Player Features and Ideas Discussion

No such thing as a stupid idea ...only a stupid hair cut.

The OP doesn't understand the limits of EVE's system.

- the legacy code of EVE does not allow more than one player to occupy the same ship another player is already in. From what I have heard from the DEVs... the times they have tinkered with this the core code shrieks bloody murder, spazzes out, fries a couple of critical circuits, strangles a DEV, and then crashes.
Now this MIGHT change eventually... but do not hold your breath.

- Manual aiming will be about as accurate as manual flying in EVE is. The reason for this is simple; the sever runs on a "one second tick." By this I mean; the server uploads, processes, calculates, executes, and sends data once per second (for comparison, FPS games have a "tick rate" in the milliseconds)
Now on one hand... it allows for stable, reliable gameplay for players worldwide and allows for massive fights between large groups of players (there is a reason that FPS games/servers are generally limited to regions and ~64 players per map).
On the other hand... it creates all sorts of syncing voodoo issues and means that manual flight is essentially Flight Simulator stuck at one frame per second (but with smoother movement between each frame).
Unlike the first point, I do not see this changing. This was a decision born from hardware limitations and diminishing returns (for reference, EVE is running on a decommissioned military supercomputer) and a desire to keep EVE as a single "shard" that all players inhabit.


And then there are a host of little gameplay issues that I think have been covered above.

You get an A for effort OP. But please, please, please do research before you come and propose another idea.


edit: was on my mobile when I posted this... typos fixed, elaborated a bit on some points, and added stuff.

On the topic of multiple players "occupying" ships I would like to add that the term occupying is relative, and most devs are like most people -- perhaps decent at math, but otherwise not very clever at actual problem solving in real life. There are dozens of acceptable methods to make it work without changing the core code or actually assigning a single entity in a game to multiple players.

If the game cries when you try to place several players inside of a single player-designated bubble, you change this by metaphorically gluing several smaller bubbles on varying sides of the original bubble. In the case of ambulation, well... cards were definitely melting when they tried to put multiple people in a room together. Then again, GPU tech has advanced a good bit since then. I can imagine it being a decent optional thing for those with the ability to deal with its lack of optimization.