Ho hum

Go play in science fiction space simulator in Second Life

The OP should go try Planet Calypso for a while (its F2P) and see how :awesome: a full body avatar sci-fi game can be. They got flying and mining and crafting too!

/see you back here in a week.

I would like to see more natural phenomena.

Black holes, comets, quasars, pulsars, supernovas.....etc.

You too fail at getting the point of the OP.

eve is dieing.

because the space eve provides is full of nothing. it feels like a drawingboard with some fixpoints. even the belts are fix, fixed bananas. oh yea, i forgot scanning and exploration sites. :sad:

bigger belts, more stuff OK? i want more freelancer-feeling in eve, thanks.
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I must beg CCP devs to go and play Freelancer so they get ideas on how to make a proper sci-fi game atmosphere, right now it's just empty space with nothing in it and a pretty background to look at and I'm being nice, I'll even gather some youtube vids for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqYS0U7ZvBM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXD4N_Mi1iE&feature=related

THIS IS WHAT SPACE BATTLES SHOULD BE LIKE IN GAMES!

Playing freelancer right now. Everything feels too small, too crammed together. EVE has it right and I enjoy having more room to play around in in a single system than in every other MMO combined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqYS0U7ZvBM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXD4N_Mi1iE&feature=related

THIS IS WHAT SPACE BATTLES SHOULD BE LIKE IN GAMES!

Go do some exploration or quit playing a game that is blatantly not for you.

theres nothing to explore. shatner

because the space eve provides is full of nothing. it feels like a drawingboard with some fixpoints. even the belts are fix, fixed bananas. oh yea, i forgot scanning and exploration sites. :sad:

bigger belts, more stuff OK? i want more freelancer-feeling in eve, thanks.
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There's plenty, clearly you haven't done any of it yet.

EVE: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

THERE
IS
NOTHING
TO
_EXPLORE_

Go do some exploration or quit playing a game that is blatantly not for you.

You know if CCP stopped falsely marketing this game as a sandbox universe none of us would be having these problems.

because the space eve provides is full of nothing. it feels like a drawingboard with some fixpoints. even the belts are fix, fixed bananas. oh yea, i forgot scanning and exploration sites. :sad:

bigger belts, more stuff OK? i want more freelancer-feeling in eve, thanks.
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If this were a sandbox then it would either be like Skyrim or Minecraft,

EVE is niether because it does not offer good enough procedurally generated gameplay and the story is barely anything worth reading, bits and pieces are interesting but that's about it. What's happened here is that CCP have created a universe so vast they don't have anything interesting to fill it with, asteroid belts are all the same with the same NPCs, missions are all boringly repetitive because there are barely any and when you play the game for even an hour or two you barely manage to get anything interesting going because you can't for instance select missions yourself and decide which ones you're going to do for the day.

Haven't CCP ever considered maybe that some people might like to take the short missions constantly instead of being forced to do an epic storyline or mission with three or so jumpgates that take you forever to travel through? Even if EVE is a sandbox, it's a crappy one, it's merely a shell, they've created a huge and 'mysterious' universe but haven't filled it with anything. People will rage at me over this but if they added more stuff like Womholes, exploration sites ( there should be far more than there are now ) and incursions ( perhaps from different factions from Sansha ) then this game would be a lot more interesting and fun to play.

You people really need to stop trolling these boards with your bullshit.

stop trolling these boards with your bullshit.

You do realize that literally can go everywhere in the EVE Universe. It is your problem if you only use public beacons.

"unique landmarks marking player activities such as Chribba's Revelation, the wreck of the first destroyed Titan, etc." - This is the exact kind of thing I'm talking about, I'd prefer more lore based landmarks as this is the kind of thing that makes playing space games great, I wouldn't mind at all seeing hidden pirate space stations much like in freelancer. We need more content like this

"ability to create, customize and destroy player-owned structures" - Again one of the good things about EVE I actually admire, I hope to own a high sec PoS one day

Oh please, haven't you played this game called Skyrim recently? That's a sandbox and that has as much lore packed into the books you can pick up as warhammer.

"players are able to claim and control territory" - Yes they are, one of the good things about the game, but really it's only big corporations that are capable of doing that because of the numerous issues with blob fleets and gatecamping

"ability to create, customize and destroy player-owned structures" - Again one of the good things about EVE I actually admire, I hope to own a high sec PoS one day

Yo Valei... I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but you perpetrated one of the most hilarious contradictions I've ever seen:

Valei Khurelem, fantasise all you want, but this game is exhilarating, interesting, difficult and rewarding. Criticize it all you want, its the best game on the market for hardcore gamers, hands down.

Fucks sake CCP, I write out another post and stupidly thinking "It's probably a temporary bug so I doubt it'll happen every time" I post and it deletes everything, I'll do a short summary of what I was planning to write, should get my point across anyway.

The only reason that EVE Online has survived is because the standards in MMORPG gaming are frankly now, so low that it seems far better than anything else, it's the same with many other things in the games industry.

I would even go so far as to say I find EVE Online far too easy, I know if I leave high security, I will be ganked, especially since I'm flying as a non-combat character,

I can look up sovereignty on the star map, find the best agents, I can pay ISK to find specific players, look up corporations and their numbers so I can warn my corp about them if they plan on going near where they are.

You can say I'm fantasizing but at least I'm fantasizing about wanting a good game and not pretending EVE is something it just isn't.

Ursula, what contradiction is that? Please explain it so my idiot mind can comprehend, just because you have landmarks or lore in a game does not make it a sandbox universe

Baltec1, don't ramble like an indoctrinated psychopath,

EVE online is a pvp game not a pve clone that spoon feeds you content. The stories in eve are our own and much more interesting than anything pve could offer. Skyrim has nothing on eve lore.

I know if I leave high security, I will be ganked, especially since I'm flying as a non-combat character,

and now the topic has devolved into trolling rather than an actual debate :P ah well I tried.

Baltec1, don't ramble like an indoctrinated psychopath,

The best stuff in space is player created stuff.

Yep. It sounds like an old vet platitude, and it is, but that's because it's the truth.

EVE has some cool ships, concepts and an interesting sci-fi atmosphere, not to mention fantastic music, but I play because of the challenge, the danger, the sense of mystery, and the game's freewheeling spirit. That's all about players.

Even people I'm angry with/am jealous of/am rivals with/am frankly afraid of make the game better and more exciting to play. I envy people who have trillions of ISK or a lot of personal power, and I'm glad they have it for me to be jealous of. It's infinitely preferable to a hamster wheel where everyone achieves pretty much the same thing depending upon the latest expansion.