Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Cool, agree.

When an MMO developer release a new type of content to their game, they are responsible for updating it sooner or later, that is what the monthly subscription is for.

If the content is not used by anyone, and nobody cares, then fine leave it.

The content released in Incarna is used by every Eve player that ever made use of the character creator, yet it has never been updated. People post about it daily here on the forums, yet nothing happens. not a SINGLE thing, it is almost ridiculous.

Walking in station is not PVP. All CCP cares about is making a game that allows people to shoot other people's ships in a better manner. If they could only pull their heads out of their butts, they would see having immersive elements like hanging out at the bars in station would really help the PVP.

Imagine you're hanging out a bar in Dodixie with your mates; a bunch of Gallentes. Another clan walks into the bar and low and behold, it's some notorious Caldari traders. You exchange some heated words as the barkeep pours more drinks and you decide to take it outside. You agree to a "bar fight" which is a new mechanic added, and the game undocks you both at the same time with an aggression timer to prevent dock up.

I know the above idea is absolutely ridiculous, I'm just illustrating the different ways PVP could actually have meaning by adding immersive elements to the game.

CCP wants to homogenize this game into a giant routine, and it's getting annoying. Look at exploration. It used to be "finding the unknown". Now it's a routine. PVP, yet another routine.

I want to play a fun immersive game CCP, not do routines.

Pretty sure it's already been stated… shouldn't we be looking for ways to encourage people to, well… you know… undock?

I'll just say that I really don't care for WiS and I do have some problems with it.

1. When CCP were first making it, they neglected the rest of Eve for what, 2 years? The only good thing about Incarna (the expansion) was that it caused an uproar and made CCP realise their mistakes.

2. WiS was released when it was half-finished. It added nothing in terms of actual gameplay while giving CCP an excuse to implement the disgustingly horrible Noble Exhange store (NeX) and AUR. Basically incarna was a tool to introduce microtransactions and useless vanity items.

3. For a while it seemed like CCP wanted to make WiS the default option in Eve. Meaning you'd always go to captain's quarters instead of your hangar. Forcing WiS on the players was a mistake and there was protesting (not the jita riots but still).

4. I'm pretty sure #4 exists but I can't think of it right now.

Bottom line: I don't want CCP to spend any more money or resources on WiS. "Flying in space" which is more commonly known as Eve Online is more important and should have CCP's full attention.

In my opinion the best way to go forward with Walking in Stations (WiS) is to integrate slowly. for instance have the exit door in the current captain's quarters go to the corporation's office (if there is one in that station) and have a set number of available offices on the station, or to a private lounge area for your corp members if there is not. and then slowly branch from there. adding a concourse level at some point, and being as we are talking about a station, these can be instanced because it is a space station, not open space.

local chat could then be channel switched (the same as moving from one solar system to another) to your given concourse, club, pub, office, or lounge.

if your alliance has an office on board then you could go to a meeting there as well.

these are just some of my ideas of how WiS could progress, albeit slowly. I do not think it feasible, or wise to add all the things they want to do with WiS simultaneously. but giving more options than just the captain's quarters would be a decent start. being as something like this could be instanced, it would take a lot of lag off the game servers, however, it is unknown what kind of hardware changes would eventually be required for this action.

food for thought.

Yeah.

Yet you took the trouble to create your character, dress him up, create your avatar and create a nice picture for your profile. You already play dress up!

Turns out you can't create a character otherwise. I used the random buttons.

not again. LEts be simple. players revolted agaisnt incarna and made CCP loose thousands of subscriptions. CCP listened and basically scrapped anything not related to space ships.