Sandbox games don't need new "content", players are the "content" in this genre. What sandbox games need is constant iteration, like the exelent last three expansions.

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Sandbox games don't need new "content", players are the "content" in this genre. What sandbox games need is constant iteration, like the exelent last three expansions.

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its just a bunch of rebalancing but it will shake things up, and christ i mean its not like we literally have people crying for ~new pants to dress up in.

... and christ i mean its not like we literally have people crying for ~new pants to dress up in.

This is really awesome...!!!

Please CCP work on this ... make it an awesome feature like most of us want...!!!

Keep giving me reasons to play for ten more years ... XD

I'll keep dreaming with walking in my ships and watching the awesome bridges we imagine they have.

Of course no one is pissed with the lack of "extra pants". You'd need some content and a reason to want them first, and currently there is no meaningful WiS content (Which is what most of us want). Love the fact that you saw that there was no WiS content in there and immediately thought that your time would be best spent coming back here to disappointing people. Your such a wonderful human being.

[..]make corp meeting rooms, a station bar (with a minigame like Poker), possibly integrate eve voice into character avatars, and leave it at that. When you think about it, those relatively small extensions of Incarna would greatly add to the immersion of the game.

In the last video Q&A they actually responded to the question of future avatar based features. The answer was chuckle, followed by "maybe something will be said at fanfest".

By now I'm fairly sure every fanfest presentation has been fleshed out, so there is no "maybe" about it. There will be something said, however large or small.

In the last video Q&A they actually responded to the question of future avatar based features. The answer was chuckle, followed by "maybe something will be said at fanfest".

By now I'm fairly sure every fanfest presentation has been fleshed out, so there is no "maybe" about it. There will be something said, however large or small.

Jove expats (without access to their technology) as a playable starter race. The lore reason will be that Jove are desperate and think that letting their own mix with other races may trigger new experiences and lead to useful discovery.


PS: can you point the time stamp for that WiS comment? I want to see that chuckle with my own eyes and give a try to reading what it means, if it means anything at all.

If there weren't mega busy stations like Jita that would present lag issues, allowing Avatar movement and socialization on stations would be nice. Maybe even start with POS's. Introduce a new POS that allows a limited number of avatars (10-20) to meet and mingle to discuss Corp agendas.

To start with, I'd like maybe just the cockpit of ships to be made available to move around in with our avatars with maybe a cot in the corner where I can catch some Z's on long space hauls.

The fanfest program is out. One of the hour long session is called "Prototyping the Future":

"Team Avatar and Team Prototyping Rocks have been
developing new gameplay ideas for EVE over the past
year and a bit. Come along and find out what prototyping
is all about and see some of the ideas they came up
with for features as diverse as Mining and Exploration.
They will also be discussing the new features they are
implementing for the summer expansion which were
generated as a result of these efforts."

My guess is we will see the prototype wreck diving stuff at least. No idea about mining prototypes or what they are implementing in the summer expansion. But it appears there will be more implemented than nothing.

It would actually be fairly easy to instance inside station content. Establishments could be divided into sections, like corp offices, that can be selected when you dock. Each of those would have a max player count and each station would have a max number of establishments.

They have even released a UI improvements trailer at some point (probably about a year ago now) that has images of a UI hinting at the above. I'm afraid I can't find the video at the moment. I'll edit this post later to include a link.

Those barely can be called news. We already know what they've prototyped and at least I already have voiced how it serves me nothing as it's miles away from my style of gameplay.

The last bloody thing I want is 20-guys, combat-only, five-hours-long avatar bovine fecal matter.

Well, once they actually manage to get multi-avatar gameplay working it shouldn't be too difficult to add more WiS features bit by bit over the next years. At least, it would prove that they're not just too god-damn incompetent to deal with avatars and that more is possible. Question, though, is whether the next expansion actually features the exploration FPS (or third person shooter) thing or if the part about stuff being implemented in the summer expansion is raising false hopes. Adding the exploration shooter with an exploration themed expansion would make more sense than if they added it in a year with, say, a POS themed expansion, anyway.

Well, once they actually manage to get multi-avatar gameplay working it shouldn't be too difficult to add more WiS features bit by bit over the next years. At least, it would prove that they're not just too god-damn incompetent to deal with avatars and that more is possible. Question, though, is whether the next expansion actually features the exploration FPS (or third person shooter) thing or if the part about stuff being implemented in the summer expansion is raising false hopes. Adding the exploration shooter with an exploration themed expansion would make more sense than if they added it in a year with, say, a POS themed expansion, anyway.