Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok forum warriors and CCP devs,

I have always had this stupid idea to increase immersion in EVE involving the crew. I am not saying this is the best idea ever but it may open some doors.


When you are flying in lowsec and you and your gang of valiant knights blow up a dangerous itteron, you rarely find yourself thinking, "I just ended 5000 crew member's lives in that very moment! Holy Kanolis that was sweet!", instead you end up thinking "lawl i killed that noob get his pod".

That is why I suggest to you, that instead of "rigging" your ship with fancy doohickies, you instead hire a crew!

This in no way would change the mechanics or the rigging system, but would instead just replace the rig models with NPCs, potentialy with a personality.

I have thought up a short list of pros and cons as I know you defenders of general discussion hate walls of text.

PROS:

Added immersion! - It no longer feels like you are alone in your ship!

Use for the CQ! - Your crew could either stand around your CQ and say stupid NPC things, fly around in little shuttles below you to and from your ship or even be seen repairing your ship! (or maybe even walk around the station enviroment once that is completed)

What the hell is calibration anyway? - Calibration would be replaced with Crew Size, ie. 50 crew members for a gun crew and 100 to man the anti-EM shield bay!

More EVE personalities! - If you are like me, you know nothing about the EVE backstory, let your new gallente crew tell you about their exciting lives!

CONS:

Give you new reasons to want to explode! - Will your damned female crew member not shut up about her cat in the hangar? Self destruct and blow that b!tch up!

Angry Bitter Vets! - You seriously gonna take my trimarks away from me you 2010 punk? 0/10

Way too much effort for something so stupid as Crew Members! -


Thank you for your time

Awesome idea

I can rarely say no to more immersion

Guess I didn't really think that one through... Well food for thought, you could have a standard item named "crew", and then in combination with the rig making process, could be turned into a specific crew type? That really does throw a wrench in my plan doesnt it.

Yes, crew exist, no they aren't implementing them soon, they were part of the original plan back when EVE was in its infancy. Yes, that means that trillions of people in EVE are pirates/willing to die on capsuleer ships. No, it doesn't make any sense. Deal with it.

+1

The first time I did a hard bank into a top-speed close orbit so I could actually use my blasters, I ended up having to sponge my crew off the back wall. I haven't replaced them since, which has actually made my ship much lighter.

Which was first the chicken or the egg?

I comfort myself believing they have thier own escape pods.

The official Eve-books mention that yes indeed, the ships are crewed, by normal (mortal) people that chose to stay with their capsuleer of choice; for money/glory/lack of alternatives.
sounds like a **** job to me! :)

+1 because I would be amused by NPC's walking around my CQ or hanger view saying and doing stupid things.

Currently when I feel particularly alone on space (read: always) I just talk to the corpses I keep in my indy ship cargo.