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I figure if they can be putting out outfits and such with just about every release then they should be able to expand the CQ or WIS in general at least a little bit.

I would love to see POS be able to be used like the war barge in DUST 514. Kind of just a social meeting place for anyone hanging at that POS. Especially true for people living in WH space. Even more if you could see outside the windows at what was happening in space.

Though I have a feeling the DUST/Legion teams will be doing most of the WIS work, but for right now it's being used for DUST. It's only a matter of time before those assets get shared in my opinion.

So you're both saying that other games have caught up to Eve, in that they've said they're going to do something?

No offence, but there has been a huge number of suggestions for gameplay within stations and derelicts. Including combat.

I'd like them to be poseable so you can make th into hat/coat racks, coffee tables, et cetera

They actually threw a fit over micro transactions for fear of EVE becoming pay to win. Do your research.

There is something I've never quite understood about that. CCP promised a lot of cool features with walking in stations. They showed teasers of some different rooms and areas that looked really great, then they didn't deliver. People got upset because they didn't deliver. CCP then decided that meant that we didn't want WiS. Wtf? How? Why? Someone sucked on the bong one too many times? No. (Well, maybe, tbh.)

It was probably because a vocal minority played both sides, but I still don't see how CCP could screw up so badly. Players rioted over the New Eden Store and the failure of CCP to deliver on WiS. How can that possibly be interpreted as the players not wanting CCP to deliver at all?

Four, actually:

3) Their development model was unbelievably wasteful. Among other things, they had the art department do a full, final mockup of CQ for each design iteration. I'd bet that the artists still have nightmares about that.

4) They completely forgot that they were designing a game. No, seriously: I think it's been pulled down, but there was a promotional video from CCP talking about their investment in virtual high fashion, with CARBON technology being used in displays in real-world designer stores and so on. Nothing to do with EVE, or for that matter, WoD. When I say that our characters walk like runway models, I mean it: the animations are motion-captured runway models, intended to show off virtual fashion. And while there's nothing intrinsically wrong with a broad range of options to make your character a distinct individual, ideally the focus would still be on making them distinct individual characters within the game, in ways that match the lore of the world.

The hilarious thing is that the monocle succeeded as designed. They've sold decently well, and they're used to convey conspicuous consumption, exactly as they were meant to. You don't have to pay real-world money, of course, but that still gets across that you're (space-)rich enough to blow a tremendous amount of ISK on a cosmetic item.

So basically, CCP flubbed the execution badly, except for the monocle (ha!). If they go back to the original 2007-ish vision for ambulation, and if they apply the rapid-development tools they now have and use them within their new development practices, I believe they can do a much better job of it, and without neglecting their game or traumatizing their art department this time. Will they? Signs point to 'not any time soon.' For one thing, I think the EVE 2.0 project is a much higher priority, and I have to agree that that makes sense. The more old, creaky code is ripped out of the game, and the more love the underlying engine gets, the easier it will be for CCP to enlarge the game without getting ensnared in awful old legacy code, and the more likely that they'll have the player base behind them when they decide to try it.

The monocles did sell well after 40 hours, when CCP Hilmar's Leaked Email appeared on Evenews24 it said:
source: http://archive.evenews24.com/2011/06/25/ccp-hilmar-global-email-shows-the-reasoning-behind-ccp-zulu-devblog/




However due to the misguided upper echelon ccpgames management directions, a **** storm soon ensued especially when the greed-is-good internal newsletter got on the interwebs to.
source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-23-ccp-greed-is-good


The whole issue with CCPgames at the time was summoned up by the Mittani.
source: http://www.tentonhammer.com/eve/spymaster/63



Folowing that the CSM with the Mittani as it's head was called to Iceland, you have to figure out that the cost involved to get the CSM to handle the debacle of the misguided communication from CCPgames would be greater then the revenue of those monocles.
An accord was reached at CCP/Player Council special summit.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kat_uoAvnk

To get a bigger and perhaps clearer picture of why CCPgames almost went belly up you can listen to DJ Funkybacon (current CSM9 member) rewind on Eve Radio

Source: http://eve-radio.com/media/podcast-download

Sadly The Company was left in a bad shape because upper management wanted to sell a "few" monocles to get better income from seeing us as cash-cows. In the end to survive as a company CCP had to lay of 20% of it's staff.:

source: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/23/eve-evolved-the-human-casualties/5

CCP Hilmar ( Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO) had to issue an apology to it's customers, the supposed cash-cows.



To any forum moderator, this is not a rant it is part of eve online history and why we still have no proper Ambulation (WiS) and have to wait till competitors pressure the Company to invest limited resources into a better iterated of Walking in Stattions again.

I strongly support anything that gives alternative for ship spinning.

If I have understood correctly NEX store was suppose to replace EVE store. This was probably reason why they tried to sell overpriced monocles. No one was thinking that EVE store and NEX store could coexist with each other both bringing in cash to EVE development. Later they closed EVE store and reopened it with old items gone and with few new items.

Sadly too many people blame Incarna, rather than CCPs management.