Eve: Dominion trailer (it pwns).

[hool10]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDVEHE10nHc&feature=sub

Please watch in HD and full-screen. I have already seen many of the features on the test server. The voices telling commands is kinda like how the game really is in large battles. It was done in a way to sound like Teamspeak. The Dominion site is also online: http://www.eveonline.com/Dominion/index.html

1. Space is MUCH more dark now. It's as if you feel lonely and your only salvation for light is the Sun.
2. NPC pirates and CONCORD police do radio chatter. Sounds epic.
3. The sovereignty system to claim space in lawless areas which is demonstrated here:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDuK63_NeS0

   You gained levels of SOV by how long your POS (Player Owned Structure) was up. Now it's done with a SOV claim unit which is modular and you can change characteristics of your space. So the end game of Eve has been over-hauled with many epic battles, back stabbing, and drama will ensue shortly. This can be viewed here: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/co.../influence.png Colored area's are alliances. It so happens to be that Stormy and I are part of RAZOR in the upper portion.
4. Titans, the biggest ship in the game in which I have seen: http://www.xfire.com/video/160d53/ They now have more health but don't kill entire fleets anymore with a click of a button. Now you can only kill 1 target with a SHOOP DA WHOOP LAZA.
5. Planets looks radically different. No more do they look like blobs but ACTUAL planets and are rather HUGE now.
6. Lawless space is boring because you were in a rather large alliance. My corp was part of a alliance which was part of another alliance that comprised of Russians. In fact I was near where the trailer took place in Branch. Nobody goes into 0.0 or else they will be killed rather quickly unless you are part of the alliance. This will hopefully be changed with Dominion.
7. The mail system, in-game browser, all over-hauled.
8. A couple of large ships have been nerfed. Like the Mothership class ships are not Motherships anymore. Now they are Super Carriers so there will be a Mothership in the future.
9. New factions ships, epic pirate arcs, and other improvements.

Remember, this is all in preparation for Incarna to walk in stations and interacting with planets. It will be like Sim City or SPORE in fact with planetary interaction. As for me, I'm still playing and I have not payed for at least 4 months. I buy game cards with in-game money and people sell them for my in-game money.

[6Three]

But is it fun?

[Stormy]

I'm part of RAZOR?

And also motherships have had a massive buff imho. No nurf?? fighter bombers? more ehp and cheaper??

[hool10]

Originally Posted by Stormy

I'm part of RAZOR?

And also motherships have had a massive buff imho. No nurf?? fighter bombers? more ehp and cheaper??

Yes Mr. HUZZAH. Another pet of RAZOR. RAZOR is actually like the Persian empire of Eve. There are no fighter bombers just yet. They need to tweak those more they mentioned.

Also yes, it is fun 6three once you understand how to play the game. Very much fun when you go in the large battles with 500 people on each side. Well it's kinda fun. It gets so laggy it's like a slide show.

[Stormy]

Stop smoking crack hool!

We are the pet of no one. Probly why we keep getting pwned!

[hool10]

Originally Posted by Stormy

Stop smoking crack hool!

We are the pet of no one. Probably why we keep getting pwned!

Well since leaving UNIT, a renter corp of RAZOR, we are looking to maybe war dec people and looking for another alliance. We recently went down to M-O though. That was pretty hilarious watching nobody come and fight us or dock up. If people didn't read intel, they were blown up on the gate.

[Stormy]

Can I join your corp then rob them?

[Shakermaker]

I really want to like EvE. But I don't. Like 6Three I never had any fun with the game. And I tried. I played 4 or 5 trials over the years.

[DigiQ8]

Originally Posted by Shakermaker

I really want to like EvE. But I don't. Like 6Three I never had any fun with the game. And I tried. I played 4 or 5 trials over the years.

Me too.

[Iced_Eagle]

Same.

Usually I go through the cycle of

- "OMG new expansion looks awesome! Maybe I'll finally like it"
- Buy one month subscription
- Okay, I'm really gonna try this time, this is gonna be awesome
- Two weeks later, "mehhhhh"

Rinse and repeat for each expansion.

[Bakurei]

I quit after I got the Domi... Warp-in to the mission, engage drones, go afk, come back after 30min and go get the salvager. I should have never focused on PVE, everyone kept saying to me that PVP was teh shit.

[Gargantou]

Originally Posted by Iced_Eagle

Same.

Usually I go through the cycle of

- "OMG new expansion looks awesome! Maybe I'll finally like it"
- Buy one month subscription
- Okay, I'm really gonna try this time, this is gonna be awesome
- Two weeks later, "mehhhhh"

Rinse and repeat for each expansion.

Same here..

I'd be more interested in EVE if it was more like say FreeSpace 2 when it came to the actual battles, with proper direct control with joysticks etc.

[Stormy]

Originally Posted by Gargantou

with proper direct control with joysticks etc.

A lot of people say that but in all honesty I dont think that kind of control mechanic would work very well. It sounds great in theory but when your trying to micro manage weapons and 4/5 other modules, cap, range all wile listening to your FC Its just far to much to be doing.

[Gargantou]

Originally Posted by Stormy

A lot of people say that but in all honesty I dont think that kind of control mechanic would work very well. It sounds great in theory but when your trying to micro manage weapons and 4/5 other modules, cap, range all wile listening to your FC Its just far to much to be doing.

I guess it is for ordinary people, but not for simmers like me.

I used to fly everything from WW2 sims(IL-2 series) to modern jet(Falcon 4.0 and LOMAC), in which case management of electronics and weapons and flying, all this whilst communicating with your wingmen and other subjects is standard.

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force for example simulates an entire Korean(Or Baltic) conflict, dynamic campaign, which makes flying a real bitch because one second you might be expecting a very calm patrol over friendly airspace, only to get blitzed by a bunch of North Korean interceptors in advance of a NK bombing mission.

And let me tell you, managing the electronics in an F-16 is no easy task.

But, yes, I guess it would be too hard for the common gamer.

[Apocalypse89]

Also aren't all the ships in EVE Online big capital ships?(I think the smallest class are frigates or something) If so it makes sense that you're telling the ship what to do rather than directly controlling it like a fighter plane.