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Captains Quarters... ideas, suggestions and enhancements

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hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#261 - 2012-06-25 21:45:27 UTC
ok i got an idea for captains quarters this might be hard to accomplish idk but it seems to me rather a good way to entertain if your board in 0.0 (for me this happens a lot).

There should be a screen that when ever a friendly gets into combat in your alliance soveriegnty then the screen in your captains quarters will show video footage of the fight.

maybe you can have multiple screens that will show different fights at one time. On the screen will be a display of the pilots name and picture. aswell as system name and constellation and region.

Furthermore, the video would show a combat chase camera and will initially show a distant view of the ships involved and then get into a cenamatic fight were the camera follows missiles and watch them explode and turrets firing on ships and the camera would just switch ever few seconds showing a different perspective of the fight. once all fighting has stopped or friendly dies then the footage stops.

if im bored i wouldnt mind watching explosions on T.V.
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#262 - 2012-06-25 21:49:59 UTC
hired gunman wrote:
ok i got an idea for captains quarters this might be hard to accomplish idk but it seems to me rather a good way to entertain if your board in 0.0 (for me this happens a lot).

There should be a screen that when ever a friendly gets into combat in your alliance soveriegnty then the screen in your captains quarters will show video footage of the fight.

maybe you can have multiple screens that will show different fights at one time. On the screen will be a display of the pilots name and picture. aswell as system name and constellation and region.

Furthermore, the video would show a combat chase camera and will initially show a distant view of the ships involved and then get into a cenamatic fight were the camera follows missiles and watch them explode and turrets firing on ships and the camera would just switch ever few seconds showing a different perspective of the fight. once all fighting has stopped or friendly dies then the footage stops.

if im bored i wouldnt mind watching explosions on T.V.


How about this except linked to dust 514, watching (and betting on) matches would be entertaining as well

wumbo
hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#263 - 2012-06-25 21:52:42 UTC  |  Edited by: hired gunman
Eli Green wrote:
hired gunman wrote:
ok i got an idea for captains quarters this might be hard to accomplish idk but it seems to me rather a good way to entertain if your board in 0.0 (for me this happens a lot).

There should be a screen that when ever a friendly gets into combat in your alliance soveriegnty then the screen in your captains quarters will show video footage of the fight.

maybe you can have multiple screens that will show different fights at one time. On the screen will be a display of the pilots name and picture. aswell as system name and constellation and region.

Furthermore, the video would show a combat chase camera and will initially show a distant view of the ships involved and then get into a cenamatic fight were the camera follows missiles and watch them explode and turrets firing on ships and the camera would just switch ever few seconds showing a different perspective of the fight. once all fighting has stopped or friendly dies then the footage stops.

if im bored i wouldnt mind watching explosions on T.V.


How about this except linked to dust 514, watching (and betting on) matches would be entertaining as well


I LOVE IT! but we can have BOTH!
Xeracotyl
Modern Caliba Corp
#264 - 2012-06-25 22:26:41 UTC
Eli Green wrote:
hired gunman wrote:
ok i got an idea for captains quarters this might be hard to accomplish idk but it seems to me rather a good way to entertain if your board in 0.0 (for me this happens a lot).

There should be a screen that when ever a friendly gets into combat in your alliance soveriegnty then the screen in your captains quarters will show video footage of the fight.

maybe you can have multiple screens that will show different fights at one time. On the screen will be a display of the pilots name and picture. aswell as system name and constellation and region.

Furthermore, the video would show a combat chase camera and will initially show a distant view of the ships involved and then get into a cenamatic fight were the camera follows missiles and watch them explode and turrets firing on ships and the camera would just switch ever few seconds showing a different perspective of the fight. once all fighting has stopped or friendly dies then the footage stops.

if im bored i wouldnt mind watching explosions on T.V.


How about this except linked to dust 514, watching (and betting on) matches would be entertaining as well




This is excellent. To add, this would not be a bad social venue in station created just for "Dust Gathering" events... the perfect name for such a place btw.

I can think big just like you, but smaller things seem to get themselves done a lot faster. Setting waypoints.
Lost True
Perkone
Caldari State
#265 - 2012-06-26 13:21:08 UTC
Most likely it's was considered before, In this case, it's a "+1".

Saved character fittings. And quick change between them without re-customization. Like wiht ship's fitting, if necessary clothes are in hangar.

in 2007 i've thought it's a sci-fi simulator, not an "e-sports" game. I'm not a teenager, how would i like it much?
Jack Carrigan
Order of the Shadow
#266 - 2012-06-27 00:25:39 UTC
I'm thinking during a wartime scenario, your Corp Window should have an image of the deccing Corp/Alliance logo as well, and there should be alarm claxons and red flashing emergency lights.

I am the One who exists in Shadow. I am the Devil your parents warned you about.

||CEO: Order of the Shadow||Executor: The Revenant Order||Creator: Bowhead||
hired gunman
Ascendance Rising
Ascendance..
#267 - 2012-06-27 03:20:13 UTC
STRIPPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have too its not a choice! ive seen the video where you guys show this idea off too and the guy running it said maybe ... im saying you have to!
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#268 - 2012-06-28 15:50:50 UTC
Stockings (of varying opacity) for dresses and skirts. Caldari and Amarr would not be the type to show that much skin!

Katrina Oniseki
Erastus Kaan
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#269 - 2012-06-29 01:15:17 UTC
Let us run.
Lipbite
Express Hauler
#270 - 2012-06-29 14:21:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Lipbite
Rent-able captain quarters with persistent environment (e.g. Gallente only). ISK or AUR sink. This function doesn't need too much additional coding.

Expandable captain quarters (library, kitchen, bar, hall, windows - whatever) with weekly / monthly fee = ISK or AUR sink. Base version is free.
Ja'thaal Deathbringer
The Directionally Challenged
#271 - 2012-07-02 04:24:59 UTC
Lipbite wrote:
Rent-able captain quarters with persistent environment (e.g. Gallente only). ISK or AUR sink. This function doesn't need too much additional coding.

Expandable captain quarters (library, kitchen, bar, hall, windows - whatever) with weekly / monthly fee = ISK or AUR sink. Base version is free.


I like the idea of being able to actually do stuff in my CQ. I'd like my home in Motsu to be kitted out with a bunch of awesome stuff.

As to Lipbites's suggestion, while having the option of renting a bigger, better and shinier CQ, I'd like to just straight out buy one. Same sort of ISK sink, but I wouldn't have to be constantly paying for it, it'd just be mine. Kinda like a house.

Obviously the size and functions of the CQ would vary depending on how much you wish to pay. And it could also be modular. I mean, hell, it's something like 24,000 years in the future. I'd like to think that a space station would have modular housing that could be added and paid for as needed, right? It'd be expandable, as was said above, but it would also be easy to just tack on another block, which you would first pay for and the amount paid would be dependent on the size of the block and its role.

Things like drug labs etc should only be allowed in low/null sec because these stations are owned by factions who don't support the drug trade.

Also, windows would be excellent, but would require an immense amount of code in order to achieve, not to mention the fact that it would be very taxing on the machines of everyone running the CQ.

All in all, I'd like a big and highly customized mansion in my home station, that I can run around in, use a combat simulator in, and invite friends over to enjoy my awesomeness. But that will take time. We can't always have what we want.
CCP RedDawn
C C P
C C P Alliance
#272 - 2012-07-03 13:02:41 UTC
CCP Bayesian wrote:
Salpun wrote:
We getting that blog to day?


I've been held up trying to get a moment with CCP Unifex. We're a lot further on than we were when the blog was written so I'm going to rewrite it on Wednesday to update it, change up the pictures and if we can get approval put together an edit of an internal release demo Team Avatar did of the prototype to the whole of CCP. Sorry for all the delays in getting information to you guys but we will show you what we've been doing in more detail soon.


Just keeping this thread in the loop. Smile

Team Genesis
Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#273 - 2012-07-03 15:52:48 UTC
CCP RedDawn wrote:
CCP Bayesian wrote:
Salpun wrote:
We getting that blog to day?


I've been held up trying to get a moment with CCP Unifex. We're a lot further on than we were when the blog was written so I'm going to rewrite it on Wednesday to update it, change up the pictures and if we can get approval put together an edit of an internal release demo Team Avatar did of the prototype to the whole of CCP. Sorry for all the delays in getting information to you guys but we will show you what we've been doing in more detail soon.


Just keeping this thread in the loop. Smile


nice to see you guys are reading this stuff Big smile

wumbo
Photon Ceray
Palmyra Universal Enterprise
#274 - 2012-07-04 15:19:47 UTC
there are way too many pages for me to read so i'll just post my ideas. sorry if they're repeated, i am sure some of them are not.


Enhancement:
Better texture quality for characters!

Additions:

1- a lot more space for the additions and much more screens.

2- ability to customize screens to show various nfo from eve. for example:
- current map region I am in, with the number of ships destroyed in the last hour!
- top 3 buy/sell orders of veldspar in jita, another one that shows them top 3 in amarr
- corp MOTD
- Corp bulletins
- sell contracts for machariels
- time remaining on certain industry jobs
- concord LP store
- WEBSITES, e.g invention calculator, or Killboard

3- capsuleers are filthy rich and deserve a decent living space. make it more of an apartment than a studio room. let there
be sleeping and clothing area and a shower/bathtub maybe, that is separate from the working area.

4- eve has an excruciating lack of personalization. our avatars are the only unique thing. let us customize our living space as
well. we should be able to choose the quarters race that we want, add decorations, change furniture, put some posters,
flags/banners, exotic dancers,

5- hologram decorations, e.g i want to see a navy geddon in all it's glory and textures in the reception call (a small intersection between the ship corridor and the other rooms).

these are just a few examples.
DrysonBennington
Eagle's Talon's
#275 - 2012-07-05 20:42:58 UTC  |  Edited by: DrysonBennington
What about having the option to add plants and other greenery?

You could pay for them with Aurum or they could be rewarded by completing various types of Captain's Quarters missions where instead of receiving ISK and Loot you would receive Captain's Quarters items such as paintings, vases, plants mirrors, etc.

The Captain's Quarters would have various "slots" that when you click on them you could insert a Captain's Quarters item into the slot.

One area that would be really cool to see include the ability to upload paintings or drawings that a capsuleer likes from their own PC into the Captain's Quarters.

Basically uploading the drawing or picture would be relatively the same as how you load your music into the jukebox.

A folder system similar to below file system would be how the uploading works.

CCP Side

Captain's Quarters Items (In game folder that is part of the CCP's server mainframe that contains the final image that has been uploaded into the server)
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Pergatory Folder ( CCP Mainframe Folder that contains the image prior to upload that scans the image for any possible virus infiltration)
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Capsuleer Side
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EvE Online Captain's Quarters Folder ( contains a copy of the image or images or videos sent to CCP)
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Images Folder (contains images that the capsuleer want sent to the server folder)
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Video Folder ( contains CCP approved videos that are then uploaded to the server folder)

Also what about adding Tournament Monitors to the Captains Quarters so that everyone can watch them while in game?
DrysonBennington
Eagle's Talon's
#276 - 2012-07-05 21:09:18 UTC  |  Edited by: DrysonBennington
Is this considered a double post?


Adding monitors to Captain's Quarters for in game monitoring.

Being reasonable to the expectations of a video system in the game costing CCP developers more money to develop and include I think that a subscription to the Captain's Quarters in game video system should be discussed which would allow lag to be kept to a minimum.

Tournament Monitors would allow everyone to watch the Tournament in game without a charge.

Regular use of a monitor would cost the following amounts:

One month - $7.00 or 750 million ISK per month

Three months - $6.00 a month or 500 million ISK per month

Six Months - $5.00 a month or 650 million ISK per month

Nine Months - $4.00 a month or 800 million ISK per month

I year - $3.00 a month or 1 billion ISK per month

The in game monitor would allow the introduction of a new type of ship called the "Monitor Ship". The MS would be piloted by a corp member that would record in game footage of battles as well as allowing those with "Monitoring Skills" to access the ship or Monitor Drones that could then be used to surveil certain areas of Empire and Corporate Space from the comfort of the capsuleers Captains Quarters.
DrysonBennington
Eagle's Talon's
#277 - 2012-07-05 21:34:45 UTC
Also Captain's Quarters needs a "Medals and Honors" section where the awarded medals and honors can be viewed by the capsuleer.

Medals and Honors can be awarded by the CEO of a Corporation or from agents who consider a capsuleers service to be exemplorary and worthy of mention.

The Medals and Honors section would also be able to be viewed in the forums when clicking in the capsuleers portrait and then the "Medals and Honors" tab.
Coco Caine
Black Rise Combat Logistics
#278 - 2012-07-05 22:45:07 UTC
Following ideas could make Captain's Quarters interesting:

- Once you enter CQ, you disappear from local, as if you logged out
- Significant item types can only be bought within CQ via WIS trades: E.g. ban all pirate implants and boosters from normal market and contracts, so people have to go WIS to get Snake implants etc.
- WIS hacking and scanning modules and skills allow to hack station computers, getting data on pilot/corporation hangar contents, clones, docking logs, maybe even chat logs of pilots and corporations, creating a 'hacker'/"spy" mini profession
- Allow pilots to switch between identities through WIS: With enough skills, NPC corp standings and money a pilot can buy an additional capsuleer ID to which he can switch via CQ. That way it's possible to infiltrate corporations etc. with a main toon. Maybe even allow two pilots to do a switcheroo, where the pilots exchange identities
- Add 'pirate faction black market courier mission" agents in shady bars that will give you some illegal stuff to deliver to other shady bars or low-sec complexes
- Allow players to operate repair shops, where reps consume minerals and can be offered to players at arbitrary cost based on standings
- Add WIS NPC job centers, where toons can get pseudo jobs from NPC corporations, that basically lock the character in station, but give a standing increase, money, skill points and decorations over time. Like "Khanid Innovations Research Manager", or "Lai Dai Starship Engineer"
pugal
Omni Tech Engineering
#279 - 2012-07-07 16:04:08 UTC
Jint Hikaru wrote:
[quote=Arcathra]Nice ideas Smile

[quote]

Just to add the thoughts of someone with an opposing viewpoint -

While I like the overall goal of Incarna, I would like to stat that I (and probably many other pilots) will NOT use my CQ until fully multiplayer station environments are implemented.

When that happens and we can walk around a station and interact with other players & NPCs, i will happily use it, and maybe even customize my characters to get a 'look' I like.

But until that day, I am 100% spinning my ships in my hangar.



This.
Until there are things to do on station that are an important aspect of EVE why would I leave ship to expose myself to the dangers of an uncontrolled station environment. Much safer and, faster to undock, to sit and spin w my current love interest/corpsicle.
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#280 - 2012-07-07 16:33:14 UTC
CCP RedDawn wrote:
CCP Bayesian wrote:
Salpun wrote:
We getting that blog to day?


I've been held up trying to get a moment with CCP Unifex. We're a lot further on than we were when the blog was written so I'm going to rewrite it on Wednesday to update it, change up the pictures and if we can get approval put together an edit of an internal release demo Team Avatar did of the prototype to the whole of CCP. Sorry for all the delays in getting information to you guys but we will show you what we've been doing in more detail soon.


Just keeping this thread in the loop. Smile


It had better be a damn good blog because of all the suspense being built up for months and months....
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