If is strictly is to draw in new players so that a new player has an idea of how things function in eve, excellent, but SAY so.
Once we know WHY something is being done, we can connect the pieces together, and develop a cohesive "this is why CCP is doing this"
I am 1/4 excited and 3/4 worrying about Incarna. Being able to get out of my ship and take a walk around in my captains quarters, involving a couple of rooms that dont do much at all wont be that fun or accomplish anything. The possibilities for future expansions, however will be numerous. So numerous that I am thinking, where the hell are you going with this CCP?
We could be able to customize the rooms, our characters, build shops (brothel?), play mini games, out of pod pve / pvp ect. ect. What I am worried about is that it will be a bit of a flop like PI was at first or worse, be so good that nobody plays internet spaceships anymore.
If CCP doesnt have an end goal with this then I can definitely see why they are telling us shit all... Like the dev blog they just posted with a few pictures and a couple of scribbled down notes on a napkin.
If they do have a goal though, why not share it? This is such a big change from any other expansion after all so why not tell your faithful users whats happening on that little icy island. The worst that could happen is you get some player feedback about what will be accepted or rejected.
Its just a thought...
ps. I wasnt only talking about incarna...
and the origianl post by A mule in eve
Logging you in...
manasi · 736 weeks ago
Cohen @techtalktips 43p · 736 weeks ago
Thanks mate. This blog has had 3 different names since it started. The first couple were just stupid but i couldnt think of anything better at the time. Then I got tired of being a carebear and all the isk I had was overwhelming me with possibilities so I decided I would fight back :)
And yes, all we can really do is wait and see at this stage.
Art · 736 weeks ago
For some time we've been doing a lot of recruiting and working on building a lot of noobs from the ground up. We lose quite a few who just stop playing the game all together and there are others that constantly complain about being bored (these are the addicts that spend minimum 12 hours a day playing the game). Some of the more advanced noobs who have actually made our whole recruitment process seem worth while do something very curious indeed. They go back to playing WOW, just to "take a break", or do something while there's some inactivity in the corp/alliance.
Then I realised what Incarna is. It's something you can do when you you're waiting for a major fleet to form up in your system, or cooling off after having a bad run and losing a few ships, or when you just want to take a break a goof around with some strippers. It also encourages your corp mates, who have a tendency to play WOW occasionally, to stay online so that if you do need someone's help you can hit them up, rather than cursing the fact that they are playing some other MMO with Avatars instead of helping you gang bang a roaming fleet.
The fact of the matter is that I've never played WOW and never will. I play Eve because I love Sci-fi stuff and flying around space ships. There are a lot of people like me that will hardly ever do much in the Incara side of things. And there will be the people that spend most of their time walking around in stations. But I think those are the kind of people that would have left the game anyway to play WOW, SIMS, or whatever. At least this way maybe the people that leave Eve because it seems too complicated may just stick around long enough to try playing around with these mysterious things called space ships.
Simply put, Internet Spaceships are great, but I think everyone's felt a little burn't out from it. This is the avenue a lot of players can take while they detox from being couped up in a spaceship for so long. I don't think this is something to worry about because it's a lot better than having a burn't out corpmate quiting the game entirely.
Cohen @techtalktips 43p · 736 weeks ago
I think if you are able to dock appear in station like you do now with all the neo com shortcuts like they are now and the only difference being you are looking at your character instead of your ship it will be alright. If it takes any longer or its any harder to do simple stuff like browse the market or get a mission then it will be a bit tiresome and might have an opposite effect of what you said.
Right now there is the ability to have a static station environment, if this option was still there then people who want a really fast dock / undock could use that.
Thanks for your comment.
Laedy · 736 weeks ago
Cohen @techtalktips 43p · 736 weeks ago
Also a very good point. It could even be fun :)
Khamelean · 736 weeks ago
Cohen @techtalktips 43p · 736 weeks ago
A complete sci fi simulator would be awesome but would they have enough subscribers to keep the world populated? It would probably fill up very fast if you could do dust 514 type battles on eve via the stations / planets and venture out into space and battle all on the same platform in the same game. They would just have to figure out some way of linking it all.
All we can really do is wait and see :)