Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Thread is @ 17 Pages atm. Hope noone is getting angry if I missed this, just made a quick lookover.

The Screens u are sitting in front of would be much more usefull if u could customise them. Think everyone has a bit differnet priorities in EVE so u should change it.
Who ever is more corp-focused can set up a invirentment to manage corp stuff faster: 1 screen frn notifications, 1 for assets and 1 for member as an example.
Or the trader can put some kind of market-charts and price updates on one screen. The second is for checking orders and the third for contract.

Also: Doing PI directly on the screen would be a awesome thing.

I like the idea of having the screens display more useful information for veteran players. Perhaps some of the things can be toggled? It would be awesome for the screens to show corp and alliance killmails (now that killmails can be displayed in-game in a nice format). Perhaps even things like corp/alliance bulletins and lore-related news.

As for some of the other ideas suggested in this thread, I'm not so sure. We should gain no new in-space capabilities with the CQ. Things like being able to decloak a ship while sitting on a couch makes little sense in my mind.

My thought are more towards the "grand ideas" for Team Avatar and WiS.

I think that more then anything it should be focused on the social aspect for the gameplay more then the clothing and what color the lights are in your quarters and these little things.

The whole reason for doing this in the first place is to expand the social side of the game from just sitting in your ship and sending walls of text back and forth to your friends and corp/alliance. To having a toon that is not just a toon but is an extention of yourself or your "persona". Sure talking using eve voice and vent/teamspeak helps in that reguard but its very basic.

I think CCP should take some notes from one dead MMo SWG (Starwars Galaxies) (from beta to the end of year 1) when the game was focused on players having mechanics for being social actually part of the design functions of the game.

Examples of that were player housing and building your own city. (EVE - Building your own bars shops and the corp and alliance common spaces). And of corse grand spaces that are 100% public.

Having aspects of the game directly effected by social elements of game play. (SWG- players needing to take down time to rest up there toon). (EVE - instead of forcing players to interact like starwars did to mitigate crying about it. have it on a buff type system. After sitting at the bar and having a few drinks with other pod pilots and dust mercs and talking about how much jita needs to be blown up .. you get stat bonuses for combat or mining ect. due to being more relaxed and re-focused.

Some of the old ideas that were supposed to be implemented where places to gamble and play games like poker or like the tatical games that we saw a video for 2 years ago. When CCP focused on Nex its like all focus for WIS did a 180.

Having areas that you have to rent and then build rooms and populate them with tables and vendors all of which needs eve's standard isk and resources to build with will only add to the already growing eve "player" market.

This is just one basic idea that im sure can be added to.. I just think that CCP needs to go back to some of there old ideas and find new ways to make them work.


When WIS turned into NEX and how do we pull off a "World of Tanks" type gold market.. the ideas for which WIS was based on were lost...

I'm not saying NEX should not be part of the system. but it should not be the focus.

The focus should be on what WIS was supposed to be created for in the first place. To make a social place for people to interact outside there ship when they are not "a ship". And to take that idea and tie it into eve's player based market system.

And because we are adding DUST into the mix what better way to attract dust players into eve.. then to have them drink and gamble with us poddies. All of us in the same room talking about what planet we need captured next and how to set up the resource chain to do it. what ships, tanks, ore will we need. Are we going to need orbital bombardment from eve players and when will it all be ready.

How are Dust players going to be in the same space as us when that game uses the UT III Engine? I understand the chat sequence and back end for that but not walking avatars? I have always felt that players should be crafting all items for the avatar.

It would be a nice idea, but alcohol has to be done carefully, or the ESRB will push the game into a different rating.

I'd like to see a more 'interactive' way of decanting from the pod -- even a new animation or something would be nice.

We need small mini-games to kill time between mining ops and security fleets like playing chess with a friend, or playing eve's version of Galaga. Holograpic tables that show basic tutorials like how to mine effectively or mini lessons on pvp that will help noobs understand pvp better.

"Warp scram will take out you're mwd, so be careful." for example, one of the first core things you should learn before you fly(all in holographic animation it shows the pilot getting jammed and losing his mwd with a big flashing red sign above that says WARNING).

I think we could really benefit from the time away from just ship spinning and looking at ourselves in the mirror all day in station :)

Give us games to play with friends.
Chess, sly.... Warhammer :P

I wouldn't mind letting eve players have guns and be able to shoot each other in stations, just not in full battle gear like a Dust player has. Something more concealable. Add the smuggling portion back to the game and it could be a LOT of fun.

Person is trying to smuggle drugs from low sec to a high sec station.

Another person knows that person is doing it, wants to make the good iskies it rewards for the high risk.

Shoots/knives the person with a silenced weapon in an uncrowded area. Make it so that if the other player is in the more crowded areas (i.e. areas with guards and such), they are more likely to be detected and hence have incentive to go to the other areas. Maybe gunfight can ensue when they notice each other?

I don't know, but either way, I think it could be a LOT of fun...

it's obvious - we need stripper poles and exotic dancers - if you give each exotic dancer an unique and random face people will try to buy the best looking ones and then they'll make em dance on the pole !

I just want a comunual lobby to prat around in with emotes and stuff