Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This fixes nothing, just something that occurred to me while jumping through the depths of space last night...

Apart from the rear thrusters, ships on the whole are pretty lifeless looking objects. They're also able to slow down, twist and turn without any sign of other propulsion. Which gives a pretty unrealistic effect. Why not add forward and side thruster effects? Such a simple change will add a lot to the look and feel of a ship, and give it a bit of life.

The other thing I wanted to suggest was station exit point placement. If I was, for example, not sitting at my desk tapping out this forum post, and instead planning to build a colossal inter-galactic space station. Why on Earth would I design the exit point for ships to be from a side of the station where it would force ships to navigate around the whole structure before being able to safely warp away! OR in EVE's case warp straight through the station, as if by magic. This is such a simple fix. Redesign offending stations, so that the ships exit is at a point where all stargates are warpable, mainly above or below the station.

I would place these visual changes above the new jump effect, as flying through a solid structure totally takes you out of the experience, and EVE is all about the ships.

Bit like the ships in Nexus - The Jupiter Incident?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibViWr9cAWw

Not the best video for showing what I mean but there are snaps of ships using maneuvering thrusters.

Good shout Goti, yeah something like that.

Death to submarines in space!

I have often felt that the business of warping through solid structures could be solved by making the warp tunnel opaque, as it is when you warp through a planet.

Maneuvering thrusters might be interesting, but they could also result in creating lag or increasing the demand on one's GPU.

Be careful before going around saying "We need to totally redesign how ships can fly in EVE". Part of what makes it nice is that flying isn't overly complicated and involved unless you want it to be. That being said, perhaps the answer to my concern is that some kind of a switch be added to allow a pilot the ability to toggle between "Standard" and "Active" flight control.

It wasn't a suggestion for manual piloting, just a visual representation on how your ship is making the maneuvers it's doing.
I also imagine this would be under the category of; Trails, Missile Effects, GPU Particles, etc, and would be optional.

For the stations, I can understand the whole space rift thing, but for me that's a cop out. OK for planets I guess, as by that point the ship has potentially reached "full" warp. But from starting right next to a structure? Hmm, just looks wrong to me.

You weren't suggesting manual piloting, but someone else seemed to be. As far as thrusters are concerned, when someone says "navigational thrusters" I tend to think back to the Star Citizen demo.

This is definitely what I was thinking with my BSG reference (couldn't YouTube it at work). This would be so awesome but the other links could be a stepping stone to this as the ultimate goal. I'd so be the pilot "space drifting" around asteroids for days though ha ha

That sounds pretty cool Mike, and in some ways I kinda like all that lore stuff. But in other ways it seems like it's just been made up, coz they didn't have the ability to display thruster effects at the time :D

At the end of the day, I'd much prefer to look at a ship that appears to be full of life, than the lifeless stick which is my Iteron!

OK so it appears I am being beaten by the lore here, I'm not gonna win that argument.

TBH my suggestion was mainly about breathing life into the ships in EVE. I'm no miner. But when I see something like the Exhumers, with their pistons and burners, they look like fully operational living ships. I'd just like to see more of this.

So my point still remains; whether its rockets, thrusters, gravitional engines, or anything else, CCP has the artistic license to represent any of these visually in anyway they wish.

@Hyper Visor:

You could even say that "You fought the lore...and...the lore won!"