Player Features and Ideas Discussion

These proposals concern only a few graphic details and not play functionality (at least that is not the purpose of this idea).

I like EVE not only because of its diversity and complexity, but also because of its atmosphere and the pretty graphics, which was the real reason I wanted to test EVE in the beginning. In an RPG this is, in my opinion, a very important and beneficial point to the gameplay. Let's be honest - we all like to blow up things ;).

So here are some ideas for a more realistic / better mood in the EVE world.

1. stations


• current situation

CPP has done a few improvements to the hangars. At least some of the Gallentes look different. There is now little more life in the station, as ships flying around. I like the approach. I had always wondered why all the docks are empty, except mine.


• what i don't like

The proportions of the station are not correct. If I look at my boat and compare it to the station, it's impossible to fit it in there more than 10-15 times. In addition, the hangar hall is so huge that apparently 90% of the station is spend for ship docks. This is unrealistic - and why should ships dock be deep inside?

Furthermore, I find the almost infinite depth of space docks terrifying. I'm still afraid of heights! ;) And then the ship floats free in the dock - should I jump into the station? Or you still bears spacesuits during the transition to station - beam would work, maybe. Well I find it funny anyway.


• suggestions

The stations have space docks. Different ships have different docking bays, which need not necessarily be displayed from outside.

Shuttles are so small that they can be placed in a large hall nicely next to each other. So your own shuttle is parked next to other shuttles; frigates and destroyers would also fit in the same hangar safely, i think. The hall has windows (to the station/space), doors, a gate to the outside (or more), Laborer / Robotter / Vehicles, crates lying around, parts of ships, some ships are perhaps repaired; some ships dock or leave the hangar at the moment - everything is hectic operating . The floor is peppered with various parking markings, possibly there are some ships which are moved by robot through the hall to the outside / gate.
This scenario is completely independent of the own ship (of course, some guy's may work on it, clean it or what ever). So it's just a part of the whole and the ship is not alone somewhere in the station.
To make this more realistic, the scenarios can easily be made different. just put the parts of the scene together randomly, so that you do not always see the same picture and scenario in the hangars. Even the ship's position could change in the hangar (after discounts and docking maneuvers), the number and type of vessels standing around and of course the hangar itself looks different between the factions (and maybe station of factions)

Battle cruisers and battleships are thicker and larger. You have your own dock and hangar space by means of brackets in marine bays. Each ship has numerous (and by vessel type and stations different) tubes, cables, power-ways, loading bays, ... connected to the dock. There are also workers and robots which are wandering around and handle the ships, they are moving stuff around, welding, etc. In these bays there are controllers, towers/bays overlooking the hall and the ships like on airports. You can see parts of the station, several decks, storage rooms, bulkheads/window to the outside, lifts, tubes, cabs, semi-mounted weapons, threats and so on.

Freighter, of course, must be loaded. So there are cargo-ports of course, only used for transport ships. These will also be docked to tubes in / on their own bays / places, but on a larger scale (more additions, cables, etc). Cause much mor chargo must be loaded in a short time. There are space containeres stacked everywhere, loading robots are moving around, there are ore container, packing plants, warehouses and so on.


• conclusion

The feeling of being on a big station, and above all not to be alone there, will be much more authentic. The change (ie activating) to a ship of another class simply leads to the change of the hangar / the scenario. Within a ship class or a class that shares a hangar type, you can switch to another parking space (or simply changes the scenario). Perhaps, some of your ships are also parked next to each other.

If the idea of station walking should actually be implemented some time, it would be nice to have different levels with different rooms and also several hangars. In the shuttle hangars you can walk around, in the battleship hanger one looks from various gangways / bays to the goings and the transport ships you can only see through the big gate to the interior of the station or through various windows in the hangar, because no one else except the personnel is allowed to enter the cargo space.

If you're not willing to enter the hangar view (where currently your active ship is docked), you should be able to control everything via a terminal where the ship is schematically (such as looking at the objects / ships / weapons) shown, with all the necessary information , functions, etc. (see "captains-quarters")

point 1 - stations.

Stations are huge, typically over 100km across, whilst even the biggest battleship is less than 2km, also in eve there are such things are planck containers where spaces on the inside are bigger than they are on the outside. The station may well be one giantic planck container.

In regards to your other points about customisation CCP are working on this right now, they are taking small baby steps towards 100% customisation but have technical difficulties displaying 100 ships in a fleet fight all of which custom paint jobs whilst fighting an equally sized fleet of equally customised ships. The difficulty lies with the server and the effects of lag.

Also CCP demoed a condor flying between two worlds and entering atmosphere a couple of years ago at fanfest. So using planets as a base of ops is also on the cards for eve players, but we don't know when.