EVE General Discussion

I wants a unicorn for my CQ. One of those fluffy sorta pinkish ones with big eyes.

Don't be silly, alliance leaders are too busy for this.
This image is for those smaller corps in an alliance. The ones that talk themselves up and go try start an alliance in the cold space of Null Sec.

WIS have a lot of potential, sadly CCP didnt invest enough time and assets in it.

EVE it's a game about spaceships and without any doubt that WIS it's not a priority but in my opinion it's still a valuable content to improve the immersion in this game. We just need to look at the recent space sims, Elite and Star Citizen have "WIS" feature already as a primary feature or it will be.

*Sprays you with ... confetti*

Take that.

I don't even bother putting shields up these days. Don't really need shields to stop hot air and semantics.

WiS is dead because in the end CCP could not find any meaningful gameplay for that.

On the other hand there was an concept of leaving your spaceship to search abandoned space stations/mining outposts where you could find resources (for implants perhaps) and would run ino other players so you probably end up fighting over the loot.
That was shelved because it is/was? too big of a project to chew on for CCP. However with the new development cycle who knows if they aren't working on that right now and maybe, maybe we might someday board the new drifter stations.

How do you people know so much about the inner workings of CCP still amazes me.

Are you sure that somewhere deep below CCP. in a poorly lit basement WiS is not being worked on - even if by only 2 guys?
Looking at the latest release cycle and the way Seagull (which sorry to say is the lady and saviour of EVE) handles it - I wouldnt be surprised if latter down the road you'd see a patch note "CQs are now shareable and you may invite your friends".

WiS was not bad - it just came at a bad time and was handled poorly.

WiS is what would bring CCP more cash and, to all you bitter vets, more targets to shoot at. How is that a bad thing for either of the involved parties? :)

the way people complain about people jumping to npc corps during wardecs or to avoid them then a WiS system will bring nothing more than encouragement and something to do instead of going into space. soon eve becomes a "Space Sims" full of advertising and maybe microtransactions,

Valkyrie and legion are seperate things so possible to bring in a different income and if they are successful then the marketing alone would help the whole company, WiS system is just an addon which wouldnt really bring anything financially but more of a social interaction aspect, would it bring more subs? maybe, maybe not, even if it did would it create interaction in space or would they come to socialise in the space bar providing nothing to the actual gameplay, and would they pay the subscription costs for this feature alone?

So in summary CCP should spend resources on something that some people in some corps might use sometimes for a select few of their members who are of a certain rank within the corp and who also happen to have the hardware to handle multiple people standing around staring at each other in CQ, while they chat on Teamspeak. A useless feature devoid of actual gameplay, for a pretty narrow band of players. Great. Yeah, CCP should get right on that.



This was the only time that WiS really seemed interesting. Probably because it was the only time that WiS actually had a point and wasn't just empty eye candy. But yeah, I guess CCP realized making a responsive and fun avatar-based game was hard and would basically amount to creating a whole new game. And it still wouldn't have been really adding anything new to EVE. We already gather items via exploration, hacking, and archaeology in our ships. Why would some items now require us to leave our ships for some reason? Still kind of reeks of trying to force a square peg into a round hole. But it could have been fun and contained some actual gameplay at least. Better than standing around staring at each other.

I'd pay for it. Just like I already pay for Devs to work on the rest of EVE's aspects that I don't care about or aren't involved in whatsoever. VoV

Strangely though, you won't find me in FW threads, in Indy threads, in incursion threads, in ship threads, in really anything other than the places I have fun. Really not sure why detractors love spending their time doing the opposite when it comes to anything related to a WiS concept. Unless of course you think spending Dev time on something that doesn't interest you is tantamount to heresy, in which case here's some ammo, the monument is that way ->


To you.


For you.


For you.


I dunno, maybe fun?

I'm actually not against EVE having some sort of avatar-based gameplay. I like my characters and wouldn't mind doing things as them rather than as ships all the time. This is a general discussion about WiS, why it was canned, and what it could have been or could be in the future. Yes, I am expressing MY thoughts on the matter. Duh.