Player Features and Ideas Discussion

To be honest, how many of us actually care about WiS?

I mean sure, there are people that would like to see it, but I personally feel that it's a waist of CCP's effort.

We have captain's quarters. The only thing we might need to add to this is Corp and alliance offices so that players could gather and it would allow a central hub for collaberating with dust.

I don't know how many of you are like me, but I personally have turned captain's quarters off. It serves no purpose in Eve. The recruitment tools, agents, fittings...Everything is available without ever entering your captain's quarters, and if CCP ever changed it to where you had to be in quarters or WiS in order to achieve these things, there would be a large portion of the Eve population that would be extremely pissed.

The only way to make WiS and CQ's important enough for the majority of the player base to care, would be to actually establish being in stations as it's own game. It would basically need to be a space based WoW. the only possitive outcome that this would establish is that CCP would basically have created a new MMO that's tied to Eve and Dust in which Eve players could interact, or players could create their own accounts specifically for the station based MMO.

However, the vast majority of Eve players isn't even happy that Dust is drawing attention away from Eve, so they'd be even more pissed to find out that another essentially mini MMO would draw attention away as well.

Honestly, the best thing CCP could do is create corp and alliance offices for personal and Eve to dust use, then leave it at that. Most Eve players aren't going to use it unless it serves a valid purpose that doesn't take away from the functions of Eve the way it currently is, and like I said, the only way to do that is to create another game entirely.

Add in a mini-game arcade in stations as well.

Here's my idea to make walking in stations bettter...

Get rid of it.

Make Flying in Space better.

I've said it a few times now in the last couple days on a couple different threads...

Until they make EVE a fully created reality where you can walk: in stations, on planets, in your ship, anywhere at all... and have guns, a GUI to use them, people to shoot at....

...walking in stations is stupid and pointless. I don't want to see another second wasted on building WiS when the spaceship aspect of EVE could be improved in (literally) a thousand or more different ways.

Offcom doesn't give a rat's ass if there's an official way or not. They will come down hard on any institution that allows under age children to gamble with real money or pretend money that can be sold for real money. Just because you're too stupid to realise this, it doesn't make it not so.

Finally! Someone's opened their mind and thought of some ideas to give the game some depth. I particularly like the infections and viruses thing. I was thinking of something similar, in that players can custom design their own viruses for various purposes.

The same could be made true for creating nanobots, which could be used for intel gathering. Imagine you could inject another player with a nanotracking device, which reports their whereabouts.

You could also introduce hacking, which allows you to plant software viruses into other corps mainframes, and gather info about their assets.

I personally think WiS should be about passive warfare. Where it's all about information gathering, espionage, counter espionage, sabotage, spying, you name it. Mix this with sec levels in stations and you're really onto something. Espionage in high-sec stations would be incredibly risky, but the rewards would be higher if you could avoid getting caught. The consequences would be a loss of sec just like in FiS.

I think making it into FPS would be a lame cop-out. Space warfare in EVE is more about tactics then reactions and skills, WiS should be the same.

FiS is for the conventional wars. WiS should be about the COLD WARS!

I like all the above ideas, they all add depth.

Which is a given that was stated in the very first paragraph of this thread. So yes you are whining, take your 'Waaaaaaaaaaaa I hates WiS' whinging somewhere else. This is a thread for people who want to create a WiS environment worth having.

Your argument is self defeating...

It's not possible to have a WiS environment "worth having" in a space ship-centered game.


WiS is a waste of time that will lose another 20% of the player base just as it did last time it was rolled out. CCP was correct to drop WiS and focus on the EVE game (IMHO).

Pathetic. Maybe you should go back to writing begging letters asking people to join in on your fail threads.

Again, I don't think WiS should go any further than corporation and alliance rooms.
Past that, there is nothing worth presenting Eve players through WiS apart from building an entirely new MMO specifically for stations

Don't read it and don't reply to it then, no one is making you.