I like Cailais’ suggestion of an “FC command post” here, although that doesn’t really require a “body”. It would not require any wandering of the station and you could be stuck in your room with nowhere else to go (or maybe a couple-room suite) for starters.

These items would all be optional but useful. Give the character their own quarters with a handful of added features that can only be used there. So how about a more minimalist good case? I think CCP could do an excellent job with a very limited scope out of the gate. And to make it worse, one player is a guy and the other is a GIRL (Guy In Real Life). I have twitchy nightmares of beautifully executed graphic characters (this already looks promising) who do nothing but walk around a common area, talk in cartoon bubbles, engage in angsty bad dialog and cheesy pseudo-sexual character bumping that is suggestive only in the manner of banging Barbie and Ken dolls together. So … if we acknowledge that there’s not enough substance yet to have any idea what will actually happen, we can still theorize on what would be good to see. I give them credit for being smart enough to release the new character creator in Incursion to give it time to continue to mature and gain acceptance before it is truly required in Incarna. What I would like to see is that whatever they do, they execute in a quality fashion and with something compelling. If it’s well executed, it could add minor interest – or start a whole new world within Eve that could drive a renaissance. If it is poorly executed, I expect to see no use, no gain, and probably a slight loss in interest (to say nothing of a lot of money down the drain for CCP).

Depending on what their answers are, Incarna will either be a fascinating, ambitious new direction for the game or a complete flop that is far more flash than substance. I am first of all hopeful that the CSM’s current efforts will be successful in getting CCP to actually lay out the gameplay implications.

It’s probably too early to really answer this.

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