From the last Fanfest.

CCP Presents: EVE's five year vision

Senior Producer Andie Nordgren spoke about EVE's plans for the future in a very clear manner all throughout Fanfest, and in CCP Presents she gave a run-down of the new approach CCP is taking to development. Normally EVE goes from expansion to expansion without much in the way of long-term direction, and the vision of the future of EVE changes beyond all recognition on an almost annual basis. Now developers have a five-year vision for where the game is heading and why, a three-year roadmap for how to get to that vision, and a 12-month plan for specific development of features.

Because of this new process, the crazy far-future ideas on space colonisation and building your own stargates presented in yesterday's EVE keynote are more likely to actually make it to the live game than previous big visionary ideas. They're part of the five-year vision that the entire EVE development staff is getting behind, so it should be only a matter of time before true space colonisation becomes a reality. When it does, we'll be able to build stargates aiming into the unknown and settle completely new solar systems. Also part of the five-year plan is an investigation of immersive flight and combat in EVE, which could potentially bring more twitch-based controls to the game.

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So hang on... OP you want to play Eve solo, and that's why we should have a ton more systems, so you could go and play solo in an mmo?

Also to actually be constructive about this.
You said +10000 systems.
What would those systems include?
What would be special abut?

And +5k WHs?
As far as i'm concerned half of the current ones are empty if not more.

So basically the thing you're suggesting is that everyone should have their own system?
I'm just gonna say i'm not going 2000 jumps to get to jita and sell my stuff.

This plan does not seem very well thought.

How many years will we have to wait for some new space to be added? For space to be so vast and infinite you cant do 2 jumps in any system in eve without tripping over someone.

Where is the exploration? the far reaches? why isn't the outer rim 500 jumps from empire instead of 4 jumps in a carrier. Not sure how many years its been since WH space was added but we need about 10x the space this game currently has to give it anywhere near the feeling of what space is actually like.

Incursions were nice, we need a TON more stuff like that, and also.... Jovians? The non existent figment of our imagination that we will never actually see ingame.


bullet points

• +10k new systems in K-space
• +5k new WH's
• Make C4's not suck.

This is a good start.

The problem with making a 'larger' game world is that it will eventually become cumbersome; players will get separated by larger and larger distances, and most of it will be wasted space.

The issue is not that there's too little space, theres a hell of a lot of it. You could put every subscriber of EvE into one system equally separated with a triple mwd dramiel (warp disabled) and they would all die of old age before even one of them found another without warp.

Also its impossible to play an MMO solo.

explore that space we already have!

Why? Most systems are deserted. Or borderline. What we need is a reason for people to leave high-sec.

I agree with OP that the Eve map feels tiny, cramped and overcrowded. Especialy Caldari space and low sec apart from Blood Raiders. But even in null ther's traffic almost everywhere during EU prime time. It only feels about right to me in the early morning hours (evening/early night hours for US players). But issue is only partially caused by lack of space in some regions it's also travel times. How long does it take to travel from one side of the map to the other jumping gate to gate? Maybe 1.5 hrs?

Exploration sucks huge donkey dicks. Stupid ******* containers popping out of the god damn ******* wrecks. Who thought of that bullshit? **** **** **** exploration.

Sir, you are being too kind about the new exploration introduced in the last 'expansion'.

One can only hope the person who came up with it has been locked behind a station door (in null-sec) and told that they can only come out when Walking in Stations is released in an acceptable form.

Grab a can if you can. Bah!

My 5 Bill ISK a month wallet severely begs to differ.

Exploration sucks huge donkey dicks. Stupid ******* containers popping out of the god damn ******* wrecks. Who thought of that bullshit? **** **** **** exploration.

What game are you playing ?

There are ~5200 systems in EVE as Known Space.

And with 450,000 subscribers, an equal distribution would be almost 86 players per system.

Even with the login max of ~55,000 at a given peak time that's 10 players per system.

Stop Poasting just to be poasting.

Let me know when you log into EvE Online and you are the only player in the game.

I don't think you understood him. He said all subscribers in one system without warp drive. Each system is several AU long in every direction. So it would take hundreds of years before anyone meets anyone. Obviously warp speed changes that. But the problems is not the size of the universe (and the current EVE universe is insanely big). The problem is how empty it is.

That's actually happened right after downtime a few times. In fact. It happens to someone every single frikkin' day.

I winz.