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I want a station environment similar to Babylon 5 where there is High sec – the Captain Quarters and Immediate area, a Low sec where the ship workers live, and Null sec, brown sector, where most people have no identity.

I want to explore into dungeons because I am more than my ship

I want establishment, allow us to make unique goods that are unique that can only by bought in my store. Allowing me to Make a Special item that may have less cpu but uses more power grid. So I can charge my own price and advertise them. Allow me to make recopies through experimentation.

I want to be able to use NPC bots that will interact with players giving and taking items and information. I would like to have them read custom markers and book marks so players can indirectly make adventures

Broad cast feeds from pilots showing up on Incarna Screens for some E sports

Thanks for responding. I'm going to underline a few things.

1) I'm a software developer. I know that I'm asking for the sun, the moon, and the stars above. If you want to think of "my" "vision" as part of EVE: The Next Ten Years, that's entirely reasonable.

2) Thank you, Avila, for leaving that quote here. That is exactly the post I was thinking of when I mentioned F2P WiS. It's a brilliant idea.

3) CCP has a tough choice to make between creating social spaces and event spaces. Event spaces, like Walking-in-Space exploration sites, are shiny and would get lots of attention. Social spaces like corp offices or even lounges are more utilitarian, but if you put a bunch of people in a room with a reason to be there, you get game play. As long as there's some kind of hook, you're good. Note that in the case of corp and alliance offices, the hooks can be player-generated; the room should supply the tools to function effectively as a place for corp and alliance meetings (and maybe also comlinks with DUST corps). Do one at a time, nail it down, and push it out.

4) Absolutely do not force ANYTHING. If you can't get at least a reasonable percentage of people to use your new WiS feature on the merits, it failed. Rework it. The people who don't want any part of WiS will thank you, because they won't be forced into using content they don't like. The people who want WiS will thank you, because the content will be genuinely compelling to them.

It could give an overview over your space, with details on who's in which systems, as one example

Houm... i think they were delayed, but can't provide a source nor a reason why.

That's actually the subtext of my last point, that any features they offer should be appealing on their own merits, rather than the "you will use the CQ and you will like it!" approach that I arrived just in time to sample. Yes, you can use forums, and you can have a browser open over your view of the game. Yes, you can have a separate TeamSpeak app. Yes, you can chat. All of these work, and forums will have the continued advantage of being asynchronous. Chat and TeamSpeak are adequate, and will be useful for remote characters (spies!), but not precisely immersive. You lose tone of voice in chat. You have females with husky baritones in TeamSpeak.

None of them have the ability to pull a holographic map of a region up over a table, and show everyone present a route or a series of jumps. To pull up a system and walk fleet members through a strategy.

Imagine, say, a way to put multiple "ships" from a database of fleet fits in "space" in a tactical view, so that you can see all their ranges and falloffs, damage types, and so on. Add "targets" and play with the effectiveness of various ships vs. sig radius and transversal of enemy ships, or with wings of different ship types.

.... and that brings me back to the first point of my last post, which is that this is all butterflies and moonbeams and fairy tales, and I don't expect CCP to roll any of it out (though I'd be delighted if they did). CCP know what they can accomplish when, more or less. We don't. I'm handwaving a couple of examples of ways that a 3D corp office would be more useful than the current, 2D and out-of-game methods available. And it has to be more useful, or it's just a fancy chat room. Some people would use that, sure, but I'm not sure it would be a compelling part of the game.

On a side note I would love to see a dev blog on the trouble they have had in the passed, and what they have done to over come it
-> why the decision was made to scrap the work completed for 2008 or was it scraped, what it just a test bed for feed back?
->Would using an Unreal Engine worked?
-> what advantages is core going to give over the other choices of premade systems
-> Will art assets be easily be transferable between, EVE, WOD, DUST, Un-named Project 1 and Un-named Project 2
-> Is there plans to merge WIS in Dust or do easy ports in between. So that some day a Dust merc will come face to face with a Eve Pod pilot?

How far on along are they on the though process:
Brainstorm List,
Would like to do but not sure if possible
It might be actually Possible in the future
it is possible
Yeh we would like to do it eventually
It is on the list if there is nothing else to do
It is on the bottom of the list.
Next 5 Years
Next 3 Years
Next 2 Years
With the next 2 years
Soon
Next expansion or one after.

Ideally (and I realize this will take CCP years to implement), I would like something along the lines of Space Hulk for avatar gameplay. For those who don't know, it's a nice little game from '93. There was also another, newer version I believe in mid-late 90s. Just replace genestealers with rogue AI, and you're all set.

Why this specific style?

Easy.

For one, controls would be very easy. Press W, your character moves one cell down the corridor. Avatars will look pretty and all, but the game will be simple to control and responsive. Space fires/swings your weapon. A and D turns your character to face left or right.

Also this game type does not require a lot of art resources. Just look at recent release "Legends of Grimrock", quit a nice little game with minimum of art resources and runs great.

Solo, this setup would play more like Aliens, as in survival-horror. But it would also work very nicely for group gameplay, just increase the spawn locations and rates, and people will have to watch eachothers' backs and move as a unit, similar to the original Space Hulk game.

Anyway, that's what leaps to mind. But I'm rather worried. Incarna took years, and delivered virtually zero gameplay. I hope future iteration is quicker, and delivers actual gameplay. Otherwise they're just throwing good money after bad, and that's never a good idea.

Agents and PvE stuff are the only things that I think should be affected by WiS. Insurance is simple enough to do by wire, as is contracting. Have agents have little offices that are CLOSE to the CQ so you don't spend 10 minutes walking there and back.

In highsec, add in a function of brawls. Have a betting comission set up so that two pilots can register as combatants, people can place bets on them and the payouts are determined by an algorithm based upon their killboard efficiency+proficiency. The two players then warp to the deadspace encounter with two acceleration gates that are time sensitive for activation, which they then go and fight. Two men enter, one man leaves kinda deal. I think it'd be an interesting mechanic to include for gambling. People can then stream live on justin.tv or something like that. It'd be like a low-level alliance tournament.

Perhaps the supercomputers, solar system surveillance equipment, and communications hubs required to coordinate all that information would only reasonably be found in a station? (sounds plausible right?)


That sounds like a fun idea; although, if an Egger was going to come along with dust troops, he should have a completely different skill set and perform some critical function the Dusters can't handle. Perhaps, some kind of mission specific node control like hacking into Rogue Drone AI and disabling/commandeering them; diving into a sleeper Virtual AI in order to control the sleeper installation defenses and access ways; or inserting himself into a 100 ton mining rig and playing Godzilla on the battlefield.

Until the Dusters reach that critical point in the map, the Egger shouldn't have much access to complex weaponry and defenses (cause, then why not just play DUST instead?). In that way, he'd be more of a liability the Dusters would have to drag along (and keep alive)... until they made it to the fun part.

You could even have some "king of the hill" matches, where Dusters defend the capsuleer's vulnerable physical location from the other team's assault while he controls facility defenses. That would be crazy fun.

(This would, of course, probably be a very distant goal of Avatar gameplay... *frown*)

Exploration sites where you can wander around inside structures and find cool things. I would do that.