Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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I also like the idea of seeing the undocking, etc.

I realize it would be problematic in game mechanic terms, but being able to see outside the station from within the station just makes sense. I know it would complicate station games tremendously, but the idea that I am about to get in a spacecraft that can travel across the solar system without breaking a sweat and can communicate instantly to other pilots all over the galaxy, but this enormous space station can't manage the twentieth century technology of mounting cameras on the outside?

Maybe the camera view could be on the screen in the CQ, so at least there's be some purpose to that useless room, and the time it takes to get back into your ship and undock puts at least some of the element of surprise back in.

haha just thinking out loud. I was wondering what the interface for the "camera view" would be and the obvious answer is "well, there's a giant TV in the CQ".

I don't use the CQ of course, because why. But I would like to use the CQ, if that makes any sense. I'm a new player, so I'm unfamiliar with the history, but it seems to me the CQ was designed to replace the station view: you dock your ship and then you appear in the CQ where you can fit it, do market transactions, etc. on the little terminals in there. But CCP lost their nerve/wasn't ready/I don't know and we are stuck with the grotesque Mafia Wars inspired UI of the current station view and an elaborate vestigial CQ that replicates all the functionality of the station view, adding nothing of value. And with a door that won't open, seemingly placed with the intention of frustrating the player with the promise of wonderful things beyond, forever out of reach.

Well, that was quite the digression. I guess what ties it all together is that I'd like to see more immersion: better transitions from in station to out of station, a functional CQ, and your good suggestion of more routes out of station sort of ties in to all that stuff.

The funny thing, in hindsight, was that CCP actually only did two things wrong.

1. Made the CQ the default station environment. Word of mouth should have been the introduction method, aided by possibly a tutorial being offered when docked.

2. That leaked document about microtransactions. If it was never going to happen, having this false rumor spread at nearly the same time as the CQ blunder (point 1 above), was bad timing on top of bad rumors.

Those two points, when CCP finally gets past fear of repeating this, are all that really mattered.

Time to stop feeling bad, learn from those two points, and finish what they started.

That's my take.

Having it as an option is the key, not force feeding it like they did the CQ change back then.

As to WoW, I saw someone playing it recently, and they added fighting between vanity pets into it.
(Those pets which before had been just to show off, or whatever, not the hunter / mage stuff)
PoKemon, anyone?

I live out in null and when I'm not ratting, exploring, pew pew'ing, or mining . . . I'm boosting.

Problem is that our station exit points the direct opposite of our POS that has corp access. Rorquals turn like a brick but seem to be accelerate the direction of the destination and not where its front end is pointing too. This leads to the problem where my rorqual is accelerating towards the POS (right into the station) but is still pointing somewhere else, making it where by the time my rorqual is at 75% velocity AND points within 5% of its destination it is already hung up on the station.

Dear CCP,
At least make a forward and backward (or up and down for those amarr things) station exit. You don't even have to remodel the stations to make me happy.

Like this, few ideas to add.

Standings with station owner unlock capabilities.

Default is random undock point from selection of undocks on station.

First unlock being able to get access to station radar to view ships outside on station grid.

Second unlock being able to select undock point.

Third unlock radar adds relative to undock point on measurements.

Slightly related to the immersion argument:

Some exit port designs combined with some ridiculously large station hitboxes ruin any bit of immersion that's left. That one time I was literally stuck in empty space next to a station. There was nothing, but an invisible hitbox.

And when you exit a station that has structure below your ship and your warp gate in down below, you better fly an extra mile into emptiness, or you will bump into nothing and have to cancel warp, change course, afterburner, and then retry warp.

And this also reminds me of the question why there has to be a virtual horizontal plane that ships align to. It would be much cooler if stopped ships didn't realign to that plane.

Also, while I don't know much about nullsec station games, isn't it a bit too convenient and thus unrealistic to just camp at a hangar exit where all the ships come out? Shouldn't someone at least be given a chance of escaping? I mean, it's not a range problem with multiple exit ports, is it?
Somewhat related to that, I'm not really excited about cloaked transports, because what's the point of cloaked warping when you are a sitting duck when exiting or approaching a station or a gate? Is it of any more use than just some convenience at entering warp after a gate jump that you could also achieve with an afterburner/MWD maneuver instead?

I always wanted to get my ship into the traffic at the end of that corridor :P
A tempest, a mega, a myrmidon, *join there*, continue until exit, turn right, engage :P

Care to expand on that comment?

I agree that stations/outposts need a makeover. (Models for them) As for multiple exits I say no.