Player Features and Ideas Discussion

-Limited Manufacturing, Research rooms that allow you to perform some things even if the station does not have those facilities.

-Ability to hang custom images on the walls. Local data only.

-A new market interface for the items you are buying/selling in this station. This interface could double later as a station bazaar when walking/interacting in station becomes available.

-Usable furnishings that show up in your captains quarters and are normal trade commodities which can be consumed : Spirits ; would show up on a table. Prostitutes ; maybe a tad too far but you get the idea. Rare items that don't really have anything to do with gameplay but look good on my wall.

-More variety and useful information on the screens. Maybe using my last Star Map data to plop onto the screens. Latest market transactions.

-A window or screen to look outside of the station out of. Preferably with an overview that isn't as detailed as an in space one. Even a simple top down view of 100km around the station updated every 10 sec or so.

For now I would be happy to have 6 invites to CQ. It doesn't look like we will be getting WiS any time soon and a 6 pack invite would allow for small player controlled WiS interactions.

In my case I could have all my accounts in a single CQ. Something I have always wanted to do,

More Aura. Do miss interacting with her sometimes.

Had this crazy idea about Aura becoming like the IPhone's Siri, but for EVE related queries. Probably unrealistic for quite sometime.

In the mean time, Aura could be used for warnings and notifications while in CQ, perhaps interfacing with various other systems like the market and agents. Hopefully without making those things cumbersome.

Yes, we are fully aware of this and doing something about it!

I'm not sure anything will get me excited about captains quarters specifically, they're quarters, they're my room, there isn't much in them and I can't think of anything to put in them that I'd care about.

Now WIS in general...

I've been opposed to the idea only because what CCP wants to do doesn't really appeal to me. Cloths? gambling? games? meh...

Now if you had combat in WIS! I'd fully support throwing all development at the idea. Imagine the same rules that govern us in highsec/lowsec/nullsec being applied to stations. Introduce guns, knives, body armor, etc and let us dress (fit) for the part. You could be "ganked" in the lobby of Jita when you stepped out of your CQ, but the atrium guns would mow down the offender. In nullsec there would be no CONCORD. People could deck out in the latest body armor and shielding devices to protect themselves. Just like docking now, your CQ is the only safe place.

Anyway, that's what would get me behind the idea, but I'm an FPS fan as well as a spaceships fan. unfortunately I won't be playing DUST because ~PS3 exclusive~. So add it to my Eve :P

Have to say that ad rubs salt in the wound every time it runs. Just removing it might be a great step forward in getting past the stigma.

New vids would be welcome too of course.

Some of my thoughts

Enhancements

- Customisable lighting. I actually liked the intitial darker minmatar quarters, maybe a dimmer switch on the wall.
- A clickable device to access your ingame mail (that flashes when a mail is present).
- Upcoming calendar events appearing on your screen.
- The ability to have corp messages and reminders appear on the corporation screen.
- Additional interactable items enabled (the bed for example, or being able to lean on the balcony whilst looking at your ship)
- Randomise the position of decorative items like the ashtrays and various food items (you could randomise their location everytime a player docks, or just randomise them based on station, so that each station seems slightly different).
- Customisable main screen. Some optional ideas that the player could enable include: updates on industrial jobs, recent wallet transactions, PI status, market watch list, oustanding buy and sell orders, contracts.
- The ability to disable the tutorial agent vids, or have them disable themselves after a certain period.
- An interactable book near the bed or on the table, that when clicked upon opens up the chronicles on the EVE fiction portal. You could even have an optional vid on the main screen that announces the latest chronicles.
- A clock with EVE time on it in the CQ, have it flash when downtime is near.


Other suggestions.

- The ability to invite another player into your CQ as a beta feature
- An Easter egg. Sneak in something fun for us to discover.

I've put these in other threads, but as this one seems to be monitored a bit more closely, Ill redo them here.

Move the pod to where the "undock" button is, and make the pod itself be the undock button. When I undock I walk to the pod, stand in it and have the doors close rather than seeing a black screen with a progress bar. If I'm too far away to get to the pod before the session change is ready to put me in space, then the game just goes to space before the in-CQ sequence is complete. When docking I appear right in front of the pod and take a few steps forward to get in interaction range of the ship hologram. Then add the following lore:

When you get in your pod nanites quickly disassemble your clothes and store them in the pod. The pod is filled and you are “plugged in”. While this happens your pod flies from the balcony to your ship, and your ship undocks.

Upon docking the pod is drained and you are cleaned and dried by nanites. Your stored clothing is then reassembled on your body by the nanites. In seconds you are ready to step out of the pod, fully cleaned and clothed, and onto the balcony.

No, you are never nude on the balcony.

Player generated content: Give us player the tools to create in-game items. CQ decorations, CQ furnishings, Incarna clothing and accessories, and ship skins. To handle the TTP issue; all created items must be vetted by CCP before allowed in-game. The player pays for the vetting with Aurum. That is to cover the salary of the CCP employee who does the vetting. If the item is deemed acceptable, the player (only the item creator!) can pay additional Aurum for BPO's for the item.

Incarna control panel: We all have this expressionless face and all we can do is walk and sit. We need more, especially once we get multi-avatar areas. But something to test would be good, like http://eve-files.com/dl/251419

I thought it was pretty cool to think of us emerging naked from the goo each time, but your way is probably more feasible. If they animated the end of the nanite re-clothing as you emerge, that could be a pretty awesomely trippy addition.




Totally player generated items is going to be difficult. Although I am sure there are a couple of talented 3d modellers out there, thats a pretty niche skill set. In addition, new models (aka meshes) are going to be a big hit on your disk space on each client.

As much as I'd like to see a market like what Daz3D does for Carrara/Poser/ETC for clothes here. I am not sure it's feasible.

What might be doable are things like tintable clothing (tintmaps for the existing and any new clothing models) and "sewing" badges and the like. Similar to ship skinning.



Oh nice idea. Hrmm to go farther... in addition poses and expressions from the four portrait slots available from hotkey? Leveraging what is presumably already mostly there, and maximizing customization.

Video poker games between docked pilots via the main video screen in the captain's quarters. For isk, of course.