EVE General Discussion

No **** Sherlock.

While I understand and agree with the removal of the feature due to the dev cost of maintaining it while there is no short term plan to expand it any further, it looks very very silly argument that usage of statistics. It's a bloody room where you can only walk around and use the same stuff you can use with the HUD buttons. I don't get the point. It's totally unnecessary unless they are alsto trying to prove people are not interested in that, in which case, not only the usage of those statistics is silly, but it's also poor misleading.

Indie game design philosophy: do one thing, do it well. Maybe two.

A unified universe where you can walk around stations and do complicated things, and then jump in a ship to do other things is not a project which follows this philosophy. It's just asking to be a massive AAA-style broken mess and/or just have a lot of neglected parts because, with that many things to work on, it's easy for management to forget about some of them entirely.

Oh, I didn't know you can switch to hangar view! Great article

Simply saying it can't be done doesn't make it reality. For a lot of people, we backed EVE early on because it looked like it would be the first MMO that actually pulled it off. It was CCP's stated mission to do this and they had working builds of a lot of these concepts.


I doubt anyone could have foreseen just how badly upper management would handle their company and its projects, though. So it's a moot point now. The vision is gone and most of the people behind that initial vision threw in the towel a long time ago. They are likely more concerned about retirement at this phase of their life, rather than creation.

I don't even watch the fanfest stream anymore. It's been smoke and mirrors for years and it's just one Ted Talk after another with someone pacing back and fourth doing their best to be charismatic while talking about crap that will never happen to an annually shrinking audience.


If CCP is embodied by any particular sin it is this -- A lack of commitment. They do not know how to see anything through to its end, and they never will.

I guess that we will see how this new focus turns out.

What? Are you talking about the test server?

Well, worse than I predicted back then. When CQ came out, people were anxiously waiting for WiS, but back then I said as much as "wait for it" has to be translated to "don't ask before 2016" - and that was 2011 or so.

Without WiS it was easy to see that CQ would be a stillborn. It doesn't add any new gameplay but only spruces up on graphics, for oneself. And with the sluggishness of innovation it was easy to see that WiS would not come quick enough before CQ loses appeal.

I think those people who actually invested in apparel for anything below the chest will regret it now.

As far as I read it, they want to replace it with some sort of "photo booth". Might be not the exact words, but that's how I see it.

I imagine it to be something like Poser or Daz3D (which would be adequate replacements if you are interested in character shots - and the last one is for free, AFAIK), as in, quite the same as you have it with the portrait shots but maybe with full body shots, and the option for "green background" somewhere in the settings does suggest something like it.

If it turns out that way, precious little in usability is lost and by their words, lots of legacy code hindering further development.

Though, my bets would be that CQ will be scrapped without any replacement in sight.

A bridge on a capsuleer ship would be redundant. A first person view from the perspective of the pilot would just be the inside of a dark, goo filled pod. Even if there was lights it would just show a murky view of a metal wall.

But if you think staring at a grey wall would help with your immersion levels. Then grab a glass, fill it with gelatine of your preferred flavor and stare at a wall through it while you play. It will simulate pretty accurately the first person view from your "bridge"

One psychopath is in advanced sensory deprivation chamber of jove origin other ppl on board are not, including bridge crew there is no reason for one not to exist after all ships are made for all users not just pod pilots.