Alena Asakura
Rogue Clones
Yulai Federation
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Posted - 2016.11.01 22:05:00 -
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Lady MDK wrote:Some time ago CCP tried to release an expansion that would allow walking and interaction with people in stations. This was a monumental disaster as when we finally got our hands on it, it was only one room with no interaction and there was no plan for how it was to affect the rest of the game. Which as you all know is the key.
This mode if almost never used unless you want to see the jacket that you have just purchased from the NEX store but is pretty much useless. It needs to be replaced in my opinion with Walking and Fighting in stations (cus its more interesting than walking)
First let me say, I love your ideas.
As to the issues surrounding Walking in Stations (WiS), the reason we only got that one room with an endlessly contaminated environment outside the door to the station corridor is that the EvE players generally did not warm to the idea of WiS, saying pretty much routinely that it was a waste of resources they would prefer to see devoted to fixing bugs and glitches in EvE. They didn't want anything but improvements to their space environments.
This I believe was extremely short sighted of them, but it was even more short sighted of CCP to listen to this and curtail any further efforts towards WiS at least at the time.
The option is now, of course, open to them once more. We could still have Walking in Stations, and its expansion of Walking in Ships (they could all be under the one banner of WiS, of course). And yes, I believe transport of clones from one system to another by EvE ships as cargo in EvE capsuleers cargo holds, or perhaps a newly added passenger compartment functionality, would be perfect for the purpose. People do clone jump from one system to another of course, if they have the proper training, but other than a jump back to their medical clone when they're podded, noone has the capacity to do this at will without that training.
In short I see all the "lore" of Dust clones to be a fairly unbelievable concocted version of EvE history to allow for the shortcuts that had to be put into Dust when WiS was canned. WiS was going to be the interface between EvE and Dust. When it was canned, they had to find a way to explain how Dust worked without the necessary EvE functionality to transport mercs around the systems.
It's high time that functionality was brought back and enhanced, and Nova is the obvious place to do it, in conjunction with the new free-to-play EvE.
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