CCP really needs to announce what they have planned for avatars and a loose timeframe for delivering it. Its pretty disrespectful to players to get them excited about the feature, and then do nothing about it. Even a general vision for avatars would be nice.

I'm seeing a lot of familiarities here..... so many people saying "Yes, do eeeet" while looking through rose tinted glass. Then when it arrives, we get another WiS because it's out of EVE and CCP's element and they end up botching it. At that point hundreds, maybe even thousands of man-hours are lost, and we've sacrificed a COMPLETE POS overhaul like they've been talking about, or maybe even something better in the name of completing this exploration with avatars.

Sure I like walruses. That doesn't mean I put on a walrus suit and hump somebody wearing a squirrel suit.

People who like animals are great. Furries are disgusting and CCP shouldn't be encouraging them to play Eve.

Exactly my point. They are being fixed because CCP stopped with the WiS nonsense and promised to focus on spaceships.

I too would like to thank Rise for sticking to his guns. His decision to not to allow SoE ships to light covert cynos is hereby forgiven ;)



And, to be honest, for the better. Barring high-level metagame, EVE's action happens when you press undock - for whatever reasons, and get into action. High-level metagame happens on comms anyway and people don't even log on for that stuff.

When it comes to space, EVE offers a huge variety of content. From being a hulking, kilometer-long behemoth worth of guns and steel in a fleet of hundreds, through crazy frigate and interceptor flying (as close as you can get to twitch gameplay in EVE, damn those things are fast), logistics (GSOL <3) all the way to clandestine operations. It all happens in the same universe, all affects the same people.

While "I was there" was a dumb trailer, like all the trailers are - the saying stuck. Those moments, as rare as they are, exist and are retold on comms on nights when nothing seems to be going on. But, no matter what story it is they have a common theme - they all happen in space, after someone pressed the undock button and left the station. The more reasons and ways CCP gives us to do so, the more chance this time around something amazing will happen.

Integrating station gameplay to generate content like this? Sure, yeah, it'd be a great idea if not for the fact space isn't done yet and it's unwise to start another, completely new piece of content while the previous ones aren't done.

All that said, ISD should unleash the lockhammer upon this thread and stick Rise's statement at the end of it, if just for the sake of making it clear where things stand. A lot of people get confused after reading the first post.

Comms give the voice to a name. They don't "disconnect" players from the "world of EVE" - they help build said world, transforming a bunch of random people into a community.

Yup! Solo players then tend to find themselves a community they feel like they belong to and discover that whetever was they're doing can be even better with friends. Hell, even rolling solo you can sit on voice and brag to your corpmates how you just punched a Raven to death with your bare damn rifter.

And let's leave "but poor newbies!" out of this - there's plenty of communities ready to lend a hand to a newbie.

For now CQ is an artsywork SP module that runs, from the looks of it, completely clientside. CCP would likely have to recode the whole thing from scratch and that takes devtime - one that could be put elsewhere.

A cube with a lantern that moves around to other cubes. That's the pinnacle of meaningful gameplay.

How about not all, except for a very select group of people.

Some fun stats can be found at http://eve-search.com/stats/thread/161511-1

3225 post, 448 posters.

Top 10 posters have written 40%+ of all posts (top 15 breaks 50%).

And 8.7% of all posts have been written by a Fazmarai ;)

I agree that this happens, but it happens because, as you say, they are only presented crappy PvE content. If, instead, they are present WiS and not even shown the spaceships initally, how can that make things anything but worse?