Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I confess I've not read through all 26 pages so forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but one thing I think would be really cool & actually add to the eve immersion with having gameplay ramifications Is this...

When you walk down the gangway to your ship & you can see the huge open space, have some of the other ships that are docked appear in the distance. You don't need to show every one, ut I think it's be awsome to watch other ships comming & going & seeing whos docked up in what. In high sec this would just be cool, but in low sec & null you could use this to your advantage in some situations. Not all ships need to show, it's a big station,

Failing that if for technical reasons it's a big ask, how about settling for just seeing your other assembled ships, abit like a show room if you like. I bet the ship collectors would welcome that & lets be honest I think most players would like to see there cool ships together.

Walk in stations could be where Dust and EVE players can meet, however in my opinion it is a different game on its own because the audience is probably different from the shooter and the capsuleer. If you took WoD and use it for cities on planets as well as inside stations it could be great. But just a simple walk in station to me it doesn't add much value. It would have to have some serious political impact generating a lot of drama. Think about drugs and goods supply to cities, local markets, slavery, kind of running SimCity... but with more control and more variables and the ability to vote for empire representatives. Like the idea?

You do realise that CCP has basically iced the WiS project because of the amount of people who cried about them spending time on something that wasn't space ships...
People are still crying because of work on DUST and WoD. I think they forget that CCP is a business, not their own personal toy. Put all your eggs in one basket, ie have a single product, and if the demand falls, so do you. Diversity in the consumer base breeds both stability and profit. Two things every business needs.

And look, everyone was complaining they should have spent their time on fixing stuff like ships, not WiS... Guess what. They are.

My ship is broken - can't get to the bridge.

I'm not against the FiS, but why is this such a big deal for them to change the numbers on some ships... It's a job for a small team of smart people to have everything perfectly balanced.

Trophy room for kills (not sure how morbid you would want to get... does the Eve Rating allow for a corpse storage facility lol?) and maybe some board or glass cabinet for medals. Would also be good to see where I store my exotic dancers.

If you want a step in the right direction... Make the quarters bigger... (Maybe you can add modules to your quarters to make them unique.. I'd take a Bar, a casino, and a dance floor area k thx.)

Then you need a way to invite your friends into your quarters.

Then after that you will need to add space poker that you can play with ISK, an interactive war map that big CEOs and directers can use for planning their assaults and whatever, more stuff that actually has a use.

Basically walking in stations at a smaller scale.

Who cares

It is for exchanging ideas between those who are enthusiastic for WiS
There are good ideas here and there.. so keep going dudes

Nope I was just making the point that eve is all about brainwork, whether it's the right fit, training queue, battlefield tactics, markets, trading, scamming, working with friends etc. It requires a brain to play and repeated use of that brain trains it. Hence no need of a brain training app for the CQ.

Eve players are always a cut above other MMO players on account of the fact that no other MMO has the balls to do what eve does. It's a big vision and that's why I like it. As for the brain training aspect of Eve I can't tell you the number of ways that Eve has enriched my life outside of the game. It makes me a better programmer, a better businessman and a better socialite, with the added plus that I have an enriched IQ more capable of linking extraneous bits of knowledge into a working whole. The whole noob learning curve in Eve is like falling of a cliff. It's that steep. I appreciate that you might be a seasoned vet who feels that Eve has nothing new to offer in which case fair enough, but most brain training apps are nothing more than glorified memory tests and I think an app like that would cheapen eve's CQ.

I would support a brain training app in the CQ if it was somehow or other worked into the fabric of eve online like an App that taught players how to get the best damage at all ranges through good use of tracking, falloff, optimal ranges and ammo types. It's so good I might even make that app myself...

It would be really cool to have a few social features added.

What I was thinking was along the lines of being able to visit each others captains quarters, Say limit it to 3-4 visitors at a time, or even start with one, and see how it goes.

Some thing simple like right click a characters name in the station visitors list ans select visit quarters. The character you are trying to visit if they have the station environment loaded, would then get a Knock Knock pop up asking if they would like to accept the visitor. This would allow some WiS social interaction, without needing new models or social area's.

Adding some small social area's would also be amazing. Again start small with something like a corp who rents an office at a station , also gets a boardroom/meeting room they can use that would support several characters presence at the same time. These could be used to have corp or alliance meetings in an Avatar interaction environment.

The concept of WiS is amazing, but is a huge undertaking. Having a virtual environment for each station that could support any visitors to that station walking around and interacting would be a massive server load. I think of a trade hub like Jita 4-4, that has been known to have over 2000 players at a single station. that would be a huge environment, very crowded, and a huge server load. Even if the resources were available to pull it off currently. But by starting out with small limited interactions, as I have suggested, those who crave such interaction can do it, and the mechanics, and code needed for it can be tested, and slowly expanded to include larger area's with support for more characters. After a few years we may actually have full station environments, but we need to start small. the Captains quarters was a great start, but please do not stop there.

The game engine is in place , Artwork already made ,but never used .
For some simple added rooms or even expanding the little jail we have , so that has to be a huge undertaking?

Not to mention ,the so called work Team Absent did , there is nothing they can show.

Team Avatar is a CCP joke ,we felled for.