Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello Eve Forum,

I am so new to Eve that this may seem like a very big 'idea' forum post, but it sprang to mind so I thought I'd post it!

A couple of side notes: I searched for threads on landing on planets - esque expansions and found nothing, also not sure if this is the appropriate part of the forum so here goes nothing

So coming up to about a week and a half/two weeks in the EVE universe and the thing that I've found the most interesting is business and within that realm of business and industry the Planetary Interaction function.

I'm having lots of fun expanding and getting to grips with this feature when I think...it would be pretty cool if you could land and interact on certain places or colonies on planets (not whole planets because I'm aware of server space) using your charcter. Which opens up a whole new realm of character customization, third person interaction, business and also warfare to a certain degree.

This is where someone tells me there is a function like this, at which point I pray my post drifts off into the unknown, or when someone says: "Fool! It would take too much server space! It would be too hard to integrate! We aren't made of money etc etc etc" and I realise that, although you can't deny the idea is...tantalising? Maybe something that could work hand in hand with the world of Dust 514...

Anywho, I am Amani Gellan and this is my first post in the realm of EVE Forums,

Ciao.

EY BROSKI, READ DA COMMONLY PROPOSED IDEAS AN ****

EDIT: For some reason this seemingly herp a derp and obvious idea isn't on their. Not saying that it wouldn't be ballin.


Since your new here you should know a few things... CCP doesn't like to "do" things that require lots of work. They like to dedicate expansion cycles to improving the UI and tweaking numbers on ships now.

sure lets park a titan on every dust planet, that will fix everything :P

I'm a mechanical engineer, in my point of view, space ships like most of eve spaceships were not designed to fly in atmospheric conditions. You can see it by the lack of symmetry of most ships.

Also I'm not Sure if these ships can keep the propulsion to enter/ exit orbit. because theoretically this ships can't activate the warp drive inside atmosphere. (there are some missions that you need to go trough hazardous gases, that you can't warp in them.)

Although, I see the need of atmospheric operations capable ships, like the DUST514 cestus "mothership"

Higher level of interaction with planets has always seemed to be a long term goal but doesn't seem to be something they are rushing towards, there were some atmospheric flight demos years ago but not much since.

Part of the problem is until maybe 2-3 years ago the tech and hardware performance for properly doing seamless space to planet surface transitions and integrating both into the same game wasn't really feasible (other than in very simplified forms i.e. frontier). Then actually developing the tech is a massive task in itself before you get onto how you add engaging content on a planetary scale to one planet let alone dozens or more. Simply put to make something worthwhile of it is a whole video games worth of effort on its own - and then some if you want something beyond a mix of copy and paste and procedural generated content which is ultimately very boring.

assuming that the eve ships are design to enter the atmosphere.....most probably will be to have an orbital docking ring around planets where u can dock your ship and then sue an orbital elevator to get down on the planet.

And make the orbital ring open for player atcks...once blown up all the ships docked goes boom.

The rationale for being on land is what gets me: why do you need to be on a planet? Eve is about playing as a capsuleer in space that does space-related things. Not about playing Joe Nobody that lives on Endrulf III.

If you want to go a step further and take it to an RP perspective there is a bit about how the surgery that allows us to utilize clones that activate on our death and possess our memories are hard to implement: it works by essentially copying all the data from our brain (which pretty much microwaves it) and sending it to our clone. But it's hard to use outside of a pod, since the numerous events that can happen outside of a pod can easily trigger it (i.e. we could be hit by a barstool from an arrogant patron, resulting in what would normally be a mild concussion) and on the spot our brains would be data-dumped, turned to goo, and we would wake up in a clone facility.

If there is a reason for this proposal that goes beyond just meeting in an overcrowded pub on Jita IV, such as the opportunity to explore planets for rare resources (unobtanium? =D), something that could in some way affect planetary interaction (though this would be kinda crappy since PI doesn't produce much on a daily basis anyways), or some sort of non-FPS related action-adventure element then awesome. Otherwise it just seems unnecessary.

i totally agree... eve its a space combat game.... go play dust if u want to be on the planet.