Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I want more diverse and realistic solar systems. Traveling in Eve is teh b0redom and needs something to make our travels more interesting and unique.

I've compiled a short list.

-Gas giants orbiting their Stars closer than Mercury is to our sun.
-More pulsars.
-Dwarf planets in asteroid belts.
-Binary systems.
-Red giants.
-ENORMOUS STARS.
-Dwarf Stars
-Nebulae.
-Star Clusters.

There's a huge list of ways to differentiate systems to make traveling a more enjoyable experience. This list being just a few examples.

I don't think gas giants can form close to a star. But you're right overall, one system can feel like another, particularly in hi-sec.

New planet sensing technology has hinted at this case. As if the gas giant eventually orbited long enough around the star it ended up right next to it. Alternately the star may have expanded out to the giant, or both.



Elliptical orbits would be great.



Could i possibly get a dev to move this thread?


Also, seeing the same enormous nebulae from multiple neighboring systems would help tie together space itself. With the object getting smaller the farther away you get from it. I believe with a few of these changes the game could be much more immersive.

just travel to 0.0 :)

As I understand it, this is exactly what they're working on now. Or at least they were talking about it before their massive re-prioritization.

-Stations within asteroid fields
-Stations only 50km away from a gate
-2 gates only 50km away
-Other things which are on the same grid as other things
-MAAASSSIIIVVEEE asteroid fields. Warping through them, you see the blur of asteroids and stuff. Made of valueless ore, of course.

CCP has always hinted about changes in that direction.

Although I distinctly recall that orbits where probably a hard thing to achieve they are "planning" to introduce, comets, system wide asteroid belts, nebulae and gasses. When or how they are going to do this has always been "to be decided" though so I wouldn't hold my breath.

I also recall that the great wildlands had something of a storm/typhoon likes graphics but somebody told me they cut out of eve a while ago.

Adding things like that though would greatly increase the appeal of eve where it should be focused, i.e.: the space part. So lets hope those ideas that where left at the wayside because all the focus was on incarna, now get a second chance.

You should try mining awhile..

I completely agree. but i think due to the massive discontent CCP got a few months back that they have refocused on FiS content and i'm confident they are working on more variety.

Check out my thread for ideas for variety in eve.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=54171#post54171

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Giant massive stars, Nebs, huge rocks floating about.

increase the size of some stars by as much as 1k. I realize some systems are so big you'd not even notice so increase those stars by 10k.

Currently it feels like most the stars are the size of our moon....bleh...I understand we really do not fly to zero on a stars postion so the being cooked part is moot.

I'd love to jump into a system and have the red super giant take up more then my screen, should I look at it directly.

I'd also like to see large old derelict hulls floating about near gates in some lowsec areas...who knows what they are from or for....just massive...20k min dist from gates. I guess that could get in the way of covops functions...so maybe make them non collidable? meh...