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Am I the only one who sees WiS as a long, destitute list of scrapped assets? We had working interiors, bars and characters, together with the now-insurmountable problem of multiple avatars in one environment, at fanfest years ago. I'm guessing that was scrapped for the shiny new engine. Now it sounds like whatever progress there was towards minigames, establishment and whatever is getting scrapped too while CCP looks for a different way to get gameplay into WiS.

I can see why it might be necessary but please, don't keep scrapping semi-functional WiS stuff just to take it in yet another new direction. Don't throw out establishments, boosters, games and gambling just for being part of the failed plan if possible, I for one think they sound awesome.

N-th. What is my prize?

I still don't get this fascination with making our Spaceships are srs bsns game into The Sims™ with Spaceships, but y'all can have it as long as the locked door to my Captain's Quarters cannot be hacked. The moment I can be ganked in my sleep by somebody I didn't invite in, I'll be cancelling my subscriptions.

Since you are working on this, do you think it would be possible to "re-center" the camera in the character creator as well as when walking around? I am using two screens and my avatar is always split into two halves which makes it somewhat tedious to use. As there is already an option to move the center of your screen somewhere in the configuration dialog, it would be great if that option were also used for avatar-related scenes.

These five questions = probably what this dev blog should've answered.

Are we ever going to get closets to save protraite and clothing choices to quickly change back into later on?

I would like to see avatar customization obtainable through other means than NeX, such as corporate or pirate LP Stores, Epic Arc mission rewards, or special events. I don't care if it still costs some AUR, but the idea is to make getting that uniform or clan tattoo meaningful, rather than just cashing out when you have enough money.

Also, Incarna provides the best option for allowing Eve and Dust 514 players to interact in the same environment beyond simple text and voice chat. If these groups are to be expected to work together there should be some kind of meaningful or social activity where they can meet "face to face". WiS would be the common ground where Capsuleers and Marines are equals.

As far as what kind of avatar customization to introduce in the mean time, obviously stick to the upper body (hats/headwear please?).

We'd really like you to share some of these gameplay ideas with us ASAP. That's the problem most of us have with Incarna, you've been talking about it for years and we still have zero idea what you actually mean for it to do. At this point, those of us who aren't in the CSM or part of CCP find we have to assume that either you have no confidence in your ideas and are unwilling to let us pick at them, or there simply are no ideas at all. Prove us wrong, please. We'd really like that.

I think I speak for many EVE players when I say that graphical fidelity should be way down your list of things to do, make it do something cool and fun and EVE-like first, and then make it passably pretty, and if you have time afterwards, make it really pretty.
The graphics in the new Incarna stuff are amazing, yes, but I'd rather have the graphical quality of the prototype you guys had years ago if it meant that we could actually do something useful with it.

But really, you need to be willing to share and let us shape your ideas sooner rather than later - before anyone at CCP gets set on a plan, before huge volumes of resources get committed, before there is momentum in a direction that your community does not agree with. The community would much rather help try to steer the ship, than just screaming STOP THAT'S AN ICEBERG.

The communication on Incarna gameplay has been quite one-way so far, we have no idea what you guys have planned, and the unknown is discomforting.

FYP


I wonder, wouldn't it be a better choice to license some time-proven engine for WiS enviroment/WoD.

FYF