Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Your frigate has a crew off possibly 2. If any.

And I don't think that your engine room has windows...

And what deck are you even talking about? We don't have any luxury cruise liners with open top deck for people to walk on.

Thing is, how well does this scale when you have four thousand ships on the field?

Actually from what ive read pod ships can have thousands of crew as they do other things in the ship

and for the poster all of those lights usually on your ships that don't blink are windows, and the reason why everyone wants a cockpit or bridge view which is stupid when your enemy can come from any direction and you would have to change views in order to see what is where but also your bridge and all would be black as your in a pod and you use camera drones that send video information back and that information is fed into your brain so that you can "SEE" outside

It would probably be technically possible to have a couple of discreet rendered actively animated "internal" sections then render them as portals on certain parts of the ship without that big an impact.

Could be done completely client side and potentially even context themed i.e. if the target is taking damage add some sparks, smoke, more frantic crew animations, etc.

One- you're plugged in to your ship, you don't float around it. IVA EVE would just be a face full of capsule goo

Two- EVEs UI.... it's.. well let's face it pretty bad, now imagine doing simple things like aligning when you have to move around a bridge to do so.... keep in mind playing EVE is the art of crewing a spaceship that should take a whole crew on you're own.

Three- Like 99.999 of all sci fi games it would probably be done very wrong.

even if you have bullshit artificial gravity you're thrusters are down and the nose is up, it's space. orientation is irrelevant so you should stand against your acceleration vector.

and windows.... why would you ever put windows on a spaceship?

I concur.

The EVE universe seems rather dead without seeing ANY people anywhere. Other than floating corpses in space and ourselves in our captains quarters.

It would be nice if there could be some better indications of human activity. Perhaps in and around stations. The hanger could be more active.

I get that people would appear quite small in relation to most things, but that's okay. It would help us get a sense of scale. And also the 'activity' doesn't need to involve just visible human beings, but other things going on in vehicles etc... So that it appears that there is more activity going on.

I like for instance in the Caldari stations (I believe it is) where you can see the little elevators moving up and down the side of the central pillar, stopping occasionally at various floors. I've watched these for quite some time, and the movement of them seems fairly random. You can imagine humans going about their business here. This is the kind of immersion and attention to detail that really makes a difference. The ships in the distance flying by in the hangers is also an improvement in this area.

Heck even more voices would be something. Things spoken from the TV display in the CQ, or more, better articulated, and more diverse hanger background communication.

This is you.

You are in a capsule. This capsule is designed to directly interface with the ship and increase ship performance through said action. As a secondary function, it is a lifeboat and your last resort method of reincarnation.

If you lose control of your ship, you're dead. If your lifeboat can't go anywhere, you're dead. If you cannot zombie your butt off to a random station hundreds of light years away, you're super dead.

So, would you want to put your capsule close to the surface of the hull? No, putting your most vulnerable part on display is bad.

Would you want to put a window on this capsule so you can see out of it? No, there are only bulkheads out there. (Plus being aware of floating in goop ground up from the bodies of other human beings with tons of cables sticking into you doesn't sound pleasant and probably very distracting)

So, would you want windows for your little janitor buddies on your ship? Not really, those are structural weak points if they're made from a material less hardy than the hull. If those blinky lights are windows, I'd chalk it up to the legacy of the ship being originally designed for a full crew.

So, in essence, crews are not considered important to players(capsuleers) in EVE because they are not important to player(capsuleer) performance. The crew that exist in lore are glorified janitors. Officers would only slow you down.

Before Incarnia, there was an idea, it was called the "Ambulation Project" It was talked about as far back as 05 I think, shortly after CCP bought WW. One of the ideas they were thinking of doing, is when you walked around, to say the general area outside your corp hangers and personal hangers, that you could walk up to railing and look down at all the peons mingling. We are pod pilots, we are immortals, none immortals are like ants. We really do not give a flying **** about most of them. That was something CCP mentoned they would like to show. We are the gods, in our own section of a station, looking down and the mortals as they go about there pathedic little lives.

Then some changes happened, and Ambulation for scrapped a few times, and re worked, and we got incarnia. I want Ambulation back.

Just off the cuff.

Make random NPC ships that look like they're going somewhere. So a ship would undock from a station, and autopilot to another station and then dock. Could be in the same system, could be in a different system. This would add more "background events" to the game.

Interfering with them would, of course, incur the same penalties as shooting the peddlar ships you see undocking occasionally (I forget what those are).

There is always the obvious:

Finish Incarna. Allow us to interact with players and NPC's in person at establishments.