Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though... thankfully. It's there if you want it. I'm sure there are some who like it.

IT DID. But then we shot a statue.

and some how that changed something. lol

You could still pull up the regular interface, all that really changed was you can now spin your ship again instead of looking at a picture of a door.

I don't think BoB is simple enough tbh.

Indeed. The graphics are too detailed and cluttered, making it hard to see where stuff is.

M$

M$

Watch out everyone, we have some badasses here.

Using a dollar sign to have your own little cry about Microsoft is so 1990s.

Oh look, Sam, we riled the ma$$e$ >:)

Watch out everyone, we have some badasses here.

Using a dollar sign to have your own little cry about Microsoft is so 1990s.

Meh, EVE doesn't force you to use that interface though...

ONLY because players kicked and screamed about it until they put the old station environment back in. The first incarna release did not give you the option of not loading the "captain's quarters".

That was an hilarious thread.

I| also think it was the nail for this forum to not allow any more images besides avatars. GDamn I miss the imaginative signature images.

Microsoft once tried to turn a simple point and click interface into a personal environment... it failed horribly.

They called it Microsoft BoB... decades later... CCP also received a poor response to a nearly identical product... some ideas are just bad =P

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3428/msdiditfirst.jpg

Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.

EVE Player base has held steady at around 350k for the past 2 years or so. Unless you guys can come up with another suggestions that can increase prospective player base, I suggest that you guys stop bitching and moaning.

Microsoft once tried to turn a simple point and click interface into a personal environment... it failed horribly.

They called it Microsoft BoB... decades later... CCP also received a poor response to a nearly identical product... some ideas are just bad =P

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3428/msdiditfirst.jpg

"the only thing that is constant is change"

Hmm, where you see change I see stagnation. Humans always tend to drift back to slavery under one or a few masters. Look at computers now - we went from the mainframe model, where you had a terminal or thin client that would send your data to the mainframe to be processed by the centralized CPU. You would get your results back once the job was run, and be billed for CPU time.

The computer revolution changed all that. You would have your own CPU, and run your own software, and get your own results. But what is happening now? The computer is turning into a terminal, and "the cloud" (be it servers at google, microsoft, amazon or whoever) will perform exactly the same function as the mainframe used to. The same old top down model that has existed since the dawn of human history.

I can see computer games easily following the same path into eventual mediocrity as new "features" are added to make games consistent with "industry standards", until at one point it becomes hard to tell them apart. The goal however will always be the same. You will be charged the maximum amount possible and given as little control as possible. Oh sure you can personalize your avatar or toon or whatever. Choose between official choice A, B, or C.

Isn't "stagnation" itself a change? Instead of maintaining status quo, it's going down the hill, for the worse. That's change!!!

It's all a matter of frame of reference, just like centrifugal force.