EVE General Discussion

I agree with something simple, other folks in your CQ for example, or as I suggested a corp meeting room. I worry that waiting to come up with "new compelling game play" = never.

Issler

Well, that could be a first goal. The point is, they don't have that technology yet. As Mashie put it, the CQ currently is a client-side feature and the only functionality it haves is the in-world UI (holograms).

it's kinda puzzling to try to figure what they did expect to do with Incarna, actually, provided it is a single player client side environment and they don't even have the foundations to make it multiplayer.

A long while ago i stated that the Minmatarr CQ looked like a tech demonstrator for WoD. And that's apparently what it was. Something to show to investors so they buy your idea. But now CCP is very likely running on their own resources, has sacrificed a lot of workforce to get through the October 28th loan return ("I fire 120, you give me X months to finish paying you back"), and without investors there is no room left for developing WoD, WiS, nor anything non-essential -aka DUST 514 and keeping subscribed the noisier EVE customers... which certainly are not the ones slowly turning their backs to the same old drill once it becomes the same old drill to them.

Doh, I would pay to know how's the average lifespan of an account...

There is a lot more there on the technology side than is visible in the current Incarna feature set. There's also a lot more work to do though. To ease some of the more worried minds I can say that we have had multiple avatars walking around in the same environment together.

Well if the meat locker for storing corpses isn't at the top of the list I will be greatly dissappointed.

Also good to hear that multi avatar support is in there somewhere, maybe we can get CQ visitors before 2013 after all.

Fixed it for you.

Yeah, props to Team Avatar for that. \o/

I wish them all good luck and much success in the future development of WiS.

the response is "WiS is back to preproduction", not "WiS is dead"

and that's the only response that makes sense:

CCP developed WiS tech because they had to do it for WoD anyways. However, they lacked an achievable vision for what WiS would actually be in terms of gameplay.
Now they have half-finished tech and still no actual gameplay concept; so it's time to go back and catch up on the preproduction phase they missed (or messed up) the first time.

This video talks informatively about the problem:

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/the-pre-production-problem

there is no point to get more people involved until WiS is back to actual production.

edit:
haha, should have read this post before wasting time to write my reply but nice to see my reading of the situation was almost spot on.

If CCP had unlimited resources, then WiS would be the best damned thing ever.

I propose that CCP build a base within the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Then, they threaten the world with eruption of the volcano, by use of a Device(TM).
After a tidy 5 x 10^4500 ISK donation, CCP will buy out the world, and direct all international production towards EVE.

Finally, we will have exotic dancers and a corpse room.

What I really want is a miniprofession to convert corpses to heads in pickle jars. I mean we can already get various NPCs heads in jars, now we just need to have a podpilot option as well.

I think an interesting establishment would be the "Trading Floor".


Market Exchange/Stock Exchange/Fruit Market style establishment where there's a very fluid sense of "trading" rather than just from brokers.


There could be a few ways to visualize this, but basically you would need to develop some pretty interesting trading system - where maybe you have a Broker NPC who basically "flashes" on a LCD screen a product for 10 seconds and everyone on the "floor" can bid on the items. Then the transaction is completed.


Alternately, you can then have ways for people to do an "open trading" mechanism - where let's say there's a "Trading table" where you can lay down "items" (represenations of items) and then people can put down offers by clicking and dragging to what they want to do.


So let's say I put down A raven, a rifter and a dominix navy issue - 2 other people join my table. One puts on the trading table 3 Large Shield Extenders, and a Caldari Navy Invulnerability and the other puts on the table Republic Fleet Gyrostabilizer.

I can "circle" around the objects I want to trade for my objects. So I circle the Caldari navy Invulnerability and 2 of the 3 LSE's and then offer him 1 raven. It'd become a fluid trading axis, where people can layout interesting trades for each other and see who accepts what and where.

Just a couple interesting ideas for different establishments.

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Hey, what did you expect in a dystopia like New Eden?