Out of Pod Experience

Sure, totally agree.

Well mostly, I think. I think the idea of it kinda brings even non-RPers into deeper, more enjoyable immersion too.

I think of it this way; In the space side of the game everyone here wishes it to be as real an experience as possible. The game never stops evolving, we want better graphics, better sound, more realistic effects here or there, all this talk of VR etc etc. We get immersed deeper because of all these things. We don't need them though, in fact some of these things are inconvenient and intensive in a technical sense. We could just be dots running around a map, but we want it to look and feel like the real deal.

You don't have to be an RPer to find extra immersion having to, say, hack a relic site by entering some ruin with your avatar. To get together for fun times with your corpies, taking your drunken group avatar screenshots. You might even be encouraged to do it, with things you can only buy/do/complete by getting out of your ship and walking to some vendor or agent in station.

I think if something like WiS was just dumped on us people would ultimately lap it up in so many ways. I don't think the resistance we read on the forum accurately represents the people who'd turn their back utterly on all these features experiences ingame if they existed. *shrugs* I dunno.

But ultimately you're right. I don't think avatar stuff will eventuate to satiate a niche crowd, it'll creep in naturally over time like natural evolution. As we see more items released, more items again, better computers, better ingame technology, better software, other games all doing their avatar thing. People will have all these lovely avs, tons of items, and nothing to do with them directly. Meanwhile the tech make it happen gets better, cheaper, and we all get better computers too, people end up asking why we can't do simple stuff with these avatars. Even today I think the attitude towards avatar stuff has changed drastically in the eve community since 4 years ago.

4 more years it'll shifted even further.

Who is this stranger grinning from ear to ear ?



Hello mr ed thehouseofed, glad to see you're back again.



DMC

Hey, remember that times when your newly created character actually started in the CQ?

gday DMC hows life treating you

soz to here that , glad its going along fine

been pretty good myself, moved house got a cheaper rental really nice place.
add i have a addition to the house of ed

:)

Not a day has passed, and you're already backing down on your bet?

Got honeycomb shades installed on all of my windows at the new house yesterday, and they look glorious.

Also, I don't feel like I'm living in a fishbowl where anyone walking by can just look inside. So that's good.

Absolutely not. I will give Shelby 3 billion ISK if the CQ still is present the day EVE shuts down, thus she will vanish into nothingness with 3 billion ISK more. Conversely, if that day there's no CQ, she'll owe me 1 billion ISK. A bet is a bet, all the rest is vanity.

Obviously I should ask for fashion advice from the cluster renowned LAGL crew!

Also, on the dev issue, I find it humorous that I see the same people clamouring for new PvE, new CQ content and little things fixes. CCP has a relatively limited dev team, I can't help but think that you feel CCP are simply sitting on their hands and not doing anything, despite the reveal of new PvE at Fanfest, and a refocus on the Empires for content after that. Prioritising your demands and sticking with them is fairly important when working with CCP, as one might be able to see from the CSM agreeing collectively last year on wanting more social PvE experiences. Of all the things you've discussed regarding the game DMC for example, if you had to pick one what would it be?

But yes, I've tried to make myself available even on the EvE-O forums - though I tend to stick to the CSM section.