City planets

I'd like to think so, but they might try to keep environments simple depending on how resource-eating the game is generally.

Im going to assume not and ill tell you why. Capsuleers (Eve Pilots) are immortals and thus in many regards immune to the laws of the rest of the galaxy. If they, for example, go to Jita and decide to see how many ships they can kill before CONCORD (the law enforcement agency of Eve) kills them all that happens is CONCORD swoops in and blows up their ship. The Capsuleer then is free to leave, in their pod and is not subject to any further punishment, atleast by CONCORDS hands. Of course the other pod pilots are free to pop the pod, but still even if the pod is popped and the pilot in questions clone is up to date.... who cares about getting podded?

What this means is that a war between the immortals isnt measured in pilot kills but rather money lost and that means that pod pilots dont care about the lives of the crews on their ships (some may but by and far not really).

Now with the new expansion pilots are just now able to interact with planets for the first time in the form of industrial installations that are on remote corners of planets (presumably). The only other structures that are attackable like this are POS's and in low sec actual stations. It can safely be assumed that CONCORD and all the Empires will NEVER allow Capsuleers to own anything, on a major planet, due to the possible lose of lives due to capsuleer wars. After all if life dosent matter, and the easiest way to measure success in a war like this is damage taken vs damage recieved then the Empires will do everything in their power to keep pod pilots from ever owning aything, even corporate offices off of Empire planets.

Now in time it may be possible to have DUST soldiers (after Incarna) board a POS or Null sec station and kill, maim and destroy, and it may also be possible that some day pilots can actually do a Sim City type thing and make a small city that in turn could be attacked by DUSTers but the later is most likely a pipe dream.

[quote="meikle":1aw325o3]i wonder how (lore wise) the capsulers will react to the fact that there not the only immortals on the block anymore and the new ones arrent confined to a pod[/quote]

Well techincally speaking pod pilots arent confined to a pod. The pod is an interaction device between the pilot and the ship. The pilots themselves upgrade their clones and what have you on a station via other means (See: The Burning Life novel for source). The Pod pilot does however still have an advantage over the DUST soldier in that the pod itself is able to take a "snap-shot" of the synopsis before the pilots bodies death and thus the pilot is able to retain memories up to the moment of death where as i think soldiers will only have the ability to have their brains mapped at certain facilities or post-pre game and (at least in the terms of lore) will not retain any memories that were developed between the time of neuro-mapping and death.

As for any sort of jealousy on the part of pilots, well there would be none as soldiers dont fly and soldiers dont have the same ability to remember anything after neuro-mapping and thus i think pod pilots will (from lore stance again) look down on soldiers as inferior cousins.

And as to Albetta's thoughts on capsuleer facilities growning into cities, i still strongly believe that the Empires and CONCORD will heavily restrict what facilities can and cannot be built and sanction only employees (not even employee families) to live near these facilities meaning that the places are work camps with no ammenities save for perhaps a dining hall, a rec hall and perhaps a cantina not to mention housing. As an employee would would probably be on a rotation schedule where you are on site for 60-90 days and then rotated home for a 60-90 days with pay. The only time you have access to your pay is when you are rotated home as there is nothing on site, save for booze, to spend your money on.

Now this isnt to say that perhaps a brothel pops up near by or some sort of merchant (on a temperate planet, barren planet and maybe ice planets) but these would never be "boom towns" as lets face it there wouldnt be enough of an economy to support to many outsiders and its more likely that some intrepid "space pimp/rogue trader" will fly to the planet on a large space yacht, have his whores service the workers, sell whatever goods he peddles, then sets of for the next facility in system or planet.

What the above poster said about 0.0 being lawless is incorrect, atleast in a lore standpoint. When the Jovians introduced capsule technology to the four Empires and forced the four empires to allow the inception of CONCORD they were also forced to agree that these Empires would grow no further then pre-agreed to bondry. This means that while CONCORD and Empire nation have little to no say past these lines it is not to say that there is no law. Guristas space, dispite the fact that this is a criminal "empire" does have its own internal law and there have been several "lore" examples of the Guristas working hand in hand with CONCORD and, funny enough, the Blood Raiders turned over Chancellor Karsoth (the man who raped Amaar of religion and ethics) over to Jamul Sarum upon her corination as Empress of Amarr despite the fact that the Blood Raiders are on terrible terms with Amarr.
0.0 isnt lawless, its just Empire free.