Player Features and Ideas Discussion

weld that door shut forever

Typical Eve reaction; "We don't want you to play the game like that. Therefore you are wrong, **** off and stop wasting the Devs time".

Bitter much?

Mr. Gorbachev, tear open this door!

That is pure bullshit.

CCP are working very hard on Eve, thankfully. They are simply putting their efforts into worthwhile developments rather than fluff like WiS. It's true that they got complacent and let things slide for some time but the rebalancing that has taken place since then has gone a long way to rejuvenating the game.

Hey CCP, if you don't plan to work on WiS, why don't you stop putting it your trailers? Just a spaceships and a voice over the video. Just be honest. So there won't be any players that want something from you what you can't deliver.

Actually, this isn't true. If you read the officially sanctioned books you would know that in order to become a capsuleer your original human self must die. Otherwise I agree... Seeing the capsuleer inside their pod like some kind of cockpit did seem pretty odd.

Yeah it is in the New Player Experience in game as well, the NPE that was introduced for Incarna in fact.

That new NPE was a great improvement to the game much overlooked when compared to Monoclegate.

So many edgy anti-WiS players.

I'd love to see a shared real-time map room for corps/alliances. Not like the map we have now, but an expanded version of it that includes modifiable map legends to save like an overview. For instance, you could have a setting for sovereignty, real-time engagements, PoS locations, and more all on a big old holographic map projected from a shared room. That would be incredibly useful in planning Ops and determining next steps for CTAs. Same for shared maps/interfaces for say.....future introduction of Odyssey style moon mining/PI (indy or combat focused).

One could step it up even more by adding some meta-game functions in. Worried about eaves dropping on chats for your alliance, but are tired of having to use so many third party communications programs just to ensure security? How about a controlled meeting environment that has all the comforts of a 3rd party communication platform built into Eve that's far more streamlined, functional, and useful combined with the above map functions?

Another few possibilities;

Automated long range probing missions from special rooms to help build new star gates.
POS module planning (for the towers) for specific moons.
Eve-mon...in Eve....for fleets. Picture a board room with a giant screen and something similar to the fitting window that gives you stats for specific fleet compositions.

There's a lot of possibilities that could give more depth to Eve than what we have now. Yes other things/bugs do need addressed such as POS's, tiericied, sov revamp, etc. But that doesn't mean the concept of WiS is completely and utterly useless. To say such shows that you're simply close minded and are a roadblock to further innovative applications within Eve.

Kindly biomass.

It would add potential content for a little seen segment of the player base: The Station Trader.

If individual shops could be visited and purchased from as an alternative to the way orders work now a new dimension opens up for market PvP where you simply don't buy from a certain player, corp, or alliance. Develop a reputation as a live trader and starve the .01 ISK bots out of the game. Open a potential direct market for items normally only available through contracts. Probably tons more that could be done that I won't think of because I don't do trading.

The value of socialization should not be overlooked either. Having the ability to interact with the Dustbunnies in your alliance fosters a team atmosphere.

WiS was never the problem, the Nex store and trying to add in Pay to Win items on it was.

For counter-argue to the people saying that there is too much space for so few ppl: F2P... I'm gonna leave this here for more haters gonna hate; https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2973819#post2973819