EVE General Discussion

New Blog - Some thoughts on the CQ dev blog released yesterday:

MY Captain's Quarters?

The Good, the Meh, and the Bad. Also, a Hello Kitty Rifter.

However that's never been the 'vision'. What was presented at FanFest, and talked about many times in the past, would be that your CQ is just that - yours. It's something that you could personalize and take with you as you travel the galaxy. Questions like:

• How big is it? Would you need an indy or freighter to move it?
• Does it (and all your cool stuff) die if you lose the ship it's being moved in?

That kind of stuff would obviously need to be worked out. Hopefully someone IS working it out. It's my hope that this 'vision' is still the ultimate goal of this feature and I'll be waiting to see more information on where CCP plans on Incarna to be in the next five years. One assumes that it will be further along than the results of the last five.

As far as customised CQ goes, that's an easy fix. Stations have lots of modular assets on tap, and your pod has a copy of the layout of your CQ. So as you are being pulled out of your pod and showered down (off-screen), the station staff quickly whip a standard room into your prefered layout.

For bonus points, CCP can use their new library of modular art assets to reproduce your CQ layout - with another race's art assets.

nice to see that - after convincing CCP to shift resources from WiS to FiS - we are back to "there is not enough WiS content"

although i had no time for WIS and the idea behind it when it was first pushed out all them years ago, but at least that vision was going to add somthing to eve, war rooms for corps, displaying fleets and systems of importance in a war room setting. 5 years later 4 rooms and a bar is what shows up. well yay that wasnt worth the wait.

if you love incarna great, if your just waiting for them to move on to somthing else, great also.

tbh personnaly ill be just glad when they finish this waste of time and get back to ships, you know the ones most of us signed up to make explode. the ones i know for sure i signed up to make explode to say the least.

Oh God.

I agree with most of what you say OP.

I would accept anything to do with stations as long as it has no impact on the space-side. The second it impacts on that I have an issue.

I want walking in stations as a concept and can understand the massive implications this has on ccp. I would prefer that it is less pretty and more functional though (less pretty graphics and more running about assassinating folks)

Make it gameplay and not some kind of graphical objective.

I want station entertainment but would accept it less pretty and more fun.

*Edited hard as I re-thought it three times

You don't need to suspend your suspension of disbelief to make it work. Its all in the game'a lore.

Did you know that your capsule has a "trunk" of sorts where you carry your clothes and most personal belongings? I mean... its a 5 meter tall metal egg.. Look at the wall in the room you're currently in, and realize that wall is probably 3 to 3 and a half meters tall. So the pod isn't exactly small (at least shouldn't be on the CQ. Don't get me started on the POD in the CQ....).

Read this short story and take particular heed of this passage:



Its an Amarr station.. but his suite, is decorated in Gallente fashion because that is how he likes it.

So the things you said in your blog make sense from a in-game lore standpoint. You want all the things you proposed? Sure you can have them.. In ONE station only.

That gives an even greater feeling that you have a true HOME, and everyone else is just, in fact, a hotel room. You want to personalize other suites in other stations? Sure. Move your stuff, and risk having it destroyed. Or just outright buy some more.. hehe..


You don't need to explain how an exact copy of your "fully personalized suite" is present in every single hell-hole you dock at. no matter the size of your ship. Because if it happens like that, then your "fully personalized suite" has no true meaning to it.


If its still the same everywhere you go, its still just a stinking hotel room.

There ya go. Yes, I want to bring my baby seal skin couch with me everywhere.

I've never had an issue with this sort of thing. I think it would be hilarious to gank someone's freighter and their collection of fake Jamyl Sarum porn drop as loot.

Not about ship spinning returning. What was missing from this devblog was the key info about how the DOOR will be replaced with ship spinning.

Just have no idea if they mean the door bitmap, or the actual 3D model door.


Or both..