Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I loved the citadel videos. It's too bad that in 99% of Eve, we are warping around solar systems pretty much stuck at the equator of everything. Those are great cinematics of the citadels being literally on top of the world....but all we really get is the equator. Having a battle 'on top of the world'....wow that would look awesome.

It would be great if CCP could start randomizing the Z axis position of celestial objects. And if you do this with the Stars, being the primary lightsource, it would allow CCP to show off many great art assets in the game better. It's called 5 o'clock shadow for a reason.

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You really need to get out of whatever corner of New Eden you've isolated yourself if you think everything is on the same plane.

Oh, and the term "five o'clock shadow" has nothing at all to do with positioning of the sun, rather it refers to the darkening of a man's face as his beard grows long enough to be noticed after being shaven off that morning.

The entire in-space coordinate system needs an overhaul. Planets need to revolve around their star, moons around their planets, and all of them need to be resized. All of the celestials in EVE need a data overhaul as well (yellow dwarves of 100b years old?).

Grids need to be relative to their nearest celestial, rather than be fixed absolute points within the system (which makes scanning more interesting as well, as you're going to be tracking actual signatures instead of locations, technically). It could add another layer of tactical depth as well if POS/stations/etc were revolving around their parent celestials as well.

I'm heavily in favour of CCP borrowing some technical ideas from Frontier tbh - Actual 3D nebulas and stars instead of fixed backgrounds, body exclusion zones so you can't fly into celestials....

Varying the z-axis is in principle a nice idea, but it sucks in the long term as it's just a hackjob which is hiding the actual problems.

I'm pretty sure 99% of all solar system travel is occurring in essentially the same 'plane', give or take a few measly hundred kilometers. When you warp around a system, and pass by a celestial object such as a planet, you are almost always traveling along its equatorial axis. The same goes for the Star in each system. I'm just saying Eve would look a lot prettier if CCP changed it up and moved those celestial objects a significant distance up or down. The ships in Eve always look so much better when the light source is either above or below you. And if they did the same to planets, that means you would warp to a planet, and land somewhere above its polar cap, which would certainly provide for lots of interesting visuals, instead of always landing at the equator.

This would make using d-scan in an upgraded bear system a nightmare. Null pve is already risk averse enough. I will however go along with your 'all on the plane' idea if you will go along w/ my 'no local in null' idea. It would be a balanced trade.