Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ideas to help make the game a little better. I'm not a pro at the game, as of this post I've only been around about 2 months and these are just things I've noticed.

1. When the repair button is pressed there should be a REPAIR ALL button at the bottom instead of needing to highlight everything.

2. Go watch the anime Cowboy Bebop to get ideas for how space could look better/cooler. :)

3. Do something to make ore mining a little more profitable. (Make normal auto-mining still work like normal but have option to actually do something while mining to increase yield, something that an auto-mining program wouldn't be able to do. Or Super rare random pieces of superb ore that you sometimes happen upon but only if your actually searching during the mining process or something. )

4. Change rules for cloaking a tiny bit. Make it so if people don't touch the keyboard after a certain amount of minutes it will make the cloak turn off, or make it so people can detect them when they scan. This will help fix it with people who just have alts who all they do is sit there in a zone in a cloaked ship only to get info.

5. Change it so there isn't a LOCAL tab for chat since hardly anyone ever uses it. Create a single spot that isn't a chat channel at the top of the screen. It goes maybe a couple lines of tiny words at like 20 characters or less and only in extreme local space like within 1 AU so during battles people wont just be shooting each other but they will be yelling at each other letting each other know how much they suck. Make it so it only shows up for a second or two then its gone. call it the "YOU SUCK" line.

6. A different option for chat is take a look at the way Everquest 2 does their chat channels. Each chat channel has a number so you can type /1 blahblah and it goes to the general chat. Or you type /2 blahblah and that goes to your Corporation chat channel. It would be good to just take a look at other games chat and maybe you might find something to make Eve chat better.


If you don't like my ideas please let me know a better idea and how it could work. That would be great!

Repair all button, not a big issue atm but hey could be indeed usefull

I Agree about the cowboy bebop thing,

Myeah why not something you have to actively do while mining to increase yield a bit, not sure if lots of people would use it but thats an idea, i like to have my alt mining on my second screen and managing market orders.

Disagree on the cloaky thingy, when someone is combat scannering you, cloaking in a safespot is one way of taking a break while waiting for the hunters to leave

Dont have any opinion on the chat thing, i like it as it is but guess it could be better, dont know how tho

I only want them to make it so Local Chat isn't a required intel tool for Low Sec and Null Sec, then they could change local to delayed Constellation Chat to make things interesting.

1. This looks like one of those little things that turns out to be not so little. Probably already on CCP Karkur's list. A good idea if it doesn't consume too much development time.
3. Ore prices are determined by the market. The only way to make it more profitable is to increase demand without increasing supply (or reduce supply without reducing demand). The best way for CCP to influence the prices would be a change in mechanics that makes it difficult or impossible to use a bot or mine AFK.
4. AFK cloaky camping is something people have been complaining about for a long time. Camping has a legitimate role in the game but it should require an active pilot - like mining or boosting. Perhaps a 10 minute manual cycle for the cloak or make it take heat damage so it burns out after a while.
5. I don't think getting rid of local is a good idea but giving people the option of closing it seems reasonable - you should be able to fly blind if you want to.