General Discussion

MMORPG.com is at this year's EVE FanFest and yesterday the kind folks at CCP gave us a presentation on the highly anticipated upcoming Walking In Stations feature, releasing some information that we knew, and even some that we didn't.

Yesterday at EVE FanFest, members of the press were given a presentation on the upcoming "Walking in Stations" feature for EVE Online that will see players of the sci-fi sandbox game able to step out of their ships for the first time to interact, do business and socialize in a more conventional way, through their 3D avatars.

While we still do not have a definitive launch date for the feature, we have seen progress made even since we last spoke to the folks at CCP about it at this year's Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany and progress is moving forward.

When the game was first conceptualized in 1999, the small team's goal had been to create an online environment that would allow players to take part in an experience that was reminiscent of a classic sci-fi movie. Technology at the time being what it was and the team being as small in size as it was then, the early developers had to settle for the original ships-only design.

Read more Walking in Stations with EVE Online.

Good article thank you for going to Fanfest for us, I look foward to the expansion. (You double posted teh article I think.)

Yes double post.

Nothing new, yet.

Been looking forward to this for ages!

How very interesting.Any guesses on  when these thing might actually be in the game ?

Did I miss a link, or is there no new footage available yet, of this upcoming expansion? Would be nice to see what type of progress they've made since the last time we were given some video-footage, :)

Starting to sound like a game in the game,I like the concept.

make it really useful.

While I think it is a good addtion to the game, it is really not a highly sought  feature.  I think the playerbase is more interested in new ships and areas.

True, in my case at least. Though it does sound like it'll add to the game, and what I do in-game, I'd quickly pass on this expansion if it meant I would have more fun pew-pewing things, or exploring new areas of space.

I'd even pass on the Walking-expansion if it meant simple things, such as less-static "backgrounds" for the existing systems in New Eden, or the long-asked-for "training queue" where-in players could at least queue-up _one_ skill to train once our current skill is complete, or a "default skill" to fall-over to whenever your current skill-training completes. (poke poke, nudge nudge)