EVE General Discussion

Now that CCP is looking at star bases I think it's timely for the community to discuss just what they would like having a 'home' in space in EVE online to mean.

This will mean different things to different players.

To nomadic players it may be an upgraded mobile depot with repair facilities.
To sovereignty holders it may be a giant station that declares " this is ours"
To small groups or solo players it may be a small outpost with customisable interiors.

What would a "home" look like to you in EVE

I want to paint mine pink.

I like how you think...and I'm not sure CCP does....think, that is.

My home is where my ship is, much flying lately. I use the deployable Mobile Depot very often and it is sufficient to me. But I think some industrial oriented players would like to have something easier to deploy and upgrade than current poses. Or RP structures selled for aurum, deployable and with interiors.

Yes, if they were something a high sec carebear would bother himself with it, then CCP would never implement it.

Frankly, my home is the station where my ships are docked. It is not mine and I can't customize it, but also can't be destroyed by any assholes with too many free time in their hands.

My home would look like Deep Space 9.

A slow moving station parked near the entrance to a wormhole.

I honestly don't care what form it takes, as long as it simplifies individual storage and security.

A genuine, spherical "... that's no moon..." DEATHSTAR with internal docking bays, hangars, "bays" for assembly and manufacturing arrays of my choice, copious storage space, weapon and ECM batteries on the surface and plenty of floor space for a much expanded "Captain's Quarters".

And yes, the ability to launch and control fighters and/or fighter bombers, just like a SCap.

Why ?

Why the Hell not ?

And it has to be jump capable on it's own, not some variation on "bridging" and be able to travel Low Sec.

Finally... it should be able to deliver a proper Orbital Bombardment -- not this pissant crap we have now. Make those Dust Bunnies dance, dance, dance ! ! !

My number one requirement for a space home: I need to be able to hide it very well, so it doesn't get exploded the next day after I anchor it. Another is that I definitely need to store some ships in there, so I can build a base of operations in Null Sec somewhere, for example, and have a couple of ships for different tasks. Something like one cruiser hull, one frigate hull and one Blockade Runner, which seems like a resonable and a balanced amount for single person.

I imagine my space home like some sort of a pirate hideout in a hollow asteroid somewhere on the outskirts of a solar system, with a captains quarter where i can look at the stars from a window and an ability to customize the inside to some extent. I liked Mass Effect 2 captain's quarters very much because of how natural it felt for some reason and a glowing fish tank was pretty cool, too. There is quite a number of objects in EvE already that could serve as souvenirs or artifacts for decoration purposes(books, fedos, all the funky objects we got for Christmas etc).

A new ship hangar environment to go with the whole "hideout" look, looking a bit less sterile and a bit smaller, "piraty" in some way, would be of course a very welcome addition.

It would be great to have a personal assistant and some crew in there too, to add to the immersion factor. If CCP do not have enough talent and ressources at hand to build additonal 3D space for such a crew, maybe they could use the modular ressources they still have lying around to model something akin to X-COM base interface, which still looks pretty nice, but saves on modeling amount. Or maybe something like the station Interface from Schleichfahrt or Aquanox which is still a magnitude above the current level of immersion when it comes to in-station environments.

Isn't this an old idea already?