Player Features and Ideas Discussion

lol, well it's a consideration, but probably not one that CCP would want to implement.

I mean, how do they determine it?
Is it per character?
per ship?
per m3 of anything?
What about the CQs, do they count?

I know you're being scarcastic, but seriously, there are those that wouldn't be and would come in mentioning this.

I'd figure just the logistics behind deciding how volume in stations is determined would be a nightmare (not the ship) for CCP, and probably one they don't want to attack.



Why not??? I can create an alt toon, or even a trial account to determine this...

Not to mention the 30 seconds during which your ship is incorporeal and untargetable.

Unless things are different in null.

Skip windows, better install fresh air outside CQ, so we can go past doors.

CCP has made TONS of cinematic videos that are much longer than some cut scenes.
There's no specifics to a ship. One cut scene per ship docking into like 20 different styles of stations.

Sure, it seems like a lot, but once you factor that the the graphics are already rendered, and that it's a cut scene and not actual in game engine, than it becomes much more simple.



Now, as far as the stations are concerned.

1) My initial goal is to simply make them bigger and more to scale. This actually isn't as difficult as it sounds either. Again, the graphics are already rendered, they would just have to make them larger, and adjust the warp in/undock points.

2) Allowing you to browse through loaded ships in your hangar isn't much effort either. Every ship in game already has work tied to them while they're in station. Now all they have to do is allow you to browse through them in the manner I suggested.

3) As far as what I suggested later in the thread about modular stations, this is already something CCP is working on with their new POS construction ideas that were announced at fan fest.
Again, this is much later in the future, and since modular stations would merely be cosmetic in order to show the expanding use of a specific station, CCP wouldn't have to give them any coding besides graphical because they serve no purpose other than scale and cinematic value.


I'm sure there's a good bit more effort to what I'm proposing than I put it out to be, but there's not as much effort as you put it out to be. Like I just stated, most of the work is already done, or in the case of modular stations, is currently being done.


It just drives me nuts that Eve is so well scaled until you pull up to a station, and then everything becomes invalid.

I never played freelancer.

Now, for people like yourself there would be an option to turn off docking/undocking cinematics.

That said though, I care less about cinematics and modular stations than I care about to scale stations.
It's honestly annoying to me how small they are in an immersion manner.

Yeah, i'm not sure when this happened, but it's been a while since I was stuck dealing with station games.
I remember undocking one time to find myself in another clone before I even loaded the exterior...

Except the topic is immersion 'within' station.

cinematics for every ship for every type of station? o_O

only if i can opt out and choose not to install such a waste of time and space. i played freelancer, and it was nice the first couple of times. but eventually u'll be tearing ur hair out and thinking about all the things u could have done had u not spent so long stuck in cutscenes.

imagine seeing ur target undock from the guests list and having to fanny about getting back to ur ship and then having to run a cutscene where ur ship undocks (probably very slowly in a BC or larger). by the time ur out ur enemies will be long gone

personally ive turned off CQ and ship spinning so i can quickly dock-undock.

secondly, larger stations would mean logi are even better protected during station games because it would take even longer to go round the damn things.

i prefer my stations like tiny tardis', preferably with a docking range of 5m and a hyper ejection undock speed that launches u 20km and then says ur not allowed back in for 5 minutes because of 'traffic'. they'll also deny any ship that is getting shot or is shooting from docking for fear of 'damaging the station'.

while we're at it, can we have realistically voice acted 'docking assistants' that we can chat up and get dates with? then take her back to the captains quarters to show her my 'blaster cannon'?

they dont have to be at the opposite side, just 70km away and right next to the station.

assuming stations aren't spherical (which they aren't) they can get themselves into nooks and crannies in the stations model that allows them to be 70km away as the crow flies, but to pursue them u'd have to navigate ur way past corners, exaust pipes, random spikes and other sticky out bits.

lets remember that some gallente stations can be flown through because of their design.