EVE General Discussion

I would like to see less time when undocking, something more fluid, seeing your character hop into his ship and take the controls, then float out to space.

I would like to scroll all the way into first person view and see out of my ships window/view screen/whatever.

Travel time is very very slow, like ffxiv slow. When I travel through low sec I have to monitor every single jump, so about 10 minutes of my life goes to staring at the jump warping to each jump gate. I'm sure plenty of people spend more than 10 minutes doing this. It's fine, I do it, but every new player I bring into this game complains and quits pretty quickly, always mentioning how slow the travel is and how un-personal the game is (which goes back to zooming in to see your character in ship, making it feel more like you are there even though you'd have to zoom out to see the combat from all sides, it still would help with the experience).

That's all I can think of for now, I'd give my left arm to remotely receive and accept new missions.

I got a SSD and dock/undock happens almost instantly :)


That would b enice, i agree.

Regarding slow travel, it is part of the game i think - many things are very closely related to this.

I would have more respect for Concord if they didn't hire a bunch of moronic pilots that constantly steer their ships into each other and the gate they are supposed to be protecting. Bit of an immersion breaker.

Watching other ships come out of warp sideways and bouncing off a gate. Bit of an immersion breaker.

Fighting in a belt where the asteroids suddenly seem to be able to let bullets pass through unaffected. Bit of an immersion breaker.

Plenty of other stuff like this.

It's the little things that bother me. Things that have been around for years and not fixed.

Mr Epeen

More than a tweak (and probably too image-intensive), but I'd like to see myself floating in my pod in a personal-portrait mode. As it is now, I occasionally bring up my portrait to glance at it because it helps the immersion, keeps me connected to being "out of my body" (hard to explain). Seeing my face through goo (even in a small window in one corner) and animated would lend to that immersion. It's like in Quake (was it?) -- they put the character's animated face down in one corner for a reason.

That could also be the heart of having a proper animation of leaving or entering the pod. And the whole thing would be doubly-cool if you could watch your brain get zapped when you get podded. (Waking up in your clone would be a whole other interesting thing to have to deal with). If you choose to or are forced to leave your ship and/or pod, then having to "go fleshy" should be a *****.

The devs have talked about creating a seamless experience between FiS and Incarna. This is how you'd tie things together. Right now (or soon to be), it's just check a box and you're in or out of the Incarna experience. That's a mighty big seam.

As part of all this, or even as something separate to do beforehand, I'd like to see public portraits that stick regardless of how you dress or change your character. A small, revolving gallery that the player could choose from would also be helpful. (OK, there's my actual tweak).

Also, as Sen Ria mentioned, a full zoom into what the player is seeing/experiencing would be awesome (and I don't mean seeing a bunch of goo necessarily). Something to better create a sense of the mind-control going on to pilot a ship. That basic level there could have the elements that "split apart" to become the screens used in the more general view (which is assumed, in any event, to still be one's POV).

Instead of trying to put people into Incarna, inject bits of Incarna into space where such a thing is either functional (or easily out of the way) or just something to enjoy for the sake of immersion (even gooish immersion, as the case may be).

Or, you know, get rid of Incarna. But these are elements of doing it right in my estimation.

Sorry if I went a little off topic.

Thanks. I think it'll probably happen in time, reasonably as part of a revamp of the UI. The portrait gallery idea is probably its own thing and could happen more easily, but I really haven't a clue.

[Edit] Ha! It just occurred to me. If the lore still holds true (at least on the FiS side) that we're seeing our ship through camera drones, then it wouldn't be a zoom into the ship so much as a zoom out from the data we've been consuming in our pod.

That idea, though, could clash with the fact that we're in 3rd-person mode while in stations. So, perhaps zooming-in is the better idea, so as to keep that frame of reference. One benefit is that if we do get zoom-to-POV in ships, then we should probably get zoom-to-POV in stations as well.

Sorry, I'd just jump in here to say that tweaks are like baubles (even my elaborate fantasy fits that definition), little gifts that one might get on the side. They're below the level of game-play in that sense.

strangest thread i've seen so far.

I think you guys want another game. I don't see the point of a first person view from the ship.

on another note:
you mean your complete journey is 10 minutes?
and you're doing lvl5's in less time than that?! wtf?

Agreed. I for one wouldn't mind if these people GTFO'd.

We're not even talking about the game, but aesthetics, little fixes, and other things that have no bearing on the game itself (I mean, what do we need a nebula for?).

I don't see how people are drawing from that what type of game one should be playing.

I play chess. I don't use corks, coins, and bottle-caps and call that a point of honor.

You're saying there shouldn't be a thread called "A few tweaks could help the experience"?

Interesting premise.

I think the shots while dying, jumpcloning and possible docking/undocking of you in your pod would be nice. Offcourse you'd should be able to deactivate some or all of these "cutscenes" if you wanted to especially the undocking part.

A similar thread about this was on the forums last week, there I mentioned that:

I like this, since getting podded means your back in station between 1 and 50 jumps of where you where it wouldn't delay your response time significantly. A sort of slow motion playback of the engine during your death (cam following the last shot or missile that killed you)

Jump clones also could have an animation.

In general I wouldn't like cut scenes, but death and resurrection seem fitting events to focus on.