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Probably Need All New Code But:
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TackyTachy1
Doomheim
#1 - 2016-12-12 02:23:28 UTC
Lot's of talk about Walking In Stations but what I'd rather see is semi-virtual cockpits, every ship type sporting it's own view upon the Cosmos, with the character's avatar sitting in the seat, flipping switches, sliding touch faders, all that. Not so much flying with a joystick, still would rather tell the ship what to do but make it look like the pilot is doing something. And on those rare occasions when flying with the arrow buttons then give the avatar something to fly with.

Be kind of cool to blow something up then have the pilot look out the cockpit at the wreckage with a little grin of satisfaction, or maybe grimace if seconds away from becoming yet another frozen corpse.

Something for the code jockeys to think about.

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TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2016-12-12 03:00:15 UTC
There's a slight problem with your idea. Our characters don't actually sit in a pilot seat. We are sitting in a pod full of liquid, ready to be injected with a lethal dose of whatever the second the pods hull breaches. I don't think you would like the view very much.

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#3 - 2016-12-12 03:08:29 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave
#4 - 2016-12-12 04:20:25 UTC
TigerXtrm wrote:
There's a slight problem with your idea. Our characters don't actually sit in a pilot seat. We are sitting in a pod full of liquid, ready to be injected with a lethal dose of whatever the second the pods hull breaches. I don't think you would like the view very much.



lol even w/o that how small does he think these ships are that they have cockpits?

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Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#5 - 2016-12-12 09:06:56 UTC
I think what OP is looking for is https://www.evevalkyrie.com/
PopeUrban
El Expedicion
Flames of Exile
#6 - 2016-12-13 03:16:03 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
TigerXtrm wrote:
There's a slight problem with your idea. Our characters don't actually sit in a pilot seat. We are sitting in a pod full of liquid, ready to be injected with a lethal dose of whatever the second the pods hull breaches. I don't think you would like the view very much.



lol even w/o that how small does he think these ships are that they have cockpits?


And even if they did, how the **** are you going to see what you're doing if your camera is full of a character model flipping switches?

In theory the current interface IS what your capsuleer sees from inside the pod. Your UI and viewport part piped directly in to your implants from ship systems and exterior camera drones.