EVE General Discussion

tl;dr for ADHD: The italized parts are different than what it's actually written at the original mesage by CCP Seagull introducing Rubicon and the future development plan it heralds; the italized parts make a different and potentially better plan than the actual one.

>>Rubicon - towards the future of EVE Online

EVE Online is not just a game - it's one of the world's most ambitious living works of science fiction. The EVE universe is a canvas for some of the most hard core PvP action in the gaming world, player driven stories of epic dimensions that mirror humanity in both amazing and disturbing ways, and individual stories of exploring this world and achieving personal goals.

As we take the next steps on our journey with EVE Online, we will continue to create an amazing, demanding game experience that challenges intelligent people to master what the universe offers. But now we are also questioning old truths and the rules that govern the New Eden universe, and we are doing it in line with the secret plans we've been readying since the controversial launch of Incarna. That vision is about giving players, in the form of their immortal capsuleer representations, more power over this universe than ever before. This journey starts with EVE Online: Rubicon, and will unfold over the next several expansions to EVE Online.

We ask you to imagine with us. Think about an ancient, consistent dream of humans: absolute power. Imagine conquering the stars and bending life itself to our will. Such gargantuan efforts are built on the hard work of science, engineering, innovation and industry - the same components also used to wreak terrifying destruction. The duality of that cycle, creation and destruction through technical advancements, fuels the EVE universe and we will amplify it in EVE going forward.

In the universe of EVE Online, military and industrial might re-emerged following the dark ages of the EVE Gate collapse, growing into four human civilizations that rose to the stars: the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State and the Minmatar Republic. Yet the capsuleers, the immortal pilots of EVE's most powerful spaceships, are becoming a stronger and stronger force of their own. They will not settle with what has been served to them thus far. EVE Online: Rubicon is the first step beyond a point of no return, on a dangerous path to ascension with consequences that neither capsuleers nor players can predict.

Think about building political allegiances and about destroying them.

Think about the rise of the immortal capsuleer, taking over what the human Empires used to control.

Imagine capsuleer corporations, rising in power and capabilities, flying their own colors and using their might to take over whole planets. Imagine disrupting what someone else took over, through cunning or force. Imagine profiting from the interstellar-scale commerce of planets, systems and constelaltions as capsuleers permeate politics and seize power.

Imagine what could happen if capsuleers truly exercised their economic might, and were no longer bound to obedience to the established powers.

We are on a long term plan to deliver on what we imagine for EVE Online and New Eden. With Rubicon we continue our efforts to improve and balance the game, to support our player community, and give you the unique sandbox science fiction experience that EVE Online provides.

As capsuleers, you will find the first keys to the future.

Be part of the game. Be part of the universe. Be part of the story.

CCP Your dreams - not a member of CCP>>

It's interesting how a few words here and there redeem the Hallelujah Plan from being a boring more of the same (sovereignty -> wormrholes -> NewSpace) and make it potentially exciting. And I didn't even had to mention avatars.

Because of seagull.

wait..

As a business, CCP are in a ridiculously envious position. They seem to eventually have a plan to capitalise on it and the plan may be good.
Fingers crossed, please deliver.

I just sometimes wonder when the "we are just seeing the start of this right now" will end and we get to the "awesome" part they promised.

PI, Incarna, Dust link, now the "build your own stargate"... All big promises and CCP could not stop talking about how "awesome" this would be and "how crazy" they are to do this things. And look what we got so far.. an idiotic minigame, a useless room and you can shoot a planet...

they are crazy

Dream with me.

Imagine Space Yurts as far as the eye can see.

End.

I don't know. So far, CCP Seagull did some bullshit bingo and nothing more. We will see next week how the approach to Smallholding will look and work. I honestly want all of it become part of the game, but I just can't see if/how the Depot will fit in the concept of modular POSes, if at all. At the moment it is a container with fitting service.

CAme in here expecting a little plan left when I realized it was a big pile of $hit.

The problem isn't CCP or what they are doing with EVE, it's that your expectations are unreasonably high. In other words, the problem is you.

To me CCP didn't have to do much more "awesome" than make tech1 cruisers worth flying in pvp, but time and time and time again they've delivered stuff so cool I'm still figuring it out. And now CCP has announced modules and deployables that will make my carebearing faster, easier and more fun (SOE ships, RHMLs, a loot gathering thhing etc etc) and I'm pumped for Rubicon.

I'm sorry the pace is too slow for you, but again, that's just a personal problem. Yet (as with all people who try to pretend their personal problems are public problems) you invoke the old/tired "they are ignoring the majority arguments".

No they are not. They are catering to the majority. They are ignoring YOU and the rest of the unreasonable people who don't understand why CCP re-adopted the "non-Jesus feature" approach. That's why CCP is a success whereas most MMOs and their makers end up folding......

LMFAO