Alena Asakura
Rogue Clones
Yulai Federation
1005
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Posted - 2016.05.23 21:19:00 -
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A logical approach would be to keep the names and characters and allow them to be used in ANY of CCP's games - they're on Tranquility anyway, and in the same database as others who play EvE, etc. It should be possible to allow them to be used as EvE capsuleers, for example. While the approach seems to have been in the past to keep character names exclusive to each game, I don't see any good reason they can't be used across games.
This way, those same characters could then be used in Nova. There must be some plan to do something like this in any case, in order to honour the commitment to player rewards from Dust. Also as an added bonus, EvE characters could then appear in Nova, and vice versa. Existing Dust characters could also train as capsuleers on payment of an EvE subscription. The only detail that would need to be covered is some sort of flag on each account to indicate whether that account was an active EvE account. Likewise for other games. Games which required subscriptions would require that the account was active in that game by payment of a subscription.
I have never seen the need to keep the accounts separate between games. I think this was just a choice to keep it simple for CCP, but in reality has made it harder because of the need to therefore have many more accounts than are necessary. You will have noticed that each account has three characters - this is an EvE database thing, as every EvE account has three characters. It should be possible for any EvE character to also be active in any other game running with Tranquility as its database. I would certainly be happy to see my EvE main, Nalianna, active in Nova or Valkyrie and I can't see why she couldn't be. |
Alena Asakura
Rogue Clones
Yulai Federation
1006
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Posted - 2016.05.24 08:00:00 -
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Kevall Longstride wrote:Single sign via all three games with the same toon was touted as a possible feature at the 2013 Fanfest but there was a shed load of technical and hardware problems in making it a reality. It was also kinda reliant on Dust being a much bigger success than it was. I'm sure that in CCP's wettest of dreams, this would be their ultimate goal. But let's first get three decent games in the same universe working first shall we 
Nah, not likely me. If I can't have my EvE main Nalianna in Nova I likely won't bother - I'll just go back to EvE. I'll give Nova a try of course, but I would expect to see this character, Alena Asakura, in Nova to get my "loyalty rewards". If even that doesn't happen, I don't know that I'll be interested. CCP seems to be discounting this whole issue as a non-issue, but I'm sure there are people like me who really do want to continue using their Dust chars in Nova. |