EVE General Discussion

With the original CC, you had the option of making your character as weird or as straightforward as you wanted. Now you have only the option of straightforward.

If someone likes a generic movie s-f look, no problem; but the EVE CC had the possibility of creating a character with more of an "edge" originally, more of a unique flavour. Something was gained, sure (quality and detail obviously), but something was lost in terms of making EVE a unique "place", and its characters as batshit crazy-looking as the in-game events and lore.

But it was what that change portended that made me uncomfortable - I could have lived with a generic movie s-f base, and paid-for whacky addons. But the way CCP went was clearly some half-baked attempt to make the game more appealing to the mainstream. Alarm bells.

I didn't come to EVE to play a game like Star Citizen, where the lore extrapolation is "pretty much like us, only more technologically advanced", I initially loved EVE (in terms of feel and lore) because it seemed like a place so distant from us, so weird, so crazy, so alien, that it was actually really original in terms of an s-f concept.

Cultures that had been separated from us for thousands of years, gone through barbarism and rebuilding, with only distant memories of Earth That Was, would be unlikely to think of aviator glasses the height of fashion.

Are some of the old avatars archived somewhere? I'm curious as to what "weird" sci fi possibilities they had..

I agree with Barbelo and I've written here before I only started playing EVE at Incarna, but from pictures and videos I've seen from the old avatar engine I think it suited much better the game. What EVE won in avatar graphic quality it lost in style to the old one.

The charachters in general are much less gritty, they look like they've just come out of a beauty treatment at a spa and not from a space station where they were messing around with a ship. The clothes and accessories they wear now are more akin to 21st century trendy people than to 200th century immortal post-humans. The recently added cybernetic arms look more like prosthetics instead of actual augmentations. Bad taste in design all around.

I also think that had they kept the old engine and not invested in reinventing the wheel the WiS integration wouldn't have failed so bad and actual gameplay could have been carved on it, rather than having the current HD characters jerking around in solitary confinement.

This thread gets a lock as it has run its course.