Writing a BIG 4000. post!

We all know that WIS will be a long way to go.

Some devs are prototyping some stuff as rhey mentioned

Maybe some devs could explain here whats is done so far
maybe some screens or vids from some tryouts

Now Fanfest is done they could come in this thread more and share their ideas with us .
asking for ideas and not replying is a one way communication
If you say that you have devoted 4 devs and QA to WIS ,at least show some stuff

We are currently prototyping cooperative gameplay in hazardous environments.
It's not beautiful, just programmer art mostly because we are focusing on trying out the gameplay.

At this point, I'd not want to share how it looks like, but those that came to the Avatar Roundtable at Fanfest got a demo and if someone got pictures, well, I guess those are then in the public domain by now :)

We are currently prototyping cooperative gameplay in hazardous environments.
It's not beautiful, just programmer art mostly because we are focusing on trying out the gameplay.

At this point, I'd not want to share how it looks like, but those that came to the Avatar Roundtable at Fanfest got a demo and if someone got pictures, well, I guess those are then in the public domain by now :)

We are currently prototyping cooperative gameplay in hazardous environments.
It's not beautiful, just programmer art mostly because we are focusing on trying out the gameplay.

At this point, I'd not want to share how it looks like, but those that came to the Avatar Roundtable at Fanfest got a demo and if someone got pictures, well, I guess those are then in the public domain by now :)

We all know that WIS will be a long way to go.
Thnx a lot for this response.

And whats with old ideas that you promised us before, like common areas and shops???
I hope that will be given to us too.

You know, many people leave EVE because there is no social and RPG part of it, common areas and shops would solve that problem.

A cloaked Guttripper watches Oldbutfeelingadventurous leave his ship and enter an ancient floating tomb of a ship. As Oldbutfeelingspringy's footsteps creak across the rotting metal carcass down the dark hallway, a light sprinkling of dust falls from the rafters, illuminated by his trusty helmet light. Finding nothing of worth after an extensive search, Oldbutfeelingempty retraces his steps back to his ship, a bit down on his lack of luck. Much to his dismay, his ship has been hijacked and is probably light years away in some back alley chop shop getting stripped for salvage parts. Oldbutfeelingquitealone is now stuck on a floating tomb of a ship with no way home...

I can see possibilities with this!

Nice to hear your doing someithing like that. If you could please look at Dead Space gameplay as a bit of insperation for this it would be fun to have horror type gameplay where roge medical drones try to kill you with surgical instrements.

Deadspace style combat would be acceptable as its much slower pace, maybe mix in some mass effect elements for the not so dungeon areas where higher paced combat may be required.

Higher paced combat? Like PvP or did you have something else in mind?

Well I earlier stated going into automated factilites to steal software for hacking. The security there would probably frown upon you although hacking your way though the facility is perferrable you could shoot your way in as well I guess. Thats for the pve aspect though.

Our bodies are not normally augmented and preprogrammed like the dust bunnies are. We wouldnt be able to take a dust merc head on and win but it shouldnt allow us not to be able to shoot back at least at anything. So different kind of equipment and armor for us our out of pod picnics as well as fighting practices are needed. Also since it seems we are going though crowded envrionments making it cover rich and having the cover combat is more than sensibly possible.

The idea that we could possibly move the pvp OUT of the stations and into areas like these makes a hell lot more sense game wise.

If any pvp where to happen in stations it should remain underhanded espionage styled. Where you gank somone and they wont know it until hours later when the information you stole/interjected leads them to thier down fall.

PVP in these 'explore' zones should be possible but it would be like crashing an incursion in 0.0. the npcs/envrionment isnt going to give a darn who's side you are on.

In archeaology I can see it becoming a race to the artifact. Where opposing teams could find terminals that if hacked successfully and with a bit of luck would cause problems for the team on the other side of the facility. Direct Conforntation would probably only happen if you get in the artifact room the same time they do and the two of you cannot come to an agreement.

This leaves the question on undocking though if its a remote clone. Maybe have the facility attack the 'loser.'

Common areas and shops aren't part of what we are looking at now. We're focusing on prototyping gameplay and then iterating a bit on what is already in the game and touches upon avatars.

Feel free to ask us again about social spaces once something has come out of our current prototyping work.

FAIL! lol

We are currently prototyping cooperative gameplay in hazardous environments.
It's not beautiful, just programmer art mostly because we are focusing on trying out the gameplay.

At this point, I'd not want to share how it looks like, but those that came to the Avatar Roundtable at Fanfest got a demo and if someone got pictures, well, I guess those are then in the public domain by now :)

Common areas and shops aren't part of what we are looking at now. We're focusing on prototyping gameplay and then iterating a bit on what is already in the game and touches upon avatars.

Feel free to ask us again about social spaces once something has come out of our current prototyping work.

Can you give us an idea of when something might "come out of" your current prototyping work?

CCP said they only need 5 people to see if its fun or not
also I imagine the prototypes are not 'deployable'

It probably look like a cyberspace grid with circles with arrows in them and squars all over the place.

I am wondering what does prototyping mean... are they testing actual code w/o graphics? Or t's just like putting together a bunch of Lego figuriens and drag them on paper maps?

And anyway I repeat myself again: social content is the mother of emergent gameplay. This is a kind of a RPG game after all. Dungeon raiding may be fun to have, but, it's not a if there weren't any other games doing exactly the same...

We are currently prototyping cooperative gameplay in hazardous environments.
It's not beautiful, just programmer art mostly because we are focusing on trying out the gameplay.

At this point, I'd not want to share how it looks like, but those that came to the Avatar Roundtable at Fanfest got a demo and if someone got pictures, well, I guess those are then in the public domain by now :)

A cloaked Guttripper watches Oldbutfeelingadventurous leave his ship and enter an ancient floating tomb of a ship. As Oldbutfeelingspringy's footsteps creak across the rotting metal carcass down the dark hallway, a light sprinkling of dust falls from the rafters, illuminated by his trusty helmet light. Finding nothing of worth after an extensive search, Oldbutfeelingempty retraces his steps back to his ship, a bit down on his lack of luck. Much to his dismay, his ship has been hijacked and is probably light years away in some back alley chop shop getting stripped for salvage parts. Oldbutfeelingquitealone is now stuck on a floating tomb of a ship with no way home...

I can see possibilities with this!

3rd person would work best.

Ugh, I hate third person, it is very unnatural to me. The last time I had a third person view of myself in real life I ... well that's about all I remember from that night.

3rd person is only going to work if we're not doing twitch play, and the ceiling is something we'll be able to see through, forcing the camera down to adjust for a low celing is forcing us look at our av's backs half the time and not the environment. With all the time and effort CCP is going to put into this, I'd prefer to see the eye candy and not my AV's back.

Optional/toggle 3rd person / 1st person gives the best oppertunity for a multitude of environments and situations.