EVE General Discussion

I forget just where in the CSM notes it was but one of the CCP employees asked something along the lines of what the playerbase would think of adding "cockpit" view and or joystick support, eg, flight simulator style.

This is the only important response in the thread.

He claims a CCP dev suggested it, he himself isn't suggesting it. Jumping to the RABBLE RABBLE ITS IMPOSSIBLE is kind of refuted if a CCP dev did, in fact, suggest it.

To the guy talking about Star Citizen, tell me how good this 'WASD' works when there are like 1500+ people on-grid at the same time.

(I do not personally think that SC is going to be a very good game.)

People who throught ToR or STO would compete with EVE were trolls. People with a half a brain knew they were nothing like EVE, and those people weren't meant for EVE anyways.

SC is an "EVElike MMO". Dismissing it would be foolish, it's supposed to be the same game in principle.

Is Star Citizen an MMO?
No! Star Citizen will take the best of all possible worlds, ranging from a permanent, persistent world similar to those found in MMOs to an offline, single player campaign like those found in the Wing Commander series. The game will include the option for private servers, like Freelancer, and will offer plenty of opportunities for players who are interested in modding the content. Unlike many games, none of these aspects is an afterthought: they all combine to form the core of the Star Citizen experience.

Maybe this has come up before, maybe it hasn't.

I forget just where in the CSM notes it was but one of the CCP employees asked something along the lines of what the playerbase would think of adding "cockpit" view and or joystick support, eg, flight simulator style.

Not much really came up in that regard. Made me a little sad.

Personally I like those kinds of games, particularly Decent: Freespace 1&2 from back in the day.

How would this work with EvE? EvE plays very much differently from this. So it got me thinking about how flight sim style of play could work well with EvE.

I would limit it to a handful of ships that fit that kind of play. Frigates, Fighters, and Fighter Bombers.

Some sort of functionality would need to be added to switch modes from standard flight mode to cockpit view, or a Starfox style third person view. Your guns and missiles would get locked forward and only able to fire and target in that direction. Guns and unguided missiles would essentially be "dumb fire" or have limited tracking ability only in front of the ship. Guided missiles would be fire-and-forget much like they are now. Perhaps a small or modest boost to damage and range to turrets for fighting in this mode?

Overheating and all that would still be the same, module activation and cooldowns would still be the same, ammo counts as well. Other modules would simply work the same way as they do now, like Target Painters, Sensor Disruptors, Neuts, prop mods, etc. 360 degree of affect, range, falloff all that jazz.

Carriers could have some new play modes added to them, too. Pull up next to a carrier, "dock" with it in some manner and take over a fighter or fighter bomber and wreak havok. Player controlled individual fighters and fighter bombers would get a good boost to range and damage for being independantly controlled. If it gets blapped, launch another and get back into the fight!

This could even extend further to dreads where when you hit seige you go to a "turret" view and take direct control of your turrets and blap stuff a la B-52 belly-gunner style.

#popcorn

I'll take the Carriers with AI fighters. They won't afk as often, they're guaranteed to be there when you log in, and they won't do stupid **** on their own accord.