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Better late and good than early and broken.

Also, I want popey anchor tattoo !

the tl;dr; takeaway for me:

Avatars: We're thinking about it... kind of.

That's fine. Don't know if it needed a blog... but whatevs. Still glad we are focusing on space again.

I don't think anyone is really against avatar gameplay. It's just a question of 'at what expense'. Personally I think what you guys have done is pretty cool.

Also: I support bitchin' anchor tattoos.

Torfi, for real, you're my favorite dev. That Troll Punkturis has nothing on you.

Moving along - I'm definitely excited to see this come through.

I've tossed some ideas around with the community and have a thread that's worked out ideas for game play objectives of the future and have positive support from players so far for the concepts we have fleshed out there :

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=60345

I know it's a lot of text - but maybe you can find some trinkets in there that make sense for you.


To summarize the basic ideas in the post for the purpose of this thread :

- Create a social class of EVE player that doesn't have to fly spaceships as Free 2 Play content (they can cross over to flying spaceships with subs and PLEX fit perfectly). This will allow old EVE players to return "docked" and socialize and get dragged back into space, and allow current players to invite new friends or spouses for social time, and of course tap into the Free 2 Play market that people love to dabble around in. F2P would have no skill training, and other restrictions that make sense.

- Social gameplay can focus on using basic player owned establishments in the environment to generate "influence" to have control over a "district" of a game - the more successful an establishment, the more it generates influence, which can turn the district into a "bonus" for those who operate from that station. You could get cheaper taxes (economic benefits), you could get faster production (industry benefits), you could get "booster trading" (black market benefits). So, an establishment owner actually shapes his environment and station for other players. This of course quickly turns to politics and back-stabbing as people have different interests for different stations. (i.e. Jita would become a political hellhole).

- Finally, the F2Players would flesh out the station environments, promote sales and revenue through being able to access content and fill the spaces. Ways to interact with capsuleers would be important, social professions could emerge less focused on pew pew and more on things like : being a noobie recruiter, being a broker for capsuleers who don't want to get out of their ships, etc.

The thread digs into concepts by a few people, and I have generally gotten positive responses to the whole concept as proof that this is more than just my delusions.

Hope you enjoy.

So that's the fluid we're floating in...

Let me say first of all I am re assured that Torfi is leading this front. I can not think of anyone Id rather leading this group. That is something I did not know. I am concerned that a back to the drawing board approach had to be done though.

planning to roll out corporation owned and run establishments with contraband trading, group boosters and gambling minigames

So has all that been scrapped as far as plans or is it all still in but wanting to make it better? I was looking forward to all of that and more.

I have tried to be on top of any news I can get a hold of for WIS and Dust and I remember one video saying you would find a ship, station, POS W/E in the middle of space, Send in a boarding party to take it only to find some other player took out the ship you left to take the other structure or ship in the first place.

I am really looking forward to hearing more about ideas on the drawing board and hope you keep us, the players in the loop for feedback, not just the CSM.

It was pretty vague but I tried to read between the lines on the drawing board. Are we gonna be able to shoot people in the face? Use martial arts? Espionage? Any thoughts on voice over for mission agents, vendors ECT? I take it WI POS is also being looked at? Are we gonna see station guns we can jump into? I think with the destructible station idea being looked at that this might be attractive too.

BTW, I am on some strong meds so hopefully this is coherent enough and worthy of a reply. Thanks again. I have really been wondering about the future of this aspect of the game.

Id also like to see Alliance and Corp agents added to 0.0 stations. Let the Alliance and or Corp fund the rewards and send their pilots out to accomplish goals. Example, KIll X amount of Reds, Neuts, Structures, Refinforce X station or planetary stuff ect. I could see this in WIS as well.

In my opinion me the problem of creating meaningful and replayable gameplay lies in the spaceship-centric nature of EVE.

Anything related to trade, industry and spaceships can be done more efficiently from our pods, so tell me for what reason we should exit the pod.

The idea of gambling is good but we can already gamble with EOH poker and such.
Anything regarding social interaction can be done through chat and voice.

In my opinion, apart from completely new gameplay options, people could be encouraged to exit the pod if, for example

• Exiting your pod gives a boost to the charisma attribute;
• Talking to an agent in person (face to face) could give you better standings (so that you can use better agents) or gives you a boost in LP pay;
• when contacting the LP store going there by your feet you could receive some discounts
• when talking to a broker face to face you are more likely to get a discount on market taxes

And stuff like this. Of course, when people are not in a pod they need to be fed, and here comes the importance of extablishments, food and drink.

• While you can have some benefits, staying out of the pod for long could reduce the effect of some of your skills.


• You could get less precise planetary scans,
• You might look less smart to agents and brokers and then they will be less interested in talking to you.

To recover from thie status, either you re enter your pod and slowly they will get back to normal (but you'll lose the benefit of being out of the capsule), or consume food and drink and recover instantly.

• If you offer an agent a drink you *could* get a better pay. Or if he/she's a locator agent he will hurry up to give you the results next time. Or maybe he/she *could* tell you where to find an officer spawn in the next 10 minutes. Of course the agent will just accept a drink from a person at a time, so there will be competition over that.

Player interaction can be more difficult to trigger. But I think that with a solid base of things to do, player interaction will happen around these things.

Cool

PS. Waiting for Incarna haters whining... oh wait

The video screen in the captains quarters should be able to help with that. Think of it as a powerpoint projector. :)

Maybe adjusting how eve voice works so that you can automatically talk with whoever is in the same room.

Considering you added the ability to jump between the 4 temporary poses, would this code be reuseable to save the appearance of a character, and later reload it without having to fiddle it together again, like ship fittings? I'd love to experiment with the portrait/outfit from time to time, but not being able to get back to a pose/style I liked puts me of.

And yet the lore about how cloning is done, and character "death", is appaarently progressing with the introduction of DUST.

A pod will no longer be a necessary part of the process. Data retrieval at the point of death can be handled somewhat remotely.