EVE General Discussion

Vets with monocle in both eyes shooting unicorns from compact launchers in a pink T3 Raven.

Imagine ability to RP in WiS, like have your corpmates in same room sitting on couch lol :D

in 10 years people will still be saying Star Citizen will surely kill Eve when it finally comes out.

In ten years? Most of high-sec converted to low-sec systems (or some sort of hybrid "medium-sec") with the remaining actual high-sec being newbie systems (required, really) as the lore seems to be moving in the direction of the empires becoming more and more irrelevant in capsuleer affairs; maybe faction warfare could be more about moving the safety index of the empire in this scenario, giving everyone a vested interest in fighting. Scattered new regions of sov null as jumpgates are built, more wormhole systems with different things to do (than we do now), more stuff for the single-account player to do while reinforcing group mechanics for greater profit for individuals in those groups, Valkyrie looks cool...

E: Who am I kidding, all that stuff could probably show up in the next 3~4 years... Ten years, I have no idea but I hope to still be playing then...

- bounty hunting has become a real profession
- nomadic tribes can effectively roam the full reaches of new Eden with transportable industry tools, like t2 orca morphing into POSes and T2 rorqual able to transform as a temporary station.
- outpost are destructible, and many player controlled alliances have crumbled and been reborn under new leaderships
- the legends of the veterans have taken a strong hold in New Eden's lore, and the goon empire or the N3 coalition are in the game's lore, like the guristas or the sanshas... May be they have built their own ships models too, with the might of their resources.

not even sure it will survive (%active_account%) to the 2 next year

The eyes are bigger than the stomach. Five years ago the wishlist was entirely different.
In five years such will also be the case. None of the wishes have come true.
In ten years, such will be the case.

I see the original devs with IV Jaeger waving canes from wheelchairs cursing through dentures about this "new breed" totally losing the thread of what "EVE is supposed to BE!" I see a boatload of today's enthusiasts unable to recall their ID/PSWD for when CCP throws it's Senior Citizens Comeback Gala. I see...

Where do I see Eve in ten years from now, boy that's a tough but good question. It is however hard to say where this community will be in that time frame I'm sure, and yet I feel like it might have a chance to get to that point in time. But it all depends on what happens in the present, the today, the lessons learned from past triumphs and failures.

These things and more, will chart the course over the time unknown to be. We don't know if Eveonline or CCP will even be here, we have no crystal ball to forsee the future, we only have what is ours today and maybe tomorrow. But we can imagine with a open mind what may lay ahead for the future that we dream about.

What ever has already been revealed by the developers and others has already been revealed to a point, but in my own way I'm holding my baited breath, standing in the shadows to watch and wait and see what comes forth.

Everyone will wear huge shoulder pads. In and out of game.

I have some crazy ideas about things that I think would fit into the game, but they only go out so far. Judging by the pace of things right now, 10 years is wayyy past anything I could dream up. There may be things that cause me to shrink and expand between now and then, and I am hopeful and anxious.

EVE has done a lot in my personal life to fill in the gaps, and scale to absorb all of my time if I choose. I don't really think of it in terms of where EVE will be in 10 years. When I look that far in the future for EVE I'm just glad it will be there through my thirties.

It almost sounds pathetic and if it is, I don't care. It could be worse. The thing that kept me company through my twenties was alcohol and self-loathing.

I'm starting on a completely new path of art, 3D modelling and animation, so it looks like EVE will be even more dear to me than a pastime, which it has been. lol. More like a case study in gaming, and the best game for it, I think.

In practical terms, the craziest, furthest thing I could wish for in EVE is dismounted exploration. Where you dock with an abandoned structure and rummage through it FPS style.

I'm sure EVE will be several things in ten years. VR. On consoles. Integrated with console spinoffs. On mobile. By virtue of pure computing power and a straight install onto a mobile device, it has to be, and then be streamlined. Surface Pros are already running EVE. Anyway.

I didn't catch EVE from the beginning. It blows my mind to think about where I was in 2003 and "what if" I had the right friends who got me into it. I was immersed in the military and lost in young adulthood (21, stationed in Vegas of all places), so there's no chance. I don't dwell on it. From what I hear and see of EVE back then, I don't regret it either (thanks for keeping it running though).

But. I do feel like I've picked the right game.

There are other things I'd like but I won't say them. It would only make it harder on CCP, even if just one person reads this post.