EVE General Discussion

Tablet PC's are getting more powerfull every year. They also get more and more popular all the time, since people notice very fast that mouse and keyboard are actually not necessary tools. Voice communication is faster than typingin, and touch screen is better than using mouse.

Tablets are the future of gaming, and desktop PC's are dying species. Even laptops will suffer alot.

Right now tablets can do basically everything. You can do office work with them, you could basically do programming with them, you can use web applications via browser. You can talk with your friends with phone, or skype etc. You can use 3g, WIFI. We are closing at the point where the scifi PDA thingy is real.

Playing EVE with tablet is possible. Of course it would only run one client, atleast as first. But the touch screen is actually better than using mouse. Even I adapted touch screen use very fast, under two days.

Double click is replaced by double tap (IIRC), wiping screen would move your vision. Wipe horizontally, move vision horizontally, wipe vertically, move vision vertically. Zooming is also possible.

Largets problem is the GUI. However new unified inventory system is one huge leap towards tablet client for EVE.

I really do believe that it would be possible, and I do hope that it will be reality in someday.

CCP, are there any plans to make EVE compatible with tablets?

Mouse = precision click,

Fat finger = press general area,

Cant see touch screens being implemented for games at all.

If anything were to be implemented it would be body movement or voice commands. And even they are still really badly done.

imo touch screen would be much slower, you move your entire arm to whatever part of the screen you want, where as with the mouse you can get there without even moving your wrist.

Trying to imagine a fleet of 50 people all using touch screen in a fleet fight. Id put my iskies on the guys they are fighting.

Touch screen is a "fad" that is all.

You might want to look at this EVE-Online on a Tablet

That wasn't EVE online.

I can barely write text messages on this damn thing (my boss is probably laughing at me and my co-workers) and you expect me to be able to pick out targets from the overview with my finger? Or click them in space? Ridiculous!

Touch screens, no mater the product size, aren't precise enough.

No, it really isn't.

Touchscreens better than keyboard? I don't think so. Ever tried writing a long text or do some actual coding work with an on-screen keyboard on a tochscreen? No? Try it, it's not really fun. There is nothing whatsoever when doing this kind of work that is in any shape or form superior to a good keyboard, especially mechanical switch keyboards.

Touchscreens better than a mouse? I don't think so either. Due to the fact of how touchscreens actually work and the fact that everybody has different finger sizes it's very unlikely that you will achieve the same precision with a touchscreen compared to a good 2000 (or maybe even more) DPI laser mouse (which perform pretty awesome on almost any surface except maybe glass).

Mobile gaming, especially on tablets sure as hell has some bright and interesting future ahead however it will never be able to replace desktop gaming machines. Hell every decent desktop is superior to any notebook/laptop in many ways no matter how awesome it's hardware is. There are a number of reasons for that but I won't go into it.

As for a tablet client for EVE. That would actually be kind of a nice idea. If you look at what they are planning with Dust 514 and the CREST API they created for interfacing it with EVE that same technology can then be used to create a tablet client that let's you perform certain actions within the game. Hell maybe even at a later point you'll be able to run a full client of the game on it (somewhere in the distant future). CCP is crazy enough to be the first company that actually pulls something like this off.
With EVE as it is the only real problem with making this possible is the available tablet hardware performance available at the moment and the fact that the UI is not all the time as good to use with a touchscreen, especially if you have fat fingers.

Nobody is ever gonna read this entire post probably because it's way too long a response for such an obvious troll but in case you did actually read this here is a little troll of myself towards the OP as a bonus: Written with a mechanical switch keyboard with approximately 180 key-hits/minute. Try doing this on a touchscreen, I dare you ***(get's censored anyway :P), I double dare you!

I read your post
op asking if work being done to have a tablet client not replace desktop gaming.
Relax:)

The OP asked if EVE-Online would ever be on a tablet and if they were working on it.
I provided an answer as to the current status and what CCP was looking to do (well as of last year)
I never claimed it was the entire client I just stated the OP should look at it.

People can draw there own conclusions about the current status and the odds of seeing a complete client from there.
Unless we get an update from CCP, I at least provided more information then anyone else so far in this thread.