Out of Pod Experience

tl;dr: And my point still being that just because you don't like frigs, destroyers, cruisers or the FW, doesn't mean others don't.

I don't see how those things are any less of the game to anything else. This isn't a progression themepark, things like frigs do not become discarded as one "levels-up". I actually immensely enjoy my hookbill, buzzard and kitsune, even though I also have a scorpion, raven, falcon and tengu on my account (though the scorp could use a little tlc by ccp).

But by what you are saying, the hookbill, kitsune or buzzard (solid boats) should be below me ...yet I'm spending more than half my time with those, tinkering with loadouts and using them in their roles. I could be in a dreadnaught already, but I don't see the point, not interested one bit, at all. I just don't see EVE as being so narrow that there is only one play-style.

I've waited years for CCP to work on FW, in SWG that was my thing from launch, and here it was broken and lame. EnB didn't even have FW, and EVE didn't have FW until 2008. By 2009 it was already becoming a joke when I found out EVE introduced FW. But I heard that they were going to address the issues, so by my third trial over the years I registered an account and have just been waiting for them to do something with it.

In fact I waited so long, my main which was suppose to be my FW alt became my main while my main (this) became my alt... heh. I could still use my other for FW, but it's become my wealth generator where it's bloated SP for FW... and pref being somewhat safe for trading at this point. Which is not really an issue, but then I don't have a nine year account with a wide spectrum of SP's over three characters (or multi-accounts), I was too wrapped up in SWG (best game ever, pre-nge) to bother with the non-existant or broken FW system of EVE.

Or am I suppose to be above all this even though I've been playing in FW even back to when it first appeared almost 15yrs ago in UO? And 0.0 is the only play-style available here... I think not.

But then with SC, you are starting all over again, there will be less in that game than here, guaranteed. I've been playing mmo's for over 15 years (MUD's before then), my main genre, and every game has had a load of problems. SC will be no different in that regard, yet it will still be less developed than EVE. If it can catch up, we are talking 10 years if they go double speed, which I don't think will happen.

Having flown every ship in the game already, and done every possible activity there is even to the point of setting up my own POS in sleeper space and being there for a couple of months solo, while hunting sleepers for parts, mining and running P.I. operations, and doing it completely solo, to faction warfare to incursions to missions to having been in a few 0.0 aliances to pvp and major fleet warfare, to trading on the market and making my own ships.....It's been done already.


The suggestions i made earlier about developing the jove storyline or the sleeper storyline or even opening up the eve gate, would affect every player in the game right now, even if they started when the game did and it turns out residents on the other side of the eve gate are none to pleased to see us again, and we have to unite as one to stay alive, as they have a massive technological advantage of well over 20 000 years if you read EVE lore....They'd likely be even more advanced than the jove.


Walking in stations would never had that kind of an impact, and neither would dust and it would be the pointless fighting in 0.0, wich is more and more dominated by super capitals than ever, mainly because the pvp divisions in each aliance are bored and they don't need extra territory or the assets they contain, since everyone has more money than they know what to do with it....They still fight just to have the killmails basically, and have to put up with a lot of lag( most of the time) to do it.


After nearly 10 years, the game needs a kick in the ass to rejuvinate it for everyone, young or old.

That's a personal goal, to do everything, or to level-up every archetype of a game in themeparks. That's how they build most games now, never ending level grind, more flashy content expansions to keep them returning after they got bored and left. That's why I much prefer the sandbox, I am a creature of habit. They want a new place to raid every month. I'll guard a six inch square of lawn/grass for years on end

Well, I am gonna be a complete **** and say as much as Star Citizen looks interesting, I hope it never gets made.

All so that digitalwanderer cuts his wrists a little more...

I just did. Read again.

Too late as the game has already hit it's minimum financing(2 million $), and the pledge drive is only at the half way mark, so they'll make a lot more than the minimum they requested.

vets should get special mods and stuff

Vets do. Usually comes around holiday season when it does heh. It's not something you can receive after the distribution apart from buying it from another player, so really it's a vet reward in a way. Some of it's unique, so it's "special", right? And afterall, some games start giving out vet rewards to newbies the first month. And really, anyone that has had an active account since launch should really be considered a founding player, which is more the norm in mmo's.
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So they got 2mil, eh? Well... that's enough to hire 5 to 8 developers for two years, plus basic infrastructure (systems and tools etc) and have a roof over their heads.
Here's to them making a REAL bounty hunter system (as good or better than SWG pre-NGE), maybe even good open-world faction wars with a purpose

are there any game engines that can compete with that ?


It is amazing !

+1 for the vid

there is a problem with EvE

BC CCP has a small but loyal playersbase,they had to keep a lot of people happy , by keeping this game up to directx 9 standards .
this says enough of the problems CCP has when it comes to graphics .
Maybe people will buy a ps3 to play the consolecrap DUST
i will probably be able to play SC at low resolutions ,but i will buy a better pc or the graphics cart to move on