Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So firstly, before any jimmies get rustled, EVE may work like it does purely due to engine limitations and if that is the case then so be it.

Problem(though it's more of a missed opportunity than a problem)
So currently everything about EVE is created to give a sense of up and down. stations, acceleration gates and even your ships are positioned to give us a sense of direction as we play. But as you know space is quite the opposite to our Earth-based assumptions that everything must have an up and down. And it's not that it doesn't work like it is. But I feel there's that lack of immersion and confusion that space brings. Everything can feel a bit flattened out at times. At least for me.

Solution:
-Hence I'd suggesting, for a start, removing the camera limitations. The camera should be able to be flipped and spun beyond the 180 degree (or more like 175) arc that it currently can in any 'direction'.
-And Beyond that Changing a lot of the entities like stations to not all sit in this 'correct' vertical position would add to give a bit less of a sense of direction to players.
-Finally, and the most controversial of all would be to give ships pitch and roll, beyond their automatic settings as they are now. Even if it was as basic as automatically associating the top of the ship to face the direction you are turning.

Questions? Improvements? Hate? Am I missing something awfully obvious?
Lets hear it

+1 makes sense.. Space has no up, nor down.

'Science fiction space' does have an up and down. EVE has an up and down because disorienting your video game players would be a stupid business decision lol. EVE is a game, but not a simulation.

=False, it is what you make of it. One day it might even be simulating space correctly, your objections won't and luckily, so far, there are none.

There is no need for up and down besides the tactical and the internal orientation, where does it say the player gets disoriented, spinning eternally 360 on the xy plane is already possible, why not in the 3rd dimension. Rolling a ship into the opposite direction is less dizzying then station spinning with 3600rpm. It takes nothign and adds a lot.

From teh roleplaying aspect, Id love to roll the 'undamaged' side into the fire, protecting the burned one while trying to escape or tank with my hull trying to get my opponent first.

I really do not understand your reservations.

This is definitely an option that could work. After all it wont make any major changes to a fight or to pve/mining you name it. The only situation I can see it being limiting is that full rotation would be quicker in situations where currently if you try 'somersault' your ship it tries to make your ship roll and then continue dropping the nose rather than flipping entirely.

Space has no pirates and jump portals either

As you are aware of

Scientists and believers alike all over the world are waiting for your all knowing, cosmic scale like insights.

This has always bothered me. The stations should be oriented by the relation of their center of mass to the body they are orbiting, unless they are located within a Lagrangian point in which case it would make sense from an engineering standpoint to orient the dock towards the stargate with the heaviest amount of traffic for convenience and safety.

seriously? With all the things that could be fixed and/or added you want the devs to spend the time to unpick the code just so you can spin your ship in the third axis and reposition all space based structures so they either have "down" pointing at the nearest gravity well or just have everything randomly positioned?

Really?

Jees. I'm just glad you have next to no input into what CCP actually do for their customers.

It's a "nice" idea in theory but would give almost no practical use. Every time this has been discussed in the past the conclusion has been that it's way too much old code unscrambling and that at some point, when they have other more useful reasons to unpick the code, this would eventually get done but hell, purposing devs purely to do this would just be plain dumb.

The list of things that are more productive for CCP to do for the game is a very long list indeed.

That said, don't let me stop you discussing how cool it would be.

Tchulen, you know fair enough. While I'm sure a lot of players will notice/use this. There's more important things that can be implemented quicker and by all means they should take priority but at some point this could become a feature worth implementation.

What I enjoy in this game is authenticity and growing trust among other players, other's are interested in competitiveness, making the most isk or just outright trolling others.

So it seems silly to you. But to me something like this is kind of a big deal, though that's not to say you can't argue it's stupid. One to their own.