The door to the EVE Online Captain’s Quarters closed two years ago this August. Sobs gradually transitioned to merely the occasional sigh, and the reees of rage faded into a quiet undercurrent of discontent. Players grew accustomed to the fact that they would never again admire their filthy ship from the outer balcony, and that they could only watch station ads from the hangar.
A new “normal” settled in.
But Summer 2019, the Summer of Chaos, is not “normal” by any reckoning. While Walking in Stations will not return as it was, there is a glimmer of light shining from under that locked station door. Hilmar, judgement perhaps clouded by an extra cup of caffeine with his morning twitter, publicly committed to what can only be Dancing in Stations.
This news corroborates hopes Hilmar raised In his recent interview with Matterall of Talking in Stations, where he suggested that too many things seemed set in concrete, and needed to be shaken up, then hinted at capsuleers getting more exercise, saying “We want you on your toes…your heart rate is going up…that is the chaos era, and it is on.”
While details are sketchy, early reports indicate a possible Sparc integration with EVE Online, in which player avatars are automatically ported to Sparc, and capsuleers can enter a virtual arena for a dance-off. “This is a natural extension of the new ranked mode and custom game options in Sparc,” a source clarified, “porting the new avatars to Sparc was relatively painless thanks to our recent investment in tools. In future iterations of this integration, we anticipate extending from 1v1 dance-offs to small gang dance-offs, and allowing players to wager ISK upon the outcome, now that we know it’s legal. We also intend to eventually port corporation and alliance logos to Sparc uniforms at the same time we allow those logos on ships.”
Wash your socks, it looks like we’ll Soon™ be…Dancing in Stations!
