they're currently doing is laying down the framework to build it on, part of that is fixing everything that is currently broken.

Jesus features can wait, let them fix the core game before they get to break stuff again

When in doubt,


But as there is noting to be doubtful about at the moment, please calmly carry on.

Chribba knows! tomorrow holds the key!

All hail Chribba :)

You can not even play Kilrathi in Star Citizen, so that game is pretty much stillborn.

The Star Citizen fighter demo looked frustrating. The ships seemed to be hard for the devs to control. And they had to go through animations of your pilot walking up the stairs to the cockpit, sitting down, twirling a helmet around, waiting for the bay door to slide open.... every time they respawned and wanted to rejoin the fight. Not to mention the glitches and that most of the demo was eaten up by technical difficulties. Haven't been blown away by SC yet.

I know Eve is dying and CCP is ruining everything so I am making an Eve-like game that runs on DirectX 8, has fulfilling PvE, small gang PvP, walking in stations, super duper balance, rules requiring players to scam, walking in spaceships, one-shard sandbox, walking in space, no goons, battles with up to 380,000 people involved, cutting edge graphics, super awesome AAA-title plot and writing, safe hisec, walking on spaceships, first person spaceships, first person shooter, planetary battlefield 5, subscription paid only using in-game currency, and Draeks.

However because I'm making it alone I need some help, so I'm taking donations. Every million dollars unlocks another one of these features. If we unlock all these features and keep going (I know we will ;D), I will promise to add new ships one by one for every million dollars extra.