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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2012.11.04 17:08:00 -
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And once again, that portion of EVE's community that bothers with these forums displays its general lack of enthusiasm for new ideas, a pessimistic fatal streak, a total lack of vision, a cynical conservative bent and a total lack of any understanding about how to go about running a games studio which presently has only one profitable title to its name.
Business as usual then. I really don't know why I bother coming here. This exact same thing happened with Incarna - they had what I personally thought was a great idea to add whole new player-driven sections of the economy to the game, and a noisy faction of luddites in the community pissed all over it because it didn't fit their narrow vision of what EVE should be. I'm still angry about that.
And now people have the audacity to complain that we don't have proper WiS or any WoD game footage or whatever, when it's OUR. ZARKING. FAULT. Us! the Community! We're the ones who went on a noisy rampage over those very same things when they were first proposed, forcing CCP to back off and focus on the flying and spaceships instead of moving the game in that direction and now some of us are griping about not having them?
GFDI if you wanted them that badly, you should have spoken up and encouraged CCP to keep making them when they were first proposed, rather than sit back and let the uninspired armchair games designers decide that they wanted to fly the ship for us.
/rant
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.08.06 16:35:00 -
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Eh. I want to see more Incarna content, but I'm patient. I want to own a casino, but I've got other means of making money. My enjoyment of the game isn't contingent on future content.
Still. I was at fanfest, Hilmar asked if we wanted more Incarna content, and what I heard was a resounding "YES!" I very much hope that's listened to.
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.08.08 14:40:00 -
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Jill has it exactly right. EVE is all about sandboxy building, and there is no good reason why that sandboxy building has to be confined to spaceships. Indeed, it already isn't - there are players who make fortuns on market manipulation without ever undocking, others who get their corporations to bring them the minerals they turn into ships, and others still whose major contribution to the game has involved Teamspeak more than it has the F1 button.
Then there's EVEbet and Somer Blink, neither of which directly involve spaceships.
if there are new frontiers to explore where we assemble, say, hive-of-scum-and-villainy drinking dens where pilots can do business in deregulated cybernetics and black market modules, or casinos where interstellar intrigue plays out over hands of Shield Tank and exorbitantly priced glasses of whisky, then I personally want to explore those frontiers.
EVE is not just Internet spaceships.
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.08.08 14:56:00 -
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Taiwanistan wrote:give an example of how avatars will be used to achieve the above.
Let's say I dock on a Duvolle station. There are labs here. Duvolle Laboratories, full of prototype weapon and module schematics.
Those are the sort of thing I might want to get my hands on, to procure an edge in my space battles. I've got a few options. Maybe I can try to hack their systems for myself. Maybe I can hire somebody to do it for me. Maybe I've got hold of these things and want to make money off them rather than use them.
Maybe I want to do all of this without CONCORD noticing and damaging my security rating as a result, so I have to do it in person, face-to-face, in a bar. Maybe I can be the buyer rather than the seller and get these modules off somebody who's already done the dangerous part. Or some illegal deregulated implants with the limiters taken off.
Maybe I want to play a shell game to throw off the licensed enforcer who's trying to sniff out the black market by making it look like my place is the smuggler's dive, rather than the nice place my friend owns two systems over.
Maybe I want to make guns and tanks and stuff to sell to the DUST troopers, and need to use smaller scale factories than the ones capsuleers use, which can only be installed in corporate offices rather than coming with the station and being available to everyone.
Maybe I want to set up my own epic mission arcs and send people all over New Eden in a relationship where they get paid for doing the arc, and I get paid a little bit too.
Maybe I want to make NPC agents obsolete, and put mission running in player hands.
There are all sorts of options, if you just exercise a little imagination.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.08.08 16:43:00 -
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I've been playing around with the Shadowrun Returns editor recently, creating my own story for people to go and play. Player-made content is going to, in theory, become the core of the game's appeal with time. I'm just inspired by that - the idea that players can create their own stories and draw other players in. Adding a reward for both runner and creator is an added bonus - bear in mind, where it's happened in, say Neverwinter Nights, there has been no actual reward for the creators beyond satisfaction.
It was less a serious suggestion than an illustration that there are opportunities to be had in station environments which may not exist elsewhere in the game. Figuring out what those opportunities are would just involve going off on a tangent a bit which is no bad thing.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2005
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Posted - 2013.08.13 14:18:00 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:WiS was the future, and CCP not only killed the future...
Okay stop. STAHP.
CCP didn't kill it, they felt compelled to switch strategy to appease an angry player base who overreacted to an unpopular attitude, and have been leery of going back to it because of those precise same overreacting players.
Blame everyone who shot that statue in Jita.
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2012
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Posted - 2013.08.13 16:43:00 -
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A separate chat would effectively make it an instance, really. I think we're all against that, right?
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2012
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Posted - 2013.08.13 16:52:00 -
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You make a good point and I stand corrected.
An in-character blog and a video:
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2031
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Posted - 2013.08.13 23:27:00 -
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Nah, see, I troll people by not arguing with them. It's a meta thing.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2038
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Posted - 2013.08.14 17:32:00 -
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you must have missed the bit where somebody else pointed that out and I agreed and stood corrected.
I mean, I know that's a rare thing on the Internet, but come on.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
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Posted - 2013.08.28 02:11:00 -
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if CCP implement it the way I'm sure they'd like to, then Valkyrie will itself be exactly that - a different way for players to access the sandbox and then be left to do the rest.
Kwatz! You people are so negative. Do you seriously not get how this works? The EVE Sandbox does not have to be solely Internet Spaceships. Okay? It's like Narnia. Everyone knows about the wardrobe, but the kids in the books also got there on a train and by staring at a picture for a while. It was still the same Narnia no matter how they got there.
Doesn't matter if you're playing a Capsuleer, a DUST Merc or a Valkyrie pilot, you still wind up in New Eden, and New Eden is the sandbox. I don't understand all this pessimism surrounding the idea of having different lenses and modes of access to accommodate different gaming tastes.
I mean what's behind that? Do you think it's not going to work, in which case why not? Or are you just jealous about having to share the sandbox with more kids?
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2264
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Posted - 2013.08.28 02:20:00 -
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CCP felt compelled to abort Incarna and go into tweak-and-polish mode for a few years. Recall, at the Fanfests after it the mere mention of WiS was enough to inspire booing. Any mention of it on the forums was met with similar negativity.
Fact is, I believe them when they say that what they produced was all they could produce in the available development time for a twice-yearly expansion schedule.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
2266
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Posted - 2013.08.28 10:42:00 -
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Teinyhr wrote:Stitcher wrote:CCP felt compelled to abort Incarna and go into tweak-and-polish mode for a few years. Recall, at the Fanfests after it the mere mention of WiS was enough to inspire booing. Any mention of it on the forums was met with similar negativity. Oh? I'm pretty sure people cheered quite hard last fanfest when Hilmar asked "if they want to see the door open." And harder when he asked it again. Then stating nonchalantly "maybe next year." And I don't remember fanfest attendees ever booing at WiS related stuff, not even immediately after the fiasco.
LAST fanfest, yes. The one immediately after Incarna? They booed quite loudly. I was there, and I remember thinking "morons" to myself when they did.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2013.12.11 16:39:00 -
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Nadia Barsrallah wrote:Its a little saddening that after all this time, that there hasn't been any update, or pulse on this topic from CCP, a dev blog, or anything. The commuinity still cares, does CCP?
This. Absolutely this. It'd just be nice to see a senior EVE dev put out a blog along the lines of, say "yes, we're still interested in doing it, eventually, and we have ideas A, B and C about how to make it definitely EVE, but on foot. But we're going to do X, Y and Z first, and we don't anticipate that we'll be returning our attention to avatar-based gameply before 201x at the earliest."
Some insight into its status in the dev team would be truly welcome.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.02.21 15:21:00 -
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Chinwe Rhei wrote:As a way of letting new players know what's going on it's not bad, and if the content was less repetitive it could be better. The first small thing i'd like to see in CQ is to be able to see EvE TV on there when it's live and maybe stream some other CCP or community EvE related videos sometime.
Now there's an idea. Just call up a field, enter the name of a Twitch channel, and have that appear in your CQ.
I mean sure, it'd be easier just to log out and watch the stream in your web browser of choice, but it'd be a fun little feature.
Playing EVE online and using the CQ screen to watch somebody ELSE play EVE online? Entertainingly pointless, if nothing else.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.02.21 15:24:00 -
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Flamespar wrote:So if CCP were to do a single iteration on avatars, would would be the minimum first step?
Being able to invite other players to your CQ for example?
Being able to generate some resource that is useful to the spaceships side of the game, even if that resource is just ISK accumulated by running a casino in Jita.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.02.25 18:12:00 -
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Any small, slow iteration has got to be better than stagnation, surely? We don't need a Jesus Feature based around Avatar content in the next expansion, but a little bit of extra avatar stuff creeping in here and there really would be very nice. More free clothing options and more stuff on the NeX may not sound like much, but if we build from there into having, say, a corp meeting room, or CQ customisation, and from there maybe we can accelerate into smuggling and heists and below-decks shootouts.
The point is, something small is better than nothing at all.
An in-character blog and a video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.02.25 19:44:00 -
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Oh I agree, I'd LIKE to see a major avatar-based expansion introducing all sorts of cool sandboxy gameplay to explore on foot.
But if it's a choice between nothing at all, and something small, then something small wins every time, right?
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.02.28 14:52:00 -
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So the trick to avoiding more riots is to make the next avatar-content expansion not lackluster.
People didn't object to the existence of human characters walking around, they objected to the way it was one room and a lot of expensive vanity items that didn't meaningfully contribute to the sandbox.
If any future EVE on Foot expansion did introduce content which contributed to the sandbox and fed into the space side of the game and was any good, the complainers would be quite rightly ignored.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox
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Posted - 2014.02.28 17:34:00 -
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I'm up for walking around anything so long as there's a resource to gather, ISK to be made, or people drawn there by those two things whom I can then shoot and whose resources and ISK I can then purloin.
An in-character blog and a video:
http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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