EVE General Discussion

I liked the undocking in Galaxy quest. But i suppise grinding the ship against the station interior would be tedious in the long run.

What about removing the pop up infotext during undock. The animation should be plenty.

I imagine that in a perfect spaceship game I would have the option to pilot my ship out of the station. Barring that, I would like to at least see it animated. Make docking/undocking more meaningful rather than a chore/formality.

Would also like to see some stations where you dock to the outside.

My biggest issue with this is simply that all this animation and the new Jump Gate animation are, are ways to disguise the current Loading Bar, and by sticking a pretty picture over that Loading bar they INCREASE the duration of the process, which isnt what most people want. Yes there may be some people who LIKE watching the same animation over and over instead of doing the thing they undocked/gate jumped to do, but I am not one of them.

No one complains about the Warping animation because it is there to REPRESENT travel through space, not HIDE a loading bar because a DEV hates loading bars.

Like I said, if the total time taken to undock remains the same, stick in an animation if you feel its worth your effort over fixing Drone/POS/Cloud problems that have been complained about for god knows how long.

If you are increasing the time it takes to do the job by painting a pretty picture over a loading bar, it is "relatively speaking" a complete waste of effort and more than likely only being done to distract from other issues.

Eventually people will get used to it, and just take it as the norm, since I very much doubt CCP will take heed of any comments here that prompt them to trash or disable something they have invested time and money on already.

Wont stop people complaining about it in the short term though.

I agree with the thread post that suggested that some mundane things (like cap recharge/shield recharge be done in a "parking" area outside of the station. The process of docking should take time (as it would reasonably take to enter a station, find a bay, and come to a rest). It was my understanding that CCP was going to work to get rid of docking games and has already done so to some extent with the aggression timers. Why not move some features outside of station and allow docking to take it's full time with transitions?

My two cents!

-- Zen

This is already implemented for Odyssey.


This would be problematic for gameplay reasons.

Trouble with Elite manual docking is that you died more often then not. Even the autopilot dock you'd often get damage going in unless you time dilated

Bite your tongue, I could park a Panther Clipper ANYWHERE

I've been mulling this over for a few days and have ended up here:

- stations need to be visibly busy hubs with lots going on around them, both inside and outside
- there definitely need to be external berths for fitting services, shield repair etc.
- stations probably need to have protection similar to a POS shield in order to protect war target ships while berthed
- animations around station activities should probably take longer than they currently do to increase immersion (taxiing to berth etc.)
- time lost in interacting with stations could be clawed back from warp times which can be shortened to compensate the player



- these external berth arrays can become a new variety of DUST map where players can negotiate a weightless environment (magnetic boots?) surrounded by the ships we all know and love. Even the odd super-cap could be there standing off stations in low sec etc.



In short, make it more immersive and take a few more seconds or more to get something special happening.
Make warp faster so that players don't lose out.

Microjumpdockdrive!

It already feels like that.

My two cents.

Cent one:

Your ship turns toward the exit and taxis towards the entrance at an appropriate speed for its size and weight. Scene fades out, and fades back in with your ship exiting the station. The navigation computer, or some other que, lets you know you can take over the ship and do - whatever. All that must be done within the normal time it takes to undock.

Cent two:

Your ship enters the docking sequence (animation takes over). Your ship enters the station. Scene fades out, and fades back in with your ship entering the docking platform and coming to a stop. The navigation computer, or some other que, lets you know you can exit the ship and enter your station quarters.

I'll add another cent:

While in your station quarters, you ship should be scaled so that a small frigate looks small in the distance, and not at the same size as larger ships, and visa versa.

O.K. Fourth cent:

While in your station quarters, you should see tiny little people floating about making repairs to your ship with welding torches and small support craft loading and unloading cargo / ore from freight / mining ships (even if you're not loading or unloading anything).