Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ever docked your ship and walked around and notice, you can't pick up that super shiny nice looking soda can and drink whatever liquid is inside it?

Ever notice how you don't have a TV remote? Maybe I want to switch the channel to see all bounty news 24/7, and not have spam ads like some new guy joined (good4yourandomnewguy!). Maybe I want to switch to the channel with new pilots joining all the time so I know who to try and recruit? Or maybe I want to hit the off button and have a nice black or see through screen?
Adding to this, the ability to put your own TV shows in the game TV, the remote could let you go to the channel that plays them with a skip function to always skip to the next thing on all channels!
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEcjYcl73fI Captain Quarter's TV - Not a hack ]

Ever wanted to walk down to that odd ship by your ship viewing pad? Instead of going to those stairs and have a barrier, let us walk down there! If we want to waste the extra 10 seconds walking down steps to get into our ship, flippin let us!

What if I wanna jump, just because. I just want to jump up and down and giggle at how awesome jumping is, a useless feature, probably pretty easy to program too.

What if I would like to sit down where I am at, having a random variable of possitions I could possibly sit down in?

A bed to lay down in?
Holy crap I found one! Now let me lay down in it...

A restroom to walk into and maybe have CCP experiment with some liquid physics with washing hands and having a cup to drink water with? No, we can't have people having the ability to actually take a crap or pee. It's not a perverted game people, it will never have that. But sure, why not sit on the toilet so people can giggle at that at least. Maybe even a shower! But the curtain would be a solid color or a very strong blur, just because we know you want to look. Or hell, shower in your clothes. Why not? lol

Add a microwave and fridge and stove for crying out loud! Make the place feel more like home! Even if you can't interact with anything, add more stuff to make it look like you aren't a sack of meat being stored with a TV you can't control and food a couch that you can't lay in and looks like it would hurt to sit on for long.

I'm guessing that restricted door is either saved for Dust 514 or it is going to be a way for pilots to be able to interact with others. So when someone else docks, other can join you in your lobby too. I dunno, that door is a complete mystery I guess.

Seriously though. Devs. Would it really hurt to make us feel right at home when we dock? Maybe you could add NPCs that manufacture stuff like a fridge and a stove and you could stock your fridge with commodities, maybe you can add a whole seperate category to the eve market for buying stuff for your own rooms. Even a new cargo area for stations so that you can only build one station captain quarters the way you like it with your newly bought stuff, adding the risk of losing it when you move your stuff to a new location! Make one single station feel like home if you can customize it! Of course customization would be a lot harder to code in than just adding a few new decorations like a fridge and a microwave and a remote.

Please Devs, let me know what you think, don't let this topic go ignored simply cause it might not be worth your time. If you are one of the coders that would have to code for something like this, tell me what you liked and disliked. "I like this but it would take a long time and we are doing some other projects right now" or "I'm not coding that, are you insane?!" or "I'm to lazy, gonna go make something better". :P

Laggy? :P I don't even have a tiny spike in frame loads. I load it 100% smooth ax graphics and all. lol anyway.

I do not think it would take long at all to add a wall that opens up to show fridge related contents or a big white old style box for a fridge. (old style meaning modern day tech :P)

A bed you can lay down in isn't that hard, all you gotta do is make it like the sit feature, just "Lie Down" instead of "Sit" :P

I have not heard anything about the mystery door and never really researched it, nor have I browsed the forum for anything related to interaction between other people in the captain quarters. Sure it's useless, but I like it because sometimes I go in and sit and admire the look. I hated living in a minmatar station, the design was all rusty. So I moved to a gallente station.

yes that was one of my ideas other than the fact that stations would come empty. Also race specific items could be nice but I'd still like any race item to be used in any race hanger.

Less things in Captain's Quarters - Like Captain's Quarters itself.

Stop raging about WiS, it's a nice feature at all. Maybe you wouldn't hate it so much if you had a decent graphics card