Out of Pod Experience

I wondered how was EVE preparing to face the might of David Braben's latest work on the Elite series. But then I looked at EVE's latest patch pictures and I saw what they did there!

These new mobile structures, the Mobile Depot and the Mobile Siphon Unit... where have I seen this kind of design? Maybe in some of Elite: Dangerous ships like the Sidewinder, the Viper or even the Cobra???

What about the new ISIS guide? Wait a minute... I think I've seen something from Elite: Dangerous like that aswell... was it the starmap? Yes, I remember it now!

Omg, even EVE's website front page now has a yellow button like the Elite: Dangerous' site and it's new store! ED webmasters even had to change their button's color to orange to stay original!


This attempt to clone Elite:Dangerous assets comes as another sign of serious confidence loss within CCP's direction, despite claims made by its CEO in this interview, where he states that "It's easy to go and look at all the new shiny things that are coming but we don't want to be doing that. We want to stick to our guns".

It's somewhat understandable that CCP's stakeholders might be afraid to lose costumers to a game like Elite, the godfather of space trading and combat simulators and a pioneer in 3d computer graphics and procedural generation, that served as role model for EVE Online itself aswell as other games like Wing Commander and Freelancer.

ED's early backer rewards program has recently closed with over 40.000 backers donating over £2 million pounds of crowdfunding swag. The alpha build is now live. (If you aren't lucky enough to be one of the backers with Alpha build access, you can check this twitch feed for streamers.) Open world sandbox and space simulation fans are highly optimistic about the game and anxious to get their hands on the final release.
And it's not for less. The game is looking gorgeous and will give players the freedom to roam/resource gather/trade/pirate/fight in more than 100 billion procedurally generated star systems (including our own) with moving celestials, real 1:1 scale and physics. Oculus Rift support is currently working on the alpha build, future expansions confirmed by Braben include avatar gameplay, atmospheric entry and planet landing/exploration. The game will have no monthly fees but they do plan on charging for these expansions. Early backers who funded £80 or more will have free access to all of them, besides the satisfaction of knowing they helped once more to kick big publishers in the nuts with another epic crowdfunded project

Will this game kill EVE? Will we abandon New Eden forever? Of course not, but it will surely hurt CCP's finances, not only by attracting a lot of its current playerbase but also by offering a fresh and high quality game to the space sandbox MMO genre newcomers.
EVE could be top dog in the industry by offering a top quality product to the players, but CCP decided to pursue other ventures and is now playing catch-up with its new competition.
Care to share your thoughts?

Yes. Elite:D will definitely kill Eve...just like X:Rebirth did.

Are those entirely original designs on part of E:D, the sort that have never been seen before in sci-fi?



Other games of similar style/genre release, every now and then. People go to take a look at these other games, some of them possibly don't return. It is a consequence of video games being a prosperous industry.

I wonder why the announcement of yet another sci-fi game automatically entails asking "will New Eden die now?"

Elite D will not impact Eve, being that it is a totally different style of game.

In Elite, the online experience wil be a lot different, allowing you to choose just how much interaction you have with others, unlike Eve of course, where you get no choice (a good thing!).

The first alpha build is out, and at the moment it is just a test of the single player combat. That said, I have seen enough to say the two games are not comparable. Not in a bad way, both have their merits.

Elite is looking good, and even the first build is fun to play. I will play it a lot if this is anything to go by, but it will not affect my sub to Eve, and I suspect the same will be for many others.

Good point.
Let us look to the future with optimism.

... and yes, it turned out not be what it expected, but mentioned that it was not "X3" but restart the series (?). Terrible, such hopes were. Will be rehabilitated?

I must be blind, but I dont really see teh similarities[implied copy paste ...] between teh 2.

Then again, that star map from elite, I've seen that before somewhere.

yes, I remember, Nexus, the jupiter incident

OMG elite copied from another game too!!



a flying triangle, also hardly an original design

Fixed.

Same here. Some people don't understand how powerful non-consensual experiences are to binding a playerbase to a game experience. Sure, that same non-consensual experience tends to turn off casuals, but you can either have a quality game or a large quantity of players. I have yet to see a game do both.

I would dare saying that the other major feature on the "Hallelujah plan" (the introduction of a new type of space to be colonized by capsuleers who can build a new type of stargate to reach it) will be an attempt from CCP to introduce procedurally generated solar systems to EVE, but since no official details have been released about that feature yet, I will refrain myself from speculating on it.

Instead, I will gift you another nice trinket I found while watching the new Dust514 Uprising 1.7 feature video! You know how they say... Christmas might be gone, but it can be any day you want! Is it me, or that planet map looks like a copy of the '93 Elite: Frontier one?

i only started to play eve because of the original elite which i'd played over and over in various formats bbc, spectrum48k, atari st and c64.......i really couldnt get enough of the game and for me eve was an evolution of that game and was multi player and it has been the only space game that ever competed with it.

i honestly think that elite dangerous will be an evolution of elite and eve combined and hope that it does take me away from eve but until its out and im playing it eve will continue to be my game of choice as it has been for over 10 years