I have to worry about the sheer amount of corpse chat in this thread.

You are a bunch of dark but lovely people.

On a more serious note though, we will be releasing a dev blog soon to formally introduce Team Avatar and our plans, goals, hopes, fears and our honest optimism towards Incarna v2.

For now though, please keep this amazing thread going with your ideas.

Cheers!

Inappropriate posts removed. Please behave and post constructively.

"RUNNING" in stations, a cover system, using a gun to blow your enemies face off. Design WiS to be part of the SOV system. After reinforcing a station we should have to board the station and take over certain objectives while the current owners defend it before it is ours. THAT would make WiS meaningful and part of the core of EvEs PVP. When it comes to highsec, killing someone in the station would have the same effect as it does in space. Guns pop out of the walls and guards fill you with tungsten rounds. Bounty hunting in stations! There is so much that can be done with stations...tie it in with PvP and 0 sec SOV.

When it comes to how combat should play out in stations either take a queue from Mass Effect, Gears, Uncharted... and use a third person view with cover system or do a first person with cover system. Or both...personally I think a more Mass Effect feel would be perfect.

Basically give us DUST but in space and in stations! DUST can cover planetary ground stuff...WiS can cover space and in stations stuff.

As for skills you could make skills work just like they do in space. Skills for armor and perhaps shields. A skill for each type of weapon to use, skills for improving reload times and accuracy. ****...this would be awesome!

Oh...also this...

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=24221&find=unread

There is a lot more there on the technology side than is visible in the current Incarna feature set. There's also a lot more work to do though. To ease some of the more worried minds I can say that we have had multiple avatars walking around in the same environment together.

That makes me wonder if it would be possible to get some test version into the game rather soon. For example a simple meeting area inside the "Site One" structure of the Arek'Jaalan project. Initially it would be just a meeting area. As that structure was done by the role players, it would be quite sufficient for us, and well received.

To be brutally honest this is the gulf between having done it and having a lot more work to do in order to make it something we'd feel comfortable releasing. That's not to say we won't try putting multiplayer environments out on Singularity to see how well they work but we can't make any promises as to when that would be or if we even will before the technology is improved. The size of the team working on this feature is pretty prohibitive in that regard.

Could you help us understand just what happened to cause the incarna features of the past to fall so dramatically behind expectations, it would also help us understand what we can expect in the future. Given how much dev-time and money was thrown at it, the community was really jarred by what actually hit TQ. I believe there are some who suspect that there was some really big unexpected problem with the carbon avatar technology, which prevented any progress on other of the expected feature set over the course of the development on Incarna.

We have in no particular order:

Designers:
CCP Flying Scotsman
CCP t0rfifrans

Software Engineers:
CCP Karkur
CCP Bayesian

QA:
CCP RedDawn

I have to worry about the sheer amount of corpse chat in this thread.

You are a bunch of dark but lovely people.

On a more serious note though, we will be releasing a dev blog soon to formally introduce Team Avatar and our plans, goals, hopes, fears and our honest optimism towards Incarna v2.

For now though, please keep this amazing thread going with your ideas.

Cheers!

First things first.

Optimize the graphics. As handy as it is to keep my coffee warm by placing
my cup on my tower, it does make me a little nervous about what happens
when I am in a large room full of other avatars.

P.S.
Incarna v2?

I hate to say this but that word, name, term, etc. has been very badly tainted due to past events and really should be changed.

[quote=DeMichael Crimson]
P.S.
Incarna v2?

I hate to say this but that word, name, term, etc. has been very badly tainted due to past events and really should be changed.


I hate to say it.... but I can't resist.

Eve Online - Incursion 2.0:
WiS strikes back

Could you help us understand just what happened to cause the incarna features of the past to fall so dramatically behind expectations, it would also help us understand what we can expect in the future. Given how much dev-time and money was thrown at it, the community was really jarred by what actually hit TQ. I believe there are some who suspect that there was some really big unexpected problem with the carbon avatar technology, which prevented any progress on other of the expected feature set over the course of the development on Incarna.

I'm partial to Reintarnation: http://www.unwords.com/unword/reintarnation.html

Granted, this would require the modeling of missing teeth...

@DeMichael Crimson

Indeed I am the Quality Assurance member of the team, but rest assured that all of Team Avatar, and not just myself, care very much for the overall quality of all the features that we release to your good selves in the future.

We all know the failure of releasing unfinished content early and the joy of releasing successful content correctly.
Only one of the above experiences has proved to be beneficial to both yourselves, and us.
So we know where to aim.

Thanks again for the welcome and for all the positivity that this thread contains.


ps: "Reanimate".... sounds like more corpse chat to me. :)
(but we know what you mean)

ps: "Reanimate".... sounds like more corpse chat to me. :)
(but we know what you mean)

@DeMichael Crimson

Indeed I am the Quality Assurance member of the team, but rest assured that all of Team Avatar, and not just myself, care very much for the overall quality of all the features that we release to your good selves in the future.

We all know the failure of releasing unfinished content early and the joy of releasing successful content correctly.
Only one of the above experiences has proved to be beneficial to both yourselves, and us.
So we know where to aim.

Thanks again for the welcome and for all the positivity that this thread contains.


ps: "Reanimate".... sounds like more corpse chat to me. :)
(but we know what you mean)

@DeMichael Crimson

Indeed I am the Quality Assurance member of the team, but rest assured that all of Team Avatar, and not just myself, care very much for the overall quality of all the features that we release to your good selves in the future.

We all know the failure of releasing unfinished content early and the joy of releasing successful content correctly.
Only one of the above experiences has proved to be beneficial to both yourselves, and us.
So we know where to aim.

Thanks again for the welcome and for all the positivity that this thread contains.


ps: "Reanimate".... sounds like more corpse chat to me. :)
(but we know what you mean)

There is a lot more there on the technology side than is visible in the current Incarna feature set. There's also a lot more work to do though. To ease some of the more worried minds I can say that we have had multiple avatars walking around in the same environment together.

CCP Oveur, 460 days ago:

"Personally, I'm looking forward for gambling... I'd like to see people gambling their Titans away..."

Well guess what, so do I...