EVE General Discussion

All true, you only forgot to add one bit. Putting DUST on an antiquated console when your entire existing EvE playerbase, and thus most who would have been interested in DUST as a companion to EvE, was on PC. CQ's and WIS were fully dependent on EvE/DUST integration, as it was originally touted before whichever moron in charge decide "Put it on PS3!", for a reason to exist. Without it it just became as others call it: Barbie Dress-Up.

Well you can always admire them in the little window while your ship is being blown up.

RIP Captain Quarters. You will be missed but it is not yet dead. I opened Captain Quarters screenshot thread to new forums. Show how beautiful your Captain Quarters (TM) are. There is still time to take pictures of this beautiful environment.

https://meta.eveonline.com/t/captain-quarter-screenshots/10431

No quarters means no vision anymore for the game or is the disappearance a nail in the coffin of the game?

That the quarters leave is fine. It has presently no function and is technically runs on outdated software, fine explanation for today, yes.
But about 6 years ago during the Fanfest (and I visited many of those then) it WAS a big deal for CCP and the fans. And for the elected players, the Council. With big fanfare, walking in station was hailed. Yes, CCP was listening to the player base then, also.

None of this came to be. Perhaps choices are made by means of hype only. This Council says this, latter councils say this, and vision and mission go out the window.

So I am returning now for the second time to the game, and again I come to the same conclusion: EVE Online is old wine in new bottles with all those new updates. It's not a vision and inspiration of where to go with the game. Sure, there still is PVP but what about the player base that wants more ease and more immersement (it that the good word?) but I cant see that happening.

It is to much a sales pitch: I take away stations and give you other stations, sorry Citadels; I take away old mining opps and give you in return YOUR very own assured destruction of your gameplay, yes, its is for the players. And then, all those ship colours. Sure these are nice updates to get teenagers out of bed, but it can't hardly be called an improvement. No updates are not CCP's forte.... because there is no vision or attachment/immersement anymore.

Well it's a bid difficult to grasp in correct figures, but the total players base IS lesser than before. As a returnee for the second time, I can't escape feeling sad - the game is changing for the worst.

So, if you get the drift of my message above, then the disappearance of the captain's quarters is perhaps also a new nail in the coffin of EVE Online.

Any time I wasn't docked in citadel I was in captain's quarters view, guess that makes me part of that negligible 3%. I'll miss being able to appreciate the immensity of some of the ships from the perspective of our tiny characters; it was limited, but for what it was worth it made the game a bit more immersive. Here's hoping they pick it back up in the future and deliver something better than what they initially reneged on.

To me it looks somewhat bad on Eve and I hope this is not a trend to come with more in the game. Who doesn't like seeing their guy walk around in a station.

I will miss this feature dearly and it definatly doesent make me want to support CCP more. My main concern is that there was absolutely NO communication with the playerbase about this over the years. It was literally radio silent for what, 6 years? And then all of a sudden it is going to dissapear.

In CCP seagul's last video she was all abput transparancy and being open to conversations with the playerbase and this goes right against this. Hey guys were retiring this entire feature, good luck with it!

The meme eve is dying is real unfortunatly, for years and years the sky was the limit in eve and everything seemed to be possible. Now i feel like resources are being wasted on crappy CCP side projects and a skeleton crew remains that does rebalances etc.

Eh. SC 3.0 appears is going to be a thing at this point.

2.0 had walking in station, but 3.0 will have walking on planets.

+1

Black market deals. Smuggling. Third person gunplay. Mass-effect style gameplay. There was also the dynamic of being able to dock ships with enemy installations during PvE missions and infiltrate to achieve some objective.

The point wasn't just WiS, it was that CCP intended to let EVE basically be a hub universe for multiple types of games, all of which could interact with each other through WiS and that would increase the social base greatly as well as give you more things to do when you got bored of staring at a spreadsheet.

Then at one point during the summer of rage Hilmar had a midlife crisis, started nuking projects and firing employees. The projects that did go forward (ie dust) were a joke and lead to the firing of more employees.

So yes, it could have been big. Huge, even. The kind of game you've never seen before. The EVE you have today isn't a game about spaceships, it's a game that was left 1/4th finished and all you have is spaceships.

Sad to see the final nail in the coffin on this one. I expect the holdovers on the dust forums will probably get news eventually that project Nova is getting the axe as well. Dare to be bold... pfft, what a joke.