Khoda Khan wrote:DUST is not EVE.
Walking in Stations is contrary to EVE lore.
Walking in Stations has nothing to do with EVE.
Walking in Stations is a complete waste of time.
If you want to "roleplay" in EVE, then actually play your "role" as a pod pilot. If you were an immortal being would you actually do something silly that removed your immortal status, even temporarily? Like, say, leaving your pod? You think you're going to hang out with your immortal buddies and play table top games? In a universe where violence is quick and sudden (and quite permanent for a pod pilot outside his pod... no waking up in the clone vat... dead is DEAD). You are a god, act like one instead of a commoner who wants to play tabletop games in his CQ with buddies.
Also, just for clarification... Walking in Stations is contrary to EVE lore.
Here's your problem OP.
People who are afraid of change and seem to think that thier vision of EVE is the correct vision of EVE.
CCP had a vision of EVE that went beyond just FiS and for some reason, instead of HTFU they backed off to people who demanded that EVE never evolve beyond anything other then just FiS, even though it would greatly benefit the game.
Every time I see people talking about sandboxes I see the same thing. EVE is the best sandbox on the market, but I dont' want to be a spaceship. Instead it feels like people like the guy I quoted have won out and convinced CCP that the magority of players don't want EVE to be anything more then it already is.
At the same time I don't want what you asked for either. I want WiS, not some cut down, feature lite ability to wallk around and not do anything but play a single game.
I want to own space outside of CQ.
I want to run a bar.
I want to run a night club.
I want to run a gambling hall.
I want to hack the station of another corp for valuable information.
I want to sell sell drugs.
I want to shoot another player in the back while he's watching an exotic dancer becaue I'm at war with his corp.
I want to get missions from shady individuals or pirate corp contacts on the station, face to face.
I want to board a Gallente station and set of a bomb in faction warfare.
I want to smuggle things on the station.
I want to be able to live my entire life on a station, not as a pod pilot.
I want to pay another player to shuttle me to another station because I'm not a pod pilot and can't actually fly a ship myself.
I want to start a taxi service flying players between stations because they're not a pod pilot and can't fly any ships.
I want EVE to evolve beyond FiS and become the sandbox MMO that no other company can ever compare to. I want to fire up the launcher and see 100k players online at once, and that's not likely to happen if EVE never evolves beyond FiS.
Stick to YOUR vision CCP, and not the vision of a group of people who can't see outside of the box, let alone beyond their own narrow little world.