Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Eve Online would be much more immersive if we can step out of our pod and walk inside our ships. Most importantly on the bridge (command-deck).

Each ship will have its own customizable bridge. A main viewscreen would be in the front of the bridge. All the useful info of vanilla EVE can be displayed on the viewscreen. For additional immersion players can use Oculus Rift with first-person mode.

Players can also switch seamlessly between the old classic interface and first-person.

We could hire NPC crew to help manage our ship. They will have their own seating and information displays on the bridge. This suits the current gameplay style of EVE, but lets NPCs do specific tasks for you.

You could also visit other people's ships and interact in first-person with them.

Similar technology was implemented in EVE with the Icarna Expansion. Players can already step out of their pod and walk around in their personal capsuleer suite. So it shouldn't be difficult to implement a personal spaceship bridge.

Lore says you don't have the facilities on board a ship to step out of the capsule. Obviously lore could change but it would be a major thing to change that lore.

what would be the point? Who even gets out of pod in station, unless really bored? Useless waste of CCP resources for something that wont be used, especially since you would have to implement danika's idea to make it make sense. And I can barely fit all the interfaces on my screen already. You really want to take up screen space and graphics processing for something that does nothing useful? Just asking...

So you mean we can then lag the same as in the captains quarters. Can't wait!

Hilmar has hinted that one day we'll have occulus rift eve online, I expect it will be something like you describe but we all need to stay true to the lore as commanding crew without being in a pod would remove a really interesting bit of science fiction from the game and remove flavour from the game world.

Plus capsulars don't hang around with the mortals, we're not popular people.

I'd trust dust bodyguards but I wouldn't use them too often as even then I'd be vulnerable and as a capsular I'd rather not be vulnerable.

Plus the pod interface and neural scanner is thousands of times more efficient than barking orders to crewmen.

The only reason you even get a new clone when you die is because of that pod. If you're killed without being in the pod?

You guessed it.

Game over. Perma-death. Character deletion.

+1 for your request

Here, there are two schools of thought, there are those who want no change and those who would like to be an evolution of the game, a total immersion in the game

And this is CCP which we dangled the possibility of walking into a station or a ship.


Like you, I find it a little absurd that we can not move into a vessel measuring several hundred meters in length.

It is illogical and it is not realistic.

I thought about this as well, but honestly it only works if there is a large group that is beyond carebeary. Basically it would give you a super scenic view of your ship and where ever you are in space which would be amazing and help immersion. However due to lore it would be quite costly to be outside of your pod should things go wrong.

I would see this working well as a tool for players who are not actually interested entirely in the game mechanics of eve but would like their own sims in space kind of feel. While this isn't eve I do think that having these kinds of people actually you know, living in space within eve would add a decent amount of realism.

Unfortunately the work involved in making something like this so would be staggering and would require either too much CCP dev time or too much CCP money to hire so that eve and this new thing could be done at the same time.

I would love to see space colonies set up that other people actually choose to walk and live in with a few more space billboards around advertising for these living spaces, groups, or even corps for capsuleers. It would make space seem habitated and expanding, like the empires aren't just the people living on the planets or stations.

Basically this idea gets listed under the Hell yea! but too expensive/time consuming to consider.

The cost would be the fact that you are no longer plugged in to your ship, and thus would lose ALL access to EVERY bonus provided by your skills...