EVE General Discussion

I won't disagree with that. It could be an excellent source of revenue for them as well, given how people just tend to throw money at mobile games for whatever reason.

I would love a mobile game of eve, so I can get my fix at lunch at work, on the road, or fighting for pc time with family.

Another way I could see it going is reminiscent of Heroes of Dragon Age.

Turn based team fighting game.
5 ship teams, 4 sub-cap, 1 cap.
Ships would be broken into common, uncommon, rare, legendary style ranking as T1, navy faction, pirate faction, T2, T3.
Ships could be sacrificed to level up the skill of another ship.
Ships would be classified as slow, med, fast based on current ship attributes. Determines order of action.
EWAR, logi, and AOE can all be added as ship abilities
Could give bonus to using all same faction ships.
In-app purchases for more ships and more turns.

i am 6 cards short of the core set..

with that said.. i'd buy and play this, +1

I'm in favor of this idea. EVE card game on mobile.

Would be really nice if it functioned in a local network a bit like firechat.

Well take a moment to think about a couple of things here.

- the model of "one big MMO" on the order of WoW may be to MMO games what AOL was to email in the 1990s. Back then everybody and their mother had an AOL account. That was the mainstream. But now there are other email services out there all vying for the pie, and they are free too. Of course if you get your own web hosting or server you get your own email addresses and as many as you want too. So maybe the advancement of technology will see to it that no game will ever have as many subs as WoW and that what we see in Eve Online is the future: a wide variety of games with lower subs catering to smaller audiences. We need to stop thinking it has to be like WoW to be a success, as that model may no longer exist.

- it used to be that if you had an online presence you logged into some forums or "nets" (I'm thinking of usenet for example) and a centralized "go to space" was where you meant to communicate. For me and other old timers it's still like that. This is why a teenager today might have an endless track of chat rooms, boards, and a wide ranging Wordpress and Disqus presence while their parents who started out on the internet in the 90s is stuck on "Facebook and Twitter". So too then, why not the model of "one place to log into the game" be the case? The overall technology and habits of the new generation has a much wider scope. I'm sure Eve Online with the limited API and "one place to access" looks archaic to them. Since you are talking about "PCU", would it not be wise to consider that? Or should CCP stick to the ways of the late 90s so that Eve Online eventually becomes that "Old Geezer" game? Spreading access to Eve Online over numerous points would be in line with the way younger internet users already use the internet as a whole. Look at CFC for example (not Imperium they say). They have a very large internet presence. no alliance could manage that without a "meta community". There's something to be learned in that.

- Social media is basically the big thing now. Would it not be better for the game if it had social media elements about it that broke away from the game client and these forums (forums that are along the old ways of centralized web forums to boot)? Giving players ways to communicate and interact with each other and their corp through the game outside of the game client and through the other tools that they use, tablets and phones, could keep them involved more often.


These things should be considered lest Eve Online reach the status of that dominoes game we see old men playing on their front porches.

When it first came out, i did not have a lot of money (debt and all that) and the cards were super hard to find, i live din la and like only 2 stores had it, and one was a residential house...

I had to wait till i visited my family in the bay area to pick up a few starters, and the clerk basicly blew dust off the display and sai d'yea we don;t get a lot of people in here for this game'

going digital would have a ton of advantages, ranging from zero need to have inventory, to having a much wider audence that cna easily find it and use it and the fact that it should not take much to keep it uptodate.

Agreed on all points. If the EVE universe is going to survive in today's gaming market then it absolutely needs to extend beyond the inherent boundaries of an MMO. And from a business standpoint, diversity is very rarely a bad thing. I can't think of any company that held any long term success by throwing all of their eggs into one basket.

I know for a fact that DUST has brought people into the EVE universe who were otherwise never interested in EVE Online. I know for a fact that Valkyrie will do the same. Gunjack probably will as well.

The competition for more space games is already heating up. Obviously, none can match the depth, complexity, and longevity of EVE, but there are plenty of people who aren't interested in those as selling points. Gunjack is obviously an attempt to capture a more casual market and bring them into the EVE universe. But not every mobile user will have a GearVR. An EVE CCG app could serve to capture that audience that just wants a bite-sized "jump in/jump out" experience in EVE.

bump this is an awesome idea

Plus one for this idea,

also I'm two cards short of the core set... that are "Perch of Persecution" and "Raven" and 16 for the Exiled set :)