You mean like this: Linkage

That is from a proof of concept demo shown at the 2004 Fanfest. I would be posting some additional concept art of ground installations, but CCP's 'art' server has been down for the last few days.

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From the Planned Features page:

Simple Planetary Interaction
A probable first step for planetary interaction, where you manage the planet from a Station amongst other things.

Moderate Planetary Interaction
This would feature flying over planets and interacting with the planetary surface. A probable second step in planetary interaction.

Full Planetary Interaction
Planetary RTS or other hybrid game form. Yarr. The long-term crazy professor phase of planetary interaction.

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Combine this with the Ambulation Project (walking in stations) that will be released after Revelations and a whole lot of possibilities open up.

Ambulation will be in the expansion after the last chapter Revelations is released at the end of this year, and Planetary Flight is scheduled as the next main project after that. In other words, Not Quite Soon™.

CCP will be demoing their work on the Ambulation Project at the GDC this week, so there will be some videos out eventually.

No EVE news yet from the GDC (surprisingly very little news at all so far, I hope it picks up soon) but I have found the concept art finally.

"outpost" from Björn Börkur Eiríksson's site.

...and for Ambulation:

"minmatar-installation"
"caldari-walkinginstation"

..from Asgeir Jon Asgeirsson's site.

Also, there is a real time character render made back in November. I'm courious how far the system has advanced since then, so hopefully there will be something new released soon.

I'll update once I find it.

!!ZOMZHOLDONTOYOURPANTS!!

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there are many ways they could do that and it would make the game the best MMORPG ever mae. however this comes at a cost. i thought about this too and i thought if you coul dhave some form of colony on planets and moons who live in your stations. you could use your slaves and militia to defend your station from other players and run the place for you while your corporate members defend it from space. it would be even better if players could go out side the station and into the surface of the planet/moon and interact with it. e.g. the availability of certain viecles for mineing and harvesting food. perhaps farming food and animals would be another way to make money, i still dont know what the live stock that  is available for trading is used for or where it comes from. well if they do that then you will need food for your workers too wont you. so you will have more ways to make money and more things to manage. truth be told EVE does get boring too often.

I play EVE since 2004 and was ever since hoping they would implement such things, as u all mentioned.

One of the first things which diappointed me at the beginning was warping thru planets/stations.

But tho that game has improved a lot, as much as it had lots of nerfs wich can destroy also players economy plans, but anyways I am hot on that walking-on-stations thing.. CCP you are coming closer to what it should be.. and btw who says there is an end to improvements...?  Cya in Jita guys o/

wat ship is that in the vid of the abulation where there walking around, you see a docked ship, anyone know wat one?