EVE General Discussion

1) Cockpit view
2) UI Overhaul
3) Planet Scaling, so they don't look like basketballs when I fly pass them.

1. Meaningful low sec with a reason to be there would make the game immediately more interesting. At present, low sec is, at best, irrelevant.
2. Any new UI that gets away from the boxes in boxes stitched to other boxes.
3. POS redesign. Make them modular like the concepts that hit F&I years ago.

Smarter Drones
Everything (including skillbooks) player made
Nerf High Sec

1. The window GUI is horrible. It looks like some Linux window manager circa 1998. A radical GUI overhaul is badly needed, and will probably generate much tears, hatred, and gnashing of teeth...but it needs to be done. EVE wasn't exactly cutting-edge graphically when it launched in 2003, but it's postively archaic by modern standards. (Art assets need a refresh as well. Those item icons -- icons for trade goods, etc. -- look like they were done in MS Paint.)

2. Update the missioning interface. Instead of the wall o' text you get now (whcih few bother to read), streamline it, update it, and hire a professional writer to write the missions.

3. Transitional animations on gate jumps, station docks, etc. would be nice.

4. Update the bracketing system to be less ugly. I'm not just talking about fonts, but the whole bracketing system.

5. GIve us an inventory-management screen that doesn't suck. Please. Pretty please!

6. A "fitting wizard" for noobs (and some vets) to graphically show some sample fits for different ships (armor vs shield tanking, active vs passive, PVE vs PVP, etc.). The tutorial changes were welcome, but more needs to be done. Also: incorporate EFT or something like it into the client.

7. Here's a good use for the now-useless Captain's quarters: allow users to look at EVE lore and information on the viewscreen. The item database, the chronicles, SCOPE news, etc. Corps and alliances could also have their intel channels routed to this screen.

8. Consolidate the PI interface so you can view the status of multiple planets' harvestors/factories at the same time, rather like the manfuacturing slots interface. That would give me an at-a-glance way to knowing if my harvesters were stopped, for example.

9. I suppose I'm just going to have to live with the "sideways warp tunnel effect", since that bug has been in the game as long as I've been playing it and is apparently impossible to track down and fix.

1. Remove npc corps except for players under 30 day old and faction warfare
2. Stop pretending this game revolves around hi sec
3. Re-release inferno and make it more WARish

Yeah

flight stick control

1 Drone bays doors open close,cargo bay doors open close /drone undock/dock,drones that looks like drones not planes...moar animation in general.

2 Make big ship big like carriers orca etc,stations too,make big ship dock on outside clamps change station looks to look more like port to that big ships.

3 "A four-barreled, intermediate-range, powerful cannon capable of causing tremendous damage. " now look at the crap we have in game..IE respect your own game CCp.

1) Bringing back the old inventory system.
2) Bringing back the old inventory system.
3) Bringing back the old inventory system.

1. make sec regain less of a grind
2. remove losec gate guns
3. wis

1/ Make EVE more alive, take advantage of daily downtime to make the universe more dynamic, for example, stop Malkalen from burning. Week 1 monday downtime, remove fire effects, place NPC cranes and construction crews in space, scaffolding, etc. maybe an agent in space offering a repeatable "ferry construction blocks to us" mission for small loyalty point rewards. Week 2 downtime, remove scaffolding. Week 3 rebuild station. Week 4 place monument to tragic event in space. Another example would be to update NPC corporations more frequently, Heth is still the CEO of Ytiri according to the game. Basically the game stands still for months at a time and then updates all at once, needs work, needs dedicated storyline team.

2/ Sounds for when a new hostile contact appears on overview, picture Battlestar Galactica (reimagined) scene on episode "Thirty-three" where they think they have escaped, as Tigh and Adama discuss taking a break, the beeping sets the scene for hostiles incoming, feels cool, especially when mining with your feet up, suddenly beep beep beep, you get the idea.

3/ In a similar vein as point 1, more live celebratory events, featuring a few new missions, maybe a few new rewards, why don't we celebrate Caldari independance day marking the day they formed the current Caldari State after the Gallenteans took there homeworld every year, for an example. Each race should have at least one monumental day to celebrate.

In summary EVE has a downtime every day, why not take advantage of that to drive the storyline forward? EVE is stationary it may be a big sandbox but theres no reason to make the box so dull as long as it has plenty of sand.