Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think "Walking in Ships" would be revolutionary. It's obviously too complex to create or handle with current graphics technology, but think about it...

You get to walk around in your ship.

Here's a few examples:

You see your crew thrown back against the wall as an all-powerful artillery shell tears through the armor. As you hit structure, you see the internal part of your ship catch fire, your crew struggling to get to their escape pods as you stay in the ship until the very end... no one survives...

You just bought a brand new Titan, teeming with life and hundreds of thousands of people aboard. You look down from the upper floors of the Titan and see thousands of people hustling and bustling, making the ship battle-ready, and making everything as perfectly calibrated as can be... scientists calculating jump portal sizes, engineers tweaking the guns to be completely accurate. You look out the window and see your whole fleet, hundreds of frigates and ships alongside yours as you head into battle.

You board your Rifter with 5 crew. The crew is small and silent- they all know that the survival rate on this mission will be low. Within seconds of undocking in nullsec, the ship is blasted into smithereens by a nearby Myrmidon. Having the durability of a Minmatar ship, your graphics card starts to smoke under the strain and catches fire.

Far off in the future, but something to think about... this would really add life to the game, especially during boring 20-jump long trips through the vast emptiness of space.

i would love to see walkin ships with crew micromanagement.

say 1 person is incharge of firing weapons 1 flying and another controlling the shields. the game would have to be reworked but in my opinion eve should because its combat mechanics are quite lacking compared to what they could be.

imagin sitting in your ship on auto pilot playing chess with ur avitars starwars melenium falcon style.


+1

It should just be a new game(for ps3 only)

EVE Online Crew Manager

• Feed your crew
• Please their interests
• Train them
• Send them to bootcamps on stations
• Settle differences between crew members
• Let them breed to get enough manpower for a new terrarium(ship)
• Watch them grow
• Duke it out with other managers

+ 1

The whole "Youre in a pod" dynamic is easily explained away. You can get in and out of your pod at will, anytime, anywhere.

Like a boss.

But then when your ship is blown up you lose all your skill points because your memory wasn't loaded up for the next clone through the pod. Like a very unskilled boss.

the templar implants for immortal soldiers, yeah we still need full pods while they have it all inside their heads?

I guess its only the human-ship interface thats housed in the pod? or its jsut an escape capsule.
either way the lore limitations have been broken.

It's actually much more simple to do. Just say the avatar that is walking around in the ship is a holographic projection. Since you're sitll in the pod, it explains the immortality, the ability to interact with the projection and the quick transitions between the different play modes. I think the whole idea of you walking around in your ship is a giant waste of development resources when we have no actual gameplay or even basic social spaces available for characters and it doesn't work well when actually flying in space, but the lore isn't a reason to not do it.

Not really.

At least from the lore they established in the last 3 novels.
Where an immortal empyrean used his clones to sabotage installations.
The pod is only a chance to save your current clone. Not related to skill preservation.

This seems like a good idea. The "capsule" idea could be reworked too; say, you don't need a capsule to transfer conciousness, but it's embedded in every capsuleer.

Also, I don't mean crew micromanagement, like feeding them and stuff. But what this will do is that it will add a level of immersion beyond what Captain's Quarters and Walking in Stations could ever do. Not only would this bring life to battles, but it would revitalize normally "boring" jobs like making 40-jump round trips.

Another thing to think about; what if you could grab a friend and board the ship together? That would just add even more immersion. Endless possibilities, minigames could be implemented virtually anywhere, too.

You forgot the modest amount of faction standing with the Janitors and the Quafe t-shirt that grants +1 memory.

Edit: Come to think of it I seem to have left my shirt slot empty. What's up with that??