[EVE] Did not see this coming. Avatars - Page 2

Antarius · 03-07-2007, 03:06 PM

They've had dev blogs about their plans to avatars before this, this isn't new news... although the video is ok I guess, since talking about a feature and showing a feature are 2 different things.

Wake me up when they add atmospheric flight and planets you can land on.

Tripamang · 03-07-2007, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by elrich

1) almost certain that you'll need to redesign your avatar once this goes live

2) as for gameplay? ccp has stated that it will be possible to play the game in its entirety without ever utilizing this 'feature', so its more of a gimmick

3) this is the kind of 'gimmick' i love, and that makes me love CCP. those are gorgeous graphics, and the level of immersion that would accompany this? unthinkable. How huge will the eve world feel, if every station has a large and tangible interior? Just wow.

My bet is that it doesn't stay as a gimmick for long. I'll bet any money that you're more than likely going to be running around stations searching for shady agents hiding, and eventually having boarding as a weakness for Motherships/Titans/Stations. It's just something too fun not to play with, it's just so different from the rest of the game that I'm betting they have no real officialy implementation of where they want to go.

If station warfare turns into a boarding game with POS warfare as a secondary mode I'd be super happy. Anything to remove pos's

Gaereth · 03-07-2007, 03:13 PM

Holy mama....characters that look good, with good animations, on the first try??

Bah...this must be some sort of cruel joke.

Jakon Rahl · 03-07-2007, 03:15 PM

If EVE ever gets to the point where you can 1. Switch to FPS or ala PVP WoW or similar and be able to take over a ship without ever destroying it and use it in your own fleet. 2. Ground Battles ala Mech's and FPS / WoW PVP 3. Conquer worlds with resources from those Ground Battles. Then Omg would this be the game to end all other games "IMO". I would definately play it hardcore until I was burnt out so bad I didnt have a soul. EVE rocks now, but this game feeds the imagination so bad that you want them to implement more stuff. Why? Because its NEW and not played out aka TBC/WoW. EVE just has so many freaking possibilities of where they could take the game its rediculous.

Drednots · 03-07-2007, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Bizanich

I know it'll never happen, it's a pipedream

It would be incredible, though. A fleet battle raging around a Titan in distress while teams of commandos move towards the bridge?

<3

Staring at a ship in space all the time with the travel times made me fall asleep all the time. But if this ever happened I would pick it up and play it again. Add planetary flight and I would drop everything else I play and just play EvE.

elrich · 03-07-2007, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jakon Rahl

If EVE ever gets to the point where you can 1. Switch to FPS or ala PVP WoW or similar and be able to take over a ship without ever destroying it and use it in your own fleet. 2. Ground Battles ala Mech's and FPS / WoW PVP 3. Conquer worlds with resources from those Ground Battles. Then Omg would this be the game to end all other games "IMO". I would definately play it hardcore until I was burnt out so bad I didnt have a soul. EVE rocks now, but this game feeds the imagination so bad that you want them to implement more stuff. Why? Because its NEW and not played out aka TBC/WoW. EVE just has so many freaking possibilities of where they could take the game its rediculous.

The only issue here would be that right now, there's no where near enough people playing to fully flesh something like this out.

But, I think if they slowly move in that direction like they are now, the numbers will come.

This could very much be the Field of Dreams of the MMO landscape ;P

Tolanin · 03-07-2007, 05:51 PM

how many people do you really need to have a ton of fun attacking a station tho... i figure even at the current populations you could get 10 on 10s any time in most any 0.0 system... It has a ton of potential even if it isnt huge battles.. in fact if its small group combat stuff like going through a halo station it would totally own.

Planetary combat/resources is something i hope they do eventually.. i dunno how that randomly generated planet stuff alot of the vaporware space games use works tho.

Mist · 03-07-2007, 05:53 PM

Planetary sounds kinda pointless. Boarding parties would be the only real OMG awesome thing they could do with this.

Praxus · 03-07-2007, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by gavinrad

That will never happen. But that is precisely the kind of game I've wanted to play for ages, I don't care if its an MMO, RTS, TBS, or what, but give me an option to switch to FPS for a bit and i'll be hooked for life.

I agree 100%. Boarding other vessels.. firefights.. people getting sucked into space through blast holes.. I can see this happening someday, but I doubt it's any time soon.

elrich · 03-07-2007, 05:56 PM

The dev talk about planetary interaction has been along the lines of not only planetary flight, but also an rts/sim-city type of sub-game to build up the surface of a planet and reap the benefits.

So... it could open up even more and different types of game play, in addition to the rest.

Praxus · 03-07-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by elrich

The dev talk about planetary interaction has been along the lines of not only planetary flight, but also an rts/sim-city type of sub-game to build up the surface of a planet and reap the benefits.

So... it could open up even more and different types of game play, in addition to the rest.

Where did they talk about this?

Tolanin · 03-07-2007, 06:06 PM

The only possible way i see planetary combat being added is they randomly generate planets using some kind of terran program and then let us build like mining ops on them or whatever.. i dunno if you guys ever played like imperium galatica 3 but they sorta did something like that.

The dev time to actually make planets would be kinda pointless, but if they can come up with some kinda prog that does it for um it might be worthwhile... i dont think its gonna happen, maybe in 10 yrs in EVE2... i hope we see minable planets soon atleast even if we cant land on them... that and their system wide asteroid belts and maybe planets that orbit....

That stuff is all so far down the list of stuff that eve needs tho, first they need a fix to blobbing, maybe some way to intro new chars to the game better, a fix to make pos wars less gay.. etc etc.

Praxus · 03-07-2007, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Tolanin

The only possible way i see planetary combat being added is they randomly generate planets using some kind of terran program and then let us build like mining ops on them or whatever.. i dunno if you guys ever played like imperium galatica 3 but they sorta did something like that.

The dev time to actually make planets would be kinda pointless, but if they can come up with some kinda prog that does it for um it might be worthwhile... i dont think its gonna happen, maybe in 10 yrs in EVE2... i hope we see minable planets soon atleast even if we cant land on them... that and their system wide asteroid belts and maybe planets that orbit....

That stuff is all so far down the list of stuff that eve needs tho, first they need a fix to blobbing, maybe some way to intro new chars to the game better, a fix to make pos wars less gay.. etc etc.

Well they could make it so certain types of planets can be mined and inhabited. Once you inhabit it, it's like a biodome that your stuck inside.. so they dont have to generate any terrain outside. I think it would be easier that way.. at least.

The Hiram Key · 03-07-2007, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tolanin

Im eager for it but honestly not surprised that it looks so good, ccp art has always been great especially considering the original games art still looks pretty good today 3+ years after release and how low budget they were at the time.

(

Just goes to show you that time spent doing things "right" will always be "right" no matter how many years down the road. The whole "hurry up and get-er-done" crowd can go fuck themselves.

leane · 03-07-2007, 06:15 PM

Planets wouldn't be that much of a jump if they do them like a giant POS. Have slots to fill in with special stuff like resource gathering facilities and such, just require either a special type of POS active and in orbit to maintain control or some kinda mechanism where you have to put resources there to keep things running or else they riot and turn neutral until somebody else claims it. Walking around on the planet would be no different than that current thing with stations, just limit people to staying inside the complexes

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leane Noob Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: State of Confusion Posts: 894 +1 Internets	Planets wouldn't be that much of a jump if they do them like a giant POS. Have slots to fill in with special stuff like resource gathering facilities and such, just require either a special type of POS active and in orbit to maintain control or some kinda mechanism where you have to put resources there to keep things running or else they riot and turn neutral until somebody else claims it. Walking around on the planet would be no different than that current thing with stations, just limit people to staying inside the complexes __________________ Murder! meyhem! kitties! Last edited by leane; 03-07-2007 at 06:20 PM..

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03-07-2007, 03:13 PM	#18 (permalink)
Gaereth Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 826 -4 Internets	Holy mama....characters that look good, with good animations, on the first try?? Bah...this must be some sort of cruel joke.

03-07-2007, 03:15 PM	#19 (permalink)
Jakon Rahl Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Va Posts: 36	If EVE ever gets to the point where you can 1. Switch to FPS or ala PVP WoW or similar and be able to take over a ship without ever destroying it and use it in your own fleet. 2. Ground Battles ala Mech's and FPS / WoW PVP 3. Conquer worlds with resources from those Ground Battles. Then Omg would this be the game to end all other games "IMO". I would definately play it hardcore until I was burnt out so bad I didnt have a soul. EVE rocks now, but this game feeds the imagination so bad that you want them to implement more stuff. Why? Because its NEW and not played out aka TBC/WoW. EVE just has so many freaking possibilities of where they could take the game its rediculous.

03-07-2007, 05:51 PM	#22 (permalink)
Tolanin h8 Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,366 -35 Internets	how many people do you really need to have a ton of fun attacking a station tho... i figure even at the current populations you could get 10 on 10s any time in most any 0.0 system... It has a ton of potential even if it isnt huge battles.. in fact if its small group combat stuff like going through a halo station it would totally own. Planetary combat/resources is something i hope they do eventually.. i dunno how that randomly generated planet stuff alot of the vaporware space games use works tho.

03-07-2007, 05:56 PM	#25 (permalink)
elrich Jackass Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 944 -3 Internets	The dev talk about planetary interaction has been along the lines of not only planetary flight, but also an rts/sim-city type of sub-game to build up the surface of a planet and reap the benefits. So... it could open up even more and different types of game play, in addition to the rest.

03-07-2007, 06:06 PM	#27 (permalink)
Tolanin h8 Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,366 -35 Internets	The only possible way i see planetary combat being added is they randomly generate planets using some kind of terran program and then let us build like mining ops on them or whatever.. i dunno if you guys ever played like imperium galatica 3 but they sorta did something like that. The dev time to actually make planets would be kinda pointless, but if they can come up with some kinda prog that does it for um it might be worthwhile... i dont think its gonna happen, maybe in 10 yrs in EVE2... i hope we see minable planets soon atleast even if we cant land on them... that and their system wide asteroid belts and maybe planets that orbit.... That stuff is all so far down the list of stuff that eve needs tho, first they need a fix to blobbing, maybe some way to intro new chars to the game better, a fix to make pos wars less gay.. etc etc.