Singing Gremlin post=9.69970.676721 said:
There are quite a few players of EvE on this Forum. The first two that spring to mind are myself, who's been playing for a couple years, and Theo Samaritan, who's been playing for an obscene amount of time.
The sheer-player-driven-ness of the game is what pulls me. News articles being read by players written by the devs about other players, that's pretty unique.
And as for the lack of land combat, with ambulation looming... well, you never know what the future holds, CCP have already shown with the 2.0 graphics engine that they have no problems playing around with their game engine.
Yea, that's what draws me to EvE as well. The market is based on supply and demand unlike other games (Wow, Everquest, everything else), everything in the game world is made by other players (except certain items gotten from missions), and everything is so real.
Also, Ambulation is going to allow people to walk around space stations and spaceships. Actually walk around with their own full body 35 avatars. People will also be able to customize their own quarters on their ships. CCP might even put ground combat into EvE. That would be amazing. CCP would have to create all kinds of troop transports and ground vehicles for land combat though. I guess anyone with enough money could buy equipment and soldiers (private military contractors/mercs) and wage their own wars. Corporations already have massive wars with each over that can last months. Imagine a whole new level of depth added to those wars: ground combat. Instead of just taking over a system when all their ships are destroyed, you'd have to take over their planets by force unless they surrender or retreat. The military officers of corporations would have control over units, kind of like an RTS, and you would have employees in the corporations that would actually fight on the ground like in an FPS or a Third Person Shooter. The players would have squads that they would control, kind of like Rainbow Six Vegas. That would draw shooter and RTS players to EvE. FPS players who play games like Halo 3, Crysis, Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, and other FPS games could have a place in EVE. Instead of having to deal with the complex nature of being a pod pilot, they could focus on ground skills, rise through the ranks, and fly small fast fighters in large fleet engagements. Pod Pilots could fire upon ground troops as well. I'd love to see a massive Rokh battleship come into the atmosphere and aim its massive railguns at the tiny enemy soldiers down below. That would be awesome. What do you guys think of that idea?
Also, does Yahtzee even know about EvE Online? Cause he said that all mmorpg's have the same controls and play out the same way. He should review EvE Online The Empyrean Age. I think it would be interesting and really funny. I just hope he doesn't brutally murder it with an ice pick. I think he would like EvE if he plays it, mostly because it's much darker and more realistic than other games. Also because when you kill someone, they lose a ship which costs money, and if you pod them (destroying their escape pod, which is ok during a war), they can lose a ton of skills depending on what kind of clone they got.
