Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The lore is window dressing to explain away how come EvE does not follow the spaceship precedent set by star trek or star wars. Props to them for trying to fit spaceship mechanics into an online game format in a way that makes sense and is fun, but with the technical advances since the game's launch, the lore seems little more than a cop out in making huge changes to the game.

According to the Lore you are in your pod when you are in your ship.

According to the lore you are dead and are hooked up to the Pod by neural tubings. The pod is there to keep your body safe so your brain can control your ship. The pod as a whole is locked inside other ships and thus take control over it.

Your Pod is not a life boat you board just before your ship explodes.

Whoever necro'd this thread should be shot (in game).

To op: I feel your pain, but Eve is such a deep game that it takes a long time to experience everything. I recommend you give it a good try, like a few months, and join a corp - it's not a single player game - the fun comes from flying with other pilots.

However, if you really are set on playing something like the X series, Elite:Dangerous needs help getting off the ground so check it out on kickstarter.

AC.

you can make cockpit view with a camera and paste it up on you monitor if you want one

Why do I doubt that....

You post on 29 November, the post before you was on 7 October.

Like a thread in GD will stay on the front page for over 1 month....

Awww... poor baby.

...and yea, no frist person view here out of lore reasons ...and because it was easier to do, back in the early 2000s.

EDIT: I'm all for an interal/bridge view when WIS comes around, though!

I would like a first-person view of myself immersed in my pod of goo. <3

This is not a "try and trick CCP into thinking something is more popular than it is" forum.

It's a "features and ideas discussion" forum. Negative discussion is useful information for readers and devs, just like positive discussion.


I think that first person would be awesome, if eve were designed that way. but it's not, so in reality, first person would be extraordinarily frustrating and not fun: You wouldn't be able to control your ship properly at all, and you couldn't fire your own guns (since balance is based on tracking speed and character skills, etc.). So you'd just be sitting there with a limited view and complete impotence over control of your ship. Sounds bad. Sounds like nobody would ever actually use it except as a novelty. And this would require VASTLY too much coding resources for a novelty.

I think the technical reasons why the 1st person cockpit view isn't viable ahve been discussed a fair bit but one thing the OP mentioned was the flying around stations/ships/celestial bodies and admiring the view.


That is one of the most appealing things about eve! just becasue it isn't from a 'cockpit' doesn't mean you can't do that. Turn on the advanced camera or the new tracking camera adn set you ship to orbit something. zoom in on it and bask in the glory of the eve graphics.

I too play the X series of game and eve far supasses them for graphic immersion IMO.