Out of Pod Experience

Well, you can hardly call a game that's in the process of being made a finished product, and given your overall download limit, I think you should hold off downloading it, and might be better off waiting until more bug fixing and overall polish is done.


Seems that the 1.1 update with the retaliator and the new damage modeling and the free flight mode brings the size of the client to over 30 GB, so it's only going to get even bigger and there's still tons of content yet to be released from now to the end of the year, early next.


Might be time to consider that USB key offer, if increasing your download limit isn't an option.

Yup, but that said, it'll be cool to do manual or automatic planetary landings and takeoffs in explorer mode, something that was teased a long time ago in 2004 in eve online with an amarr malediction frigate flying on the surface of a planet, but as usual, nothing came of it.

I didn't like your post just to kiss your butt, but if it's cute I'd consider it.

Last i heard, the limit of the instance still hasn't been defined yet, but given the amount of detail on each ship, it's easy to see it'll take a horse of a system, and a really good internet connection to keep performance in the playable zone (at least 30 Fps minimum, 60 Fps ideally).


All that's been mentioned so far is somewhere between 50 and 100 ships in a given instance, so it'll never have battles at the scale EVE does.


F.Y.I I was impressed with the eve Valkyrie presentation video.....Felt like the fighter bombers really were in the thick of it...:)

... for collecting backer tears.

Lots of EVE fan boys here and they can't see the forest for the trees

I didn't know much about SC or Elite until I checked them out in past few weeks, and I came to the conclusion that I would play a different space simulator game and call it an Eve killer;

if it had the skill/practice based WASD game play, physics, FPS mode, manual dock/warp, oculus support and other features which Eve doesn't have but SC or Elite has;

AND;

if it also had the single persistent universe without much instancing, political depth, strategical depth, community based lore, players' ability to form enormous entities together, 2000vs2000 wars, and this kind of stuff which Eve has.

Now this combination is a wet-dream of any person who likes space sims, and I believe almost every Eve player too. I think this is partially why CCP attempted Dust, with thoughts on implementing a FPS system in Eve itself later on.


But unfortunately SC or Elite or no other similar will not have most of the Eve-like features I mentioned in the second half, for at least 15 more years maybe more, due to most of the features in this second half are technically impossible to implement with a game with physics, much like 12 years ago, when the computing capabilities of today's PC's are taken into account. Surprisingly in 2015, still, you can't simply make a server that can handle 2000 vs. 2000 combat AND have physics. That is perhaps the genius behind Eve's non-physical system and what makes it unique.

Furthermore, even when a company achieves the technical capability to make such a game, it will have to deal with years of expertise CCP has building a game in their own genre. Much like others found it hard to deal with Blizzard's expertise to make a decent MMORPG.

Now I hope this situation will change in the future but it will not be near future.

Meanwhile, given the choice between a physics game or a non-physics Eve, most of us will somehow return to Eve, because the non-physics features are the reason we are here in the first place. However I see it a genuine danger this kind of games will be marginalized over time, due to the fact that, for some 25 years, we tend to dumb-down and casualize everything that belongs to the culture, from films and music to books and games and all. Even WoW is much, much casual and dumbed-down compared to 10 years ago. In such a climate, Eve may find it harder to find new people to play it with every passing year.