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Will Incarna have NPCs in stations? (Lone capsuleer blues)

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Jokerface666
Intergalactic Expeditionary Corp
#21 - 2011-09-19 21:14:54 UTC
The only thing i want to know is:
1. will establishments be buyable via the NORMAL eve market, or the damn NEX?
2. what will the prereqs be for establishments, standings? skills?
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#22 - 2011-09-19 21:19:48 UTC
CCP Zymurgist wrote:
We have talked about putting NPCs in establishments. Think of a scriptable bartender or maybe a barker to get people to join your corporation. I am unaware of when this will happen or any solid details but keep in mind that we want to the interactions in establishments to be meaningful and based around capsuleers.


Maybe there needs to be fewer stations, so more chance for interaction.

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Jokerface666
Intergalactic Expeditionary Corp
#23 - 2011-09-19 21:22:38 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:
CCP Zymurgist wrote:
We have talked about putting NPCs in establishments. Think of a scriptable bartender or maybe a barker to get people to join your corporation. I am unaware of when this will happen or any solid details but keep in mind that we want to the interactions in establishments to be meaningful and based around capsuleers.


Maybe there needs to be fewer stations, so more chance for interaction.


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mkint
#24 - 2011-09-19 21:28:43 UTC
Jokerface666 wrote:
The only thing i want to know is:
1. will establishments be buyable via the NORMAL eve market, or the damn NEX?
2. what will the prereqs be for establishments, standings? skills?


If establishments have anything at all to do with NEX, it'll be the last straw. The ONLY feature for two whole expansion cycles (plus however many years of development being drawn away from real-EVE) being ONLY a wh0re st0re would be 100% undeniable proof that CCP is done with taking us seriously as more than cash pinatas.

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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#25 - 2011-09-19 21:34:13 UTC
CCP Zymurgist wrote:
We have talked about putting NPCs in establishments. Think of a scriptable bartender or maybe a barker to get people to join your corporation. I am unaware of when this will happen or any solid details but keep in mind that we want to the interactions in establishments to be meaningful and based around capsuleers.


Well, that makes sense, but also makes sense to wonder how many other capsuleers wlll ever meet the average player in the average station... it would be very ironical if the single simplest way to talk to a real person via your 3D avatar was a videoconference (holoconference?)... or having to jump several systems to do the same for lack of the kind of technology we enjoy nowadays because our Internet spaceships don't have a Internet... Lol

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Vin Hellsing
#26 - 2011-09-19 21:47:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Vin Hellsing
CCP Zymurgist wrote:
We have talked about putting NPCs in establishments. Think of a scriptable bartender or maybe a barker to get people to join your corporation. I am unaware of when this will happen or any solid details but keep in mind that we want to the interactions in establishments to be meaningful and based around capsuleers.


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Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
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#27 - 2011-09-19 21:49:29 UTC
mkint wrote:
Jokerface666 wrote:
The only thing i want to know is:
1. will establishments be buyable via the NORMAL eve market, or the damn NEX?
2. what will the prereqs be for establishments, standings? skills?


If establishments have anything at all to do with NEX, it'll be the last straw. The ONLY feature for two whole expansion cycles (plus however many years of development being drawn away from real-EVE) being ONLY a wh0re st0re would be 100% undeniable proof that CCP is done with taking us seriously as more than cash pinatas.


The only reason to run an establishment, which will presumably cost isk to set up/customize/run would be to make a profit. That would seem to indicate ISK transactions.

I suppose it could be done on an AUR basis, since most will purchase AUR with ISK, but that would limit the selection of goods available to sell... so that does not seem likely.

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