EVE General Discussion

Well, what I think pretty much everyone would be happy about would be a PVE environment in-station.

First thing to do is scaling down the polycounts on these models and zooming the camera out. Yeah, sure, you put so much effort in these models being awesome, and they are too. But if I wanted to produce a cool game feature really fast, I'd of think getting 2 people on the team figuring out how to implement Level Of Detail models on the avatars, and then get the camera far away from the avatar, so it gets small and low detail.

With less details on the model we'll get less boiling motherboards when a couple of NPCs show up.
And then you get a team of Level Designers creating like 20 large interior blocks that can be arranged into random levels and spawn mobs there. Yeah, someone will have to write an AI at this point too.
Players will get missions, spawn in these random instances and run around shooting these NPCs like crazy, and best part is, that if they die, they just wake up in the station's cloning bay. And if you get more people on the team you can even create something like Storybricks (google it, it's an AWESOME IDEA) to make the instances more story-aligned.

I don't really care as much for the polish of the avatars - sure you (CCP) want it to be top-shelf material, but as far as gameplay goes, a really small (diablo3-like) model in an ass-large interior running and shooting stuff, while sightseeing cool station interior spaces (cloning tanks, concord docking bays, ship cargoholds) would be a dream-come-true for most of the players.

And please notice, that I am talking PVE here, which means that during this 'mission' the player is in an instanced random encounter, so that you (CCP) won't have to figure out all the complexities of coop/pvp gameplay, and the player will play with no jacks ninja-warping in on him. Frankly, this is very much a half-feature, BUT you already got the whole WiS as a half-feature. I bet replacing CQ with/or simply adding on top of CQ an instanced PVE game would generate a hell of a lot of newcomers.

And it's not hard to figure out, that PVE instances would reward players with ISK and PVE related items. It's not hard to figure out, that it can tie to the rest of the game by providing modules that are not-PVE realted, or even providing locations to instanced missions (you killed a mob on station and now you know where their base is). It's not hard to figure out that you'd have to have a clone ready for this type of encounters, beacause it would be really sad to lose those implants in a fight aboard a station. Optional cheap Battleclones, for on-station use only could peobably make an entry. It figures you'd have to have character designers modelling dogs, slaves, escaped clones, Sansha's cyborgs and all other opponents. It figures, that you'd probably want to make it possible one day to make this a coop/PVP thing, which would require the feature to be prepared for mass player overload. The option for a single player to storm another player's/corp hangar protected by corp merc NPCs and/or Concord guards stays open, as it would run on the same frame with some minor tweaks (but I wouldn't go there, really).

Removing the PVP aspect is what can make it easy for you to implement this type of thang while not removing all the fun of killing stuff AND letting a new player immerse in the wonderful world of EVE Online more than anytime before.

I'd be realy happy to see everyone take a point on the topic.

Clearly, crappy half-finished, pve incarna trash is just what we need to keep eve from dying! Your genius has saved everyone!

How about no?


Also, the Features and Ideas section of the forums is that way --->

Maybe that's why WoW has 10 million subs and EVE has 400k? (Owned)

what is this i dont even...

I can't believe no one else has said this.

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**** man, rather put EVE out of its misery than what you are describing.
I sincerely hope this is a troll.

WoW caters to the lowest common denominator to gain those subs. Pure numbers mean very little when you're talking about a game with the same depth as Janet and John book. Go own yourself in a quiet spot somewhere.

It's also F2P now since nobody really seems to want to pay for it

Shows you how good the game is. I still refuse to soil my computer with it.

even if you wanted to, I'm still pretty sure Aura wouldn't let you install it.