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Silverlancer
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Posted - 2004.03.26 20:33:00 -
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Edited by: Silverlancer on 26/03/2004 20:43:38
When Earth and Beyond was realeased, Westwood had high sights for it. Just like Jumpgate, it was going to have many acts/episodes lasting many years. Here was the original plan for act 1:
http://www.ebportal.com/forum/topic/49/15213
But, as you people from Earth and Beyond know--this couldn't happen! Gray Feather died 8 months ago, so he couldn't have had a part later on in the story. Plus, the story according to this stopped in very early 2003 with the opening of the Aquitaine Gate.
So what happened? Well, it appears that the devs realized that they wouldn't have the budget nor the time (E&B was going to die, they knew it) to carry out this storyline. So they came out with a new, perhaps even better storyline... but it would end in late 2004. Here is a link to a Q&A (takes a while to read but its a great read) showing the posts of a mysterious Psi named P1530 about Earth and Beyond:
http://www.ebportal.com/forum/topic/49/14564
All your questions about Earth and Beyond will be answered above: The Eye of God... the V'rix... the Ancients... and the answers may surprise you  . Plus, you'll learn what the end of the E&B story would have been... and perhaps, the devs might even make it happen! Here's what I heard...
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The V'rix will attack Arx Tiberius on October 14, 2004.
This, according to P1530, marks the beginning of the end for humanity (the Last Stand occurs soon after this). Maybe the devs will make this date earlier so that it will happen before E&B shuts down...
So will this happen? Will the devs' alternate budget-cutted storyline happen? Plus, remember, the last month of E&B will be free... so if this happened... you can return for the Last Stand of Humans Against the V'rix... 
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Kalki Nibiru
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Posted - 2004.03.26 20:39:00 -
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The game IS shutting down, if you checked the ENB main site, you will see that EA is not selling any subscriptions or time cards that would go past September.
Taken from the May 29th 2003 Devchat at EveGate
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<Muaddid> Q: When will sentry gun and station and similar construction pods be introduced on the market?
<Hellmar> we have various player owned entities already implemented. Sentry guns, power/shield generators, field repair mini-stations, mobile refineries. We are still working out the last tidbits of how they can be over taken, what is the penalty of having a sentry gun kill a n00b etc. and we have been a bit busy with plugging the holes that people have found.I would say that you'd start to see these items on the market in about 2-3 weeks, very expensive to begin with |
Morkt Drakt
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Posted - 2004.03.26 20:54:00 -
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non-eve irrelevance... *kill it*
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Tiona
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Posted - 2004.03.26 21:00:00 -
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Who cares. Eve rules
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Atar
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Posted - 2004.03.26 21:10:00 -
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Edited by: Atar on 26/03/2004 21:12:02
One could only hope that CCP reads this and Eve ends up having the same "INERACTIVE" content that E&B had.
Just imagine Eve's graphics, size, and gameplay and E&B's interactive content.
WOW!
Here is to hoping!
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Siddy
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Posted - 2004.03.26 21:17:00 -
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Jump Gate is Dying
in Jump gate 90% of PVP player Base has been Banned(for being to good) or PVP totally nerffed
JG is only now full of money mongering Carebears that enjoy getting imaginary money and killing AI (what isint realy bright)
go Chek JG forums - Plase is totally dead and game is not far from it ( when servers barely reach 200 players at weekend) 
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Ishkur
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Posted - 2004.03.26 21:21:00 -
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Edited by: Ishkur on 26/03/2004 21:22:40
All I have to say is
LOL
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Silverlancer
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Posted - 2004.03.26 21:55:00 -
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I hope CCP learns one thing from Earth and Beyond--EVE need storyline content. Not stupid NPC mission content like E&B, but systems, enemies, etc that relate to the storyline.
AND EPIC BATTLES PLEASE!
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Arkanis
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Posted - 2004.03.26 21:59:00 -
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Well there was Crielere.
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NeoMorph
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Posted - 2004.03.26 22:04:00 -
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If you had seen the m0o+FE/FA war you would have seen some great fleet battles (except for the horrendous lag at times).
There was a time when LQL was the biggest blob on the map heh.
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Robotek Hybrid
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Posted - 2004.03.26 22:12:00 -
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cool the vrix attack the humans on my birthday
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Doppleganger
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Posted - 2004.03.26 22:27:00 -
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Jump Gate is Dying
in Jump gate 90% of PVP player Base has been Banned(for being to good) or PVP totally nerffed
JG is only now full of money mongering Carebears that enjoy getting imaginary money and killing AI (what isint realy bright)
go Chek JG forums - Plase is totally dead and game is not far from it ( when servers barely reach 200 players at weekend)
Jumpgate EU or USA? they had 2 different servers tho I was never on the EU one I heard it was forced more into a carebear path the the USA one did. From what I experienced the USA server had plenty of PVP but then the USA one had been suffering with low #s for the past half a yr or more I heard from some of my former squadmates (like 50 ppl online at one time). Personally for me Jumpgate died when EVE came out. 
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Meer
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Posted - 2004.03.27 01:01:00 -
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I hope CCP learns one thing from Earth and Beyond--EVE need storyline content. Not stupid NPC mission content like E&B, but systems, enemies, etc that relate to the storyline.
AND EPIC BATTLES PLEASE!
This is so true.
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Feyd Darkholme
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Posted - 2004.03.27 01:47:00 -
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As a former E&B player since beta, and a long time EBPortal community member, I will join Ishkur in saying... "LOL" ;)
I will say one thing though (because I can't possiby not)... For a storyline and it's content to be truly "player interactive", it must assume that the player interaction with the storyline elements would somehow determine the path of the storyline. This is something that E&B never had, but in my opinion, should have had. The storyline was linear, and predetermined.
I'd also like to agree that in my opinion EVE would be a much better game if it had more of an interactive storyline... I love the idea of player-driven content, but I also think that a balance should be struck between it and developer-made storyline content. It helps keep the game fresh, and keeps people playing...
... and yes, this does have something to do with EVE. We are all part of the same, larger community of MMOGers, and I daresay that many E&B players probably would have been in EVE from the beginning if they weren't already immersed in E&B at the time... I know I'm one of them. Now that E&B is effectively dead, we are finally getting the chance to experience EVE in full. For me, I've had an EVE account for over 4 months, but it's only been since the last month or so that I've really begun playing EVE...
Well anyways, so much for "No Comment". ;)
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Morkt Drakt
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Posted - 2004.03.27 01:53:00 -
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For a storyline and it's content to be truly "player interactive", it must assume that the player interaction with the storyline elements would somehow determine the path of the storyline. This is something that E&B never had, but in my opinion, should have had. The storyline was linear, and predetermined.
Dont hold your breath. EVE has a mapped out story-arc that is inviolate in overall outcome and progression.
Best to hope for is that maybe one day you get a rock named after you.
(Or that CCP has some sort of epiphany)
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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.27 03:00:00 -
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Y'know, it's funny, Morkt, but I can't put my finger on any one thing that I could say is actively part of a general storyline. Or at least, one thing that doesn't look like it has been created recently in response to a dire requirement in the game. The only possible thing which could come close is the Amarr Succession tournament. But as for the rest of it... meh. Boring fluff without any impact upon the game or gameplay whatsoever.
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Silverlancer
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Posted - 2004.03.27 03:03:00 -
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Y'know, it's funny, Morkt, but I can't put my finger on any one thing that I could say is actively part of a general storyline. Or at least, one thing that doesn't look like it has been created recently in response to a dire requirement in the game. The only possible thing which could come close is the Amarr Succession tournament. But as for the rest of it... meh. Boring fluff without any impact upon the game or gameplay whatsoever.
Oh, it'll come, it'll come. It will build into a full scale war with all empires vs each other, the opening of jove space... mmmm 
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Darrin Tobruk
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Posted - 2004.03.27 03:05:00 -
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Yea, I wish for EVE was a bit more dynamic, as well. (see the link in my sig)
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Silverlancer
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Posted - 2004.03.27 12:51:00 -
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Yea, I wish for EVE was a bit more dynamic, as well. (see the link in my sig)
Combine EVE with a Shattered Galaxy map system...
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Mallus Kulov
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Posted - 2004.03.27 13:27:00 -
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Talk of another game and the mods let this of all threads survive?
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Silverlancer
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Posted - 2004.03.27 13:31:00 -
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Edited by: Silverlancer on 27/03/2004 13:32:41
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Talk of another game and the mods let this of all threads survive?
Many people on these forums have played E&B. Plus, we're talking about how CCP should learn from E&B and use some of the great ideas that Westwood came up with. This is relating to EVE, if you read past the first post. Troll.
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Eris Discordia
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Posted - 2004.03.27 13:32:00 -
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Talk of another game and the mods let this of all threads survive?
Still hungover from last night 
But yes, thread locked for discussing a game besides EVE.
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