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Posted - 2008.10.12 21:11:00 -
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I don't know why so many people are up in arms about this, CCP clearly states that ambulation is optional, so if you don't like this option then don't use it, no one is forcing you. And chances are they will separate the WiS part of the game out from the spaceflight part so you wont be experiencing lag while in space due to a lot of avatars walking around in various stations in the system you're in. So RELAX this isn't going to kill the game, just change it. I mean I don't see people who don't like to mine complaining about the existence of mining in the game because it makes the game boring. That would be silly because you aren't required to mine if you don't want to, so if you arent into mining, that aspect of gameplay doesn't affect you.
Besides this has the potential to add a whole plethora of gameplay options to EVE. I'd like to see gambling implemented as an extra source of income. Maybe even the ability to open small shops inside of stations that allows players to run a business without having to start/join a corp or stake claim to a POS. You could add skills like pickpocketing to make some extra spending cash, and possibly other mini games for money/fun. There is the possibility to go into occupations that don't require blowing billions of ISK on a ship and equipment to fly and arm it. Perhaps working as an assassin or mercenary. Frankly the possibilities with ambulation are almost endless, and i do see combat as an inevitability since it is already apparent that most people want it.
As far as popularity goes this only has the ability to improve things. Adding the ability to customise your characters' appearance and whatnot will attract a lot of RPGers, my girlfriend for instance is a big fan of Pirates of the Carribean and plays it a lot. She encountered a lot of sexism and flak because she was a girl so i tried to get her to play EVE, but it didn't appeal to her and she was surprised by the lack of ambulation. So she went back to playing pirates in spite of her troubles.
Also the mention of women gets me to wondering if there will be some kind of sexual content in the game, maybe strippers or something. I'm sure that option will silence a lot of detractors(and create a whole group of new ones). Just a thought.
Oh as for lag, i think that EVE has a remarkable lack of lag since it's all on one server and its located in iceland. I live in southern California and if I were to play counterstrike on an iceland server I would have a hard time NOT having lag. Plus i'd like to see a WoW or everquest server handle 20000 players as smoothly as EVE does. Also as far as hardware requirements goes actually the reality is that new games are constantly requiring players to upgrade their hardware to be able to play them. Think of Crysis or Bioshock, as I recall when Bioshock came out it required systems to have pixelshader of 2.0 (or 3.0?) which was not present on the majority of video cards currently in use at the time. In spite of this both of these games have been commercial successes, so I don't see CCP being scared of increasing system requirements.
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