Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Avatars: love them .. hate them .. I don't care. But the systems that the developers for WiS are actually kind of interesting. Interesting enough to think about using some of it for EVE.

Back Story: How do you get where you are? How do you get the skills you have at character creation? Can we experience the moments leading up to that choice, when you betray your mortality?

True to CCP's vision: Starting out as a mortal, training to be a pod pilot... what if you had a choice? What if you could reject the future before you? Use the knowledge to become a powerful citizen, a Dust soldier.. or just fade away into obscurity at a bar in Jita?

So .. when the *ahem* Dust settles... Can we look at a way to make a project to basically make a *new* IP that DOES use avatar tech, but in a meaningful way. A free to play gateway to the EVE universe that is basically the NPE. Something that can be skipped by signing up with EVE directly, but influence the universe.

For instance, this project could branch off to having market alts not being pod pilots. They could, instead be a character that was enticed away from being an immortal, and instead is relegated to stations, perhaps recruited by an npc faction. Or becoming a politicians.. or God knows what.

Basically you get a NPE that can be a single / multi player demo that interacts with the EVE server, but to train past a certain part, you sign up with the respective game...or maybe continue on in a sort of new one. Say your skill que is blocked... or something.

Edit: Maybe this is cross platform? So that PS3 can use it? You start out in the newbie systems.. with local chat, etc?