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Hyperbole Nexuse - new and busted

Old Hotness - hyperbole nexes.



Lord Bastion New and busted

Old Hotness - Lord Bastion



So what ever happened to these unique environments? It's places like this that existed around eve that convinced a lot of people to go on an adventure. To find these places and see what was there. A lot of beauty that came with EvE has disappeared. She is capable of getting her beauty back, but why wont anyone help her I would rather ship spin at some of the old and busted places with the beautiful environments than in a plain and boring station.





/Free the Gallente Quafe station

CCP is killing their game from the inside, that's happening.
They are cluless about the meaning of emotional connection
and reduce EVE to a pointless game where no one feels any connection to it anymore.

And telling them is no use, because they lack people who understand what this means
and rather hire brainiacs who think they are smart. One of these rather feelingless people
call it "flavour" and proves his cluelessness.

I remember the environment with huuuuge, green tornadoes or something like that, it was completely out of place in a space game, I could only assume that some dev had bad LSD trip.

Are you talking about that one mission where one gets killed when he spends too much time in it?

It *was* completely out of place, but it looked freaking AWESOME!

Not to forget the horrible explosions that last only a brief moment,
compared to the old epic explosions everyone on grid simply could not possibly miss.

Another great example of how CCP killed a bit of emotional depth.

The old explosions were actually satisfying to see.

The other major problem is the game is run by the 0.0 people. They dont care about anything in the game as long as it doesnt affect their ability to rat in supers. But their csm members keep getting voted in.

Brimg back immersion!

I would not put that entirely on the denizens of nullsec though.

The root of the problem is the obsession with ISK or stats (or both). Anything new to the game that is not directly and with laserbeam focus fueling the min/maxer tendency to improve ISK or stats is demonized and denigrated with the usual rage about the game catering to carebears, going the way of WoW, etc. Everything to these people is "muh stats".

And if their influence could be accounted for, I would not say they entirely win. Certainly the graphics of the game ship-wise have improved, though the "feel" of space suffered somewhat.

Ship trails for example was something a lot of players, even the "muh stats/ISK" crowd wanted, so it's not all one-sided.

Few people will cheer the removal of the Pleasure Hubs. I don't know what SJW (old school religionist or modern day misandrist) move caused that to happen.

Meanwhile, that old trailer of the capsuleer exiting his pod with the narrative saying something like "sometimes you have to do things yourself" (paraphrasing here) is gone, because the min/max crowd screamed about space Barbie. The depth of that and the potential is gone.

And finally, the chronicles, which added further depth to the game, are fewer and far between. The live events are now scheduled, planned and canned, and more about stats than backstory.

Yeah better times are behind us. These days I'm reading the works of Poe rather than playing. I was here for the science fiction (Poe actually and in great detail has a story describing a moon flight using a balloon that I could not put down) but I fear I may leave sooner than later in disappointment.

If all I wanted was a game, or a scoreboard, I would have played something else for 8 years.

I would actually. Personally I believe immersion is a key factor in player retention. You know that phrase that was made popular "I was there", that holds true in a lot of respects. Personal belief, if a player really feels like they are there they will want to be there more often regardless of good or bad experiences.

They day I built my first battle ship, my mega (built aug 2006), which i still have today, i played the imperial march as i undocked it from oursulaert III fed navy assembly plant. Since ours was a great noob system at the time with lots of mission runners i finally felt like i could play with the big boys after undocking that ship like i alone could take on the universe. Of course i took it to all those sites, docked it etc to make it look good wherever i could. I felt like i was actually there.


That why i will always fight for immersion in this game. It's the one thing that got me to subscribe in the first place.

I agree, those sites were awe-inspiring eye-candy which helped make Eve excellent. CCP probably removed them since most of them were mission based, mainly Cosmos.

I should have taken more screen shots while running them. Actually, I wish I had made some FRAPS videos while running those sites. They were mesmerizing, totally alive with ambiance.

My collection :

Guild Wars (1 of 4)

Lord Manel's Mansion

Lord Manel's Mansion - Different View

Asteroid Station

Another Asteroid Station

Recon (3 of 3) Toxic Cloud

Lord Bastion

The Hyperbole Nexus

Red Rock Outpost

Serpentis Science Lab

Spatial Rift To Aether Drone Queen

They even had some cool things show up unexpectedly, such as :

Black Monolith

Warning Sign

This Space For Rent (Quafe Sign)


DMC

The monolith is still around (and looking very muchambient)

So is the warning sign.