Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Another thing I have thought about;

When CQ was implemented it was thought that everyone would always use it (they had to, there was no alternative), and so all functionality had to be available in CQ at a moments notice.

In my opinion this is no longer the case now that we have the hangar view as well. Take the side menu for example (Neocom). Do we really want all that functionality available in CQ? Wouldn't it be better to have it available through the CQ screens in some fashion, so you actually had to walk to the screens to interact with those things? And undocking should always be done by the pod.

It can be argued that you want to be able to get to your ship with a moments notice, but come on, if you're just holding, expecting to enter space at any second, you have no reason to enter CQ in the first place. With a FIS analogy, it's like you expect a call to jump through a gate at any second, but instead of waiting at the gate you wait at a gate two systems away, and then complain that it takes time to do the two extra jumps when it's your own fault for not planning ahead.

And another thing; In my opinion this is how you should enter and exit CQ:
Space -> Hangar -> CQ
CQ -> Hangar -> Space

There should be no Space -> CQ or CQ -> Space, it's illogical. In other words, don't have the client remember which state you were in last; when you dock you should ALWAYS end up in the hangar, and when you leave CQ you should also end up in hangar. You cant enter space from CQ without visiting the hangar first, it's only logical. And again, if you're in a hurry, don't enter CQ at all.

Using a room analogy; hangar is a room between the room space and the room CQ, there are doors to both space and CQ, but space and CQ do NOT share a common wall, and do NOT have a door between them, if you want to enter CQ from space, you must go through the hangar room first.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, I may have missed it.
But with the walking in stations and all the work put into graphics and new character creators it really seems a shame to not be able to interact with other avatars.

I know this is coming, and the logistics of allowing hundreds or possibly thousands in the case of Jita to access the same public area is no easy feat.

But in the short term I thought it would be cool if you could click on someones name on the station guest list and go to their captains quarters to visit them. you could have small meetings maybe limit it to 3-4 different visitors at one time without needing to support everyone in the station in a single environment.

This would open up huge RP with director meetings and in game relationships. Possibly even add a conference room your corp could rent for meetings that could support 10-20 members at one time.

It would be a great step towards the interaction that was expected with incursions.

Looks as good as all the other ideas being submitted. Since you provided a link in this thread to it, I don't think you need to repost it here.

Regd the questions from OP's initial post, no glaring problems on my end. Runs smooth, tho a bit bland in appearance.

But......I don't see it as something I'll ever use, while I was actually looking forward to it being fun for me.

I've never played a game where I was able to really develop any kind of personal housing, but it's something I've always wanted to have. I've *seen* some in Ultima Online, and that brief exposure set the standard in my mind. But at current pace I don't see EVE ever boasting a comparable level of customization, or really any kind of customization at all. To sympathize w/ other posters in this thread, making our CQ's "mine."

Understandably, it's harder to do w/ current art assets. By way of comparison, UO had/has far, far less complicated art. But CQ serves no purpose. Everyone has one, and there is no reason to be proud of it.

So, OP asks the question: "What role could they play in a full fletched WiS environment and what role could they play now?" My answer: bragging rights. That is a very legitimate role, as I see it, anyway.

i was wondering if you couldn't make a feature in the game that makes it possible to modify how the character looks like... not hair and makeup but shape of the face and nose and so, like when you the first time you make it so you can change it... that i kinda miss in the game.. hope you will look in to that thing..

Hopefully in a far future the Captains Quarters can become more than the Captains Quarters but also a small portion of the station: where you can see your ship being manufactured and there is actually rooms for the construction. But that is a distant future because lag will make this feature undesirable to those with slower computers. So until then, I have a suggestion that the bed in the CQ can be a log off icon instead of simply aesthetics. Perhaps items in the misc. part of the EVE market can actually be placed in the room and artwork and other aesthetics can then be cycled into the market. Other than that I find the CQ fit every purpose with the current setup of the game.

I disagree
while in CQ hitting the undock is the same as hitting the jump button that warps you to the gate then automaticly jumps once in range.

As it happens now it puts you back in you ships and undocks you.
Perhaps an animation of this hapening?

Here's a thought on a direction with gameplay that means something. There needs to be some activity that players feel they can boast about. This is where I think pets, slaves, androids or NPC crew somewhere in or around your CQ would begin to fill that role.

Now as it stands most EVE players

a) don't use CQ or ever want to
b) have NO interest in NPC companion systems (something other MMO's provide in droves)

So this idea isn't for anyone playing EVE now. But to begin luring a new kind of player. One that values WiS over FiS, and desires connectivity with their (boy)friend playing DUST or EVE while playing a game that is simple and provides faster easier rewards. I'm not really for this kind of gameplay in WiS, but it would bring a LOT of new players to EVE. AND if you could play this (without being able to fly) for FREE then these players may actually use NEX. Something the current EVE player has little to no interest in.

Give the companion/pet system a feeling of depth like the kind found in the farmvilles of the internet. Attracting this kind of player would allow CCP to grow much bigger and focus a much much larger effort the the subscribing EVE players. Let these "gamers" populate our cities and buy our stuff by purchasing isk through a smaller PLEX system.

The kind of deep game play that players want to see in WiS now should be incorporated in a way that only subscribers can access too. I actually don't much like my own idea right now, but I think it has potential to help EVE and CCP grow and help the subscribers get better content much faster with dev teams that can be covered with the extra income the micro-transactions could bring.
I also see pet "things" all over the internet and on devices and think there must be a big market for just this. Done in the right way it could be benefical to EVE.

TL:DR Allow free to play players who are not pod pilots to populate and use WiS areas with micro-transaction payment to buy player items.

Hi,

My Idea is: a Button to cancel the loading of captain's quarters.
When I accidentaly click the CQ button, I don't want to have to wait (sometimes several minutes), on something I don't need.

Even tough I like captain's quarters, it doesn't really ad a lot of function to the game at the moment, and the original GUI is just displaying a lot more information in a smaller space. Though I am looking forward to walking in stations.

Regards Bentus

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that book is an awsome player created content
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