EVE General Discussion

Apocrypha - content for everyone
Incursion - content for everyone
Buildable stargates - your alliance must be this big to ride. Only buildable in SOV space, whatever's behind them only accessible by those deemed worthy by SOV Holder. Pocket of space completely safe from any unauthorised entrance, for at least the time it takes to build a stargate there from the other side.

Lol the difference between real deal and pipedream:

Pipedream: slick CGI video with big cinematic effects

Real Deal: High school audio/video club grade video with CCP Guard & co. in costumes, goofy sets, etc

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The "Trailer" looks cool but don't see even a fraction of what it suggests coming to the game. It should be called "Fanfest 2014 Propaganda Reel"

Perhaps we'll get a 5th playable race out the whole ordeal too, So many possibilities! So excited to see where all of this leads to!

I don't see any point in stating the difference between a trailer and in-game audio/video experience. Every person with a basic understanding of technicalities should not expected one to match the other. On the other hand You certainly can't place A/V at "school" level.

As for the stargate building feature, the amount of resources, planning, logistics, time and security required for such a project (if proposed to the players) should and probably will be a multiplication of those utilized with titans hence only a couple of the most powerful alliances/coalitions will be able to deliver. This not only mirrors real life (which we all value so much in reference to other MMOs) but also drives more and more people in to PvP.

But those are just my speculations. We should wait patiently for more official info from CCP before making any more assumptions.

Azathoth, Cthugha, Cthulhu, and its spawn will come through the gate to pose us a reality check; they are those who closed the Eve gate and now that we opened the pandora's box the war is coming.

Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

The problem is with this trailer is the same as every year's trailer. It's pure cinematic awesomeness, yet is so much different than the game. Not counting stargates (which will get added) here are all the things the trailer shows that we don't have yet in the game.

1. Meaningfu uses for Walking in Stations
2. Stations being used for DUST/Valkyrie players as well as EVE Players
3. That kickass effect as ships warp in.
4. Realistic ship damage (shields buffering, parts flying off, structures failing, etc)
5. Crashing ships into each other (probably not a good idea to implement in game, but still awesome)
6. EMP effects (before the gate fired all the ships "turned off")
7. DUST PLAYERS BOARDING SHIPS/STATIONS (probably the most anticipated feature that never came with DUST)
8. Probably more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

You're not thinking like an EVE player.

CCP Cabal: We need a plan in case the Blue Doughnut is completed and stagnates the game.
CCP Illuminati: Break up the alliance under the guise of a sov overhaul?
CCP NoogAtoN: No! All our hard.... errr, I mean, no. we cannot be seen as deus ex machina'ing the sandbox by arbitrarily destroying the hard work of our players.
CCP Tentacled Abomination: Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn! Ia! Ia!
CCP Cabal: ..... what?
CCP Illuminati: I hate that guy, why do we keep him around?
CCP Samuel L Jackson: Engrish mother fornicator, do you speak it!?!
CCP Tentacled Abomination: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
CCP Cabal, CCP Illuminati, CCP Samuel L Jackson: /triple_facepalm
CCP Your Petition Will Be Answered In The Order It Is Received: Brilliant!
CCP Cabal, CCP Illuminati, CCP Samuel L Jackson: Eh?
CCP Your Petition Will Be Answered In The Order It Is Received: Cthulu is the answer.
CCP Cabal: And what, pray tell, is < interrupted >
CCP Tentacled Abomination: Ia! Ia! < interrupted >
CCP Cabal: No! Don't pray. Just tell us what the question is.
CCP Your Petition Will Be Answered In The Order It Is Received: It's simple. We allow the players to construct an EVE style mega wormhole stargate. We dangle the promise of new lands to explore and conquer.
CCP NoogAtoN: Fap, fap, fap.... errr... do go on.
CCP Samuel L Jackson: A super mother fornicating stargate! Which requires a super mother fornicating amount of resources to construct!
CCP Your Petition Will Be Answered In The Order It Is Received: < smiles > Exactly. We create a "space race" that hasn't been seen this side of the US/USSR cold war ...< moment of silence for the departed USSR >...
CCP Illuminati: which only the biggest, most organized alliance can win, i.e. the the alliance most capable of completing the Blue Doughnut.
CCP Tentacled Abomination: Ia! Ia! Ia! < gibberish and/or orgasm >
CCP Your Petition Will Be Answered In The Order It Is Received: And the first to construct the super < CCP SLJ: mother fornicating! > stargate opens a portal that allows Chtulu to come through and destroy that alliance.
CCP WoW: Why we could even rearrange the star map and physics of the EVE cluster. We could call it Cataclysm! Err.. I mean the Upsetting! Errr... we'll pick a name later.
CCP Moa: I will personally design the art for the EVE super < CCP SLJ: mother fornicating! > stargate.

< ALL >: Ia! Ia! Ia!

CCP NoogAtoN: < whispering into his wrist > Let PL win.... No I'm not crazy... Look I'll explain later.
CCP Tentacled Abomination: < sidling up to CCP NoogAtoN > I live, I think, and I read backwards...
CCP NoogAtoN: !elaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadsniD......*gurgle*

Lost it at this part.

What was with the EMP strike at the end?

A side effect of the gate activation sequence.