Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Despite all the mistakes with Incarna CQs was the beginning of something really great on EVE.

I've always hated the pod concept, it was necesary at the beginning of EVE, but I keep the hope ... ... it'll be gone someday or at least that it becomes into something aditional and not the core of the game lore, and the only way for us to fly our ships.

Now that we have inmortals without pods I wanna see the crew of my ships with implants and they won't be disposable anymore.

Having the oportunity of walking inside of my ship and be in the bridge will be awesome...!!!

Really!? You hate the pod concept? I thought it was such a brilliant concept to begin with...

Its part of the reason I like this game so much...


If I wanted to be social... I'd just go outside... lol

Yeah, I have honestly never had a single issue with the pod concept. I'm completely jacked in and my whole consciousness is the ship.

I mean, I can barely walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. Just look at my avatar, even! That guy is so unsteady he won't walk faster than a slow ramble. Now have my consciousness buried into the whole entirety of the ship, and then let me walk around and talk ... I'm going to end up face planting into a bulkhead while my ship decided to shoot the station.

Personally, I don't think some people read the backstory at all ....

It's would be cool if there will be a lot of skills for the avatar gameplay too.

The vanity skills too... For example, a skill for adding the slots for the clothes "fittings", or maybe the skills to make certain cool moves :)

Also there could be the items that player can wear only if he trained, for example, Command Ships V...

It seems to me if you want interactive gameplay, the original blueprint of a Promenade is the key to this. This then allows things like offices (I'll come to this later) or establishments. This provides an environment within which not only Eve players can interact with each other but allows Eve and Dust players to interact together. You also need to provide them with a reason to want to interact (beyond shooting them in the face) so that they want to get out of their POD and go take a stroll.

First off is establishments. I think there's a general consensus amongst CCP and Eve players alike that the NeX store should provide more varied and reasonably priced items so sell limited run blueprints of unique avatar clothing through the NeX store and allow Eve players to open up retail outlets and sell the clothes. We have faction ships so why not faction clothing? Also allow Eve players to sell Dust items to Dust players - Troop ship (whatever it's called), vehicles, weapons etc. - through the market. This all fits in with Eve's already complex and existing player-driven economy. Allow them to hire NPC sales people that the player interacts with for the purchase. Shift other existing services like re-sculpting to be exclusively provided by NPC run establishments - it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that you can change your entire body type and facial features inside your capsule.

Eve corporations also rent offices but all that really is is a selection of hangers. How about providing Corporation's offices that we can actually walk in to and do some of the administrative stuff there. Provide an interactive "holomap" that you can track corporation members in real time rather than trawling through a boring menu that's delayed by five minutes. Allow better tracking of space-bound assets (like POS or iHubs for example) in this office. Right now you are limited to the system they're in, not their precise location. Allow a more detailed tactical overlay to the one we have in our ships that allows you to identify numbers of people in a system based upon standings.

Poker in Eve seems to be highly popular so why not provide gambling establishments where Dust and Eve players alike can play against each other. The idea to provide boosters was a good one so allow unique boosters (ones that cannot be made) to be sold through these outlets. Players can always re-sell them on the market so those pilots who adamantly refuse to engage in Incarna can still purchase them from their ship. The atmosphere of these can also change as you progress through the security ratings of a system so that Jita looks like Las Vegas and something in low or null sec is some dark and smoky den of iniquity.

One thing I will say is that you need to release something big and meaty and above all, player driven to re-launch Incarna. The mistake you made was one of timidity. The captains quarters was always doomed to failure. You need to think much bigger this time and then iterate on the back of it because Incarna isn't just a few ships or a bit of balancing being thrown in, it's an entirely new way of playing Eve without any existing framework. If you think small, if you try to iterate the framework, you'll crash and burn again.

You need to add beards to char creator. Proper, full, lumberjack beards.

I also wanted to add that Incarna does not have to be limited to Outposts and Stations. Why not combine it with exploration?

Imagine, if you will, you find a explorable site. Rather than sitting there in your ship hacking it, you dock with it and exit your pod and board the ship wreck. In order to get the prize, you have to navigate your way to the ship's central computer/bridge in order to download the required information but in order to get there, you have to make your way through a series of security doors. This is where the hacking mini-game comes in, using it to open doors and/or disable traps (internal security). Once you get to the computer, you download your information, which could be something like an escalation PLEX, for example, or another exploration site, or a single run T2/T3 Blueprint, and then make your way back to your ship.

For me, at least, and I suspect many others, the novelty of cans-in-space is going to get real old real fast. This at least provides the player with something fundamentally different to any other profession currently within Eve. Locations could be sold or locations could be run by the explorer, either choice providing them with a nice way to make ISK. You could also have the tougher sites needing multiple people docked and hacking simultaneously in order to encourage co-operative play. This would also increase the length of time someone spends on an actual profession making it something someone could spend an evening on, either alone or with their mates.

I still want to see my Sansha true slave decryption node, complete with occasional looking around and frowning.

Number one thing I'd like is for CQ to run a bit smoother, on low settings it runs worse than space does on full high settings.

After that though, some customization would be nice, the ability to put otherwise useless commodities, trade goods, and such items around the room. Maybe make some other customization items avalible for sale. You know posters, videos for the screen, a nice lamp, maybe some chintz curtains.

It would also be nice to actually walk around my hanger space, see boxes of rockets there, armor plates stacked in a corner, a couple hundred homeless roasting some nameless meat over a fire in the other corner. (Could just be random stuff each time or something you could specify). Also would love to see a few more of my ships floating around in the ship hanger even if just a couple.

Of course in the long term having an actual station to walk around in would be nice, sometimes I like just admiring the work put into the station parts we can see.

A part of me would also like to see my avatar have idle animations of some sort, if I have her sitting on the sofa it would be nice if she occasionally picked up a can of quafe and drank from it, or smoked, or something other that just sit there. Doesn't have to be elaborate, just something to show she is human and not a robot.

After watching all the DUST 514 stuff I finally realised what puts me off FPS's. This is really more of a DUST request than a CQ idea but as the technology is no doubt shared this is as good a place as any.

Left handed avatars please.

That's it really. I'm left handed and it's so weird and feels so wrong controlling an avatar that is right handed on a screen where all the avatar actions and weapon/whatever viewpoint are in a right handed perspective. Please give us the option to select the handedness of our avatars and follow that through to avatar actions and perspectives.

I could go on and on about CCP and the rest of the games industry discriminating against over 25% of the general population but that just seems facetious at this point. But my immersion and enjoyment of CQ and DUST would be considerably enhanced by the ability to use a more naturally looking - to me at least - avatar