Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP so far has done a great job of sizing ships so that you truly feel that your ship is bigger or smaller than another.

I can park a frig next to a bs and be wow'd by the size difference.


That said, stations just don't feel this way.

Take Jita IV-4 as an example.

There are at least a thousand vessels in that station at any given time, yet you pull out of it and 4 ships block the entrance.

Stations don't at all match the immersion that is presented in size differences between ships.
I mean, just look at how massive the ship hangars are when you dock up?

Do you seriously think that the stations are sizable enough to fit hundreds, if not thousands of these hangars?



Secondly

I would like to see a bit of immersion brought into docking and undocking.
Instead of a loading environment bar, how about a cut scene of your specific ship docking into the station?
Since it's a pre-recorded scene, then it can be stored on the player's computer, and the server can continue focusing on loading the environment in the back ground.



To add to this, I wouldn't mind seeing all my assembled ships in the hangar. I mean, where do they go and come from?
However, if they're all in the hanger then it would be like Cruisin' the USA where you would either click left and right, or key pad left and right. As you did it would browse through your assembled ships and then you would be able to click on one and board it.



Lastly

What about captains? Those of us that enjoy the captain's quarters (not me)? While I do feel that captain's quarters have helped with emersion, I also feel that the emersion is broken on them as well.
You magically appear in your CQ and magically disapear from your CQ and into a space ship in space outside the station.
Lets add to the emersion here as well, and instead of showing the loading of the CQ, have a pre-recorded cut scene that shows the player docking his ship, the pod evacing the ship docking up the the CQ, and the figure of the player stepping out of the pod in a cloud of smoke. (The smoke effect is because characters are nude in the pod, and it keeps CCP from having to mark their game for having nudity.)


I truly feel that each of these would help add to the emersion in stations that we actually have in space.
So, to recap.

1) Increase station sizes to be more realistic and EPIC.
2) pre recorded cut scenes for docking and undocking
3) assembled ships shown in hangar as if they were actually there and didn't just materialize from nothing
4) Cut scene for players docking their pods at the CQ
5) Overall immersion in stations that we all fully enjoy in space

Thanks for listening


EDIT..
I would also like to add in that I wouldn't mind seeing capital docking arrays on stations and outposts.
Capitals would not be able to dock inside a station, but would be able to dock on the outside of the station/outpost.

The best visual reference I can give to this is Starship Troopers. You'd be docked up to the station, but not in the station.

This would allow the player to exit their capital ship while leaving is locked and relatively secure.

It would still be out in the open, so players would be able to shoot at it without shooting at the station, but at least no one would be able to easily board the ship.

I got one for you!

Install windows!

Seriously, we are this hyper-advanced space society, and our stations don't even have windows or view screens to tell us what is just outside....

Bit odd, don't you think?

Agreed on all counts. I've been waiting for some sort of cinematic while docking and undocking. These would be small changes that wouldn't take a whole lot of effort and would be a great addition to the game.

Supported!

The reasoning behind this is just to have something to watch while environments load. Sure, docking and undocking doesn't take long, but for some ppl the CQ can take a bit to load.

Now, there's gotta be some sort of graphical information stored on player side, such as your avatar and which ship you're currently in.

If this were/is the case, then it would allow the cut scenes to be rendered on player side, thus not bogging down the server.

lol, I think the only place this would really work is jita IV-4

It would be nice to see stations scaled up some. Perhaps about 3x their size. But I think certain trade hubs should be ignored, because there would hit a point where the station officials would be denying docking permission due to overfilling, but the game won't do that.

It would be nice to see my assembled ships in the background, perhaps arrayed in racks lining the inside walls of the station. My armada would be beautiful.

Also, +1 for Cruisin' USA reference. I haven't played that game in years.

Windows are structural weaknesses! (mass effect reference)

That's actually an interesting idea... but I hope they scale up and add modules and size in a classy manner, at least in Jita, and Caldari, Amarr and Gallente space in general.

I'd rather not end up with Minmatar in my Caldari.

Keep the Duct-tape off my IV-4!

I just mean that I hope they don't just make it scale up. I'd like to see them add more to the stations. I'd like to see large portions attached with proper, full construction. Not just slabs of metal and modules tacked on willy-nilly in the style of the Minmatar.

Yeah, I would hope as well that they would somewhat use they style they have used with t3 cruisers..

While they are all modulated they also have looks that are intuitive to their faction.

Also, I would think that the stations need a size buff long before modules are ever even added due to the fact that even in their current form, they don't appear to be capable of housing more that 20-30 battleships.

which is exactly why I propose the change.

At the very least the scale of stations needs to be looked at.

I mean, everything else about Eve is visually impressive. Then you pull up to a station that looks like it wouldn't even hold a wing worth of ships, but yet thousands of ships can come pouring out of it....