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In station docked ship graphics, mechanics.
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Daugar Draaken
EBSTF Holdings
#1 - 2016-01-13 23:17:55 UTC
Not a ship in some vast cavernous space - a ship is docked in a space designed for the class of ship. Mooring clamps. Entry bridges. Animated cargo management. Background noises.

For every size of vessel another type of docking environment .

Specific docking spaces or particular types of vessels - with the ability to SEE adjacent parked vessels. Imagine a docking area with a few dozen docked cruisers.

Substantially better experience entering and leaving the station. Different entrance points for different vessels that are more credible. How does an orca come out of those tiny Minmatar tunnels?

Better models for the part of the station where ships exit and enter. Close up it still looks a bit off.

Entry/docking/exiting doesn't have to take longer, it does well to look better.

Maybe some more improved interactivity with the station environment, based on graphic environments or material structures?
Isaac Armer
The Soup Kitchen
#2 - 2016-01-13 23:23:53 UTC
While I would like it if this happened, I would rather developers spend time on content that adds to actual gameplay and game mechanics, so -1
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#3 - 2016-01-13 23:25:16 UTC
With Citadels coming, interiors including docking berths, are disappearing (disappointingly).

We are gaining different undocking bays, but losing all the current docking looks.

I'd be totally up for the proposal even to keep the current docking graphics as an interim and then working towards more tailored interiors for Citadels.

So I sort of support your idea, but doubt we'll see it with the current direction of development.

Current stations will keep the existing docking and CQ interiors, but the game seems to be heading away from that direction overall.
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#4 - 2016-01-13 23:59:41 UTC
For now I would rather play the current in-station visuals when we moore or whatever the equavalent of the new docking might be and have a working cidatel soon-ish than wait for another 5 years for CCP to make new visuals for just being docked.

This is not a no per se but a be patient.

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