Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Move some of the mini games to tablets. Being able to access the market and industry from you phone on your way to or from work (or during a boring meeting) would be one way to do it (and it has been proposed a lot of times).

But what if you were able to do other things on your tablet like remote hacking? A friend goes in guns blazing in a hacking site and when everything is clear he activates a remote hacking module which makes it possible for his clever buddy to do the hacking from the bathtub at his hotel room.

Also... what if your buddy in the bathtub could hack a target ship? Similar, but instead of getting things you shut down the engine or shields or something on the targeted ship.

And, if there were a Large Fleet Interface (good name, I'll ™ that) that showed only information like number of ships and systems this would make it easier to move large fleets around and you could also have an actual fleet commander who don't bother with mundane things like primaries. If this Large Fleet Interface™ was able to run on a tablet/phone the fleet commander would play the game as chess while the rest of us dies trying to shoot things.

Maybe this could be done similar to the DUST/EVE tie-in that is done with codes or magnets or something. I admit I have no idea how DUST works.


Edit: Everyone should still be able to use market, industry, hacking, and other things in the normal game client. This is just an addition to make out of game and in game blend together. Similar to how you can read EVE mail or talk to people in the in game voice chat channels from a normal web browser.

"I'm rich give me advantages because of it"

Didn't say you were not supposed to be able to do it the normal way with the normal hacking module, as it has been done thousands of times every day. This just open up another aspect of the game.

And you can get an android tablet or phone for less than $50, so even a poor guy like me can afford one.

I add this edit here too so everyone notice it.

Edit to original post.
Everyone should still be able to use market, industry, hacking, and other things in the normal game client. This is just an addition to make out of game and in game blend together. Similar to how you can read EVE mail or talk to people in the in game voice chat channels from a normal web browser.

When my buddies are in the bath, I prefer to have nothing to do with them.

But joking aside, it would be nice if you could do some things from a mobile device. Probably not flying a ship, but working with the market and station services, why not? I think an app to watch corp chat from your phone would be really useful, or at the very least a way you could allow trusted people to send you alerts to your phone.

No, as a mattet of fact I can't afford $50 dollars for a phone or tablet, cause you can't get them for that price unless you're gullible enough to sign those stupid service contracts. My Galaxy S3, which I'm currently typing this out on, took me a year to save up for cause I have other things I need to spend money on, ie stuff for my kids, but since I own it outright I can take it to whichever service provider I want.

Regardless of whether or not someone can afford a smart phone or tablet, adding any content accessibility from outside actually being logged in via mobile apps is inherently broken. The ability to view market activity and see the status of your buy/sell orders through an app is something I'd support, though being able to effect those orders is unbalancing as the margin traders are currently limited to when they can trade based on their ability to log into the server. There are already a few apps to track industry, though making changes should again stay out otherwise there will never be any free build slots in empire.

Hacking from outside the game, however, is a straight hell no. Hacking a data/relic site requires your hacking toon to be present in the site, an impossibility until CCP develops a mobile version of the client, which I would support.

Might as well ask for the ability to talk in local from your phone. The scammers in Jita and other trade hubs will kiss your feet if you get that for them.

tl;dr I already spend too much money and time on EVE, why should I have to spend more to remain competitive? Also, keep EVE in game activities in game.

There are already several programs that will let trusted people send alerts to your phone. The one I've used before is called Line. Ask your leadership which one they use.