EVE General Discussion

did you miss the keyword content?

As its not just a "Little things" thread, but also a "medium things" thread, including some medium things can be done too. Such as

Suggestion: Add public meeting areas for multiple avatars. Let the role players provide the content.
Keywords: Avatars, WIS, Incarna

Suggestion: Add alliance and corporate offices for multiple avatars, possibly including planning tools or a market limited to the alliance or corporation.
Keywords: Avatars, WIS, Incarna

Suggestion: Add establishments to stations for multiple avatars. Allow contraband items to be sold there, with player enforcement of the customs laws in space when such items are transported.
Keywords: Avatars, WIS, Incarna

Oh, it's easy to foretell.

CSM builds up the 99 bullet point list, notices that there are a few little posts asking for avatar content:

Case A: "They're so few, let them have a try because everything else is overly overrepresented"
Case B: "They're so few, let's rather add a point to iterate diminutive features 4,608, 4,609 and 4,610 instead of anyhting avatar related"

With the current CSM, case B is almost granted, and I'll let you imagine Malcanis telling us why it is our fault, in a demeaning, patronizing tone.

* Jill starts clapping her hands frantically like a three year old, that finally gets the ice-cream for which it has begged, pouted and cried ...

- excellent, excellent ... fabulous

Looks like you called it correctly.

Look! That old horse got up again!

Somebody get a stick, it's ready to be beaten some more!

I actually didn't count, so I don't know if that is true.
What I do know is that WiS has a lot of support within the group of players I know and within the prospective players that I know.

We should face facts: This forum is in no way representative of the opinion of all current EVE players anyway.

In any case, when the CSM election happened there was not a single CSM candidate - at least as far as I remember - who was for anything WiS. So it comes at no great surprise that they did not pick anything WiS.

That and the fact that probably they realize that WiS development would be out of scope.

WiS does have - or would have - a lot of potential for EVE in my opinion.

But to add one point: the time of "Bug fixes" must be over!
When I picked from the list of 99 items that were chosen by the CSM, I found it hard to find anything except for "improved Drone Controls" that really made me say: "Whew, yeah we need this!"

I ended up picking that one and a few further "nice to haves".

But I'm unimportant in that whole endeavor anyway. Why? Because I'm already hooked. With or without WiS I'll stay with EVE - for now - because I love the game.

Its the people that are not hooked, swimming there in the pond, circling the bait, deciding if its tasty. I don't think they'll care much about: "We need a trillion alliance fittings, cos..."

And the question most of them will answer for themselves during their trial will be like this:

"Does exploration really make me feel like an explorer?"
"Can I really feel like this top-level industry magnate in the end?"
"Is this really piracy what I'm doing?"
"Hey, does a space fight feel like a good space fight?"

And some - not that few - will also ask themselves:
"Hey, why can't my toon leave that friggin cage?"

Not very difficult, provided how avatars are the ultimate abandoned feature...

Last year I was saying that CCP's strategy concerning WiS was to deprive WiS ers of any hope. No talking, no doing, until we left. "Issue delayed, issue fixed", did I say.

And here we are, fewer than before, and the only CCP does for us is grab our money with existing but unreleased stuff.

At least now EVE is a cheap MMO, there aren't many games that provide so much(?) for less than 10 euros a month. Of course some may think that cutting the sub by 30% is akin to putting the game on sale, but then, that's what they do with old games, don't them?

That is the thing that concerns me and that all the "space barbie" and "FiS" and "bug fixers" should take into consideration, too.
I'm not really an "EVE is dead/dying" kind of person.

But it is very obvious that avatars and the features they originally planned (pubs, etc) do have a great appeal.

So the fact that they don't iterrate on it could have two reasons:
The outspoken gentlemen here that think they are "winning a fight for FiS"
OR
The fact that CCP doesn't really want to/can put that much money anymore into EVE, looking at future projects that promise more revenue.

Because I think no one can really deny that WiS would be a great addition to the space simulation. It could open up a whole new ingame market if done correctly and revitalize the game.

Just speculation, of course. But it is one way to interprete it, too. One of so many.

And I don't even fly drone boats... Scary...