
Nariya Kentaya
Celestial Ascension
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Posted - 2011.10.26 21:48:00 -
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Myfanwy Heimdal wrote:Walking in Stations is a huge task and one which really hadn't been thought out properly.
We're talking stations of over 20 km in size. How are we going to walk around that lot? What are we going to do in there? In fact, what is in all those thousands of miles of corridors and how are we going to interact?
I've seen other games where we've had taverns in towns where players could meet and, always, they're empty. So, if we're wanting an Eve version of Mallory's Bar (The Gap) or that bar from Total Recall then we're going to have to have something worth our while going around walking in stations.
When I was playing other games I never once saw the point of towns or cities where we could meet other players. Not once did I say I'll spend the evening playing BadgerQuest or whatever and spend the time sitting around in a town. And neither did I once run into any players who were hanging around like extras in Westerns lounging around on the boardwalks.
In every MMO that I have played, players would come into town - because the had to - get whatever it was they had to have done done as fast as they could - and then beetle off to do some whatever they did out of the towns.
So, please tell me, and I mean this most sincerely, what possibly could CCP do to make walking in stations interesting or purposeful to the majority of players? I have, at the moment no interest in WiS and I can't see me every having any interest in doing so. CCP would have to pull a massive rabbit out of a hat to make me interested. And if they tried to force us to leave the pod to find an agent/repairshop/refinery then the recent rage would be nothing compared to that storm.
Walking In Stations/ It's not going to work. to be fair adn offer a counterpoint, SWG, back before SOE killed it, the Taverns were pretty active, with several players itting around in chairs chatting for hours, i was often one of those, simply because it was a fun time to sit around listening to music having a meeting with buddies about the recent happenings. Now, they would ahve to make the bar pretty damn fancy, elaborate, and fun to be in and hang out in though before i would use it. |