EVE General Discussion

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Just go search, not even the forum.

Just search google for "eve incarna".

wait, there was a time when the stations could walk ?!?!

WIS wasn't about Spaceships and people were afraid it would lead to some Play To Win with microtransactions. So CCP killed it. Did I mention Walking In Station has nothing to do with Spaceships?

Good idea; poorly implemented.

Concept was basically sold as walking around in a station with outlets, shops, bars, etc - things that might immerse you in the first-person avatar experience of life in space.

What was produced was a single-player experience for one room for one race and an $80 monocle. Other three races' rooms came later but remained a single room.

People raged because not only were resources being directed away from the core game play but the result was just so far away from what was expected by anyone. The $80 vanity item was the cherry.

CCP had bet the farm on the single-room Incarna release being satisfactory and at the same time co-test the engine for the WoD game development. Turns out that it didn't pay off.

Ultimately CCP pretty-much scrapped the whole concept and a few years later WoD took a tumble too.

Since that point CCP have focused almost exclusively on improving the core game-play of EVE. An amazing couple of years, with recent direction towards shorter release cycles has turned EVE into the best it has ever been.

We all lived through it and on to a brighter future I guess. Lessons were learned by all, I'm sure.

Stations' legs had to be amputated. Just check yourself - how many stations have legs now?

walking in station, ships in stations, walking in ships with stations, stations and ships, stations and walking, nah theyre related, doubt its like sibling related, prolly only ginger cousins of eachother, which according to science is A-OK for operation Gettin' Lucky*

a thought occurs, this would likely at some point involve the same bug Star Trek Online had where when you docked it didnt switch to your character model and instead swapped to a miniature version of your spaceship moving around the spacedock

*[Disclaimer: Operation Gettin' Lucky is frowned upon in regions north of Mason-Dixon, or outside of Denmark/England/Italy/China]

I checked poasting history. No sign of obvious troll. I think this one checks out....

Two other events happened right after the Incarna release that really pushed it over. Without those two, CCP may have finished the concept.
One was the leak of an article written for a CCP inside-only newsletter, titled "Greed is good". It explained how micro-transactions could be used to increase revenue, and why it was the way to go. (Turns out the article was written on the request of "Make micro-transactions look as good as possible", not because CCP was dead set on going that way.)

The other was the leak of an e-mail where it was stated that the Incarna release was smooth and wonderful, with only the expected amount of player complaints.

After that leak, everything hit the fan, and there were mass un-subs. You know how when CCP changes something and players say "I'll quit!" Well, that time they actually were doing it.

Soundwave flushed the key to the door down the toilet before he ****** off to Riot.

Any time you see people posting that CCP in any way caved to what the players told them to do, it's a big steaming pile of number two. The sheer entitled arrogance of these people is what keeps me reading this comedy show we call General Discussion. To think that a game company would ever...EVER...listen to the vocal minority is complete folly.

One reason and one reason only it stopped with the CQ. CCP boldly tried to use a new tech and failed. It simply wasn't capable of doing what it was supposed to. Hell, it was frying video cards with one character on screen. There was no way it would have been capable of handling a hundred.

So CCP dumped it and went back to doing what they knew how to do.

Spaceships.

Mr Epeen