Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am one of those players who definitely sticks around for the epic feeling that I am a space pilot. I like anything that expands on the EVE universe and which allows me to feel like I am truly standing in a space station or flying through dead space. I would love to see features ranging from a manageable ship crew to station-based marketplace management. With that said, the DUST "MCC Waiting Room" and EVE Captain's Quarters are wonderful additions to the game. They don't add mandatory game play, but rather a cool environment that let's me put a face and body to my capsuler. I think this could be expanded into the ships with a sort of "Cockpit" view.

Just as the Captain's Quarters allows me to relax on a sofa and do all of my work from there, I would love to have a similar OPTIONAL environment inside my ship. Imagine that view's impact on intense battles, or those long journeys across regions, or how relaxing it'd be to fly into dead space with a cloak and just relax in your cockpit doing some manufacturing jobs.

I tossed a few Google-search images into Photoshop and whipped up some mock images:
http://s24.postimg.org/lh457g005/EVE_Cockpit_1.jpg
http://s24.postimg.org/q1qbmdjph/EVE_Cockpit_2.jpg

I remember a scene from The Chronicles of Riddick where he enters hibernation in his ship on his way to the planet. Alone, isolated in space, locked in his cockpit. I think that's an aspect of space travel that EVE has yet to capitalize on, and I think it could bring a fuller experience to its players.

It's a cool Idea, but I prefer to see first WIS.

Also for fast ships like, frigate/cruiser class, this type of view without a controler is going to be a pain in the ass.

For Capitals and "trips"; like Set Destination, Autopilot and enjoy the view, is going to be very cool. But if some day is implemented, I really want to see more Rooms(for BS and bigger) so you can see all what is happening around you.

...But that's completely against the entire lore, the entire purpose of capsuleers...

I would say sure, allow it. But, if you use it, your ship is at it's base stats, your skills affect nothing whatsoever, and when the ship goes down, you count as being in an alpha clone.

I am all for avatar content in eve online and like the idea of strolling around the ship, but I would suggest that we allow it in station only and even then it's very difficult to see if we can get any expanded game play from such a suggestion as Capsuleers don't need a bridge, a window or even a full set of instruments. Capsuleers control their ship with their mind and capsule interface that comes with every pod. Indeed justifying further wis content is extremely difficult to do given the nature of the current eve online neocom as it allows you to remotely control and organise everything that you need.

That said though, Eve is unlike other mmo's in that you have a character and never get to meet anyone else in person. I would like to see this change and that station door open in order to allow proper social interaction which is sorely lacking in eve. Good use of photoshopped images though. However if you are going to see cockpits anywhere it will probably be in Valkyrie not eve.

2 problems

first is, ships in EVE are HUGE, there is no cockpit on a frigate, tis a bridge, and that entire bridge has been stripped of all consoles and replaced with a giant installation to facilitate the use of your POD.

the only ships with cockpits are fighters and fighter-bombers, you can see the people riding in them when you look.

second, EVE is a game that relies HEAVILY on situational awareness, that combined with how targeting works, the server ticks, and ship mechanics operate, would not only make cockpit views SUICIDAL, but borderline-unusable in any normal scenario.

where exactly is that?

if you are referring to the bullshit in the cinematic trailer, even CCP admit it's 'artistic licence' when it comes to the lore. You do not see a projection or the avatars of other capsuleers. You are immersed in pod goo and have a cap for the eyes whilst being plugged into your pod/ship via cables attached to those implants in your spine. CCP are running scared due to the up and coming avatar content of some other games out there hence the dumbing down of the interesting science fiction that they themselves created back in the day before Pegi-12 and all of the dumbing down of the game.

Coldgas Arcjet Thrusters forever...

Even if we had the option of cockpit mode.....I would still choose to be naked and covered with jelly.

It's on by default you're asking for a feature that's been in the game since beta. Try reading some of the lore before you trample on it and offer up your own because you want this to be Wing Commander Online. In the paper today EVE is a unique game with established lore that already explains away everything you've just said. Now you're just being belligerent because the community slayed your fluffy pet idea.

Next thing you know the OP will ask for the game to be joystick compatible or have wasd support.

EDIT: Also, any intelligent ship design would place the bridge in the center of the craft behind multiple reinforced bulkheads and layers of armor. Last thing you want is your central nervous system to get sniped out. So yeah, nice view of circuitry, pipes, and bulkheads. Wonderful 'cockpit' view, but that's why we have pods.

I think you've misunderstood me. I am fully aware of the fact that we're all pod pilots and I have no wish to turn eve into wing commander online. Given that we all acknowledge that we're in pods covered in goo and that we control our ships via the pod interface where exactly is this cockpit that is supposedly in the lore that I am supposed to be trampling on. Let me make myself clear so that even you can understand I am and always have been defending the lore in my posts in this thread. We're in pods covered in Goo with no actual window out into the larger world other than our pod interface.

So given that this cockpit that you refer to has been in the game since beta I ask you again, where the **** is it? Or am I right to insist that we're all in pods covered in the goo as per the lore of Eve Online.

Edit: I am so baffled by your post that I am reiterating it again, given that a cockpit is where a person sits surrounded by controls and instrument panels usually with some sort of see through canopy to view the outside world, I ask again where is it? Given that you insist that this feature has been in the game since beta.

So where is it?