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Captains Quarters... ideas, suggestions and enhancements

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Soulpirate
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#61 - 2012-01-28 06:12:01 UTC
Colonel Drego wrote:
Video poker games between docked pilots via the main video screen in the captain's quarters. For isk, of course.

I posted this in the threadnaught about gambling. Hopefully it wont get lost here.

Gaming rooms are a must imo. I was thinking about Hold'em and how
it could work.

I picture a room with a table much like any other online gaming site. However,
this room would be a 3D enviroment(obviously), where you are the only "live"
avatar at the table while the others are hologram projections at the table with you.

This would allow you to walk (zone) into a poker room and play with people who are
perhaps on another station on the other side of the verse. With this you bypass
needing to find people on the same station to play with, and you cut down on
resoueces needed to draw the room, as the other players would be simplified
renders.

Enter the room, pick a table from a list showing who is at the tables, min/max
bets etc etc etc.

There would be a dealer at the table ofc, and ofc the house could take fee of
some sort, adding an isk sink.

EVE voice would be great as well.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#62 - 2012-01-30 15:34:25 UTC
Well, I checked out the Amarr and Gallente CQ's, all in all I like all of the CQ's. Gallente CQ to me seems to be the smallest of them all with the Amarr CQ being quite large, probably due to them having slave servants.

Amarr CQ is really lacking on various items scattered around the CQ, especially compared to the Minmatar CQ.


As for the items, some should be interactive like other players have stated, various books, holoreels, drinking cans, food, etc. The CQ's definitely need some sort of Trophy Case, various Pictures to hang on walls, etc. along with some sort of small pet such as Bird, Cat, Dog or Fish to add some life into the CQ's. Different types of Foliage would definitely add some life to the CQ's.


Foliage ideas = small to medium sized Flower Centerpiece in Vases, medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees, small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines.

All CQ's should have some sort of Flower Centerpiece arrangements in them. Each Factions CQ would have more of a specific Foliage type compared to the other CQ's. eg:

Amarr = medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees
Gallente = small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines
Caldari = mainly medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees with a few small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines
Minmatar = mainly small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines with a few medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees

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Bartholemu Fu-Baz
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#63 - 2012-01-31 22:26:42 UTC
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
Well, I checked out the Amarr and Gallente CQ's, all in all I like all of the CQ's. Gallente CQ to me seems to be the smallest of them all with the Amarr CQ being quite large, probably due to them having slave servants.

Amarr CQ is really lacking on various items scattered around the CQ, especially compared to the Minmatar CQ.


As for the items, some should be interactive like other players have stated, various books, holoreels, drinking cans, food, etc. The CQ's definitely need some sort of Trophy Case, various Pictures to hang on walls, etc. along with some sort of small pet such as Bird, Cat, Dog or Fish to add some life into the CQ's. Different types of Foliage would definitely add some life to the CQ's.


Foliage ideas = small to medium sized Flower Centerpiece in Vases, medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees, small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines.

All CQ's should have some sort of Flower Centerpiece arrangements in them. Each Factions CQ would have more of a specific Foliage type compared to the other CQ's. eg:

Amarr = medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees
Gallente = small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines
Caldari = mainly medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees with a few small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines
Minmatar = mainly small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines with a few medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees



Seriously? Or Troll?

Potted plants is your highest priority?
Kingston Black
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#64 - 2012-02-01 00:10:32 UTC
I think adding foliage to the CQ is a great idea and i like the suggestions. Although i question whether adding so many choices early on will be feasable for a small team so i suggest you reduce it down to a center peice of greenery in each captains quarters, a 'shrubbery' if you will.

And then, you must add another shrubbery and place it there beside the first shrubbery only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle.

I think that would be awsome
Rytell Tybat
Doomheim
#65 - 2012-02-01 01:03:19 UTC
Where's my cabinet for my boosters and booze. Don't really want to go to the hangar to get that stuff. Should be available in my CQ. Along with any data sheets, dogtags, etc.

Also, why don't I have a drone to clean up after me (or a slave if I'm in a less reputable station/system)? I'm immortal and yet I can't even get automated roomservice?
Dowla Daupor
Deltole Deltole Deltole
#66 - 2012-02-01 01:24:07 UTC
At what point do we move out of the CQ? I understand the full blown implementation of WiS is still a ways away, but have you given any thought as to how you can cordon off sections of the stations to allow for low player volume interaction? What about separate shards for certain player groups based on standings to each other or are simply in the same corporation? I don't want to see - open contact list, right click enter Player's CQ / Corporate Office - waiting for Player / Office Manager to accept.
Velarra
#67 - 2012-02-01 19:10:49 UTC
BPC & BPO's as poster / framed art print in one's CQ if said items exist in station inventory.

Ability to have a rated G, mundane sleep (with eyes closed) option on the bed, much like sitting a character on the couch.
Dark Drifter
Sons of Seyllin
Pirate Lords of War
#68 - 2012-02-01 23:28:07 UTC
i think people are missing the point of the CQ. its not your personal space its a room in a hotel of sorts. all the CQ areas are generic because when you un-dock some minmatarian cleaner comes in and gives the room a once over and then makes the room available for use again.

this is y CQs are not programmed for customization.

maby creat realestate in stations by being able to purchase personal space (for isk per month/week) and alow the player to customise this space, within reason...

using:
trade goods (add various new items-pulled from terran planets via comercial PI)
Nex store goods (equips on manikins)


cost for apartments would be different depending on where you buy them. your low sec home may cost you 500k isk a month, where as that pad u have in jita costing 10s to 100s of millions for the same rent period
Bartholemu Fu-Baz
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#69 - 2012-02-02 01:31:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Bartholemu Fu-Baz
Dark Drifter wrote:
i think people are missing the point of the CQ. its not your personal space its a room in a hotel of sorts. all the CQ areas are generic because when you un-dock some minmatarian cleaner comes in and gives the room a once over and then makes the room available for use again.

this is y CQs are not programmed for customization.

maby creat realestate in stations by being able to purchase personal space (for isk per month/week) and alow the player to customise this space, within reason...

using:
trade goods (add various new items-pulled from terran planets via comercial PI)
Nex store goods (equips on manikins)


cost for apartments would be different depending on where you buy them. your low sec home may cost you 500k isk a month, where as that pad u have in jita costing 10s to 100s of millions for the same rent period


Yes. I've noted that these are essentially hotel rooms, as have a few others. I think there is a general desire to have a "home". I like the idea of "renting" a place, not dissimilar from corporate offices. A similar mechanism could be used to set higher rents for more desirable stations.
Bartholemu Fu-Baz
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#70 - 2012-02-02 01:36:35 UTC
Idea - Additional and scriptable animations. (Probably not uploadable, just local in the privacy of your client and CQ, although a way to submit for possible inclusion in some future patch would be spiffy.)

Machina friendly animations could lead to some really great videos. Would love to see a Carbon-based fan made vids on the level of Clear Skies.
Adrodius
Old Ass Gamers
#71 - 2012-02-02 04:43:45 UTC
One thing i really hope is that they make the first captain quarter that came out with incarna as big as the three new captain quarters that camed out in crucible.

I think its the minmatar one which came out with incarna right ?????? Anyways, its way to small comparing to the other captain quarters.
Arcathra
Technodyne Ltd.
#72 - 2012-02-02 07:06:21 UTC
Adrodius wrote:
One thing i really hope is that they make the first captain quarter that came out with incarna as big as the three new captain quarters that camed out in crucible.

I think its the minmatar one which came out with incarna right ?????? Anyways, its way to small comparing to the other captain quarters.

Hey, it's the cramped Minmatar style. I like it Smile.
Flamespar
WarRavens
#73 - 2012-02-02 23:11:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Flamespar
Another fix

I know that the captains quarters are meant to appear more dirty the lower the security rating of a system. I think this can be improved upon as the difference isn't terribly striking. Perhaps add some flickering (or just brokenl) lights, dim the lights in general, add some grime to the mirror.

For stations in active incursion systems, maybe add a flashing red light, and some propaganda messages from the Sansha to the main screen.

Additionally (I'm not sure if this is immersion breaking though), you could add the EVE online trailer for the most recent expansion to the main viewer, and when the player clicks on it, they go to that expansions feature page.
Vertisce Soritenshi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#74 - 2012-02-02 23:19:57 UTC
First I want the idea in my "Bouncing Boobies" thread to be implemented and then I want a trampoline in my CQ.

This will fix a lot of the boredom that comes with the CQ currently.

Bounties for all! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2279821#post2279821
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#75 - 2012-02-04 03:05:06 UTC
Bartholemu Fu-Baz wrote:
DeMichael Crimson wrote:
Well, I checked out the Amarr and Gallente CQ's, all in all I like all of the CQ's. Gallente CQ to me seems to be the smallest of them all with the Amarr CQ being quite large, probably due to them having slave servants.

Amarr CQ is really lacking on various items scattered around the CQ, especially compared to the Minmatar CQ.


As for the items, some should be interactive like other players have stated, various books, holoreels, drinking cans, food, etc. The CQ's definitely need some sort of Trophy Case, various Pictures to hang on walls, etc. along with some sort of small pet such as Bird, Cat, Dog or Fish to add some life into the CQ's. Different types of Foliage would definitely add some life to the CQ's.


Foliage ideas = small to medium sized Flower Centerpiece in Vases, medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees, small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines.

All CQ's should have some sort of Flower Centerpiece arrangements in them. Each Factions CQ would have more of a specific Foliage type compared to the other CQ's. eg:

Amarr = medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees
Gallente = small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines
Caldari = mainly medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees with a few small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines
Minmatar = mainly small to medium sized hanging Potted Plants and Vines with a few medium to large sized Potted Plants and Trees



Seriously? Or Troll?

Potted plants is your highest priority?


I guess you've never been in one but most high class Hotel Suites have Foliage as well as other stuff in their rooms. Besides that, the CQ's need to have more 'Life' added to them. They look way 'antiseptic' right now.

I've already posted other ideas for the CQ earlier in this thread, and I'm not going to post what other players have already posted. So about having plants in the CQ, yes I'm serious.

Some players seem to think the CQ is nothing more than a cheap hole in the wall sleazy overnight Motel Room.

Sorry to inform you but it's not. That kind of accommodation is found on planets which us pod pilots would never step foot in, much less live in.

The CQ is an expensive up scale high class personal Hotel Hospitality Suite available only to us Capsuleers.

As such we should be able to decorate and 'personalize' our CQ's. Having items available for purchase from the NEX store is fine but I'm not going to 'Rent' a damn room that nobody else will ever view nor am I going to pay each month to 'personalize' it. Since there's 4 different types of CQ's available, we should have an option to 'Save' the 'Interior Design' per each CQ type with an option to overwrite it when we add another decoration or change the layout.

Player run Establishments on the Promenade Deck would have a monthly fee. Basically that's the Business License for them to conduct business.

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blarfnargable
Thorn Executor
THORN Alliance
#76 - 2012-02-06 00:45:20 UTC
What to do with CQ? Kill it. I'm here for the internet spaceships, not Second Life, not The Sims, not Habbo Hotel.
PinkKnife
The Cuddlefish
Ethereal Dawn
#77 - 2012-02-06 08:15:40 UTC  |  Edited by: PinkKnife
Decor? How about just some stuff to throw around on the shelves and so on. Medals we've been awarded? Display cases for such? Stuffed animals for our space beds? Figurines for our space tables? Space-goldfish? Religious artifacts or texts (I'm in an amarr station).

One of the more annoying bugs I've found is if I clone jump, my clone doesn't have the same things as my previous body. I understand that logically it would have different clothes/hair/etc, but it is still very very annoying to have to redo it all.

In addition, the skirt modeling crap, and sitting in the skirt breaks the model as my leg goes through the texture. I've written about it before and it was suggested that the hit detection on the skirt model may be bad...*shrug*.


Other ideas: let us select a channel for our monitors, such as a generic news feed, or economy feed, that gives various bits about whatever news we want.

Bookcases? personal arms? Such as guns (cough DUST cough) that we can clean/play with?

Holographic space goldfish? That I can feed holographic space fish flakes?

Or a holo-pony..that would be neat.
Arcathra
Technodyne Ltd.
#78 - 2012-02-06 08:20:19 UTC
Yes, decor. There are a lot unique items that could be used for that. For example some things and texts from the epic arc missions. I really want to see the "Wanted for Love"-Holoreel on my screen Lol.
PinkKnife
The Cuddlefish
Ethereal Dawn
#79 - 2012-02-06 08:59:56 UTC
OH and I forgot, I have to suggest this for Ubercado from the Ivy League'ed walls of Eve University. Corpses? Let us display our collection of heads/corpses in our cargo holds in CQ. Morbid yes, but hey, some people are like that.
DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#80 - 2012-02-08 01:49:47 UTC
blarfnargable wrote:
What to do with CQ? Kill it. I'm here for the internet spaceships, not Second Life, not The Sims, not Habbo Hotel.


Love to tell you this - that bandwagon you're trying to ride has already been abandoned in Eve. Better get used to it, WiS is here to stay. Guess that means you might wanna go play another game then, like Dark Space or Allegiance.

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