Originally by: kieron

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In regards to the video itself, here's a sequence of events. The room where the video starts with the Amarr female and Caldari male is a map room. One of a number of functions will be that of a 'war room', where corporation officers will be able to use the map as a sort of white board for planning attacks.

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The second room (or third scene) is a meeting chamber. Depending on corporation resources and the type of station (among other factors), the decor can be changed. You could consider the Gallente female a corporation recruiter in this shot.

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Not sure if this will see much use. Maybe for Corp functions. Perhaps some of the bigger specialized Corps will take time out to go meet with applicants in a station. There is no incentive really. What do you get for interviewing in station as opposed to just chat through private channel? How many times would you go through the inconvenience to fly to a specific station at a specific time to interview people before you get fed up with it?

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There is another hallway transitioning to the docking bay. The docking bay itself is designed with an eye at trying to give the scope of just how big EVE ships are.

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OK...now you've seen it. Why bother doing it ever again? Each time you get a new ship you go and check out how big you are next to your ship, take a screenshot, set it as your background, all done. Why not make ships customizable? Allow me to add some fancy paint or shark fins or Corp insignia and we are in business.

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After boarding the ship (an off-screen event in the video), the Zealot leaves the station and you can see the increased detail on the surface of the station. There have been some recent Dev Blogs with static images, now you can see one in the EVE environment.

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This is good. It is actually improving the quality of what players see and interact with every time they play.

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Other information: Those players that do not wish to interact with the full-body avatar aspect of the game will not be forced to do so, a la the now defunct Earth & Beyond and their station interface. In-station servers will be seperate from the space servers, so there will be little (if any) lag introduced into the other environment. A high quality download will be available in the future, no time frame as of yet.

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Ok....

So in-station is being kept separate. Why go there if it does not provide any functionality? The war room is the only exception.

Patch ships: Everyone goes into stations .... oooeeeeee ..... pretty .... and never goes there again.

Or am I missing something? Is there actually more functionality planned for stations and you just won't tell us about it? Or is it really being implemented as eye candy with little to no gameplay purpose?

I just don't get it.

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