When we compare EVE and others like Elite and SC, you can see that its all a battle of APC's rather than who drives porshe and who HMMWV.

They try to push for as much features/firepower as possible to dictate the conditions on battlefield. And even when CCP is standing strong with EVE, they are constantly shoot at and their vehicle is looking less impressive with every piece of stuff added to the rivals.

I remember when in CSM notes someone started with asking what car EVE is, like they perceive it.

I would rather ask them: where do you want to go with that campaign and with that vehicle, because there are others out there ready to shoot you in the head.

What do you mean by killing? My shoot you in the head term was about completely outclassing the competition.

You forgot one thing with Star Citizen and Elite, they are still out there to "kill" EVE. They were/are slowly killing it.

They are creating a stand alone FPS game, not one built on the bones of an old game.

Have you not noticed that every time CCP introduces new content other things get broken? Where you around for the 1st WiS failure? The old saying that "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". CCP is a company with one big product, while you think they are being lazy, I know they are being smart by refraining from screwing up that main product.

CCP almost failed several times screwing with EVE (and several more by ignoring EVE altogether). Now they are doing it right, letting EVE be the flagship and limiting their expansive tendencies to in universe (rather than in game) properties

. Again, there are other games if what you want is walking around.

Prove it.

Maybe you could watch some You Tube channels and watch for yourself how they are developing the stuff, exactly where CCP dropped it?
I thought its obvious and everyone interested can see it for themselves. Its not like all our gaming future is determined by only one game and company.

And its crazy to think they will completely clean up all the EVE servers, because this is still different game than other two. But people have moved, they will move, they are moving. In the best option for EVE, they will not log as often as earlier. In the worst option, they will cancel subscription because of the common reasons I see everywhere: not enough time, not worth the money.

BTW, "EVE is dying because these other games are coming so CCP better give me WiS" is simply a combination of anxiety ("I don't want my game to shut down") and manipulation ("this will scare CCP into giving me what I already want). Most of us can see right through it, which is why there is all this opposition to even the idea of WiS. If you WiS types could stop the counter-productive scare mongering, you might make some progress.

BTW, "EVE is dying because these other games are coming so CCP better give me WiS" is simply a combination of anxiety ("I don't want my game to shut down") and manipulation ("this will scare CCP into giving me what I already want). Most of us can see right through it, which is why there is all this opposition to even the idea of WiS. If you WiS types could stop the counter-productive scare mongering, you might make some progress.

You are not able to see thru what motivates me. I will clear this issue.

I have 4 years more of training time in EVE. I can stay logged out for 4 years, until my subscription runs out here. I already bookmarked myself in the future of EVE, that I will be here, at least from time to time.

But I am afraid I will really have to move to other game and not log on for months because EVE as good as it is, could not stand up to my expectations. Community is already not something what keeps me here. Maybe some particular players only. You can stay playing it, but its not for everyone and your friends will stop at some point and move elsewhere. If you would try to stay, you will feel lonely in MMORPG. SC with its multiplayer allows stil for a group play.

I am trying to rise above the usual "naah, meh" stance that would result in marginalization of players like me and in effect EVE in long term, and I present my oppinion for how to fight for brighter future of EVE and CCP. This WiS thing is not new at all, and it will never worn out.
So its not like I am here because I dont care. If I woudnt care, you would not see me here posting this stuff over and over.

And I dont think CCP is not scared already.

WIS will be a waste of development time and money if it is created just for the purpose of 'walking' in station. It will be abandoned and deserted quickly if it has no reason for players to use. The WIS concept has to be embedded in a larger game plan and framework in order to be meaningful.

Nova is supposed to be a decent FPS game that should be stand on its own feet. While the primary goal is to create a successful FPS game, the secondary goal should be the readiness to merge with the EVE world. I hope there will be some high level plans in the beginning for both worlds such as shared market, space station combat, naval boarding combat and planetary lading operation.

CCP please don't forget the lessons from DUST. Don't let those obstacles that prevent DUST from merging with EVE to get in the way of Nova. I look forward to shoot inside a Citadel.

Found and highlighted not only your problem, but the central problem with most people on this forum dissatisfied weith EVE (but somehow not enough to leave). It comes down to expectations. I like EVE because I don't expect it to be anything other than what it is. You dislike it because it's not what you THINK it should be.

That's a personal issue and no one can do anything about that. But I bring it up because it proves what is for me a central point in many discussions I've had here: The problem isn't the game, it's you. I'm enjoying the hell out of EVE.

As for 'feeling lonely', well, speak for yourself I've met many people in EVE, i've made some friendships with people who used to play and no longer play, I play other games with a couple of them, Planetside, League of Legends and World of Warships.

There is nothing wrong with those other space games, but they can't give me what EVe gives me, which is FREEDOM from undue restraint (even though I don't gank and scam and what-not, I like knowing I could if I wanted without some nanny arsed game GM jumping my bones for it like you'd get in those other games). I have no need to be some space here with a machine gun fighting deck to deck on some space fighter.




Any marginalization is self inflicted. WiS was a dumb idea that CCP tried and abandoned in favor of a leaner, more focused experience. That's what they should keep doing, not pursue some fantasy "I want to walk to a virtual bar and drink a drink I can't taste" WiS stuff.

Well put. Which leads me back to my original post. Why not use the assets which have already been created, both in the FPS realm and with the carbon engines and use them to create a WiS capacity which has potential to enhance eve. Judging from the look of CQ a mass effect inspired game could be made viable and without a lot of bells and whistles.

I think you've inadvertently validated why there is support for this. I am not personally dissatisfied with eve nor do I believe everyone who wants good WiS is. But there really isn't another game to go to which offers what eve does. Spaceships can be had in lots of games. But the kind of freedom Eve offers cannot be found else where.

No one is trying to threaten the type of experience you have when you play eve. What they are trying to do is expand that experience, not for you the person who has no interest in it, but for the people who do. Because as you pointed out that undue restraint is what makes Eve special. So by taking that quality and applying it to WiS content which is also leaner and focused you create a better game.

While I am not one of the Eve is dieing crowd Eve has survived this long pr+¬cises because it is a game which constantly seeks to improve. Even if it has failed at this previously. The eve you play now is not Eve in 2003. So who is to say that well designed WiS content wouldn't further the game to be something more in the future?

Found and highlighted not only your problem, but the central problem with most people on this forum dissatisfied weith EVE (but somehow not enough to leave). It comes down to expectations. I like EVE because I don't expect it to be anything other than what it is. You dislike it because it's not what you THINK it should be.

How does the WiS content influence the greater EVE universe? It seems to me it becomes a game within a game that kind of stands alone as a half measure FPS. Which leads me to ask why we need an FPS wrapped inside a spaceship game.

I also beta tested and played Earth and Beyond so I've experienced the *get out of ship to retrieve missions" playstyle. It really became just a time sink after the first few times.

To be clear, I am not against WiS just on principal either. It just seems we might end up with a split universe if done poorly.

As to why you would want the WiS in the first place it simply comes down to flexibility. Many people like Nana Skalski have no interest in it and that is fine.

You have mistaken me with someone else.

And if SC will flop on its **** and crush its skull on the gutter (not really happening at that point), I will not cry, because I will still have EVE.

I know there are purists out there but as I stated earlier Eve today is not the Eve of yesterday. That is why Eve is still around. A well made WiS may help it survive and be a better Eve of tomorrow.

Nova is supposed to be a decent FPS game that should be stand on its own feet. While the primary goal is to create a successful FPS game, the secondary goal should be the readiness to merge with the EVE world. I hope there will be some high level plans in the beginning for both worlds such as shared market, space station combat, naval boarding combat and planetary lading operation.

The DUST experiment really was next-gen gaming thinking. Two co-meshed games, enmeshed together with each other.

The DUST experiment really was next-gen gaming thinking. Two co-meshed games, enmeshed together with each other. That makes the sad part even more tragic. CCP's a comparatively small company I guess, they didn't have an army operation for developing, deploying, making it the hyped-up seemless experience everybody was pre-ordering and waiting to buy.

But anyway, I still think some kind of WiS scripted or non-scripted adventures could help the game get and retain some new players. Common observation of friends cajoled into trial accounts in EVE:
Evening 1: "Beautiful space art! Spaceships design is amazing..."
Evening 2: "Wait, is there a way to manually control your ship? You mean, no twitch at all?"
Evening 3: "Can I get out of this ship and see my char? Is my char just my ship?"

These are not dumb people or impatient people. They're just new people checking out any kind of internet game, and deciding whether they want to check it out again tomorrow after work/school.

EVE's bath water is a little murky, but that's because of the precious lil baby in it. Just because MMO players are used to being twitch-based or having chars Pvping with toons with boots on the ground doesn't mean they're noob/dumb. It just means that's what they're used to when they test drive a new MMO.

Except that a lot of people don't have a VR equipment, don't want to buy one, and don't want to use one.
It's whole different thing to sit quietly at the pc with a keyboard and a mouse or to use this kind of equipment. Things are not automatically better just because they are new.
Gadgets don't make a game deeper.

I think that might be able to be mitigated if they actually engaged us, the player base, rather than guess as what we might like.

CCP are already building a PC shooter

And yet EVE is still here and most of that list is defunct. Fortunately for us, those that are left seem to be as "Dying" as EVE.