EVE General Discussion

SC currently has a better track record of being transparent and doing what they claim they will than CCP has over the last decade and a year.

Dose it?

Awesome news. Really really better than I hoped ever to hear about the EVE franchise.

Resubscribing for a month to show my appreciation to the direction CCP is going.

Where can I play this game so I can judge for myself?

Or is the game itself transparent too?

Oh cmon, don't be so pessimistic. Hillmar has also shown us his mad mesmerizing skills by getting a crowd of nerds to shout "destroy" and "CCP" after him. Crowd Control Productions at its best.

Um... welcome to the modern entertainment industry? The ability to make trailers reflects... the ability to make trailers. Nothing more, nothing less. Pretending that the trailer reflects any intention to revive an abandoned and dead line of development (space barbie) is laughable.

Trailers like these aren't normally made in-house, so chances are that CCP didn't "make" it, just scripted what they wanted.

That's just speculation on my part, I have no facts to back it up. But there are companies that specialise in making cg trailers for games, I think Bioware and Blizzard use some for their trailers.

Can we stop polluting this discussion with Star Citizen? I find the apples to oranges comparison a bit childish..

Edit: This is the line in the intro to EVE article that hooked me most on the game:
"In EVE, you don't fly a spaceship, you command it."

Your twitchy spaceship flying game has nothing to do with EVE. Please stop.

I'd just like to have even half of the stuff CCP has advertised over the years. That'd probably be enough to shut me up permanently.

Just an idea for Avatar gameplay (but also to keep this thread kicking) but how about a blackmarket/criminal underworld?

Have Concord crack down on certain goods and dealings in high-sec that can't be openly traded or advertised. Pirate faction ships/modules/ammo, boosters, smartbombs, slaves, etc need to be smuggled to stations (a new use for blockade runners?) and to buy them you need to leave your ship and delve into the seedy underbelly of the station so that transactions remain "off the grid".

Low-level criminal contacts could provide high-sec missions for the infamous factions or factions with bad standing but require face-to-face meets to accept missions. Solid currency could replace Isk. Salvage, Rigs and Sleeper relics could become contraband and bounty hunting offices could be moved to these areas (bonuses to bounties if you deliver the body to the office).

Go for the full Blade Runner/Deus Ex look with grubby bars to met contacts, strip clubs to sell slaves and dancers, rickety stalls that trade in salvage and oddities, Warehouses run by crooked dock workers to create their own black market bazaars and cobbled together drug labs to create and research boosters.

A lot of this stuff could only be found by word of mouth and wouldn't show up on your Neocom. That way you could have law abiding capsuleers trading in Jita that never know of the darker commerce that occurs within the same station.

But like I said, just an idea.