WeirdNoise
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Posted - 2006.12.13 14:30:00 -
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I havent read the thread but this sucks:
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"Just to make money or get from point A to B, the game mechanics are based on a solid back story and setting so you find yourself performing actions that in themselves are roleplaying yet serve a pragmatic purpose for attaining your goals. This is a design pattern that we will continue to use inside the stations. The last thing we want is for the stations to become a venue for dancing the Macarena or other actions that are totally out of character for the game and the people in it. I think Reynir, our founder / creative director once said in an interview that there will be no dancing in EVE:
“Macarena-dancing aliens have nothing to do with science fiction in my book. I recommend watching Aliens, Blade Runner and The Empire Strikes Back. This is what true science fiction is about and the reason we made EVE."
The pod-pilots / capsuleers are the elite of EVE society. The chosen few who decide their own fate and often that of others, with the buying power of small contries and the military might of nations. As described in our stories, they are the rock-stars or the EVE universe. Normal people look upon them with awe, and those in power regard them with often envy, discontent and fear, as the pod-pilot, powerful as he is, answers to no-one than himself and his corporation. This is fact we want to capture and portray realistically within the stations. That’s for instance why pod-pilots mingle with each other and perhaps a select few of the NPCs in stations. They stay in VIP lounges and corporate offices, and far below in the small streets and corridors, you glimpse the thousands of normal people making their way around the station."
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WTF with this elitist crap justifying more lack of social interaction? Of course there should be dancing in eve, as there is in AO, Everquest and so on. Eve suffers from being incredibily abstract, even the environment is abstract. Eve is "maths in the void". No human being, just a chat system. No bodies, no land, no matter except ships, weapons, stations. Completely boyish game. This sucks and has to change if you intend to make station environments and avatars. Get a grip. What's wrong with dancing? My funniest moments in AO are around dancing. That trox-in-a-thong dancing the "pulp" animation while camping a 15 min-timer mob is one of my best mmo memories. So you mean we cant just relax and have fun in eve because you guys are so awkward with your own bodies that you want to live in some universe made purely of numbers and war machines? Geeeez
Forget your nice PhD's and get some women in the team for christsake, and the stripper type too.
/me starts dreaming of a swedish mmo.
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