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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.05.15 00:36:00 -
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Edited by: Asharee Intrefer on 15/05/2004 00:38:18
Just a few days ago there was a forum reply from Papa Smurf stating that the internal deadline for shiva rollout was 26th or something this month.
I think there's still one possibility:
We will get the Shiva patch within a few weeks as planned. A bit later, sometime in Q3, there will be a boxed Shiva version of Eve in stores, which could be what the article is about.
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.05.15 03:18:00 -
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Uhm.. if game makers could sue each other for stealing such basic conceptual ideas you mention, then David Braben and Ian Bell could have made a lot of money from all "open type" space games that have been released after Elite in 1982... 
I don't think EnB being or not being has anything to do what CCP does with EVE.
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.05.16 13:50:00 -
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Edited by: Asharee Intrefer on 16/05/2004 13:58:23
It's hosted at DeviantArt, which is a digital art community, and there's some amount of space art around there.
Edit: here's the image in it's full context, so appearantly not something from EVE, but still nice to look at. 
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.05.16 14:50:00 -
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 Originally by: Katya Detia
Originally by: Falbala
If you played Frontier Elite or Whale's Voyage they had an economy scanner in it, so no it can't be new but much needed yes.
Eve could take so many features from Frontier Elite.. :) Thats game was great.
Sure was. I'm still playing Frontier: First Encounters sometimes. Theres a nice hack to run it in windows. The game immersion is good enough to make you forget that the ships are so badly detailed that you can count the polygons at a glance. 
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2004.05.16 19:22:00 -
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Edited by: Asharee Intrefer on 16/05/2004 19:25:05
Sweet, that clears up alot of the concerns. Now only the "Q3 issue" remains, but I still that is when the gradual Shiva rollout will be finished, or when a Shiva retail version of EVE will be in stores.
And another thought about why there are alot of features that we havn't heard of in the recent news: I think CCP are doing some marketing, and the best way of doing that is to get good press. So, by buffering up a cache if new features they increase the chance of making a bang in the gaming news. If they had presented everything to the players in advance it wouldn't have given the same impact at the news sites since all the features would have trickled out anyway.
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