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Can we have more minmatar clothing for the NeX store PURRLEASE

I think I fell into the group that liked the idea of total sci-fi, the idea of what incarna could be, but was dissapointed with both the end result, the direction it was taking, and the resources that were pulled away from space to do it. That doesn't mean I'm against the idea though.

Personally I would like to see combat in stations. I believe that's what drives the game. This doesn't mean ignore other things (spies, booster tradeing, storefronts, etc). But the thing that will draw me into it, and I believe a great deal of combat pilots, and give it that replay-ability you're looking for, is combat.

Imagine if you will DUST in a more civil setting. You have some "combat" types wondering around in full body armor, a great deal of industrialists dressed in the business suit look, their personal shields disguised into built in devices and the suits made of lightweight kevlar. Sidearms and bodyguards are plentiful in high and lowsec. Stations are ruled the same way space is. Highsec stations are protected by CONCORD security and station turrets, acts of aggression will assure a quick end. Security takes slightly longer to arrive in lowsec stations. The nullsec environment is run by the alliance that controls that area (NPC or player) and much like space, there's no response but their own. Hey! we could even have ratting (damn womprats chewing on the cables again...).

Looking forward to the round tables. See you there.

This would break the game, because without your capsule, a capsuleer's death would be permanent.

Im quite sure the cloning process isnt in need of your pod because its all destroyed when someone pods you.

The lore sits, that at the moment of imminent destruction, your pod downloads your consciousness and transmits it to the medical facility where your new clone is. Without your pod having access to your grey matter, this would be difficult.

Thanks for you feedback.

1. Five people won't finish avatar gameplay in EVE. However, we have a good focus and team structure to be able to define what it should be, once we have made a solid business case for gameplay that provides solid value, we resource the project appropriately.

2. Can't give you an answer on this, since we're reevaluating the plan, establishments may not be the top priority. The game play planned there was highly social and was more as a force multiplier or extension of in space gameplay rather than a proper ecosystem of gameplay itself. We're evaluating several options. If you feel strongly that EVE should have establishments, tell us!

3. We'll be investigating this soon, we might even run some tests on Singularity in some months time, but having people meet in captain's quarters is the same engineering effort as having them meet in establishments or a darkened alley. There are scalability and animation issues that need to be resolved, and we're reluctant to throw all our energy into solving that problem until we've converged on what the ultimate gameplay should be. That's because we may discover requirements or constraints in the final design that would require us to re-write or change the implementation we'd do allowing you to visit captain's quarters, thus waste valuable time building something that eventually gets thrown away for a better thing.

4. There's a number of things that have slowed us down in the past. For the first years, we had very few people working on it, then once we ramped up, we had requirements that it had to support two different games, and as such, we developed technology which we wouldn't have if it had been just for EVE all along. We were also working in two offices, which slows down communication. Lastly, we were introducing a whole new technology inside a legacy system, which takes more time than making everything new, especially when the legacy system is about things in space and your new tech is about people inside rooms. There were also changing requirements during the production phase, which resulted in thrashing. We'll probably write some very depressing Gamasutra post-mortem article about it at some point, as a warning for future generations.

About Time...

I want WIS!
I want new outfits and styles. I want the ability to send vanity pics and poses of myself to other players so I can brag about how swag I am.

Jove don't need the pods - as shown in this short story - but, based on the stuff in Templar One, pod pilots have to be in their pod.

An alternative is before getting out of the pod a slower, non-destructive scan is made and would be used if you died while out of pod. Result: if you die out of pod you only lose those skill points you trained up since your last scan.


But there are many many other issues with in-station combat. One is the speed of light. That is the time it takes to get a signal to the server farm in London and back to your computer. This has so far limited Eve to running on one second time ticks, far to slow for gunfights.

Games like Dust use multiple servers scattered over the planet, and you can only use the ones close to you. Such sharding of the spaceship part of eve, even when we are out of the ships, is not desirable.