EVE General Discussion

Okay, here's my problem. I'm in a hotel room, travelling for work, and all I have is my work computer, and I definitely can't install Eve onto that. I can't fly, so I'll talk about flying instead. I'm curious, what do you consider the best expansion of Eve, and why?

For me, although I liked the POCOs that came with Crucible, and absolutely love PI that came with Dominion, and the recent mining barge overhauls from this summer were pretty nifty, I have to say I think Apocrypha was the best or most significant expansion. Now, disclaimer, I started playing during apocrypha, so I don't really know what the game was like before then...weren't you guys basically throwing sticks at each other in tier 1 cruisers or something? So, my facts may be wrong and some of the features that I attribute to apocrypha may in fact belong to an earlier expansion. So let's see...apocrypha brought wormhole systems (they weren't there before...right?), sleepers, Tech-III ships and the whole rev. engineering branch of science and complex T3 production (FUN) and a revamped probing system. Was hacking, exploration and archeology a thing before then? I'm not sure. All I know is that some of the things that I've liked most about this game...didn't exist before then.

What do others think? Was apocrypha really as big a deal as it is in my mind, or was it trivial to some? What's your favorite expansion? Maybe the one that brought T2 into the game? For that matter, what was this game like at the very beginning, before any of the expansions? What are some of the things we take for granted today that didn't even exist then? I can remember back to Apoc. when planets looked really ugly, flat pie plates that you can warp through (rather than the cool tunneling effect we have now).

Definitely not incarna. For me, I'd say the next really big one will be whatever one allows me to smash infantry from an orbital bombardment. I've noticed the crystals are already on the market, but I can't seem to be able to do anything with them. Tease!

Id say incarna, just because i want to hear what you want to say about it...

(Thats your que)

Most significant? Incarna. Mass riots in-game, mass terminations at CCP, massive about-face in PR, customer relations, game design direction, the players conflating the ideas of item store, P2W, ambulation and ridiculously high priced luxury items: Incarna was very significant.

Favourite: I have been playing EVE since Revelations II, when the Mac client was launched. My favourite expansion so far has been Apocrypha, from which the most significant development was the training queue (T3 ships? Sure they were game changing, but the training queue was life changing).

The expansion after Apocrypha and my second most favourite expansion was Quantum Rise, most specifically the introduction of the Orca, grouped weapons, nano nerf, Stackless IO, and the ramping up of the war on server side lag and elimination of downtime.

I suspect Retribution will be right up there with Apocrypha as far as favourite expansions go. The main features I am looking forward to are the new life for command ships, the elimination of OGB, and the utility of tier 1 ships from frigates to battlecruisers. Changes to Crimewatch will be interesting.

Second place after Apocrypha will automatically go to whichever expansion features the elimination of daily downtime.

Wait...what? There was no training queue before apocrypha?? I'm having trouble even imagining that. How? How did it work? Was it initially a game-play based experience system like other games?

Incarna...

All the :popcorn: moments!

RMR hands down.

/c

Revelations 1 and 2 were the last good patches. Been a downward spiral spiral into the shitheap of history since.

Apocrypha.

Nobody knew *** about wormholes and it was sooooooo easy to get into a lower class with a Battleship, a gas-harvesting BC and a Salvaging destroyer, set up a small POS, get incredibly rich with melted nanoribbons, getting blisters from hitting D-Scan and learning to be paranoid in the process.

Good times.