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Yeah I start to like him :)

With kickstarter there are several problems:

- How much attention and money people will pay for a campaign which never will be realized? Without CCPs support there is no WiS in Eve.
- What stands WiS for and what makes it desirable? Here are many good rough ideas but when it comes to the details, they differ a lot. So what exactly will be advertised?
- Even Mittani with his public reach couldn't get much attention for his book despite the aid of others like Scott M.. How will WiS' kickstarter campaign reach its patrons?

Done good, such a campaign can put a lot of pressure on CCP. Done bad it's a nail more in the coffin.

Anyhow, I'm not sure what to think about the The Scope news in the captains quartierts. Ain't that something you can call a WiS feature?

Unless the new FPS turns out to be a league of legends clone.

WiS is dead, as are the reasons that CCP had for pursuing it in the first place.

Have a little respect and allow the corpse to rest in peace.

Honestly as useless as it sounds to most of us veterans, new players love this kind of stuff. I have a lot of friends who really like how EVE looks and works but aren't playing for the sole purpose that they can't leave their ship and interact with other players, face to face, as their character.

Add a lobby in every station for capsuleers, maybe have it restricted in mass populated stations like Jita 4-4 to private quarters with limited capacity.

No one is going to quit EVE if CCP expands on this, the only result is more players.

More players = more targets = more pew

Everyone wins

Do you have any suggestions?

Okay, let me try:
Shareholders like increasing login numbers and f2p shooters. I count the upcoming dailies, Dust514, Project Legion and Project Nova as validation for this point.

The solution is Project WiS. - A f2p shooter within the Eve-client.
- Current Eve-Avatars can be used in Project WiS and vice versa
- SoE Combat Suits can be used in Project WiS
- Combat Suits from Project WiS can be used in Eve
- The Project WiS Lobby is also accessible for Eve avatars
- Interaction between Eve and Project WiS Players in Project WiS or Eve. Competitions between capsuleers and ex dusters for example.
- Since Project WiS is part of Eve, their login numbers add to the Eve numbers
- Undocking and diving in into the world of New Eden is just one mouse click away (getting more people to try Eve)
- With more time you'll find more points, but this should be enough to get the idea behind it

This simply is a variation of earlier suggestions of splitting and thus lower development costs between two games. Something that shareholders also should like.

I for myself don't really like Project WiS, but if a pact with the devil shareholders is needed to get WiS done, then so shall it be.

Seriously.... your proposing a FPS within the eve client... may as well abandon any other feature in EvE for next 3-4 years if you want something like that... cause it will take all the dev time. (stop thinking eve is using the unreal engine/other fps engine... its not)

I want walking in stations as much as you guys do.. but you have to keep it simple and acheivable. Not some grand plan for another game within EvE.

I posted this a few pages back. Fairly basic and compliments the existing game. Would still take investment and resources by CCP but alot less than developing a compelte avatar experience within the game client.


Ideas that could be implemented with a moderate amount of work.

- Add scope videos to captains quarters. (already done. thanks CCP !)

- Use the resources of the eve 007 show and eve trailer production to put together a weekly summery on EvE. Make it voiced and animated by a npc newsreader. Show it on CQ screens. Would help new and old players get interested in parts of the game they have not tried. eg could feature : sov news, low sec piracy stories, how to join a player corp segment, economic news and industry stats, new ship designs, ADs for player corps, news on titan/XL citadel kills, large player battles etc etc.

- Add a room or wall for display of player trophy's / achievements
Could be 1000 pvp kills get you a trophy or completing 1000 level 4 missions etc etc.
Allow miniature corpse heads or destroyed ship models with inscriptions... Your best ever kill or most against all the odds victory.. Allow players to memorialize their player experience.

- Add CQ to citadels.

Don't want to get into a discussion about this cause its a side issue.. but the one key point is that building a fps or full avatar experience into the eve client is a much more difficult and time consuming endeavor than using a existing fps engine and starting a brand new game. Project Nova uses unreal engine, this engine is made for fps and content for fps style games can be created much quicker using its architecture and development kit. You cant hope to create a project nova style game in the eve client with eves engine in a similar time frame.