Jita Park Speakers Corner

CSM 7 candidates. Ambulation has been a controversial topic. In fact the reduction in focus on ambulation resulted in the largest thread in the new forums (it is referenced in the recent Dev Blog on the topic).

I believe ambulation is key to the future of Eve. That adding compelling ambulation will dramatically increase the subscription base of Eve and is integral to the promise that CCP has repeatedly made that Eve is a massive SciFi simulator.

I support CCP continuing to work on ambulation content while keep the majority of the focus on the current Eve experiences. I currently believe that CCP should add a few more resources to Team Avatar to help develop the concepts including prototyping to make sure the next attempt at ambulation is more compelling than what was first delivered. Then once the concepts are solid we get enough development resources to see real ambulation by the summer of 2013.

So, other CSM 7 candidates, where do you stand on ambulation/

Issler Dainze
The Miner's Friend
CSM 7 Candidate

Sorry Issler,

Didn't mean to derail the thread, it is a valid question. I just couldn't resist.

To make up for it, I'll answer seriously to reset the tone (even though I've shut down my own campaign for CSM).

Personally, I think CCP has struck a pretty good balance for the near future with Crucible and Team Avatar.

IMHO: The community won't stand for too many resources into ambulation while other things remain unattended to, but CCP has left the door open for future work and keeping it alive with short term improvements. It would be a pity to see this aspect of the game be abandoned entirely, but there is a lot of healing to do. Aurum and the NeX have to either be reconciled with sane goals or scrapped entirely. To preserve EVE, never again can all resources be put into a tangential feature development ("Jesus-feature"), to the detriment of all else. Releases must be more balanced and show all around incremental improvements (optionally with bigger pushes in "theme" areas such as the upcoming Inferno). This should include CQ and perhaps ambulation where possible, but broken systems like bounty hunting, wardecs, etc, would seem a higher priority.

Hopefully ambulation issues (such performance with more than one character on screen at a time, animations, improved control scheme) will be worked out by the WoD team which allegedly has sixty people on it. Art assets could potentially be imported from there as well. (Most of the Incarna assets look modern day anyway rather than futuristic which is sad.) Not that I would be grief-stricken if WoD was canceled.

Past Inferno, if CCP keeps up the path started by Crucible, Dust is a success and CCP keeps bringing in the revenue, then yeah I might support ambulation getting some more resources. But currently CCP is pulling out of a nose dive and recovering nicely, although far from leveling off into a nice cruising altitude. I think its too soon to be pushing for this.

Something to remember though, doing "ambulation" properly is potentially a bigger game in both effort and on your computer's resources than all the rest of EVE combined. It's a huge ambitious potentially open ended product. I am not sure I would mind if beyond "the door" was another game entirely, an optional download for EVE players, much like DUST is. The new CMO has hinted that there may be other games in the EVE universe and I suspect that's it.

Please note this thread is for other CSM 7 Candidates to share their views on ambulation, not the standard set of anti-ambulation trolls I am seeing here once again.

Issler Dainze
The Miner's Friend
CSM 7 Candidate.

No Issler, this thread is so you can try to promote yourself.

I'm not ashamed to say I enjoy ambulation. Sometimes I do it more than once per day, usually with my left hand.

Actually, no. Issler believes that RMT should be allowed because it creates jobs for farmers or whatever (lol)

oh and doing anything in a game for "tears" is invariably indicative of a deeper problem in the individual, you can trust her because she minored in "mental health"

Hm, interesting. You know what they say about looking into the void.

Some day you'll be set upon and taken for all the tears you're worth.

Well, apparently the opinion of CSM runners about WiS can be summarized as:


(insert cricket sound)


(insert tumbleweed)

you mean goons and other null blocks that do RMT


PS. every thread that dosnt support mittani as (self-proclaime chaiman for life) will be trolled by his minions