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iPhone support "spotty" at best.

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Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
#1 - 2014-07-22 16:20:50 UTC
So I got called up the other night to help with a capital fleet, but I was at work and in the bathroom, so decided to remote control my PC at home for the engagement. This appears to have been a mistake.

I undocked my Archon and waited for the cyno, unfortunately within this time period I was bumped and scrammed by a stabber fleet issue and was sent tens of kilometers off station, this was not ideal, and furthermore I had no way of knowing due to incredible latency, my signal was terrible in the bathroom.

Luckily our home defense fleet was around and ran off all but two of the attackers who fell before homeland defense.

I guess my story is that the iPhone while amazing isn't yet up to par with the outdated keyboard and mouse interface, and it might not be a great idea to PVP with it quite yet.


That being said, when can we expect CCP to fully support iPhone based gameplay?

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Pootis Man
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2014-07-22 16:22:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Pootis Man
Lolno. Are you really that dumb to be playing EVE, especially while piloting an Archon, on your iPhone?
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#3 - 2014-07-22 16:23:14 UTC
TL:DR - Tom Gerard thread, move along people, nothing to see here.





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Handar Turiant
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-07-22 16:26:01 UTC
Obvious troll is obvious.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#5 - 2014-07-22 16:26:16 UTC
I too want a job that is so unimportant that I can sit on the pooper for a fleet battle and not be fired.

Mr Epeen Cool
lisamary
Unholy Knights of Cthulhu
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#6 - 2014-07-22 16:26:27 UTC
You deserved to lose that carrier.
Sentamon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-07-22 16:28:59 UTC
If you load a floppy disk into the iPhone it helps.

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Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
#8 - 2014-07-22 16:30:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Tom Gerard
lisamary wrote:
You deserved to lose that carrier.


Perhaps, but thankfully It docked safely.

Handar Turiant wrote:
Obvious troll is obvious.


No attempts to mislead have been made, I just sharing my experiences with others so they don't "leap" into the wireless revolution without looking as I had done.

Sentamon wrote:
If you load a floppy disk into the iPhone it helps.


I am certain some sort of Dongle exists to facilitate that =)

Mr Epeen wrote:
I too want a job that is so unimportant that I can sit on the pooper for a fleet battle and not be fired.

Mr Epeen Cool


I work at a rehab clinic, these guy come back no matter what we do. Most of these folks are lifers =(

Pootis Man wrote:
Lolno. Are you really that dumb to be playing EVE, especially while piloting an Archon, on your iPhone?


Shooting a Phoenix that has already been tackled solo is hardly a challenge, the technology was unreliable that is all.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#9 - 2014-07-22 16:33:52 UTC
So get a better wifi and VNC client.
stoicfaux
#10 - 2014-07-22 16:52:11 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
TL:DR - Tom Gerard thread, move along people, nothing to see here.






Dammit man! Tom Gerard threads are all about the people watching!

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De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2014-07-22 16:54:54 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
TL:DR - Tom Gerard thread, move along people, nothing to see here.






Dammit man! Tom Gerard threads are all about the people watching!


It's more about confirming the anecdote about the birth rate of suckers, to be honest.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#12 - 2014-07-22 16:55:45 UTC
Tippia wrote:
So get a better wifi and VNC client.

I'll further this and say stop being a dumbass with a) your job and b) your carrier.

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#13 - 2014-07-22 17:02:02 UTC
I'll bite...

Not for a while. Back in 2005 the university of Iceland had some students working on a mobile version of eve that could be used on the blackberry and iphone. No other info besides that was ever released or stated, we only got confirmation fully from the devs at the first eve vegas gathering that was put on by black hole bob. The students, however, graduated and the project was left to collect dust.

in 2012, the Executive Producer of EvE moved over to the CCP mobile dept. Not much was heard as to what projects were gonna come. At fanfest 2013 they said that apps were coming, and we could watch fan fest via an app on out phones... Then in 2013 dust was launched, Valk was made, and by the end of it CCP changes focus again and scrapped the mobile dept. As of right now, AFAIK there are zero plans for an eve mobile client. Though some work is being made on making it accessible via tablets with touch (watch ccp presents keynote from 2014 for more info) so who knows.

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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#14 - 2014-07-22 21:14:21 UTC
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