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Galaxy Pig
New Order Logistics
CODE.
#21 - 2013-02-05 16:25:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Galaxy Pig
Blasphemy! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!

Seriously though, I don't like this idea, I'm a CAPSULEer.

OP has my forgiveness for being new. Try to read more canon lore and you will see how this would wrench the soul from one of this game's core sources of sci-fi awesomeness. ;)

Some of the lore has made exceptions so the authors could fall back on more classic star trek-style bridge drama. In my opinion, the more inventive authors have imagined ways to overcome the barriers the pod places on dialogue/plot/feeling awesome like Capt. Kirk sitting in your command-chair/whatever.

If people would just use their imagination, they'd see that the capsule opens more doors than it closes.

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Provence Tristram
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-02-05 16:34:44 UTC
It would be interesting to know, of the percentage of players who give it any thought at all, how many imagine themselves sitting in a metal egg full of goo on these ships, and how many imagine themselves standing on a command deck barking orders like something out of Star Wars/Trek. I belong decidedly to the latter camp, but I've been indoctrinated by years of sci-fi to think that way. I guess we'll never know.
Galaxy Pig
New Order Logistics
CODE.
#23 - 2013-02-05 16:49:45 UTC
I am of the former, but I do imagine the disconcerted looks on my catalyst's crew's faces when my indifferent capsuleer yells "Yippie-Kai-Yay!" over the ship's intercom.

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#24 - 2013-02-05 17:08:08 UTC
Quote:
CCP has been pushing away from the pod concept for some time now (chronicles mentioning capsuleers walking around inside the ship during flight, pod-less consciousness transfer, emphasis that capsuleer ships have a sizable crew


It's boring being stuck in the pod all the time. What would they do in this novels? Touch themselves all the time?

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Sura Sadiva
Entropic Tactical Crew
#25 - 2013-02-05 17:22:27 UTC
EvE lore takes more from modern cyberpunk litterature (like W.Gibson's Neuromancer) more than "humanistic" sci-fi like Star Treck.

All the stuff about the capsuler directly plugged directly to the ship is basically a quote from cyberpunk novels. The capsuler become like the brain of the ship and the ships informatic network become an extension of the pilot nervous sytem.

In EvE related fiction like the horrible novel "The Empyrean Age[/i] the capsuler interact with other crew member like HAL-9000 does in 2001 Space Odissey.

Sura Sadiva
Entropic Tactical Crew
#26 - 2013-02-05 17:24:26 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:

It's boring being stuck in the pod all the time. What would they do in this novels? Touch themselves all the time?


lol yes, but anyway even if they leave the capsule there isn't too much to do, they'd be trapped in a single room CQ :)
Din Chao
#27 - 2013-02-05 17:27:18 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
Quote:
CCP has been pushing away from the pod concept for some time now (chronicles mentioning capsuleers walking around inside the ship during flight, pod-less consciousness transfer, emphasis that capsuleer ships have a sizable crew


It's boring being stuck in the pod all the time. What would they do in this novels? Touch themselves all the time?

Oops...

no...

I wasn't...

I was... doing my taxes...
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
#28 - 2013-02-05 18:48:10 UTC
Pak Narhoo wrote:
Thebriwan wrote:
You character is in a pod - he can not walk around...

Lies! I have slaves carrying my pod around all over my ship!

Oh well, nevermind. My monitor needed a cleaning anyway.

Remove standings and insurance.
Sophie Sandraven
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2013-02-06 09:08:40 UTC
Gogela wrote:
I think it would be cool to board a friend's ship and operate a turret or something, aluminum falcon style... they're doing it in that Star Citizen so I guess we'll see how that is. Maybe it'll light a fire under CCP's a**. Pirate


Hell yes! That would be so awesome :D
Sophie Sandraven
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2013-02-06 09:12:09 UTC
Provence Tristram wrote:
It would be interesting to know, of the percentage of players who give it any thought at all, how many imagine themselves sitting in a metal egg full of goo on these ships, and how many imagine themselves standing on a command deck barking orders like something out of Star Wars/Trek. I belong decidedly to the latter camp, but I've been indoctrinated by years of sci-fi to think that way. I guess we'll never know.


Being a newbie I can honestly say when I first started playing, I didn't even think of the pod as you being stuck in it all the time at all. Being a huge sci-fi fan I think I just automatically thought that I would be roaming around the bridge anyway. Like one of you said, I need to read up on the lore a bit and then I might look at it differently :)
ITTigerClawIK
Galactic Rangers
#31 - 2013-02-06 09:25:11 UTC  |  Edited by: ITTigerClawIK
Sophie Sandraven wrote:
Do you think CCP should ever create interior cockpits for each ship? So you can walk around and mess about while warping and such? I personally think it would be awesome. Thoughts below!



that pod view is gunna get boring fast .. kinda like being stuck in your captains quarters with nothing to do :-P

Edit: almost forgot, THIS link to the capsule and the clone article explains it all
Sophie Sandraven
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2013-02-06 09:37:09 UTC
ITTigerClawIK wrote:
Sophie Sandraven wrote:
Do you think CCP should ever create interior cockpits for each ship? So you can walk around and mess about while warping and such? I personally think it would be awesome. Thoughts below!



that pod view is gunna get boring fast .. kinda like being stuck in your captains quarters with nothing to do :-P

Edit: almost forgot, THIS link to the capsule and the clone article explains it all


Thanks will give this a read!
ITTigerClawIK
Galactic Rangers
#33 - 2013-02-06 09:43:49 UTC
although it might be a good idea if CCP decides to explain this capsuler concept a bit more indepth somewhere in the tutorial also if there is somewhere they can put it in without folks skipping it streight away.
Sophie Sandraven
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2013-02-06 09:48:42 UTC
ITTigerClawIK wrote:
although it might be a good idea if CCP decides to explain this capsuler concept a bit more indepth somewhere in the tutorial also if there is somewhere they can put it in without folks skipping it streight away.


Yeah I think an cool CGI cutscene when you first dock or something to explain all the major plot points and history. Just so you have an idea of what you are getting into. I have to be honest I don't really read a lot of the mission descriptions and stuff, which is probably because the TEXT IS SO FRACKINNG SMALL ON MY TV. So a visual aid to the story would be a good option :)

Also off topic but are CCP implementing a larger text size any time soon?! I have a 32" TV hooked up to my PC and running EVE online on 1920x1080p with the text on the largest setting (I believe this is 13 but could be wrong) is still really hard to make out sometimes!
ITTigerClawIK
Galactic Rangers
#35 - 2013-02-06 09:56:23 UTC
well we were kinda hoping that we would see this every time we docked and went ot CQ but it kidna never happened http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSRI9uCDo8
Sura Sadiva
Entropic Tactical Crew
#36 - 2013-02-06 10:29:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Sura Sadiva
Sophie Sandraven wrote:

Yeah I think an cool CGI cutscene when you first dock or something to explain all the major plot points and history. Just so you have an idea of what you are getting into. I have to be honest I don't really read a lot of the mission descriptions and stuff, which is probably because the TEXT IS SO FRACKINNG SMALL ON MY TV. So a visual aid to the story would be a good option :)

Also off topic but are CCP implementing a larger text size any time soon?! I have a 32" TV hooked up to my PC and running EVE online on 1920x1080p with the text on the largest setting (I believe this is 13 but could be wrong) is still really hard to make out sometimes!


They already did in some recent UI revamp, before was like courier 4, impossible to read.

Also, dunno now, but when I started to play the neural connection with your capsule and the ship was explained and was made in a cool way.
Beside this the tutorial was kinda like: "this is a rookie ship, this is a mining laser, this is a gun. Now undock and go to **** off" - end of tutorial.
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