Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was playing the last night with friends and realized how lifeless New Edes is. A friend replied: "There's tons of other players". But I didn't mean that. The world of Eve just doesn't feel right. There's not much other than other players.

Where are NPC civilians? I'd like to see some cruise ships. Where are huge emperial fleets waiting standby or moving? Why there wasn't any civilian activity around that nightclub where I got a bunch of exotic dancers (female)? I can shoot bases to pieces and none there (maybe hundreds of people on board) tries to communicate with me like: "Please, cease fire! We surrender. Here, have some ISK!" Just silence and fancy, but repetitious firework...

Think about playing GTA same way - every character you meet carries a minigun and runs for the next mission. Sometimes you may meet cops or gansters, but they're armed too. No civilians (=normal life) anywhere. Never played WoW, but I think it has plenty of non-combatant NPC:s around and visible.

Well, this isn't a complaint. Just a thought :)

Love the clarification above!

1) New Eden is a Universe not a world
2) Thank god you don't play WoW
3) Not a bad post

However, more constant NPC presence = more resource demands of Dev and increased server load perhaps and I'd rather see more player interaction than more NPC.

For NPC you can do a variety of missions from Courier to Security and encounter all sorts for all 4 empires.

Outside of that I just don't think more NPC is really needed.

Jita station will never be big enough.

It'd be way cooler if the station would be replaced with a hollow moon, covered with blinking lights cities as large as continents on the inside and the outside, a docking bay so large that hundreds of ships could leave and enter the "station" without ever being on the same grid...

Man, just thinking about that makes me want to get some proper tools just so I can paint that picture in my head... o_O

A bunch of cool ideas in the first posts to this thread.

I like the idea of more NPCs beyond the patrol ships in hi-sec, although, as Maximus points out, it should not come at the expense of server load. Maybe NPCs warp out of system if things start getting crowded. But having, cruise ships, yachts, outside of missions would give a lot of texture.

Also, a reimagining of Jita would be really cool...Debora's suggestion sounds awesome.

And, Lilliana's idea about tiny stations in backwaters sounds cool. When I was gunrunning out of Intaki in Gallente FW, it always seemed weird that there were these enormous stations in a system where I almost never saw more than ten pilots in system at one time.

For Jita, and other very large hubs, it would be cool if you could check in at a customs office and enter 'near planet space' where you dock at a ground facility, can't warp directly away without going back through customs, and can see more of that civilian interaction.

This would separate the solar system from the hub itself, giving the spambots, duelers, and other random Jita dwellers someplace to be and take some pressure off the sever with the station in it while still giving them their captive audience of pilgrims looking to shop.