EVE Online: Walking In Stations Comments by Oli Welsh

when we actually reach the future the whole future look will have been done til its dead.

yeah but it will be real-life

Did you mean to say "solid platformer" or "solid platform"? The latter I assume

and there will always be more future.... ;)

Do I want a game thats a 2nd job?

No thanks. Dont think Ill ever return to eve, its just too much hard work unless your prepared to spend real money for ISK.

Great, now we can be bored on foot!

Sarcasm aside I really wanted to like EVE, and I have a mate who loves it, but the whole thing was just so ponderous. Great community in there though, met a few chaps who set me up with all kinds of equipment and guidance, I felt quite guilty that their generous efforts were in vain.

And oh yes, get rid of that fucking banner as well please EG. It's gone from irritating to being a splinter in the brain.

When is EVE 2 starting?

They need to go back to the beginning again. Reboot the universe and all characters.

Very dangerous for CCP to be telling people about their big and unique ideas. They are so slow to implement them that they will probably get nicked and put into a different game by somebody else before they can release it themselves.

It'd be briliance and beyond if the game wasn't so heavily timesunk and loaded with flavored metagamming crap to favour ccp's dubious marketing practices.

I hear you guys when you talk about 2nd job, if you wish to play this game on a competitive level against others thats exactly what it is.

Multiple accounting on a grand scale, legalised in game isk buying, you'll get drawn into all of that and worse if you allow the game to take you over as so many do.

Eve does however still offer the slow burning world for those inclined such as myself, where peace and tranquilty become a very normal existance and reason to continue throwing money at it.

The ambulation thing could fit well in with what i now get from the game, just concerned with recent rumblings coming out in recent dev blogs. With only a couple of hours every other day or so to play, changes to things like roid belts requiring an hour or two of scanning down to futher spend an hour or two mining it, and the ever looming all things must go low sec to balance risk reward are slightly concerning.

I could agree in principle, but ccp don't have all that many themselfs, encoraging more multiple accounts, isk buying, after the last few years of listening to the apathetical way ccp talks to it's playerbase, changes they make like that arn't done for the sake of game balance, rather exploit the rabid hooked in players.

This has been a long time coming, but it won't work out. It's not that EVE can't support a social roleplaying network, it's just that the large corporations (which I'm a member of one of) aren't interested in in-game RP, and the large corporations are what are driving EVE. Everyone else in their plinky plonky ships could spend months or even a year trying to get what a new recruit to a corp could get in a day. Like real life, they have all the money, and they aren't interested in creating an avatar and sitting in a virtual chat lobby.

For corps, it's all about combat, owning large areas of space, and screwing over the other big guy. CCP have been slowly killing what was one of the best online games with a raft of dubious rulechanges, largely designed to earn them more money, and if this hinders space exploration, ownership, and expansion, then they will scare off their userbase in droves (most of them are already gone or getting ready to quit).

It's true that you can have a great alternative life in EVE, and it's a great timesink for a few months at a time, but the best social opportunities are not in-game, they are in the many forums and teamspeak lobbies on the internet.

@Errol

So you can steal their money all over again, you scoundrel?

;)

I think people may be missing the point.

This update is for all the many people who have said "Ooh, that Eve sounds good, I might check it out. Wait, you can't get out of your ship? Nah, not interested."

There are lots and lots people on that side of the graph, and this may finally draw them in.

...like lambs to the slaughter :P

Yeah, no EVE 2 in a good while - if ever.

They've said that they can basically continue expanding on EVE's foundation for at least 50 years, and that they see no reason not to.

With graphical reboots and now a reboot at the retail side of things as well, that makes sense considering they don't top-pile linear content the way Blizzard loves to.

I look forward to seeing EVE in 10 to 15 years. I'd love to see the enormous scope that they have set for its future realize.