Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Idea is nice, but not new. Use search function and support the already existing threads.

to be fair, CCP have stated that they want to look crew interactions in the future, where crew quality will have some sort of ingame effect.

Perhaps we will be able to buy higher quality crews and squeeze one or two more percent out of our ship bonuses, I do not know, but it is an interesting idea.

The thing that bothers me though is who (apart from amarr slaves forced to be crew) would sign up for a place on a capsuleer ship. Capsuleer vessels do not tend to have long lifespans, every mission is practically a suicide mission, as for runs through low or null, they would probably induce a mutiny in real life.

I imagine that New Eden as a whole is home to billions if not trillions of human souls when you consider all of the planets out there, ( a great deal of which have been settled) but it still doesn't mean that there is enough high quality trained personnel to man your ships.

I once postulated that crew were made out of non capsuleer clones made from cheap bio-mass (below clone grade alpha stuff which is free in every station) and their unique physical and neural patterns came as part of the ship's blueprint. so when you made the ship you would make the crew at the same time as part of the manufacturing process, if you bought a ship crew would come with it (pre made). Losses could be topped up naturally enough at a station when you repaired it. You would also be repairing the ship's bio-mass and re-cloning lost crewmembers. It also meant that every ship of that class would carry the same crew made from the same neural patterns until someone invented a better blueprint with a more skilled crew. I don't expect this to be adopted by CCP but it's an interesting idea to kick around and one that fits with the dark and brutal nature of Eve's dystopian universe.

I demand my crew to take shelter at the nearest customs office, I'd like to swing by and create a path of burning trails while I get scotti back after reviving. I think I'd name my boss engineer scotti. I'd also like to buy him a hat. And get the news read by him in the station environment. I also need a number two to accompany me on officer meetings. Not bad if he goes MIA, that's why he doesn't have a specific name.

Also, if I could drop by one of the school academies and switch some of my slaves/exotic dancer, female/exotic slaves or janitors for educated version with names and customizable pictures (time to spend some time in the character creator) and a certain field of expertise, I'd be more than happy to repeatedly recruit and educate my crew from slaveimports in amarr emperor station.

Given that we're edit, some voice-noise of the internal comms while cruisin through w-space would be awesome. I mean, comms are dead out there, no local, the music out there is depressive at best. Pls give me some random voice-like chatter if I bought the crew already! Just get out and throw a tape of scotti explains zulu why this is not an accent. a supercrap-quality-4 minute talk, sliced and rearranged in a randomized mix with other similiar tracks to create voice-noise. \o/

Thank you for a valuable response.
Who would sign up on a capsuleers ship. I would. If the pilot was anything like me. I don't die a lot. See, there are all kinds of players. Some just rush around, not caring about their ships, while I (and many others) roleplay being in an expensive ship with fragile human beings taking care of it.
Humans would definitely sign up on a ship for a right price, if they would know that the captain cares about his clone, his ship and the lives of his crew ^ -^



I love where you are coming from. You are talking about pure perfection, regarding ship crews :3

Very well said. Except that the prices would be ~10 times bigger, at least (price still stays very small for capsuleers).
Judging by the prices of edible products in the market.

Mechanics are crucial for gameplay, we know it already. But i belive devil is hidden in a details and those details make something eye pleasing and enhancing role playing experience.
Some say role players don't need FX and visuals, this is not true - we aren't talking abot paper&pencil RPG but about computer game and not rogue-like but modern game about space ships with rich visuals.

Feature we discuss its not crucial for the NewEden but some part of pilots, would like to see it implemented in some way. The way least troubling for devs and ppl not interested in such things but still.

Many good ideas showed up in this topic i belive more are to come.