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Stripped down private server Eve. Would you play?

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Sidrat Flush
School of Applied Knowledge
#1 - 2013-01-26 17:41:47 UTC
So four empire regions, connected low sec regions and of course null and wormhole systems.

Would you host an instance on your private server and invite friends to play, build, destroy and create?

Add a single player story line - Why not? Would you play it?

Its time to stand up against the bad empire based CEO telling falsehoods about what new characters can accomplish and pushing them towards an in game experience of drudgery and loneliness keeping them in the shadow of ignorance for at nest their own profit at worse apathy towards all the experiences that Eve has to offer.
Aracimia Wolfe
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-01-26 17:43:20 UTC
No.

Kill it with Fire!

Conrad Makbure
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-01-26 17:44:22 UTC
Probably not.
Dersk
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-01-26 17:46:03 UTC
Sidrat Flush wrote:
Add a single player story line - Why not? Would you play it?


No. There is no AI or script bad enough to substitute for human beings.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#5 - 2013-01-26 17:46:21 UTC
Why would I not want to play with 450,000 other people?
Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2013-01-26 17:52:25 UTC
Interaction with people is by far the only selling point of EVE. Even if you are "soloer", you are still dealing with people on a daily basis. I have no idea what would you want to do in almost empty world tbh.

Future of T3 cruisers - multi-tool they aspired to be instead of sledgehammer they have become
Karl Hobb
Imperial Margarine
#7 - 2013-01-26 17:53:42 UTC
Posting in a stealth "Star Citizen is going to suck" thread.

A professional astro-bastard was not available so they sent me.
Merouk Baas
#8 - 2013-01-26 17:53:54 UTC
No.

But, you can definitely put a positive spin on this thread:

You have 5 no's, that means of EVE's player base of 450,000 accounts, 399,995 are yes! or at least positively considering your idea.
Not Politically Correct
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-01-26 17:57:17 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Why would I not want to play with 450,000 other people?


Gee. You've actually seen 450,000 people on line? How was the lag?
Demolishar
United Aggression
#10 - 2013-01-26 17:57:56 UTC
Play on the test server and avoid 6-CZ if you want to see how this feels.
Not Politically Correct
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-01-26 17:58:25 UTC
Merouk Baas wrote:
No.

But, you can definitely put a positive spin on this thread:

You have 5 no's, that means of EVE's player base of 450,000 accounts, 399,995 are yes! or at least positively considering your idea.


Sorry, Merouk. You might want to check your math.
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#12 - 2013-01-26 18:00:30 UTC
We were talking about this once. What if there were only four of us and we wanted to build up our private force of ships, even to do level 4 missions, we would be playing for months just to get the materials and the BPCs for the T2 gear. For a single player to fuel and run a small pos you would need around 11 hours of ice mining a month or so (if you get good ice, more if you use the high-sec junk... and first you would need to get the BPOs for the mining barges, which means being able to survive in low and null, etc, etc, etc... it would be a major grind that would suck without cheating.

One plus side, on a private server you could have your own logs and they might show something.

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Whitehound
#13 - 2013-01-26 18:24:56 UTC
Sidrat Flush wrote:
So four empire regions, connected low sec regions and of course null and wormhole systems.

Would you host an instance on your private server and invite friends to play, build, destroy and create?

Add a single player story line - Why not? Would you play it?

Only when I am 90 years old, suffer from Alzheimer, CCP has pulled the plug on EVE Online, and my great grandchildren want me to remember the good times of my past. Then I'd be playing it like I was about to die!!

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.
Hannah Flex
#14 - 2013-01-26 18:29:01 UTC
There are literally hundreds of single-player spaceship games out there, PM me for a list you can google yourself in like 22 seconds..
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#15 - 2013-01-26 18:31:19 UTC
Sidrat Flush wrote:
So four empire regions, connected low sec regions and of course null and wormhole systems.

Would you host an instance on your private server and invite friends to play, build, destroy and create?

Add a single player story line - Why not? Would you play it?



As far as dumb ideas go, this is one of them.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#16 - 2013-01-26 18:40:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
In much the same way as I would play Civ5 if it had no map, no units and no tech tree, and in roughly the same way as I would play Battlefield without guns or vehicles and only with bots (but not against… no-one would be on the other side).

…in other words, no. Why play a game where the game bits have been removed?

Not Politically Correct wrote:
Gee. You've actually seen 450,000 people on line? How was the lag?
No different than when only 50k are online. That's part of the beauty of EVE: they don't have to bee online for me to play with them.
Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-01-26 19:14:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyprus Black
Absolutely not. Without large quantities of other players, this game would suck. If you want a taste of what that is like, go roll around on the SISI server.

If we were talking about WoW then yes I would be all for private servers. In that game, the presence of other players is actually a detriment rather than a necessity. One spends the first 30 minutes after logging into WoW doing nothing but putting all the vocal idiots on block.

To sum up, players in EvE make the game. Without their presence you would have no market. You would have mothing to buy or fly. Taking space would be meaningless with no opposition.

Summary of EvEs last four expansions: http://imgur.com/ZL5SM33
Cowboy Nuggets
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2013-01-26 20:28:23 UTC
Cyprus Black wrote:
logging into WoW

Get out.
Giorgos Rbs
Lead Head Inc
#19 - 2013-01-26 20:42:10 UTC
Cowboy Nuggets wrote:
Cyprus Black wrote:
logging into WoW

Get out.


LOL
Hazzard
Chaotic Dynamics
#20 - 2013-01-26 20:48:04 UTC
No. All my stuff, friends and such is here. Without that it's not really eve.
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