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w175jab  2/24/07 11:09:35 PM

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I think it would be interesting if you could actually land on the planets in the EVE universe to prospect mining sites, hide from enemies and such.

I think the idea of adding the ability to fly through the atmosphere of various planets and then landing would be insanely fun

It would add an incredible amount of depth to the universe, economy and overall game.

+ it would keep CCP busy while they add all of the new content to the universe.

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Nu11u5  3/01/07 11:29:06 AM

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You mean like this: Linkage

That is from a proof of concept demo shown at the 2004 Fanfest. I would be posting some additional concept art of ground installations, but CCP's 'art' server has been down for the last few days.


From the Planned Features page:


Simple Planetary Interaction
A probable first step for planetary interaction, where you manage the planet from a Station amongst other things.

Moderate Planetary Interaction
This would feature flying over planets and interacting with the planetary surface. A probable second step in planetary interaction.

Full Planetary Interaction
Planetary RTS or other hybrid game form. Yarr. The long-term crazy professor phase of planetary interaction.


Combine this with the Ambulation Project (walking in stations) that will be released after Revelations and a whole lot of possibilities open up.

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w175jab  3/01/07 8:03:54 PM

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Now that's just beautiful =)  I can't wait for them to implement that... I might actually start playing more often!
 
ork147  3/03/07 6:35:51 PM

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That would be nice :)
 
Ekan87  3/05/07 5:40:15 AM

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I agree that I long till that is implemented.

As I recall they actually have a great many plans for EVE. Their goal is more or less to make EVERYTHING interactable.
 
w175jab  3/07/07 12:09:58 AM

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Yah, but the question is when will they implement it =(
 
Nu11u5  3/07/07 2:36:31 AM

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Ambulation will be in the expansion after the last chapter Revelations is released at the end of this year, and Planetary Flight is scheduled as the next main project after that. In other words, Not Quite Soon™.

CCP will be demoing their work on the Ambulation Project at the GDC this week, so there will be some videos out eventually.

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Graanok  3/07/07 8:49:27 AM

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WoW is the McDonalds of the MMO industry. More popular does not mean better.

Nu11u5, if you happen to come across any pics/video of this, can you post links here?  That stuff can be notoriously difficult to dig up sometimes.

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Nu11u5  3/07/07 12:56:06 PM

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No EVE news yet from the GDC (surprisingly very little news at all so far, I hope it picks up soon) but I have found the concept art finally.

"outpost" from Björn Börkur Eiríksson's site.


...and for Ambulation:

"minmatar-installation"
"caldari-walkinginstation"

..from Asgeir Jon Asgeirsson's site.


Also, there is a real time character render made back in November. I'm courious how far the system has advanced since then, so hopefully there will be something new released soon.

I'll update once I find it.


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w175jab  3/11/07 6:42:16 PM

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I wish it didn't take so long for CCP to implement things...

I understand that the universe is huge and there are TONS of stations/planets and modifications to be made for everything to work properly... but jeesh... Q4 2008 is a very long time... and they haven't really formally promised anything which really sucks.

(Grumbles )
 
RevanKader  11/17/07 9:43:31 AM