Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello everybody.

Few days ago, during a discussion about the infamous exotic dancers, that tend to fill up people's hangars, i had the following idea:

People often mention the ability to customize you captain's quarters as something, that should be heavily accented on, when the station environment is finally finished. However, the captain quarters of one person is a small room - how many people can you fit in there to show off all... well, things you wanna show off with. And then it struck me - a large corporation or alliance needs a large communal area, reserved for its members - like a bar, or a large lounge, or a large conference room, where the CEO can give speeches (if he feels like it) - i can go on with possible rooms forever, however, I'll focus on few ideas, for which i have a clear vision.

Also, the entire system is intended to operate through an editor, similar to those, from games like Dungeon Siege or Evil Genius, using modular tiles with different looks/function and ability to place items on them. Depending on the size of the corporation (or maybe also station type or standings to the owner of the station), a different area will be allocated for the construction of the office facilities.

Corporation office: Director's Office

The director's office should be a comparatively small room, outfitted with an imposing desk (probably customizable in both style and size, depending on how imposing you wanna look), cabinets with various items (signifying achievements of the corporation or just decorative), maybe some flower pots or your personal slaver hound. A window with view to space would also be nice.
I know that most diplomatic meetings in EVE happen through personal chats, but his could add some flavor and exist as a neat option.

Corporation office: Lounge

The lounge would be a fully customizable room, both in size and view . You want to have a large open room with some sofas and flower pots, lots of light and a huge winnow, with a view to the nearby moon and planet? Or maybe a small room with a bar, lots of neon lights and all the exotic dancers from your hangar? Or maybe both, if you can squeeze them in the allocated space. All up to your creativity.

Decoration and shinies:

Well, after all, this would be the the perfect opportunity to show the achievements of your corporation - miniature of the corporation's carrier, a chunk of Prime Arkonor, a hull fragment from the pirate officer's ship or the enemy dread, you busted a week ago (unless yo u are Pandemic Legion, then this is just a daily routine). Generally, my idea is, that certain items could have the option "transfer to corporation office" for little shinies or "create miniature for corp office" for ships. This will be available to any member of the corporation, and once done, the item will be presented to a person with the corresponding role, who can place it in the office.

Another thing you can put in, would be a list of corporation decoration (as medals - those could use some love from the design team too) and all the people, they've been awarded to on display (like a neat holographic screen or an old school engraved piece of marble).

The rooms mentioned above, would be treated similar to chat channels in therms of access settings - requiring specific invitation or open to everybody. A standing requirement can also be applied, or a password or corporation roles (for that exclusive director's room, used for meetings, although everybody from the corporation has his theories about whats going on out there).

I also had the idea to be able to walk the corporation hangars and inspect their contents - minerals being stacks of ingots, packed modules and ships (and other stuff) showing as crates, assembled and fitted ships being arranged side by side, robotic arms hanging from the celling etc.

Accomplishing all of the aforementioned ideas is a lot of work of course, but i feel the basic principles could be a really good addition to station environments, once those are open. This will facilitate the desires of people, who want to have a spot for their own corporation, who want to show off their achievements as a team and allow for additional functionality of the NEX store (because who doesn't want gold wallpapers or something like that).

Please comment and further expand on the idea - i know there are a lot of aspects, that i haven't covered.