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Conference room

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Nina Torikoshi
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-09-04 22:35:47 UTC
Dear CCP developement team!

Might it be possible to add a conference room (or two) at each station within the next patch which will contain the possibility to walk around the station?

Following features would be apreciated:
1) Possibility to sit down on each chair in font of a small table or bench
2) A separate channel + voice chat within each conf-room
3) A beamer which is able to project the referrers in-game notepads content, might be done with dra&drop out of your notepad
4) The referrers table need to posses a control over the beamer and might be able to give away the rights to use the beamer-
control. Only one person at any time shall be able to use them. The first one is the person which has rent the conf-room.
5) To be able to rent a conf-room you need corporation management skills. Anyway, all invited ppl can enter the conf-room.
6) If time is up, ppl cannot use conf-room chat, beamer and voice chat anymore. Players might get kicked out by loading screen.

It would make a beautiful and relatively easy to create additional management component to EvE-Online.
Why easy to create? ->
A) Notepad already exists, It should be enough to create useful presentations
B) You already develope a station where walking will be allowed, why not just make the corridor longer by 5 meters and add two
rooms and a two buttons
C) The rent-function may be added beside "rent office" function
D) Voice chat already exists, normal chat too, just need to link the functions for conf-room
E) A small rest of dev-work contains within the two points: 1) Who is allowed to enter 2) How I can transfere "lead" of the conference or with other words... How I can transfere the right to present.

I hope you will find a few hours of thinking about this.
It might be a developement time of about 3..4 weeks, 10 ppl.

best regards,
Nina Torikoshi
The Hamilton
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2013-09-05 00:44:46 UTC
Someone is a few years too late....

The only good idea here is the rent a room for another isk sink. But without Incarna it's dead in the water (or should I say space).
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#3 - 2013-09-05 02:10:33 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
Aside from a "new room" outside of the Captain's Quarters... I can already do all of the above using private chat channels, IRC, Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble, Google spreadsheets, EXCEL, Powerpoint, and an actual pen and paper.

Plus... those things afford me the ability to still be productive in EVE! I can continue mining, scouting, PvPing, PvEing, while "attending" such a meeting.

What possible benefit would being in a virtual conference room give me?
Meleric
Verteidiger des wahren Bloedsinns
#4 - 2013-09-05 09:14:46 UTC
This would be nice. Another benefit: CCP could make some more experience with WiS / Incarna.

I've read another idea containing a bar for social contacts. Add a few features (which are existing in beta-stadium already) and we have another step.

@ShahFluffers: Yes, you are right, this is maybe some unproductive time. But I think this could bring some more life in here. But I see that there are players who want to do some stuff at station. Sure, they can play STO meanwhile (guess what I'm doing when I'm sick of flying my ships), but I think we need some kind of bridge. Look at DUST ... I could think of some kind of area, where we can meet Dusties and give out some "missions" ... maybe some kind of "get rid of the PI-installations belonging to corp xy".

I think its essential for the further development of EVE to have some station -contents
Nina Torikoshi
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-09-13 11:25:50 UTC
Dear ppl.!

"Aside from a "new room" outside of the Captain's Quarters... I can already do all of the above using private chat channels, IRC, Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble, Google spreadsheets, EXCEL, Powerpoint, and an actual pen and paper." [ShahFluffers, 2013]

Of course you can, but you cannot with your charakter. My intension to do so has different reasons.


First to increase the station-component. It is of course fun to walk around and actually "see" other pilots.

Second to give corporations and alliances a kind of feeling to be within eve while discussing about future trading/ battle/ region-control etc. It is compared to the potential invested work a major win of "I-am-in-space-feeling".

My personal most important intension is to make first steps into the direction of online-mmo-university. One day it might be possible to teach and learn "real" content while to be online in a MMO(RPG). You could, as a developer, f.i. have contracts with schools, universities. Offering courses for e.g. PLEX would be the next step.



I am thinking about a solution for massive-education in our worlds future. We cannot deny computers, technology? Yes I think we should not, perhaps we should go with.. So we bring an important part of our world, education, into our kids virtual world.
I was trying to find a suitable game, but in the end it would all games need to be connected. So I was looking for the best social base, best economical system and the possibilties of politics - it's eve I have choosen.

I am still sure you (the player) can find a solution for every lack of communication by using tools like Mumble etc. but I beg you (other players and developers) to be prospective. Just think of the capabilities.

best regards,
Nina Torikoshi
NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-09-13 13:19:33 UTC  |  Edited by: NiGhTTraX
Nina Torikoshi wrote:

"Aside from a "new room" outside of the Captain's Quarters... I can already do all of the above using private chat channels, IRC, Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble, Google spreadsheets, EXCEL, Powerpoint, and an actual pen and paper."
[ShahFluffers, 2013]


Offtopic: You do know that posts have a quote button, right?

Ontopic: I agree with the quoted posted.

If you're gonna post here thinking your idea is the greatest thing since bacon and that it will save EVE and possibly all humankind with it, you're gonna have a bad time.

Silvetica Dian
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2013-09-13 13:35:15 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
Aside from a "new room" outside of the Captain's Quarters... I can already do all of the above using private chat channels, IRC, Teamspeak/Ventrilo/Mumble, Google spreadsheets, EXCEL, Powerpoint, and an actual pen and paper.

Plus... those things afford me the ability to still be productive in EVE! I can continue mining, scouting, PvPing, PvEing, while "attending" such a meeting.

What possible benefit would being in a virtual conference room give me?


Clothing optional?
I think this is a stealth space sex thread.

Money at its root is a form of rationing. When the richest 85 people have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion (50% of humanity) it is clear where the source of poverty is. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/trickle-down-economics-broken-promise-richest-85

Michael Loney
Skullspace Industries
#8 - 2013-09-13 15:25:37 UTC
Would the manager of the meeting also have a set of buttons to selectively open a trap door under each chair and jettison the frozen corpse into space?

Because that would be awesome....

Even better, can I open fire on the windows of the room from space and effectively pod kill all the occupants in one shot?