EVE Online Ambulation - are moving avatars the bees knees?

[Medeor]

In a recent announcement, EVE Online will be coming out with a new expansion codenamed MIDAS. There is speculation that it may contain the highly anticipated inclusion of avatar ambulation. This would be a major change to the game that has thus far been a game about space ships and only space ships.

For those of you not playing EVE, will this be the final straw that gets you to try it?

For those you that already play EVE, is this going to be the greatest thing since cubed tofu?

[chris09]

As a 3 year eve player i think it only lacks the one vital thing that most games have and that is ground combat - when they bring in the ability to get out of the ships and launch ground attacks in conjuntion with air strikes to capture compounds or cities or to get soverinty of planets and there resourses only then will eve be the best and no other game would come close - that way they would cater for all kinds of players and truly open up the world of eve

[Medeor]

That would be awesome, but can you imagine the difficulty for them to include what would essentially be Tabula Rasa as a whole new game within a game element? Aye carumba!

It would be something though, and you know that is on a whiteboard at CCP somewhere under the heading "Some day"

[BringIt]

Well, I've played EVE, and I enjoy it, but it takes too long and isn't quite engaging enough for me to stay with it. Adding in Ambulations, I think would be interesting, but I highly doubt it'll be that golden touch that people are looking for. Though it depends on how large an addition it will be. If it's basically like a new avatar based SciFi MMORPG within the normal EVE (like with missions, gear, combat, and vast stations to explore) then sure, it'll be an insanely good move. However, if it's more about social interaction and wearing outfits, then I don't think it'll help all that much, though it would probably increase retention to some extent.
Just my opinions on the matter.