Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Just a random thought that came to me while drinking...

Hacking should be extended to POCOs, because...let's be honest here, null-sec entities will take over a great deal of them! Thus cornering the market...

Make it so it'll reduce the price or remove it altogether on transfers...

Hacking should also be extended towards Jump Bridges, hack it and you get a free pass essentially... Just more fuckery and "Poking the eyes" of others...

Please put more ideas on where you'd like Hacking to be expanded upon here! (in this thread, you cannot modify this post.........unless you're me or a Dev)

Actually I was thinking the same but never put it into here for random unknown reasons...

But my thought on that would be for Capitals (Titans especially) That a hack would offline a module...More then 1 person hacking the same ship would produce a stacking penalty of some sort, otherwise you'll have 200 ships hacking before shooting!

its called shooting the frakker. read your own sig. dummy.

How about hacking customs offices, or those new siphoning deployable thingy's they will be putting into the game with Rubicon

Sorry, I don't pay that much attention to acronyms. Don't really care either.

Hacking is crap for a very simple reason. There's always been a very clear divide in eve between the player and the character. The player directs the character, the character trains all of the skills and thanks to cybernetic enhancements and pod technology has a god like mind.

The same character that runs the ship, co ordinating every ship system and station services like science and industry doesn't need the player to work out the tracking of his guns or aim directly at a target, neither does the character need any help from the player when it comes to remotely managing science and industry or communications with drones or sharing telemetry with other fleet members to get those bonuses. The player simply directs the character by choosing a target, by installing a manufacturing job. That's what the whole UI is about, directing your character. Given that the character has trained all of the skills necessary for hacking why am I (the player) being presented with a hacking mini game that makes me do the characters work for him? The character should either successfully hack or not and that's that. I'm sure that an eve capsular could assign some redundant cpu to it and such a feeble hacking mechanism would go on in the background of his mind whilst he or she is alertly checking for incoming ships. It shouldn't take up the bulk of his focus.

It's game breaking and spoils immersion and I'd like to see it gone because it transgresses the player/character divide. What's next should we have a missile flight mini game in which we direct missiles at our target by clicking around a maze to get the perfect firing solution. Also if I the player am doing all of the work what is the point of training skills?