Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My proposal is that Capsuleers are given the ability to use technology which is so obviously already available to them such as basic circuitry. It would be very simple to integrate a basic circuit simulator. I am not here to preach about how much potential there is with electronics, I am sure most of you are aware by now. If we assume Capsuleers were able to put together a circuit and use it in or with something else, like a satellite, I would expect marvellous things of people here.

Thank you for listening!

I am proposing that out of simple component parts, a player would be able to make his own unique circuits. They could even build a small computer if they wanted. I'm saying it's simple because compared to implementing all the things players could make using this, giving players the opportunity to use the tools is much easier. I'm actually proposing a way in which players can build their own satellites, but in fact the possibilities are huge. It gives eve the scope for engineers and computer scientists to work on projects within eve, and lets corporations have another product they could possibly produce.


I'm not a designer and there are only a few electrical 'parts' in the game at the moment but a few uses come to mind :

let the player design and 'code' their own drones/satellites, giving the potential to fine tune and tweak and optimise various circuits if the player wanted to spend the time doing that.
This could apply to anything- for any module in eve you could tweak the way various circuits interlock and make them more efficient or whatever. this makes modules unique and personal. to sell them they would have to meet certain criteria for the market

a player could wire in a tracking device or eves dropping device into a innocent module, this would lead to much fun. and the market would have to adapt.

there could be generic devices which players would have to look up the diagrams to build, obviously much simplified in the case of large objects. these could be sold for money, giving players another source of income. it could be a part of the industry pane

Uh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite

I can't believe you never got taught what a satellite can do.

I know what a satellite is in real life.

What are you actually proposing these things do IN THE GAME.

Nobody knows what you are suggesting here.

Why would I make one of these circuits or satellites? What could I do with it? Why would anyone buy it? What does it DO?

So basically you want Space Engineers.
May I suggest you play space engineers rather than EVE?

Disclaimer, I have Space Engineers, I like it, but it is not EVE and EVE should not try and become it.

This sounds needlessly complicated, even for EvE.

Ok, so "circuits" is a VERY vague thing that somehow makes ships better.

Topics you have failed to even touch upon:

• What game systems could this affect?
• What would be used to make this stuff?
• How would this tie in to game balance?
• What personal expertise would EVE players use, and why would this be worth it?
• How could this possibly make the game better?
• Why is this worth the additional computational power that the server and clients would have to dedicate to it?

This is like... suggesting that CCP add cooking. And then not providing a source, process, or result. Just "add cooking" and expect everyone else to fill in the blanks.

Heck, I've taken electrical engineering courses. Didn't do badly. I do not want to do it in EVE and do not see ANY way it could possibly improve the game.

In closing: your idea is terribly constructed and you should feel bad.

And circuits have no meaning without knowing what you want them to do. What do you want them to do?

Or do you want something like redstone in minecraft, but for EVE? That's what it sounds like, and that really has nothing to do with how EVE was built.