EVE General Discussion

More than imposing new clothing options or new options for character creator, first I would like CCP devs to say something informative about the clothing team, unreleased clothes amount and who worked on character creator (also what former character creator team is doing now), can they come back for these options, and most importantly, who would decide about it and why would they decide so.

SIbs, thanks so much for putting that together! I had a ton of fun filling out that survey

I agree with Carmen. Give us girls who want to dress like a stripper the ability to do so

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This is a larger improvement so I made a new post for it, allowing the usual character "head portrait" with additional photos that would be displayed when someone clicks on your info. It would be great to assign a hotkey to "take photo" at any time, like if you're in the captain's quarters, or out flying. It would screengrab without any UI, which you could then crop and make public to your character's info.

At the very least it would be great to get a bit more options when taking character portraits, allowing us to be in specific environments or have our favorite ship in the background. The current backgrounds are way too abstract.

I almost always look at how the clothing fits in SISI before I buy it on TQ, whether with AUR or ISK.

I had a longer thought about this.

I probably could and I have something in mind,
but I don't think it's actually a good idea and thus I have to decline.

First, there more ideas and variations of ideas out there than people
and people will eventually start to want their idea in it too.

The amount of data, in the long run, is unmanageable.

Second, I consider it a waste of precious time with the devs and my
followup post will underline why I believe this to be the case.


Anyhow, regarding the first point I have to say that it keeps customisation in infancy.
What I did ... what you do now ... basically represents the infancy of character customisation.

(Offtopic: I swear, I will take this new notebook and rip out the ******* touchpad with my bare hands ....)


We're like kids wanting our parents to give us stuff, but we're hundreds of thousands of kids
and eventually the whole idea of making whatever someone comes up with leads to chaos.

Democrazy doesn't work. It's crap. Inefficient.

It is unproductive and inefficient at what it's about: Making CCP money.
Yes. I have no illusions about this. The great part about seeing it this way is that,
the more money CCP makes, the more it means that people get what they want,
maybe even in ways they did not even know they want.

Calling it "clothing workshop" and then telling them "what we want" which is
only a selected few anyway is ... a waste of precious devtime!

What I did made no freaking sense. Of course it worked,
but in the end it's a bullshit way for a company to have players list random stuff they want
or have one person notoriously try to shove it down their throat. *cough*


It's inefficient and not really up to the potential.
That's why I call it infancy. If more people start doing this, we create chaos.
So we need to grow out of it.


Right now people want random stuff,
there's no smooth connection with release cycles,
there's no structure behind it.

It's a freaking mess.

In the long run, we're not helping CCP making money efficiently.

CCP has shown that they understand the importance of customisation, (to make money, which is good)
so I would rather want to *step up the game*.


Hey, I by no means oppose *any* efforts ... I am the last person to stop anyone from pushing,
but to speak in a symbolic way: There's no chance in hell I will ever resurrect this seriously horrible angle Solecist was.


I'm just telling it as I see it and envision progress! You do know though that I am a huge jerk,
I definitely do tell people what I think instead of sugar coating them and
telling them that whatever they do is great blablabla.


The yellow thread gathered LOOOOTS of views and posts. Perfectly executed,
including the perfect protagonist (you) and timing.

The thread in "My EVE" gathered a huge amount of views in a seriously short amount of time.

They both showed potential, but don't make proper freaking use of it.


TL;DR:

Even if thousands of people cast votes,
add a gazillion ideas about what they want
and CCP simply works through the list from top to bottom ...

... in the end it's not a good way of helping CCP making money ...
... and it's pretty much a huge waste of devtime anyway.

Why would you want to talk about the past, when we can talk about the future?

I understand that you are interested in things, but what does this help moving forward?
What do we really learn from this that improves the game and our experience?

I am not opposing this completely, but I strongly believe that we should use the time for something productive.
Something that creates and supports progress and helps us build a better connection with the developers.

Something that allows us AND them to take the opportunity to march forward into a future where
customisation is not only a small side-part of the game, but allows people to actually be someone
and express it in a way that was not only not possible before,
but also on a level unseen in any of the lesser wannabe MMOs out there.

I must have had a stroke or something for being actually willing to do voicechat ...

And no one is saying the TS needs to include anything from the poll. The people dialing in can choose to talk about whatever they want.

I'm just providing data.

Keep going, it's all fine. I can't really not help if you need a hand anyway, if you needed one, that is.

Hi, thank you for giving us the opporunity to express ourselves on this topic.

What I would like to have as clothing in EvE is some boots and shoes for women [b]without[/b] high heel. Like flat sole. I am very upset that we don't have that option.

Some other thing I would also enjoy as accesories, wings in the back.