Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Greetings,

I find it incredibly hard to believe that this discussion has never been brought up before, but I have decided to bring it up again if that be the case.

As a manufacturer of equipment in Eve Online, I can say that the addition of this feature would add a lot more value and sense of accomplishment to the role I play and love in the finest virtual world I have had the pleasure to be apart of.

Like the combat pilot who has a kill mail, combat log and furthermore out of game killboards to log their accomplishments in and out of the game, I feel as I am certain many others who dedicate their time in eve to the manufacturing of equipment for distribution through the eve economy that it would create a incredible sense of accomplishment and value if the items we have created have some kind of indication as to who the manufacturer was.

In the real world, nearly ever product in existence is branded, which serves as advertisement and recognition for ones work. In eve unfortunately there is no indication of the origin of any equipment traded on the open market. Thus no recognition and furthermore no way for the manufacturer to gauge market penetration.

I know that it would be quite the experience to loot a piece of equipment from a wreck after a pvp fight that had "Created by: J'ee" under its attributes.

Why this has not yet been implemented or explored I do not know. It may be the case of complexity adding something the the game that from a programmers point of view may be a lot more difficult than it may appear from a players point of view. That being said, I do strongly believe that the addition of this feature in some form or another would be applauded across nearly the entire R&D community.

Thank you for taking the time to read and consider my suggestion, and I hope that this is something we may hope to see in the future.

J'ee

think it a good idea to see the manufacturer name on killmail. could create drama incase of supers.

Yes, I would like to know who all the industrial carebears are out there so I can wardec them properly. +1

so this means it's coming?

fantastic!!

It would be nice, however this would ruin the 'stacking' ability of items.
Stacking items (repackaging them) removes all specific recorded data about that item, and just simply turns it into a number (+1 per unit) This is why you need to repair equipment first before repackaging... because you need to return it to its default state before destroying the individual, unique item, and turning it into a digit.

If manufacturers got to stamp their ships (or omg items...), i'd have a stack for each manufacturer, in addition to a stack for each ship/item type, hugely cluttering my already full hanger floor (~500 items)

How would you propose to overcome the destruction of data when items are stacked? The stacking ability is a key way to minimize database size... instead of having an entry for each instance of the item, they only currently need one entry to record the number of units

All that aside, i think branding ships would be really awesome, and would love to see it done.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to the concept, however its not really practical in eve for the reasons stated above. How would you have such information come out of a stack? I suppose you could keep track of makers and quantities then randomly select one when you assemble them.

The thing we absolutely cannot have though is reduced functionality when dealing with stacks (such as stacks being limited to one manufacturer). Such limitations would be a horrible inconvenience to almost everyone.