EVE General Discussion

So Eve is already ten years in the making, and justifiably renowned in the industry for being rated A for Mature in term of it's thematic elements. Open-world PvP and it does'nt hold player's by the hand or suffer fools gaily. And of course the playerbase being average age of something like 37 attests to it's maturity level being hard. The Devs must be standing proud and who can blame them? They deserve pat's on the back all round. They have literally pulled out all the stops and left no stone unturned in making Eve the stallion among mares of the MMO world.

But its no secret that we could use some more subscriber's. CCP tried to lure the console generation and lower it's bar to entry into the world of New Eden with Dust, but thats' been of delerious success. Maybe they should try a different approach and one more in line with the adult world of Eve.

We already have the Captains Table which we can enter into when we dock, but nobody really uses this after the first time. Its' a bit of a waste of resource's if you ask me, especially since it seems like a perfect opportunity for adding another thematic element to the game: ERP

Now here me out before the flambes start. ERP isn't just a prevert side niche for a minority in MMO's. it's a very lucrative smegment of a lot of other mature games aimed at mature player's. The Secret World for example has a whole zone in London dedicated to lagbang parties, and Second Live has their animated sex balls where you click them and choose daisychaining or glorycorning or whatever from a drop-down menu. From catgirls in superhero games to gobblin' and the Per-vP servers in Wow, ERP is everwhere. Obviously, game's aimed at children cant have avatar threeways ect ect splashing all over the screen, but Eve is a mature thematic game aimed at consenting adulterers, so insinuating ERP into the Captain's Cabin would only be a natural follow-through.

What I imaginate is more couches and suitable furniture etc in the rooms, and when you click on them a menu appear's where you get to choose options for your ERP. "Pose", "Butthocks" or "Straddle" for example may be an option for a settee or occasional table. You'd be able to invite up to five other player's into your boudoir for games of love etc and not just from your own corp either! And of course there's already some saucy cyberchat going on in the various chat channels such as the Dodixie ERP channel (I never went in the DERP channel myself but my friend Frank says it's hot stuff!)

The sky is literally the limit for CCP to benefit here. They could sell different raunch-furniture and avatar clothing and devices in microtransvactions, and maybe even introduce new ERP skills to train, which would increase the staying power of subs. Hot Loving, Pillowtalk, Deep Impact and Masterful Stroke could be new skills, for example.

The four factions could have equipment and bedroom decor suited to their character. Gallente could have like fancy billowing curtains snd romantic couches and stuff, whilst the Amarr would have dungeons with stocks and bondage tables ect ect. The minmatar would have their Captains Passage decked out like a cheap sleazy stripclub to reflect their position in the game.

For the solo-oriented player's, they wouldn't need to be left out as there could be sort of npc sexbots in the Captain's Cabin. Interacting with these could be a sort of minigame like datamining only with navigating an erogenerous zone maze type thing. That way, soloists could play with themselves.

It's no secret that sex sells. Just look at subliminal advertising with SEXY written out in ice or commercials for banks or the incredible popularity of the recent Stephanie Peebles series of books 50 Shards of Grey. That sold something like 100 million copies! Imagine if just 1% of those readers sybscribed to Eve due to the lure of Sexytime in Space! That would translate into about 700k new subscribtions! Imagine what all those new arrivals would mean for the game! Not to mention all the Second Lovers coming too.

I'm not suggesting we should have ships shaped like massive dildo's or huge bazoombas or whatever, that would be silly. But adding some more thematic elements to the game could attract new blood. For example, my cousin Janine (not Janice) doesn't read anything apart from My Dog monthly and sometimes Puzzlin' Corner, but she loved the 50 sharts books. Imagine what she could bring to our game!

I really think the dev's should very carefully cumsider this porposal, as I can only really see upside's to it. And the beauty of it is that as it would be almost totally limited to in-station action, it wouldn't really penetrate the playstyles of player's who don't want it. They could just stay in their ships. Everybody quite literally win's!

Does anyone else have any idea's for thematic elements to include in the captain's chamber?

There is nothing stopping you from solo erotic gameplay in your CQ now.

I notice that when my avatar sits on the couch, hes sitting on his left hand and has a jackass smirk on his face... Ive been home alone without the wife enough times to realize whats going to happen next, and his TV is bigger than mine.

It's a shame this is going to get locked.

"Masterful Stroke" in particular stood out.

Perhaps you should start a blog for like minded individuals.

It's Captain's Quarters, not Captain's Table. Captain's Table is a Star Trek location that was tossed in to STO for lifetime subscribers to go and whine about how they didn't get enough free crap. Oh and something else about bending time and space.

Just have a dominix bump another dominix, that works for me... not always easy to get the camera in the right angle

Paging Jade Constantine. Your moment has finally arrived.

Shocked it's not locked xD

No!

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lol just download second life friend. Now a bar. Give me a damn bar.