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forsak3n
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2014-08-13 23:03:09 UTC  |  Edited by: forsak3n
First of all, English isn't my native language so excuse me if i write like a robot :D second...this is my second post on forums since ever.

I consider myself a casual player, on and off in EvE. I had my fun and also some tears hehe. I respect every way of playing this game, does not matter if you are a miner, builder, market speculator, scammer, pvp'er, coward or anything else. This game is an open world and we should thank CCP for it. Their team made a game that is now at least 5 years in front of any MMO-RPG or sci fi space simulator. Anyone who says different, is either a hamster, or does not know much about the cr@p is being sold right now online with a monthly FEE or expansion COSTS. Actually, it stopped being a game and it's more of a economic, military and social simulator bla bla, but that's not the point :))
I like EvE online, because from intellectual point of view, except chess, it's the next best thing for a brain challenge, as a game. Yes is harsh, but so it was from the start for all of us Smile


My future image for EvE, is something like now, same general balance, more realistic from Cosmic point of view ( i mean like...uber realistic like Hubble telescope frames. ) and a sandbox with same or more complexity, and within that complexity, ''grey'' areas that make it harsh and exploitable,just like now. And also, i would like to see EvE Univers, projected in a mystical form . I mean...to introduce in game the fact we really don't know much about all Cosmos, and there could be like extremely complicated phenomenons or things we can see, but can't really understand what they are. ( like Neutron stars or invisible matter or Universe vibration ) , i would like to see a more philosophical EvE, even more immersive :)

With or without a great future, EvE Online still remains an unique experience, summed up with all the rest of real life experiences and sensations. Thank you CCP bosses or dictators Lol (that includes devs and mods also)

new aura voice is crap

Ayumi Aki
Chi Omega Sorority
#2 - 2014-08-17 08:59:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Ayumi Aki
I think one thing that would make it way more immersive is the ability to land on certain planets. Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous both plan to do this, and it would go a long way toward making the universe feel like someplace you're actually living in. And I would love to see Caille. :)

Edit: Also, the ability to walk around more as your avatar and interact with the world.
Tavin Aikisen
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#3 - 2014-08-17 23:53:15 UTC
Ayumi Aki wrote:
I think one thing that would make it way more immersive is the ability to land on certain planets. Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous both plan to do this, and it would go a long way toward making the universe feel like someplace you're actually living in. And I would love to see Caille. :)

Edit: Also, the ability to walk around more as your avatar and interact with the world.


Both planetary flight and stations are gameplay features that CCP demonstrated with prototypes YEARS AGO. It's a shame they could have easily achieved both first...

But stuff went "walking" a long time ago. :/

"Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home."

-Cold Wind

Ayumi Aki
Chi Omega Sorority
#4 - 2014-08-18 08:36:45 UTC
Tavin Aikisen wrote:


Both planetary flight and stations are gameplay features that CCP demonstrated with prototypes YEARS AGO. It's a shame they could have easily achieved both first...

But stuff went "walking" a long time ago. :/


Yeah, I was wondering...why is everyone so upset about the avatar system, other than the fact that you can only do basic things with it? It's what got me hooked into EVE...the idea that I was a person - it gave me something human to relate to in the game. And people seem really upset about it. o.o;

Well I truly hope planetary landings - and stations - are something they're still considering. So few sci-fi games give you that kind of immersion (yet)...
Rezan Tepet
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-08-18 16:42:49 UTC
Ayumi Aki wrote:
...why is everyone so upset about the avatar system, other than the fact that you can only do basic things with it? It's what got me hooked into EVE...the idea that I was a person - it gave me something human to relate to in the game. And people seem really upset about it. o.o;


Can't speak for everyone, but I think the avatar thing divides people largely into two camps, both of whom are unhappy with it for two different reasons.

In the first camp, you'll have the people who want more avatar integration: Walk-In Stations with casinos and social areas and the like (but screw you all, I'm not getting out of my pod in Jita no matter what you put there or how little clothing it's wearing). So, they see the Captain's Quarters as a thing begun but only demonstrative of the potential of such a system, and because it's been so long without any further development, that camp is upset. They want EVE to be so much more than pew pew, Netflix (aka "mining") and security missions, and the untapped potential they see is a fountain of frustration for them.

The other camp is the more "conservative" (for lack of a better term) MMO crowd that constantly cries for more multiplayer "balance," as though the game would ever come to a satisfactory level if the devs just keep tweaking little gameplay elements here so long as they affect the parts of the game that draw them: the PvP aspect, generally speaking. Time spent on avatars is, in their eyes, spending money on developing resources for people who want to play with avatars the way children play with dolls: it's all dress-up and stiff movements, exchanging pixels for plastic with nary any other difference. Therefore, they argue, all money, time and resources must go to the bottom-line interfacing, and everything else is a waste.

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Ayumi Aki
Chi Omega Sorority
#6 - 2014-08-19 11:04:30 UTC
Wow. Very well put, Rezan. That makes a lot of sense, actually.

I guess I'd be in the first camp, then. I want to feel like I'm a part of this world, and I personally only feel like I can do that if I can interact with it as a human. But I guess I never minded dolls, either. Blink