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We have finally got some footage of the work that EVE's developers have been putting in to introducing an 'out of ship' mode...
I have to say that I personally think it looks great. The shot where the characters walk into the docking bay reminds me of epic sci-fi movies... it even better when you realise that the ship pictures is only a Zealot (a cruiser class vessel)... Can't imagine how huge a battleship, dreadnought or carrier will look...
Anyway, view for yourselves here:
http://www.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=485
Also some additional new EVE news on this link...
http://www.gamersinfo.net/index.php?art/id:1598
The majority view on the EVE forums is that this looks real nice, of course there are always people who don't like change and complain that the developers should be focused on other things (a reasonable point). Personally however I think this will add a whole new level of depth to EVE especially as one of the consistent complaints about the game is that 'ships' are hard to love as Avatars (though I personally always love looking at my Archon in dock)
Amarr Victor
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So you mean that now besides getting cheats from the developers my character can actually walk around the station and RP being just as useless as he was since beta?
Right On!.. I'm going to sleep...
Walk freely I believe...
There will be a variety of areas to visit and interact in in each station...
Amarr Victor
I've always liked the idea of Eve, I'm not one for arcade type flying sims but the times I treid to play Eve I thought it was really well done.
My main issue was always that it was impersonal and cold, which made the game boring for me. Adding avatars and social locations would without a doubt bring me back for another try and would go a long way to holding my play time in game. That being said, there has to be a point to it, just being able to out of ship just stand around and look at your pretty character would just be silly.
I think it's a great opportunity for CCP to bring in some social skills and put them into gameplay. Thoughts of being able to live on a space station doing some kind of work, trading or shop owner's get me really excited. Although I'm sure that's not what they're looking at.
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Not to rag on it of course, I love this.
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Well it definately looks nice.
I'm in the same boat as you Shae. I've tried this game so many times its not funny. It just feels to removed or something. No matter how you slice it, it just feels like half a game. Maybe with this it will flesh it out. I see it merits but its just not a good match for me I guess. To slow, to mello, and a few "baggage" things I don't want to get into here. I use to run EVE and mine while running my Lineage II shop & craft SS at the same time. One of the low points of my MMO career. It worked though, I was rich in both games. It only cost me about 1/3 of my braincells from the damage the boredom did.
And the graphics are awesome. Awesome to see the actual size of a ship, they always feel alot smaller than they really are.
Well it definately looks nice.
I'm in the same boat as you Shae. I've tried this game so many times its not funny. It just feels to removed or something. No matter how you slice it, it just feels like half a game. Maybe with this it will flesh it out. I see it merits but its just not a good match for me I guess. To slow, to mello, and a few "baggage" things I don't want to get into here. I use to run EVE and mine while running my Lineage II shop & craft SS at the same time. One of the low points of my MMO career. It worked though, I was rich in both games. It only cost me about 1/3 of my braincells from the damage the boredom did.
LOL Yeah that's not good at all Tor. You know you've gotten into a slump when your playing two MMO at the same time, doesn't say much for those games either.
Back to Eve though, I really do like alot of it's mechanics, I really love the PVP system, I like the resource collectin/minning, it's always intrigued me but as you said, there's just no soul to the game. It's hard for someone like me that counts more on feeling than actual gameplay to get me into the world to play.
Like I said though, I hope they make it more than JUST a walking around session and something people can spend time at, enjoying themselves and being part of the world.
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Everyone is soo busy ogling over the Ambulation video that they missed this clever little snip from the GamersInfo.Net article.
CCP has been saying forever that they would not do a Linux version of the client and only recently expressed interest in a Mac version after mentioning a discussion with TransGaming about their Cider API (Windows apps on Mac). Now out of the blue they will have a Linux client released within 2 months and a Mac version slightly after that. WTF, but Awesome news!
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--CCP could cut off an Eve player's fun bits, and that player would say that it was good CCP did that.
damn trolls
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
Apparently players of the game will have the option to turn off the 'walking in stations' element if they don't want to participate.
Also according to a recent dev blog the stations element will be hosted on different servers so shouldnt impact the traditional aspect of the game. Indeed if all the people who spend half their lives afking in JITA (the main market system) actually switch to the 'walking' servers it could arguably spread the load on the servers...
Amarr Victor
You know the real reason i never played? I KNOW i will get hooked.
If only I could get Eve to work It crashes every time I click create char
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Do I ever sleep?
I've recently stopped playing Eve after 3 years because I tried everythign out, but I'm thinkign that this could add a new Roleplay dimension for me, and I might start some roleplay corp or somethign when this comes out...
Good going CCP
I wonder if they will have like crafting stations. I was an avid player of Earth and beyond. You could trade with each other and equip your ship in the station.
The only thing they couldnt do is sit on chairs and stuff. Oh, You could never see other player ships in the station, only yours.
You could actually walk around your ship and see the missle launchers and weapons.
Yea that would be good.
i watched the vid and i was impresed with the holo map in the "boardroom" i can see the FC's aranging battles and waypoints there
EVE is the best mmo you can find
Wen this commes to live
EVE will get thousands of new players