EVE General Discussion

Low man on the totem pole eh? You have my sympathy.

Let me know if this sounds right. QA have the most thankless job in existence and usually not very well paying either. Nine times out of ten they go through great lengths to find just about every minor bug in existence doing things most players would never even consider trying.

After that, typically a small portion of them get fixed by the code monkeys due to time constraints and inability to figure out what the hell is causing them, most get forgotten and re-reported later as they continue to show up, and more continue to get created over time. To cope with fast-releasing content like major expansions you usually have to put in a lot of extra crunch time leading up to release that not only borders on worker abuse, but starts to cause delusions about becoming a small humming bird.

All the while the ignorant playerbase looks at the small QA team who is overworked to hell and back and blames them for everything.

Sound about right?

If you include a video of multiple avatars in the same environment in the upcoming devblog, I'm sure it will be well recieved (and shut up some trolls .. for a while).

Gaming rooms are a must imo. I was thinking about Hold'em and how
it could work.

I picture a room with a table much like any other online gaming site. However,
this room would be a 3D enviroment(obviously), where you are the only "live"
avatar at the table while the others are hologram projections at the table with you.

This would allow you to walk (zone) into a poker room and play with people who are
perhaps on another station on the other side of the verse. With this you bypass
needing to find people on the same station to play with, and you cut down on
resoueces needed to draw the room, as the other players would be simplified
renders.

Enter the room, pick a table from a list showing who is at the tables, min/max
bets etc etc etc.

There would be a dealer at the table ofc, and ofc the house could take fee of
some sort, adding an isk sink.

EVE voice would be great as well.

There are a huge amount of posts to this thread, (2,706 posts as I wrote this one) and in all honesty, I'd have to say that I've not read all 136 pages. Basically if I repeat something someone else has said/dealt with/etc then I apologise.

This all having been said here's my four pence worth:

I really love playing Eve. For me personally around 60% of the enjoyment of the game is being out in a ship doing stuff, flying, mining, running missions and so my bias is for slightly more Flying In Space, (FiS) improvements.

Having said this I do occasionally dock (!) so I do like the idea of improvements on this front also. However I'm not all interested in being able to play poker with other players, (I really think if this is what interests you you should go elsewhere) or in super flash interior decoration, (which is pretty unnecessary in my view) and only makes the game run slower on my computer, nothing else.

I do occasionally walk around a bit but the worth of being able to do this, is, in my humble opinion, fairly limited. Look I can walk anywhere I like at the moment. I can't fly in space and that's why I play Eve!

What improvements would I like to see?

A cockpit view option would be nice and even useful in some situations;

More precise control of thrusters while in space - how about a click and drag control?

A couple of others:

Much bigger secure cargo containers that can be anchored securely in space for the use of corporation members - 3000 m³ is frankly a bit of a joke, (read: a total joke);

More control over the size of fonts and other aspects of the user interface would also be good while you're at it.

I hope that WiS will be out as soon as possible.
Without WiS EVE don't have long lifespan.

thnx.

I am talking about future from now... not form 8 years ago.

I'll play the sarcastic advocate:

Once WIS is released, Eve as we know it will die.

I do not offer any support for this claim, but you should take it at face value.

If Eve is to grow after being stagnant since its release, then CCP better snap to it soon, or millions upon millions of potential subs will go to the next great Eve killer game - trust me, I know.

Also, I know the winning lottery numbers to tomorrow's drawing, but will tell nobody nor play either.

EVE today is radically different in countless ways from when it was released 9 years ago.

Aside from that point, we appear to be somewhat in agreement.

You mean exactly like I already do with this toon and the appropriate skills? Doc has not undocked in years.