Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With the advent of citadels it stands to reason that pilots docking their titans are going to be presented with the kind of interface they see when docking in a regular station.

Since these are titan pilots, docking in a citadel, I feel they should have much better looking Captain's Quarters than regular pilots. After all: a titan driver is not your every day pilot.

I'm pretty sure you'll agree and if you do not agree I'm wearing the flame retardant gear, let it rip.

/please note: I don't drive a titan and I don't think I will any time soon.

CCP was working on walking in stations. The player community complained that CCP was wasting time on pointless features when more important matters needed to be taken care of. Maybe one day they will revisit i but honestly i think they scraped the idea. The last year or so have had amazing updates! Im happy with 98% of the changes. Ao maybe one day you will get what you want.

Like the inside of a pod perhaps?

The complaints players made about Devs "wasting their time on WiS features", while didn't help with the whole WiS efforts, were more of a general gripe than a killing blow. Plenty of people were and are still for making some if only minor efforts towards WiS. CQ, and other planned WiS features were derailed more so from several more serious issues that damaged Dev/Player connection and communication. CCP would probably like to simply leave those events in the past and remain focused on other aspects of Eve instead, knowing that dabbling in WiS might risk stirring up old grudges and it perhaps is safer to leave it be.

Truth is the likelihood that CCP ever returns to anything related to WiS -- even to the mere point of upgrading what little is already there, CQ -- is probably still exceptionally low given the hefty fallout that occurred with Incarna and considering that they have plenty of plans for Eve's future as is. That could change in the future, but I wouldn't blame them nor be surprised if they don't.

It's not a bad idea, it's just that history did not offer it a good first try. I for one wouldn't mind seeing more done, even if slowly, to CQ at least. The NES could even be used to introduce new items, furniture, and designs for your quarters -- Pet slaver hounds, medals/awards case, Corp/Alliance banners and standards, different couch designs, better cots that don't look like something stripped out of a third-world country's diesel submarine, stuff like that.

A titan is not your every-day ship. It is a very large ship. It takes time, dedication and commitment to get there. Everybody eventually can get there, that's not the point.

I could have gone that way, I've enjoyed flying the smaller ships, I didn't really feel like I'd want a titan. Maybe some day.

At the same time, for immersion's sake if for nothing else, to tell a wider story, to paint a bigger canvas.

New Eden is egalitarian in that everybody gets the same chance [and I truly love that] to get to where they want to go. We have agency. Other than that, not everybody 'is the same'. It never was, it never will be. We are the same kind. When I am at Fanfest I am among 'my people', the most blessed bunch of nerds in the history of nerddom, I love everyone of you blasted rascals! That doesn't mean we are all the same in ability, talent, ambition, aspiration. And we should not strive to be. It is the variety that adds spice to life.

A titan pilot did not happen to find themselves sitting in this humongous ship, You have to want to get there. For that they should get the little perk of a nicer Commodore's Suite.

The Commodore's Suite might be the prelude of a new New Eden. Imagine a screenshot you took hanging in a frame on the wall. You buy the frame for Aurum. Imagine a display of your medals in a frame. Both the frame and the medals you buy through the NES. Imagine the corpses you harvested in a display chamber, off to the left of the Commodore's Suite, where you display row upon row of your fallen foes. Or, maybe you're just an enthusiastic collector. Or: the alliance has a room to honour their comrades fallen in war, as well as the bodies of their foes collected when the dust settled. There's so many things that could be done there; you can display your GALMIL rank in a frame on the wall. The possibilities are legion if my tragically unaware friends in far and fair Reykjavik could just open their eyes to the promise of lasting glory in this, the most prized space simulator on the planet today.

This adds a revenue stream for CCP, a company I love more than is sensible; it adds immersion to make EVE that extra bit more real. It opens opportunities for new ideas, for new game play, for displaying, with pride, ones accomplishments.

For all these reasons and more I offer the Commodore's Suite as a first tentative page in a new chapter for EVE. Because I care about its well-being, because I want -you- to enjoy the glory, because by making it more real it gains that much more weight and makes us invest ourselves even more in this glorious expanse of stars we have come to call our second home.

Is that enough of an answer for you or do you want me to bring in the fanfare and the cancan girls?

I think CCP has something more important to do.

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I'm sure they will put it in a dev blog if not ppl will learn when it hits sisi

eve is a game about subs in space not barbie in a station

go back to second life

Sometimes I feel like I'm in bizarro world when I discuss EVE and all the things I said before simply don't register with my audience.

Did you actually get to the parts where I discuss why I want the Commodore's Suite or was it just too many syllables all in one go for you? Because that would be an argument.

I hope they're going to reconsider this, honestly. Since Outposts and even NPC stations are on the nomination list to be phased out entirely, it would mean that in a year or two docking as we know it today will no longer exist. And that makes me sad. How will I spin my ship?