Originally posted by Arawon

Any sence when this is supposed to happen ?

Ambulation has no date but I'd sya sometime next year at the soonest, probably 2 years if it ever does happen (anyone remember atmospheric flight 2 years ago?).

Originally posted by Szark

In the new system, players will have to make new avatars themselves, as making an automated system to do this for players would ultimately be a waste of the developer’s time

Too bad.

I've timed out multiple times building avatars for this game. Now with more stuff to customize, any help to reduce the creation time would be nice.

As I understand it, the current avatars are just stored as parameters on the server and the client is responsible for making the 2D portraits. While the new system looks pretty involved, a simple conversion would be appreciated. I could then spend the rest of the time playing with the body and clothing sliders and only have to tweak the face.

Ex. 2D_eye[1] = 3d_eye_slider1[10%]

Will we at least get to see our old avatar while we design the new one?

Maybe they can open the avatar design interface a little, allowing us to save to disk the old 2d data and upload the new 3d data? I'm sure some player could, and would, build a simple translation program...

Breaking out the avatar design code into a stand-alone would also be nice...

Originally posted by katriell

 

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Originally posted by Maurauder
CCP needs to continue to work on fixing the bugs that have been around since BETA before they start putting new ones in with something that is not going to increase the playerbase of the game. I think someones brain up there in Iceland froze or something. Need to stick to what works and fix what doesn't.

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Ambulation WILL increase the playerbase. There are a lot of people who don't play EVE or who stop playing only because the humanoid character is represented by nothing more than a picture.

 

dragons.

Originally posted by ArcheusCross

I have been reading all the replys and i agree with many of them. Even though i haven't played much past the trials, it was because i felt like i was too attached to the ship. If they implemented this i would probably fully join this game and never look for another mmo again.

I think many of you saying "I don't think this will add jack to the game" are not seeing the true size of the potential that they are about to add to the game. Not only will this add social aspect but HEAVY roleplaying aspects as well, as it increases immersion.

But lets not stop there... as a previous poster stated this truly would be a HUGE stepping stone. Many things could spin-off from this. They could make ground fights! Station raids.... the options are endless.

eve is my swg space game and project entropia is my swg avatar game.  it'd be great to have A game again.  especially with graphics updated from those swg ones.   

Any news on this feature? :)

Soon (TM).

Okay, last i heard it would be in the second major release of 2010, so the winter expansion. But as always with CCP that's a rough estimate :)

I stand by the statement I made nearly 2 years ago.

Originally posted by Agricola1

Originally posted by Arawon

Any sence when this is supposed to happen ?

Ambulation has no date but I'd sya sometime next year at the soonest, probably 2 years if it ever does happen (anyone remember atmospheric flight 2 years ago?).

Current date for ambulation is Q3 this year and Atmospheric flight was just a tech demo. it was never meant for use ingame [which you knew of course].

CCP does two expansions per year. they just finished the winter one for 2009 (dominion). the next expansion, first of 2010 is due in summer, and will be about planetary interaction. where planets are divided into districts and players in eve fight over the control of the planet by controlling the districts.
this is a necessary expansion for DUST514 which is a fps-rts-mmo. point is that eve players will contract dust soldiers to fight over the districts, therefore gaining control over planets, therefore influencing the sovereignty.

second expansion, the winter one, a little less then a year from now, is incarna, which is a name they chose for ambulation. it wont however be only a social tool as described before, but will be required to do certain things in game.
"sometimes you need? to get offline, to get things done.
things you dont want to register in any network"

official trailer already out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCcRMNT-WI

atmospheric flight will be a part of DUST. you can get all this info by watching the fanfest videos. the incarna stuff, the gameplay of dust including the atmospheric flight here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ccpgames?blend=1&ob=4&rclk=cti#p/c/E7A45268BF4505BC/0/rNhPig8inEY

Thanks :) 2010 seems to be a good year for EVE :)

Originally posted by katriell

 

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Originally posted by Maurauder
CCP needs to continue to work on fixing the bugs that have been around since BETA before they start putting new ones in with something that is not going to increase the playerbase of the game. I think someones brain up there in Iceland froze or something. Need to stick to what works and fix what doesn't.

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Ambulation WILL increase the playerbase. There are a lot of people who don't play EVE or who stop playing only because the humanoid character is represented by nothing more than a picture.

 

Wow, in one thread  you were able to say it is both useless and useful.  I guess whatever the results are of this addtion to EVE you can claim you predicted it.