Welcome to the first installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
This month’s topic comes to us from PsycheDiver: Ambulation: What are your hopes for your avatar and new functionality of stations?
Participants:
- CrazyKinux’s Musing: Exotic Dancers, Corporate Meetings & more
- Semper EVE: Ambulation and Me
- Roc’s Ramblings: Blog Banter #1 – Ambulation
- The Ralpha Dogs: Ambulation/Walking in Stations: A “Second Life” for EVE?
- Drunk in Space: Look at how much weight he put on…
- Diving into PsycheDiver’s Psyche: Ambulation and Her
- Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah: Eve Blog Banter – Ambulation
- I am Keith Neilson: Going For A Stroll Through EVE
- Life in Low Sec: Ambulation Fantasies
- Shahirs Journey: Hopes for Ambulation
- A Mule in EVE: Ambulation
- Protosolus: EVE: Gawking in Stations
- One Man, One Ship: Ambulation
- Achernar: Avatars in a spaceships game
- The Shard: Ambulation
- A Mule in EVE: Ambulation
- Mad Rant: Saturday Night Fever
- Achernar: Avatars in a spaceships game
- I May Find Peace Within The Emptiness…: Walking Around…
- Ombeve: Ambulation
- A Merry Life and a Short One: Ambulation
Ambulation – what I hope to see
There has been a lot of discussion about this awesome future expansion work that is coming soon. CCP has been working to evole our in game avatars to make them full body, virtual characters that are supposed to leave the ship and walk around inside the station.
The EVE Blog Banter discussion point this round is on what we hope we will be able to do with the Ambulation expansion. Personally, I am looking forward to being able to revamp my avatar a bit, get more of a 3-D feel to the character. I am also looking forward to the inscreased imersion factor of being able to interact with my fellow capsuleers in something other than my ship.
It leads to some interesting potential interactions. Being a pirate, what would it be like when I encounter a group of of victims in the bar at the station? Will all those exotic dancers I loot from wrecks be able to fund work at the local peeler establishment on station?
Will we be able to hang all those corpses on the walls of our corp HQ meeting hall?
Things that I would also like to see and I know I am showing my geekiness here. I would actually like to see working computer terminals that allow you to have an active web browser session running. How cool would it look to see one of my fellow bloggers, sitting at a data terminal in a station, writing a blog entry.
I would actually like to see NPC workers, loading ammo into the cargo hold of my ship. I would like to see NPC nurses attending to someone who just cloned at the station medial complex.
I would like to be able to look out a station window and see those ships engaging in battle or waiting at the undock point.
Will we be able to hope on one of those NPC transports and move between stations in a system? That would be really cool. Sitting in a seat, looking out a window, taking public transportation between stations.
In all seriousness, this expansion to the EVE Online world leaves so many possibilities for intereaction and another level to the game play I can hardly wait. I am looking forward to it.
