EVE General Discussion

I do not know if I am the only one who is interested in such a concept, but I'll just put it out there all the same.

Having played a little bit of Star Wars: Armada, and a passive interest in Mongoose Publishing's Babylon 5: A Call To Arms, the idea just came to my mind of a EVE Online-style tabletop game in the same style as one or the other (since Babylon 5: Call to Arms was far more diverse than what I've seen of Armada so far).

I can imagine it as not only being a gateway into the EVE Online universe for new players, but also a way to expand EVE's universe beyond the gaming systems.

I played games workshops Battlefleet Gothic back in the day.

It was a good game and great fun but the biggest issue was missiles and torpedoes as spamming ordinance that moves every turn in a tabletop game got to be a total PITA.

If the tabletop version was modeled after some of the classic war games. The ones that could last for weeks with thousands of cardboard pieces, 4' x 6' hex maps, deep strategy and a real feel for what it would be like to be in command of massive fleets.

These pre-internet games are what got me into strategy games and MMOs in the first place and EVE is one of the closest to that feeling of being there that I've played.

Yeah...I'd pony up for something like that.

Mr Epeen

this is a decent idea - so long as Two Fat Lardies write the rules

it also be nice if they had trading cards with all the ships be good to collect maybe even make a playable card game like world of tanks/generals

Pewter miniatures are archaic. Plastic or go home.

Also eve have sufficiently complex combat mechanics that a miniatures war game would be hell to play.

alread started ... useing old school battle-tech as a base line ... converting ships and weapons is easy enough

biggest issue im haveing is skills conversion

I don't have any experience with the Mechwarrior table top. Why did you choose to use this as a base model vs cross referencing X-Wing, Star Wars: Armada, Firestorm Armada, Battleship Gothic, etc. and combining the best concepts from all of those templates?

Also what scale are you looking to build towards? Fighter based combat, squadron combat, or full fleet battles. As each of these styles suits different play styles and game construction methods.

With 3d printing becoming more and more available I have been wanting to work with others on building out an idea like this as I have been playing table top turn based war-games for 17 years and have idle thought about EVE in this style since about 2004. Now it is in striking distance for fans remotely in non-for profit models that may be able to be picked up by CCP for syndication.

*First and foremost I just want to throw down at a local store with EVE miniatures.*

TC game - Use cards to mimic fleet batles. Play a cyno card, look through your deck and put into play any three ships.
Tabletop game - simulate sovereignty wars.
Dice game -simulate dog fighting

Personally, I think a TCG would be fun. EQ did something like that, where one could play the TCG in the MMO it was cool, a TCG like that inside eve that we could play while spinning in station would be nice.

A miniature game would be cool, one of those clix games, that come pre-painted. Would be hard to find partners though, so that's why I like electronic TCG, easier to find partners.

The problem is a Venn diagram. The overlapping area of EVE Players with Tabletop Wargame players is not large enough to be a viable commercial product.

And lest not forget we're talking about a company which, after 12 years, still hasn't find a way to sell branded baseball caps and T-shirts in a online store...

And no, it is not because they're a Icelandic company. It's because they're ¡¡CCP¡¡ and always need to reinvent the wheel as a irregular polygon. Maybe they should ask these guys how have they done it since 2001(!) and get some tips...