Player Features and Ideas Discussion

People are already collecting corpses of podded capsuleers - I think they'd appreciate a chance to fill up their hangars with POWs of blasted roleplayers' ships.

It might cause some minor problems... maybe spiking up TiDi with each destroyed ship because each popped Drake ***** out half a dozen crew pods, which will start to accumulate when you have few hundred ship battle going.

I've never heard of that. I didn't even yet knew about corpses in pod wrecks ^ __^



Well, that is a con of this suggestion. However, if pod designs were simple and had no traces or any other effects, it might not impact performance very much, but I am not an expert. Here is a nice sheet I found, about possible percentage of ships crew surviving after destruction.

I counted that if the numbers were to be as in the sheet- up to over 100.000 people might survive a Titan wreck. However, that certainly does not mean 100.000 pods. It would be much more efficient to fit a flying city with 400 pods of which each could carry up to 250 individuals.
That still sounds like a lot, thus the solution might be to make survival chance much lower (ಠu ಠ)
Making it, for instance, up to 100-200 pods in a titan and, say- up to 1 pod in a frigate (containing different amounts of survived crew).

And after the crew get in pods and out into space, they would warp off to the closest station/ capsuleers home station/ elsewhere the moment they had a chance. In such case, in even bigger battles, it would be very rare to see crew pods of several ships at once - system performance shouldn't be affected noticeably.

Another small idea related to this got into my mind - hull breach, few technician corpses sadly floating out of the ship into void :3

An implemention of crew members seems interesting lore-wise.

Just today, 0:00 to now, around 35 drakes went pop. Assuming each has ~30 crewmembers, that would most likely make up maybe 1000-2000 missing drake-crewmembers a day.

Not a specialist, but there are other, more frequently used hulls aswell, probably leaving the (are-thy-dead)-toll at tens of thousands a day.

So the universe is either quite populated or crewmembers have been spcifically cloned to serve on this ship!


First necessity should be a decent explanation of who is serving on ship and why, and who the **** would voluntarily serve onboard a cyno-kestrel.

If someone can post linksthat explain stuff, appreciated. I fail at googling for it.

http://i.imgur.com/w3YKTWt.jpg

Some blogger (Seismic Stan?) actually did some very rough math on it. Judging from the amount of planets, technology level and other factors we're nowhere near running out of mortal meatsacks to maintain the engines of our warmachines while we shoot ammo worth hundreds of times more than annual earnings of average household every few seconds.

I propose crew-pods in the style of gas cloud textures, fps-killing, generally annoying and if necessary ugly and distracting as it needs to be...

No really, a bunch of blue light-trails on detonation and a notification is all I need to confirm wether or not scotti survived.

I need a room for my prostitutes and exotic dancers!

If this does absolutely nothing, then is it really worth spending dev time on? I mean, yes we have crew (source: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/New_Eden_crew_guidelines ), so if you really want to, can't you use that chart to tell you how many militants/tourists/janitors/exotic dancers to keep in your hold for all your roleplaying needs?

I agree with the blob that is Eve that this will generally be seen as unnecessary and, as put forth by others, an unnecessary waste of time on behalf of an already seemingly overtaxed development crew. That being said, I see nothing wrong with it, so why not try to flesh it out into an idea that seems entertaining enough to flesh out and make a reality?

1) Make sure this is entirely non-mandatory.
To drive this point home there should be little/no advantages to having a crew. If there is, it should work in a very "mini-game" like fashion that can affect certain aspects of the game, but not aspects that matter in the heat of battle, the thrill of the hunt, or the occasional rock-munching.

2) Make sure it drives home the very essence of it's intended audience.
This is to appeal to the roleplayers. When their ship blows up they should see an ambient scattering of lifeboats (nothing too graphically intensive, but just assume their crew made it safely to some nearby planet for sake of gameplay) and their wreckage may contain a few prisoners (those somehow still alive but unable to escape in their lifeboats), some corpses (the dead), or nothing (everyone is too wrecked to recover). This could just appear on all ships, a default "crewman" being in those that don't really care about the RP experience while those that do may have different crew compositions.

3) Since it doesn't hurt the economy don't make it hurt the player.
Make this a simple add-on. No ISK necessary to hire these crew members, just pure entertainment to see what kind of crew the ship had when you blew them up (or stumbled upon their remains). Do they roleplay as some sort of planetary venture capitalist with Biologists and Surveyors aboard? Are they a chartered vessel that carries important ambassadors and VIPs? Or are they human traffickers (or party animals) with a large number of exotic dancers (and/or slaves, whatever makes more sense for you in-RP).

Implementing this could be a tad tedious, since it doesn't really serve a function. It could be added to the in-game menu, allowing you to freely change your crew composition at any time (again, it's purely for fun anyways so why does it matter when you can change it?). For the more purist roleplayers it could be an added function of some sort to the station menu, although with POS-dwellers being increasingly common it could lead to some problems handling them at a POS that doesn't have the same functionality as a proper station.

If you are not a capsuleer then you are little people. That's the divide and as such these little people are beneath your social class why on earth would you want to interact with them let alone take advice from them when your vantage point is so much superior. You are the ship. They are like the bacteria found within you and as such are of no concern and little consequence as long as they work properly...

Thus if this possibility to interact with the crew in certain ways is implemented -
You will be able to toss and order them around, express your hatred towards dem poor souls.
And I would leave you at it, and in return, you could leave me at getting to know dem mammoth janitors ^ ___^