Leave combat out of WiS.

That said, brawling and fist fights should make an appearance, even if its just turn based rock-paper-scissors with 'jab', 'hook', 'block', 'counter' type options.



Only because Dust marines have had most of their brain completely replaced with technology. If capsuleers are barely human, Dust marines are something else entirely.

Also, I don't think the Dust cloning process works the nice way you are imagining it - its not Pod Cloning 2.0. I still need to read the novel though so slap me if I'm wrong.

Jove don't need the pods - as shown in this short story - but, based on the stuff in Templar One, pod pilots have to be in their pod.

Thank you new space friend, your kindness is making a little bit up for Bloodpetal's evilness!

Don't try and make me feel all guilty now!

I was going to get Acac Sunflyiers corpse for you for him being mean to you in another thread.

Torfi was my first true love at CCP before you came along... It's hard to let that go, that's all. We can still be friends.


http://images.wikia.com/gyropedia/images/a/a8/100251d1301351666-my-little-pony-friendship-magic-orbital-friendship-beam.jpg

90th!

You, sir did an awesome job building your avatar after yourself, even better than punkturis (sorry punkturis)

well after being mean she said "I'M SORRY" (all caps and everything) but I'll still accept her corpse

I'm sorry my reactions were so strong, I was just so shocked seeing my good friend Bloodpetal saying someone else was her favorite dev so I overreacted!

Lets all be friends

Thanks for you feedback.


2. Can't give you an answer on this, since we're reevaluating the plan, establishments may not be the top priority. The game play planned there was highly social and was more as a force multiplier or extension of in space gameplay rather than a proper ecosystem of gameplay itself. We're evaluating several options. If you feel strongly that EVE should have establishments, tell us!

@Bloodpetal - Not sure I approve of the idea of F2P eve, how does it fit into eve lore vs character/capsuleer creation? Secondly, you suggest going from F2P to sub, would you suggest the other way around, from sub to F2P (which would make NO sense imo).

well after being mean she said "I'M SORRY" (all caps and everything) but I'll still accept her corpse

I'm sorry my reactions were so strong, I was just so shocked seeing my good friend Bloodpetal saying someone else was her favorite dev so I overreacted!

Lets all be friends

Thank you new space friend, your kindness is making a little bit up for Bloodpetal's evilness!

I'm not sure what we're supposed to get from that blog other than "it's being given minimal attention and we can't say what we will be introducing or when", so i'm kind of back to where i was 2 years ago when i started playing.

You say that originally the next stage in your plan was to implement a corp public area and we have already been told that you had multiple character working in a shared environment, so why isn't this something we can expect to see in the near future?

If it's because of technical reasons, why are you going overboard on avatar detail by adding tattoos and god knows what else? Don't get me wrong, the avatars look great and i know nothing a bout programming but if the detail is holding back the implementation of features, perhaps you should scale it back.

Frankly, i think you can prototype all you want but that content could still fail when released. Release the corp area and then ask for feedback on what we would like to see added to that area and move on from there.

@oldbutfeelingyoung

Corp meeting rooms are one of the many ideas with gravitas, however setting a date on specific content is simply unfeasible at this time.

Walking in Stations is a huge task and one which really hadn't been thought out properly.

We're talking stations of over 20 km in size. How are we going to walk around that lot? What are we going to do in there? In fact, what is in all those thousands of miles of corridors and how are we going to interact?

I've seen other games where we've had taverns in towns where players could meet and, always, they're empty. So, if we're wanting an Eve version of Mallory's Bar (The Gap) or that bar from Total Recall then we're going to have to have something worth our while going around walking in stations.

When I was playing other games I never once saw the point of towns or cities where we could meet other players. Not once did I say I'll spend the evening playing BadgerQuest or whatever and spend the time sitting around in a town. And neither did I once run into any players who were hanging around like extras in Westerns lounging around on the boardwalks.

In every MMO that I have played, players would come into town - because they had to - get whatever it was they had to have done done as fast as they could - and then beetle off to do some whatever they did out of the towns.

So, please tell me, and I mean this most sincerely, what possibly could CCP do to make walking in stations interesting or purposeful to the majority of players? I have, at the moment no interest in WiS and I can't see me every having any interest in doing so. CCP would have to pull a massive rabbit out of a hat to make me interested. And if they tried to force us to leave the pod to find an agent/repairshop/refinery then the recent rage would be nothing compared to that storm.

Walking In Stations/ It's not going to work.

[ We'll probably write some very depressing Gamasutra post-mortem article about it at some point, as a warning for future generations.