EVE General Discussion

WiS is dead.
Incarna was a unmitigated disaster.
WoD has been the worst development disaster in CCP's history.
EVE is about spaceships only and will always be.
WiS apologists are mostly exctinct.
All WiS threadnaughts are gone and closed.

But nonetheless, I digged the Guardian article's links, and found an interesting article on what Ambulation was supposed to be, back in 2007, and looking forward to its release in 2008.

So I will link that article here, as a tale from a past future that was lost somewhere in corporate change of mind.

This was the game we could have been playing for the last 6 years:

http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/previews/2611-EVE-Online-War-on-the-Impossible-Part-3-Ambulation

Maybe they were biting more than they could chew, but that article shows how neither CCP nor those who took their word years ago were racing into a void. There was content for Ambulation, that was refitted for Incarna (like the original CQ) or dismissed (like the concept of station side professions). Most of the current clothing still is from Ambulation, with free plain looking stuff, and more expensive and exclusive clothing options for sale. Et cetera.

Ambulation/WiS/Incarna was not a leap into a void. (If) It could had been implemented in its 2008 version, it would had stood a chance to succeed and expand EVE into a larger niche, maybe one with more female players, and certainly one with more mainstream players, all of them segregated from the spaceships game. Two worlds living together and never interacting for their own good.

In my own biased opinion, EVE would be a much healthier game if it had Ambulation 2008, merely by having a larger niche. And provided that most of the Incarna stuff was actually developed by WoD teams since Reykjavik's art team couldn't be arsed to do avatar content, it turns that CCP managed to screw two games with one terribly misdeveloped concept that changed horses mid race.

It's a shame, frankly.

Instead we have a counter for spinning ships.

I support WiS

I'm all for female players, as long as they play for the right reasons. WiS would not have attracted those types of players.

Shame they never finished it, it could have been really good. Though what I was really rooting for was shooting in stations.

I have tried to work out how a female player could play Eve for the 'wrong' reasons any more than a male player can...

Below is a comprehensive list of ways in which female players could do so:

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What gets me is how WiS is supposedly dead but vanity items for your toon continues on in the Eve store.

I'm gutted, always wanted to transition my skill set from 160m SP pvp combat pilot to Neophyte Cobbler.

I'd have been the Jimmy Choo of Eve... Such a tragedy..

Case in point above, those threads are troll food and accomplish nothing.

Just like WiS itself.

If WiS is truly dead than CCP should remove the captain's quarters from the game, as they are now they only serve as a monolithic sized reminder of how CCP seems inclined to introduce epic new features that could have revolutionized EVE, only to let them sit incomplete and unrealized in a "proof of concept" state.

Imagine if other big name MMO makers like Blizzard and Trion did that with their games, people wouldn't tolerate it from them and yet somehow this sort of practice is acceptable from CCP.