Walking in Stations at EVE FanFest 2008

[Ethec]

The focus of the first two days of EVE FanFest 2008 was Walking in Stations, CCP's bid to let pilots climb out of their pods and walk around as avatars for the first time.

We have two new articles and 3 exclusive videos showing various features of WIS for your enjoyment:

• Walking in Stations Feature Article - where to start if you're not familiar with WIS or need an update on the latest changes.
• Walking in Stations Demo Video - Our first real-time look at WIS.
• SecWars Demo Video - A look at a mini-game available inside player-owned establishments.
• EVE Enlightened - How WIS will use Enlighten to create more realistic environments.
• Enlighten demo video - A look at Enlighten in action from FanFest 2008.

What are your thoughts on WIS? Is it a waste of development time, a concept that's growing on you, or the best thing to happen to a five year old MMORPG in a long time?

[Camel]

The problem with CCP`s great ideas is the prevalence of Soon[Tm].....

[ducain]

I think that WIS will be a totaly diffrent area to the game. So far we only has seen space development and this, as them self puts it, will be a community were you will interact with other players. But it may put the time spent in space in a station instead. I see it as an improvement to the game. They also talked of develop planets and to colonized it and use it more than just space filling.

[niroshido]

Originally Posted by ducain

I think that WIS will be a totaly diffrent area to the game. So far we only has seen space development and this, as them self puts it, will be a community were you will interact with other players. But it may put the time spent in space in a station instead. I see it as an improvement to the game. They also talked of develop planets and to colonized it and use it more than just space filling.

yes they most certainly did. CCP have wanted to implement planetary interaction since eve went live, the difficulties with this are not as transparent. Firstly how do you implement the transitions between a planets atmosphere and space without causing lag?, what about the collision detection and the impact of having planetary collision detection when warping. Needless to say both the walk in stations and planetary interaction have been features that CCP has wanted for quite a while, but there is alot of technical issues with the features that needs to be addressed before releasing.

[blehack33]

pre-cu, and even pre-nge Star Wars Galaxies had both planetary colonization and a space-based game.

Just sayin'.