Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The new hangars look great, they really do, but looking at some old screenshots, I can't help but feel they are missing some character. How about taking some of the old style station interiors, updating them, and putting them back in the game? Right now, apart from the race, you can't tell one station from the other inside, let's have some more flavor!

Here is an example of an old pleasure hub interior:

http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/0905/2009.03.09.20.55.03.jpg

I know this would require a good bit of work from the art department, but it seems like this is something that could be done slowly over a period of time, and just pop a new one into the game whenever it is ready.

I disagree, the old stations we're a lot more atmospheric, the new station interiors are all actually built on the same model, though this is disguised really well with the Gallente interior, whilst in stark contrast the minmatar and the caldari or almost identical apart from the textures.. The Amarr is the only one that looks like it has a completely different design base.

Each station should have a unique interior. And let's not get into unique CQ's as well.

Okay, so I went ahead and got into them. Moving on.

I miss the old gallente pleasure hub. I DONT miss the old 'ambient' noises. Some of those were god awful, and others were simply awful.

Best one around was the Gregorian Chant Amarr stations, and even then you would start enslaving others just for sitting in station too long.

I also miss the old interiors,
an rebuild is an great idea!

Hey now. CONCORD and the imperialist pig-nations may have decided that the backwater system I operate my factory in isn't important enough to be given any better than a 0.2 security status, but I'm not going to let that affect the quality of life for myself or my workers! My station is kept absolutely spotless, inside and out! If any of those spacefaring pirate vermin want to dock here, then they'd better wipe their feet or I'll ship them right back out the airlock - not necessarily with them in their ship!

Or perhaps I'll "accidentally" transfer their consciousness into an old B-grade holoreel when they want to clone jump.

Heh, ok, perhaps that was the wrong way to describe it, but something the visually marks the difference. Kinda like going to Vegas, you can't walk a block there without noticing the laws are somewhat... different.

I completely agree. The old station environments in most cases were definitely WAYY more atmospheric. I didn't really notice much of a change between the station environments before and after odyssy, and I didn't really get too excited about it. I mean cool, you can see traffic. That's great! I like that idea. But the stations still look generic.

I 100% back up this suggestion.

I didn't even know they had old station designs. Is there somewhere I can look to find the rest of them?

Pirate Faction hangars would be awesome.

Any idea what panel that was on? I just went through the art panel, and I saw a little bit, but that was more in the UI section, so I thought it was more there for being a sample UI mock up then how they wanted to go with hangars.