EVE General Discussion

Although this is entirely off-topic as a reply to their post, it's still a good post in isolation. For that you get a like. As for ideas though, we are posting in a thread conceived of CCP having an idea of something worth achieving. So I think really, that 'not having ideas' isn't really a thing. There are plenty of ideas out there for valid gameplay. Some more simple or complex than others.

The point with X Rebirth, is that it is vastly improvable. Modders are a force to be reckoned at the X universe, and so we haven't seen the last of Rebirth's station content.

Ccp should do a competition to get players to design an upgraded CQ.

I agree completely!

I'm a year late getting to this post, and 100+ pages to get caught up? Yeouch! What I hope it says is "Dont worry, we havn't given up on WiS and Avatar gameplay, despite incessant whining from others." I for one realize that stepping out of our ships and exploring environments beyond just those in the vacuum of space or the captains quarters is a crucial MUCH NEEDED step in the future of this game. I would LOVE to see EVE Online become more than a game about just space ships, and become a story about seeing things in the universe through the eyes of your character (avatar). A sci-fi simulator huh? I love the sound of that!

Meanwhile CCP was staring drunk (I kid ) at their computers and not doing anything with WiS, Star Citizen comes along and does it for them.

Congratulations, CCP. Now I have to buy two games to do something you could have done.

Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, not necessarily intended... it's just that... so much potential...

Going to shamelessly link to some thoughts I had posted in the Features and Ideas Discussion forum, as it directly relates to Avatar gameplay and another possible future direction.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4013793#post4013793



Ahh, yes. I agree completely. But I can't assume to understand what CCP is going through right now. I just read a couple days ago about another recent lay off, and regardless the reasons for it, that cannot be easy for CCP to go through right now. It also does not help the future development of the game at all as the team has to learn to do more with less people. Nevertheless, I believe in them. A lot of us here have been through a lot with CCP over the last decade, and, well... we're still here. There are those in CCP that still dare to dream. Don't give up hope. :)

No offense intended, but what made you think that suggesting a weird space museum in a thread about dangerous, PvP and PvE filled Avatar content would be a good idea?

Who is going to want to wander around some random displays, when they could be exploring an abandoned hazardous station wreck for lost technological artifacts and resources? I'm sorry, but that's a terrible idea.

I would love CCP to encourage a modding community for new content, cloths, rooms, maybe even usable objects in the environment. Players with the capability to do that are almost always willing to do developers jobs for free given a little encouragement or incentive.

Just look at Skyrim. Skyrim was a fantastic single player game, but it was just that. A single player game with barely 100 hours game play in it (great for a single player game but doesn't compare to the many thousands of hours people spend on MMOs), which people played for thousands of hours each because of the modding community. The T3 competition had a HUGE affect and frankly they should do something where they need even less development time, such as a clothing creation competition. A dev blog explaining where to get some basic clothing models from in-game and a suggested format or modelling engine and players would be away. They would have literally thousands of new clothing options to choose from. People like Hemi here who put time into creating things (even if it is only with photoshop) can make a huge impact on a game given the opportunity.

Clothing, is of course just an example. We could really use some game-play, but asking a modding community for that could be complicated or dangerous.

That would be just one way in which a company that wasn't manically anal about their IP could expand it for free with huge impact and minimal investment beyond developing a basic set of tools and checking TTP prior to each release.

But we're talking about CCP, a company where adding decals to the ships means that you'll need a magnifying glass to actually see them on the ships at full zoom, and the concept of "animated ships" becomes a set of blinds closing down. There would be strokes, manic fits and arson if someone suggested CCP's artists to actually let *someone* touch their stuff, even if they were granted 100% no-questions control over 3rd party content.

You don't play with CCP's toys.

drum roll *dudum-tisssh!* Good find!!!

Interesting indeed! It's just so sad that CCP can't pull up their socks, unterhosen, hosen et alii and do something about this; even in small iterations. Also, they better pull their socks up quickly as that big other game in development with all that avatar/wis content has come a long way in what is quite literally just one short little year and EvE is certainly starting to show its age in almost all aspects of the game: content, graphics, physics, effects, audio etc.

Still fun to play though... for now! Can only hope it will stay that way! We will see if the space scape will shift in the near future or not.

Either way, one really important thing is sure: we players and payers will have even more space game options!