EVE General Discussion

I'm throwing money at my phone right now.

That sounds awesome. +1 and $OLD!

They don't exist not even as a concept. EVE ships are just empty shells which look pretty ("design is the function") and so there is no need to figure what's inside or how do they work.

Of course, that job can be done retroactively, but personally I would not recommend it. "It looks cool" is quite incompatible with "it makes sense". I mean, how large would be the ammuniton magazines of ships firing artillery shells 1,400 mm wide and 16.2 milimeters long for a volume of 0.025 cubic meters? (I guess they fire them as killer frisbies...)

+1.000.000 !!!

Yes !!!!!!

Please do it ...!!!!!

Eve is a rich universe with huge oportunities for all kinds of fiction development in many forms of art ... and we need it... !!!

EVE Ships are not empty shells, far from that they have crews, there is fiction written about that.

I don't know how much time will I take, but I hope we'll be able to walk inside our ships and be in their bridges flying in space, the capsule concept can be reworked in many diferent ways, from the gameplay point of view and the fiction point of view, we can have both now, specially since we have Dust 514, soldiers immortal like the capsuleers, but without the need of a capsule.

For me the capsule is a restraint more than an advantage, something needed to make the gameplay work, for now.

There is a lot of people, that expect a lot more from CCP and this game in the years to come, for us EVE is limitless.

IIRC, CCP did show a concept drawing of the inside of a Titan engine room at a ff once to give some perspective as to how big Titan's were.

The lore as it is now, you could not simply take away the capsule and have a full command bridge instead and it make sense. In the lore the capsule's primary function wasn't to give the pod pilot immortality, but was to provide the captain of a ship with the ability to directly control his his ship.

Let's look at an example:
In a naval vessel, the captain gives the order to fire the guns, a crewman on the bridge radios the blokes at the guns and tells them the captain's orders, the blokes at the guns decide whether or not they are going to follow the captain's orders, and then the guns are finally fired if the blokes at the guns followed their orders (and they probably did). This whole process would take about 1 - 5 seconds, depending on where everyone is.

In a capsuleer's ship the captain thinks "fire the guns" and the guns fire immediately. The whole process takes less than second.

The advantage of the capsule is that it replaces the entire bridge crew and several other positions on the ship with the captain, while allowing him to think the ship into following his commands. Immortality was an after thought, added not by the Jovians, but by one of the empires.

Sources:
http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/short-stories/the-jovian-wet-grave/
http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/scientific-articles/ppcc-part-1-the-capsule-and-the-clone/

Here is a little thought:

What if assets made in something license free like Blender (it is still free, right?) could be uploaded to CCP. Obviously there would need to be guides on making things .... but station and ship interiors can be purely cosmetic and for social reasons.

CCP just need to moderate the submitted assets to make sure they are in the same art direction, that there are no subliminal phallic images (yes boys, I know how you think!) and then position it for loading.

The key is making the right tools.
Then it can be an afternoon's work once a week for some poor intern, who usually makes the tea and coffee and wants some game design work to put on their CV.

Edit: Capsules - interiors are for station inspections to make sure your crew are doing a good job and to show off what a tight ship you run to other pilots.

Hellllll yeeaaahhh!

...i had several other responses in mind, but that was the most concise and straightforward...
;-)

Some ship cross sections that I have accumulated over the years...

Imperial Issue Apocalypse cross section

Hurricane cross section

Myrmidon cross section