Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Bumping for great justice!

EDIT: Updated with #10, the golden pod featured within collector's edition.

CCP - If it's not done half-assed it's not done at all.

I gave up trying to get support for WiS/CQ, in fact it seems no matter what the customer
base asks for, POS/SOV/WiS/ etc etc, they seem bent on doing anything BUT what people are
asking for.

CCP gets these ideas, launches half finished features, then before they finish them they get
all excited about another great idea leaving us with a bunch of half finished features. Then
they come back to these features years later,, throw some cosmetic changes on them
and call it and "expansion"

1. More character customization. Specifically toward the differences of the other races. (As in more wartat options with Minmatar, skimpier wear with Gallente, etc.) Would be interesting if included sub-racial exclusive items. (Khanid Cyberknight wear, Brutor deactivated slave collars.)

1a. Ability to sell racial specific customization items (provided within LP stores) to other races.

1b. Drug-induced/over-use appearance effects. (Would imagine in a menu following "Scars")

1c. More augmented limbs. (A trending request from Crime & Punishment)

2. Ability to interact and get to know NPCs would be nice. (Such interviewing/interrogating assets of missions, such as the militants you just scooped, the damsel, the freedom fighter. -could possibly open doors for alternative mission ending options, where instead of completing the mission for your corporation, you cater to another questionable party. [Could allow a slow building of standings toward other factions/corporations while taking a {skill modified} hit to your own corp's.])

2a. Ability to interact with your agents face-to-face, especially if from a place of dominance and fear-inducing. In time with enough standing, you could modify this reception to something more friendly.

3. Ability to assign passengers to your captains quarters. (They would come with assorted props and would change various places around the captain's quarters with each visit.)

4. Ability to further customize planets you've set up base on, even having standings with that world. Some improvements suggested may empower (/personalize) the world more than actually help the capsuleer out, yet improving standings with the planet and overall efficiency of the P.I. interactions.

5. Ship crew evaluation. A section within quarters or the station for customizing crew/potential crew, varying per area of space and standings with the corporation owning said station. A prior (and much older) thread containing more veteran players' recommendations for crew ideas can be located here. Brief personal opinion: Crews should be able to affect an implant's worth of benefits to the ship. (These mechanics may open doors later for boarding actions, another idea that has been tossed around.) (Present crew stats in lore, as provided by CCP, and link to one of CSM's recommendations of their use.]

6. Emotes for your character. Preferably ability to switch idle animations. (ex. /happy shifts idle animation until leaving quarters to character being overall happy.) (Would not appear in chat as /me is the current command used to imply an emote via chat.)

7. Corporate war rooms. (Integrates DUST characters.) Accessed remotely applies an occasional flickering animation to the character, implying your character is being holographically projected. Similar mechanics could be used for inviting players to capsuleer quarters.

8. Additional actions within captains quarters. (Everyone's wondered why you can't lay down in your own bed.)

9. Buyable props for captains quarters. (Preferably a trophy case of your favorite [account-linked?] DUST merc?) (Perhaps a display [/freezer] case for an assigned frozen corpse?)

10. Collector's Edition Pod actually visible in CQ. People paid for it.