EVE General Discussion

carebears will go mad!

This seems like somewhat of a reskin to the activity highsec already has. It effectively adds nothing. Though it might actually detract from money making prospects as we won't be intimately familiar with the sites and thus able to optimize every encounter.

Making drifter incursions just feels to me like they took a cool developing story line and said "meh, we're done. Here are some new npc's to shoot at. " it's basicaly saying the story line is essentially dead in the water, all thats left is pew pew the bad guys. Just sansha's in less horny ships. If this is all thats to become of the drifter storyline then I'm very dissapointed. Almost as anti-climatic as sarum's titan visit the other day.

No worries, if walking around becomes a thing I get to watch peoples heads pop. Regardless of my opinion.

Standings & consequences.

If they continue to actually develop the story in a way that influences the game/universe then it's all fine and good. It just feel's like a nail in the coffin. If nothing else effecting the EvE universe happens with the drifters then it will just be a very elaborate way to have introduced Entosis links and a new NPC faction to pew pew....Zzzzzz.

And despite your angst you will pay your sub(s) to a company you seem to have a lot of disdain for again despite the facts that CCP never seems to give you anything you want and paying them assures that they never need to.

Complete sane behavior, don't ever let anyone tell you different, especially me while I'm rolling in the isk from these new incursions....

if thats the case, and it might be if that whole team lest, they are now better documenting the story and have it woven into the tapestry of all releases. which is kinda what the EP i suppose to do, set the passe and the overall goals. In theory, if say the entire team working the story leaves, then new team should have notes and a way to look up what was next. But this is ccp we are talking about, so.. i still hope

My issue is not with "Apochrypha" but with "Again". Even if, or when, the new space with new structures and new gates is implemented succesfully, it still will be a repeat of past glories. The only people who will appreciate it are those who play the game, which is a consequence of implementing customer oriented design... but the collateral damage is that those who don't play the game don't feel interested with the goals designed for those playing the game. Unless you aim for non-customers, customer oriented design shuts the door to new blood.

Nothing currently in the works answers the key question: "Why should you start playing EVE now?"

"Because they're repeating stuff that worked years ago" is not the right answer. Not when the game is old, its population is dwindling and it fails to retain 80% of all new players.

I got my hopes up... the first screen shot seemed to imply that you could chose sides, but the descriptions of the "Amarr" encounters show otherwise. Grrrrrrr.