Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've pondered over the CQ thing a bit. I've been bratting around the forums a lot today, and recently posted that I've wondered why CCP didn't follow through on this.

Maybe a security status based "bar system" might stop a few hundred players crashing the game by descending on an in-game Permaband show. I don't know, but I like the cut of your jib making the thread.

I want to have gambling. Pachinko. Exotic dancers. Space Vegas.
Maybe you would lose some ISK, but you would have fun doing that.

And no violence. You can do that in space already. Just undock and resolve your issues outside the bar.

Ermagerd. Third party stuff is great, but if a game doesn't include it within itself it's somewhat freakishly obsolete. Then again, Rumours is just a great Fleetwood Mac album in reality and nothing more.

Naturally EvE caters to well off people, it's somewhat hard to run (for example) with limited data access. There's even some people with mental health issues about what gaming is who claim you need multiple accounts to play EvE.

While super famous megacorps, PvP gangs and general loudmouths all use third party coms (to great effect) to enhance these aspects of EvE, not having access to third party programs shouldn't detract from enjoyment of the game.

This thread isn't about that however.

With such a great avatar design program, I personally think CCP underestimate how vain humans as a species are. (WARNING: The following statement involves ideas that to PC folk may find sexist). While I occasionally look in the mirror to shave or to check out how badly my face has been bruised post beatdown I've observed many of my female friends enjoy their own reflection, and I will not object to them doing so. If the CQ concept had of been developed even a little further, a slightly more active use of character avatars might influence more people (not just womenfolk) to play. Gamers and nerds are famous for being socially awkward, but a greater (literal) in game gender balance WOULD encourage new players and move these perceptions away from "awkward nerd gamer stereotypes" and into the inclusiveness that I personally believe CCP have strived for in EvE.

RE: "a new game inside EvE", IMO if CCP had of bothered to make Dust 5(hundred and whatever) INSIDE EvE their flagship game would have a lot more players, and they would never have to have even entered the moneysink of immature pre-3D console marketeering.

HOWEVER: despite the "nerd as punk mentality and fighting the power" ie; slagging CCP, I'm sure all these ideas had been discussed by the devs, and they have their own reasons for zero avatar engagements and crappy gunporn console bollocks.

Not entirely true. Me and all the folks I Eve hang out with where angry that CCP was spending any time at all on space barbies. Don't speak for everyone if you're flat out wrong. I was raging at space barbies, not at broken space Barbie promises. Totally different.

Eve (to me) is an epic space conflict game that does employ a large single sandbox (unlike other shardy mmo) and doesn't spend time walking space barbies around and letting them dance and (inevitably) hump/tea bag each other in some form. There are a zillion (estimate and not an exact figure) humpy / tea bag games out there - if that's your thing - super - it's easily available. If you want to enjoy an epic space conflict sandbox game - play Eve.

There are some folks that ask for it, but I seriously doubt it's a majority. Even if it is - I don't think it would be prudent for CCP to divert resources that have been maintaining a decent cash stream for a decade to space barbies where they suddenly have to compete with the rest of the known universe for the best looking Barbie graphics to keep the Barbie players happy. There is a proven history of not excelling when CCP gets of the New Eden path.

Strange, I spend my time with people that want WiS and I think I am in majority.

As for getting off the New Eden path, brace yourself because they are going out of this path more and more, to not be dependent on people like you or me. They do not care now about doing great stuff in New Eden, but about making money and they search oportunities to make it. Where have you been when they announced that VR game?

Also their first game had nothing to do with New Eden, it was a table game and was a succes.

💰💰 B A G S O F C A S H 💰💰💰


And this.

At a minimum we ought to be able to invite other players to our CQ. How hard can that be? (Removing one's clothes optional )

More involved for CCP would be Corporate Offices, where corp members can meet and hang out.

And Above that would be some public social gathering area (e.g. lounge, club, pub) where any player could go while on station.

Remember some ideas they shared during one of the fastest about Dust514 with the active and live background...like the ships flying in the back of our ships when docked. They could update that as a start. right now they are updating textures like the sun and some ships.. I feel like they will get to the CQ eventually. They r just slow...or have lost of work to do.

Even something as simple as opening CQ to visitors would require more work than that.

While in CQ, you can:
Walk around.
Look at whatever thing you're close to when walking around (ship, mirror, TV, down the hall).
Sit on the couch and watch TV.
Walk over to one of those holodisplays and click on a button to access stuff on the neocom.

Letting you invite guests would mostly add group portraits to the list, unless they added emotes to the list. And a new tab to the NES because how dare you expect your monthly sub fee to unlock the whole game?

-Edit-

In NPCorp chat yesterday, we had some talks about some old (conventional) MMOs, and how people got rich in these games by putting their female toons in a bar and dancing, and people literally throwing money at them for that. Hmm.
If CCP ever made it so our toons could dance in bars, this toon would be able to make at least some money dancing in a bar in one of the trade hubs just because of the mostly male composition of the playerbase. It would be interesting to see how much. Except, if I can do that with one toon at a time on one account, someone else with more toons can do that with... those hordes of skill injector farm alts. Oh.
The feature could be made a more interactive and less scriptable by making a lot of simpler semi-independent animations you can bind to keys so you could make your own dance steps, and a tool to string together a more complex sequence. It would be one of those EVE-style "Let's just see what kind of things these crazy people come up with," except it would be on a station instead of in space.

... and shiny, expensive coding nightmare. Oh, well.

Removed an off topic post.