Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I find it absurd that big ships can be operated by one pilot only. I know its about game balance. But this is not how it should be. By allowing bigger ship to have bigger crews and have more functionality, aka being able to fit more mods, the balance would be preserved.

As a starter BS should have a crew of 2, Dreadnoughts and Carriers - 3, Super-carriers - 4, and Titans - 5.

Each crew member will have a different interface depending on what part of the ship they are going to control. For example for BS, there will be an interface for the pilot, which will allow control over the propulsion and ship's flight control, ship's own and other ships integrity - armor, shields; engineering; while the co-pilot will be responsible for damage control including drones, and anything that involves targeting, ECM, etc. Basically a BS will have the functionality of two ships, since it would be flown by two crew members. Such ship will have say 12-14 high slots, of which 6-8 would be able to fit large turrets, some medium and some small.

The roles for the ships with bigger crews will be split even further as they will have even bigger number of modules to fit and therefore to control.

If a player gets disconnected or logs off for some reason, another player should be able to replace them even mid-fight. The commander of the ship should be the one who bought the ship and they should be.

All these ideas are just the rough "restaurant napkin" sketch.

I know a lot of people will say it is stupid because they are so used to flying their big ships with limited capabilities on their own, but hey have an open mind. If this gets implemented no other game that I know of will have such feature, and will make this one that even more interesting to play.



The flying in EVE doesn't take that long - mere seconds to warp in to location. If the ship needs to do a 20 gate jump you would love it if you are not the pilot, plus EVE has this thing called the Market which if the co-pilot has trained the proper skills, can be operated from distance, so you could do that while waiting for combat.

That in case we have two different people operating the ship. But since I suggested pilots that means that one player can operate one ship but they will need to use two accounts in order to do so. There are many players that have two accounts, myself included. Some of them either have two comps or can run two coppies on the same comp. They could still fly two small ships at the same time or a big one if they choose to.



So you call what I suggested a "role playing junk" (even that I had no idea about the lore and I was just suggesting that from the "the biggest ships must do more stuff" point of view) but have no problem with dancers, which is not only "role playing junk" but has nothing to do with flying of a space ship. Such a hypocrite you are.

The new toys are going to be for those who
- don't have problem trusting other people, maybe they belong to the same family, or maybe they are just best friends
- those who make enough real life money to afford paying for few accounts
- those who make enough ISK in game to afford buying PLEX for few accounts
Obviously you are neither so I guess you have to settle with flying the old junk.

If what I suggested was that "junk", CCP Gargant wouldn't bother placing it on the proper forum, instead he could have just left it where i had posted originally and let it get buried by the rest of the threads. You are just mad that it was me not you who came up with such idea first, so you had to do some trash talk to make yourself feel smart. Good job. Here's a turd medal.

The flying in EVE doesn't take that long - mere seconds to warp in to location. If the ship needs to do a 20 gate jump you would love it if you are not the pilot, plus EVE has this thing called the Market which if the co-pilot has trained the proper skills, can be operated from distance, so you could do that while waiting for combat.

That in case we have two different people operating the ship. But since I suggested pilots that means that one player can operate one ship but they will need to use two accounts in order to do so. There are many players that have two accounts, myself included. Some of them either have two comps or can run two coppies on the same comp. They could still fly two small ships at the same time or a big one if they choose to.

The lore says that only frigates are operated by the capsuleer alone
All other ships have crews.

if a fighter jet can be piloted by a single person (I know there are more often 2 people) using manual controls, I'd imagine that a biologically modified human using a direct mental connection would be able to pilot all but the supers with ease, and even the supers would be a matter of being able to focus on all the input that would really be difficult.

I'm not sharing my ships with an actual player to satisfy some role playing junkie who has nothing to worry about but lore. kthanx.

But NPC crews, like exotic dancers.... no problem there.

I suppose that that's one thing that you could do to bump your subscription rates. but it sounds so very, very terrible to do.
Requiring advancement in the game to be on the kindness of other players. In a game not known for its kindness.
I dont now that would want a game that requires me to have alts, I mean i do, but not because i have to. and thats an important distinction.

Also you dont believe that after hundreds of years dealing with automation that someone has figured out a way to macro parts of their ships functions? I mean we are currently learning about autonomous cars and dynamic industrial automation. In the future they dont have something like that as well?

Think about it this way. your computer that you are reading this on thinks faster then you do. It populates the starmap better then you could. now think about integrating that into your head. or rather integrate your head into it. The eve ship can handle the ballistics calculation faster then you can, (or parts of it at least, people make some pretty quick calculations that they cant explain) but basically, In eve ships there is a level of automation and there are npc crew, making me have an alt that sits there is bad gameplay.

PS a B-17 could and can be flown by one person. Its the weapon systems that need additional people to operate. I dont know anything about the game that you describe.

that would solve the super blob.

I'm just going to pop in here and give my disapproval of this idea.

If you want my reasons... run a search.

Ships have crews, the capsule is merely the command and control system.