Ultimately Incarna will give EVE something it simply lacks; a forum for casual ingame socialization.
Exactly. That an a connection with your character.
So you want a chatroom with fancy graphics and a cool avatar and you're willing to pay $15 a month for that?
Call me crazy or old fashion but I thought Eve was about blowing up internet spaceships. Where did we lose sight of that?
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. -- Herman Melville
Ultimately Incarna will give EVE something it simply lacks; a forum for casual ingame socialization.
Exactly. That an a connection with your character.
So you want a chatroom with fancy graphics and a cool avatar and you're willing to pay $15 a month for that?
Call me crazy or old fashion but I thought Eve was about blowing up internet spaceships. Where did we lose sight of that?
Le sigh.
Incarna is an "as well as" not an "instead of". Incarna also means that there's a massive potential to add new content that wont fuck up what already exists in the way that adding a new ship class will. Once the basic Incarna thing is launched, they can free up a lot of dev resources to other stuff, but they can still keep developing the Incarna side, as I hope they will.
Incarna needn't just be about new players who "need a human avatar to connect". It answers one of the biggest questions that faces EVE players: "I am still interested in the EVE universe and what goes on there, but I'm bored of flying spaceships. What can I do?"
Currently, the only answer is "Create SHC/Kugu account and shittalk :CCP: and also whatever -A-lliance is the current public opinion whipping boy." Now there is the potential - notice I say potential - for being able to do genuinely different things.
Ultimately Incarna will give EVE something it simply lacks; a forum for casual ingame socialization.
Exactly. That an a connection with your character.
So you want a chatroom with fancy graphics and a cool avatar and you're willing to pay $15 a month for that?
Call me crazy or old fashion but I thought Eve was about blowing up internet spaceships. Where did we lose sight of that?
Le sigh.
Incarna is an "as well as" not an "instead of". Incarna also means that there's a massive potential to add new content that wont fuck up what already exists in the way that adding a new ship class will. Once the basic Incarna thing is launched, they can free up a lot of dev resources to other stuff, but they can still keep developing the Incarna side, as I hope they will.
Incarna needn't just be about new players who "need a human avatar to connect". It answers one of the biggest questions that faces EVE players: "I am still interested in the EVE universe and what goes on there, but I'm bored of flying spaceships. What can I do?"
Currently, the only answer is "Create SHC/Kugu account and shittalk :CCP: and also whatever -A-lliance is the current public opinion whipping boy." Now there is the potential - notice I say potential - for being able to do genuinely different things.
Exactly, Incarna is not taking away from anything it is just adding more options.
I'm really excited about the effect this expansion will have on EVE. I can even imagine the immediate impact it will have on new players. Think about when you first started playing EVE; unless you started out with friends I imagine your experience was like mine, rather lonely. Aside from SWA chat and the occasional chatter in local, the only people you see are undocking at stations or jumping at gates. Its not like other MMOs where you run some newbie quests alongside other newbs and spark up a conversation.
Incarna will change EVE greatly in just this way alone. Stations with tutorial agents always seem packed with new players, with WiS those new players can a break from running tutorials and meet other aspiring capsuleers. Mission runners as well, stations with the best agents always have a lot of people in them. Instead of spinning our spaceships when we start to get burned out from regular gameplay, we'll be socializing with people who we might have flown by a dozen times earlier that day.
The seeing strangers in a bar thing is an aspect I hadn't previously considered, and you're right. People will talk to other players who are on grid that they would otherwise ignore.
Also, I find it mildly amusing that Teala, who was the absolute biggest cheerleader on the whole internet for Ambulation, quit when CCP annouced the launch date for it. Go figure...
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When they showed off Incarna during a fanfest (I think it was 2009) they said it was schedualled for fall 2010.
Eh? Will Incarna change your mind at all?
So you want a chatroom with fancy graphics and a cool avatar and you're willing to pay $15 a month for that?
Call me crazy or old fashion but I thought Eve was about blowing up internet spaceships. Where did we lose sight of that?
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
-- Herman Melville
Le sigh.
Incarna is an "as well as" not an "instead of". Incarna also means that there's a massive potential to add new content that wont fuck up what already exists in the way that adding a new ship class will. Once the basic Incarna thing is launched, they can free up a lot of dev resources to other stuff, but they can still keep developing the Incarna side, as I hope they will.
Incarna needn't just be about new players who "need a human avatar to connect". It answers one of the biggest questions that faces EVE players: "I am still interested in the EVE universe and what goes on there, but I'm bored of flying spaceships. What can I do?"
Currently, the only answer is "Create SHC/Kugu account and shittalk :CCP: and also whatever -A-lliance is the current public opinion whipping boy." Now there is the potential - notice I say potential - for being able to do genuinely different things.
Give me liberty or give me lasers
Exactly, Incarna is not taking away from anything it is just adding more options.
I'm really excited about the effect this expansion will have on EVE. I can even imagine the immediate impact it will have on new players. Think about when you first started playing EVE; unless you started out with friends I imagine your experience was like mine, rather lonely. Aside from SWA chat and the occasional chatter in local, the only people you see are undocking at stations or jumping at gates. Its not like other MMOs where you run some newbie quests alongside other newbs and spark up a conversation.
Incarna will change EVE greatly in just this way alone. Stations with tutorial agents always seem packed with new players, with WiS those new players can a break from running tutorials and meet other aspiring capsuleers. Mission runners as well, stations with the best agents always have a lot of people in them. Instead of spinning our spaceships when we start to get burned out from regular gameplay, we'll be socializing with people who we might have flown by a dozen times earlier that day.
The seeing strangers in a bar thing is an aspect I hadn't previously considered, and you're right. People will talk to other players who are on grid that they would otherwise ignore.
Also, I find it mildly amusing that Teala, who was the absolute biggest cheerleader on the whole internet for Ambulation, quit when CCP annouced the launch date for it. Go figure...
Give me liberty or give me lasers