Ok... This whole eva thing and actually getting to play with your avatars is a cool idea. But honestly, I would just be satisfied if there was a social aspect to it. Let me walk around inside of hubs and stations, see other peoples avatars, go to chat bars or actually have to walk to different shops or places for different things instead of just a GUI. That really wouldn't be THAT hard would it? I'm honestly completely stunned to NOT see that in this game.

Let me tell you about a game that has all these things and is space related called Star Citizen. Hope goons like you will enjoy yourselves when your targets will be enjoying themselves there.

The people paying for subscriptions. Here is how you can tell if the majority of players want Space Barbies: cancel your subs and if there are enough of you CCP will take action like they did after the mass cancellations when Incarna was released.

Funny how out of all the tens of thousands of EVE players, Rhes is the only one that is vocally against the implementation of meaningful avatar content.

Looks like new stuff for avatars is a virtual certainty.

My initial $35 turned into $250 pledge and I added a $100 Drake pirate ship, might splurge on something else before November. And I will think of the goon and his hate for WiS and have a smile on my face as I part with the cash.

The result of that planning highlighted that right now, we do not have the time or people to build this without impacting what we can deliver for our players who are flying in space. To create this will mean a considerable investment which will take time to put together and also a new focus for us just at a time when we as a company have another new game coming into the EVE Universe (yes DUST 514, IGÇÖm looking at you).

So, all that being said, we have a great concept to expand the EVE Universe but now is not the right time for us to take that step. ItGÇÖs a step I very much want to take but I want to take it when it wonGÇÖt mean removing developers and focus from flying in space. So, for the time being, watch this space with regards to exploration gameplay for EVE avatars.

Vincent Athena, I think you missed the point. You actually do things with your spaceship even if you control everything through the UI. It matters where the ship is and what it has fitted in relation to what you are doing despite not having a hard requirement to see the ship. You can indeed have avatar gameplay without avatars (e.g. text adventures) but the fact you are a person still matters to what you are doing. I'm talking about using the physicality of the avatar you are controlling.

Meanwhile Star Citizen devs announced collectible fish for aquarium

Seems you don't *get* Sci Fi, Captain Picard had a fish tank, the Enterprise had several of them actually.

I don't think Ish, J3ss, Shalua, or anyone else for that matter, would really take vanity features over meaningful gameplay.

Of course they would. That's exactly what they are asking for in this thread.

They are crying over robes ffs.

Make CCP change the couse of the game??? What are we now? Dellusional fanbois who think they own the game and force CCP to fire a whole dev team so they stop whining? Nope, we're all adults here

20,000 sheep following a drunk megalomaniac made CCP change direction for the worse ... gee you must be proud of yourselves.

But balancing has nothing to do with WiS, WiS is a completely different type of effort, and would not harm subscriptions, as long as CCP continued to rebalance and iterate spaceship gameplay.

Even worst, the whole Hallelujah Plan and its 3 years course will end up rewarding only the players who already managed to make the transition to nullsec gameplay.

Now you get to feel what it's like, when CCP comes out with a statement that your favorite part of this SPACESHIP GAME won't be worked on for "18 months", because of restricted manpower. How do you like it, eh? You don't like it when your game lies broken and bleeding, ignored for "other develoment comitments." The trouble is you WiSers are a minority in the game, heck you can't eveven get enough people to shoot a damned statue in Jita about it, so what makes you think CCP should listen to you?

CCP worked on Incarna, and all we got out of it was, us forced into a rusty closet at first, and barbie dress-up, and it melted your graphics card to do it to. I'm glad that CCP realised that they were trying to fill in a, develomental Grand Canyon, with shovels, and stoped trying to throw more manpower at something that had no gameplay at all.