Going For A Stroll
Ever since its inception “Walking in stations”, also known as “Ambulation” or “Incarna” has been a hot topic for the gaming media and Eve Online players. Most publicity has been positive yet some players are calling for the project to be scrapped in favour of using resources on developing neglected current in-game content.
It seems however that this is all now finally in full motion, a recent dev blog by CCP’s new senior producer “Zulu” states:
Development of Incarna is something that CCP has committed to for multiple reasons, but the most prominent one is fairly simple.
To achieve our goal of EVE being a complete sci-fi experience we must have full body avatars. When we talk to people who like the concept of science fiction games but aren’t attracted to EVE, it becomes obvious that there is a need gap that can best be filled by having a character to associate with rather than a spaceship, and I would venture there are many existing players who want this option as well.
As of August 17th, there will be about nine teams working on Incarna. Of those, seven are on loan from other projects – to which they will return once Incarna is launched – and the remainder are EVE development teams. The EVE teams can work on both Incarna and in-space features, but they are assigned to Incarna for now. Actually one of the teams is spending one and a half releases on Incarna, the other about three releases. So the resource cost from EVE is very contained while the size and impact of the feature will be massive.
Also stating that 9 development teams totalling 70 people will be working on the project, making it Eve’s highest concentration of resources and development for a long time.
I think diehard fans and oldschool players will be against it to start but once you see the influx of fresh bait coming in and the growth it will offer all aspects of the game and playerbase you will be surprised.
As mentioned above, you will also get to see your characters balls?
Frankly, i would rather see the current issues such as rockets, Sov, Tier2 BC balance etc come first. Who gives a damn about walking in a station and playing world of war crap in space if when you actually get into the space its LAGGY
From the day i started playing, i wanted this. I always thought it would make this amazing game more amazing! Now its going to happen.
Been following this for years, they had the original “preview” at fanfest about 4 years ago, people immediately started guestimating release dates, which of course all turned out to be completely off.
Keen to see my characters balls for the first time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWWxD-q-bg&feature=related
This will be amazing
I’ve seen the youtube videos and it looks promising