Originally by: Vincent Athena

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Originally by: Destination SkillQueue

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Originally by: xaja

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would seem to make sense to adapt the POD lore as Incarna gets released...

POD's were initially just a crutch concept, introduced to explain technological/design restrictions in the game.

To avoid howls over blasphemy or inconsistency, you might want to have some scientist invent new, much more flexible pods with easy entry and exit doors.

My preference would be to turn them into something you only get into if your ship is about to explode. Otherwise you lounge around your ship, drinking quafe and eating synthetic chicken bbq, while running some scans.

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Yes they were used as a crutch in the beginning, but now the pod is one of the basic backbones of the EVE universe. I'm not sure what inconsistency you refer to ........

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The inconsistency is that up to now getting into and out of a pod has been portrayed as a long, difficult process that is physically and psychologically stressful. Now, to keep docking and undocking times unchanged, yet allow an avatar to be on the balcony, it seems getting into and out of the pod will be fast and easy. Its a big change, and without an explanation it is immersion breaking for existing players or anyone reading existing lore.

There are things that CCP can do, like say new pods just became available that contain the decanting equipment on board, and a new drug relieves the stress, allowing fast ingress and egress. Also, say that our implants have a wireless access mode, that allows limited functions even when we are out of the pod and includes a system to transfer our minds to the med clone even if we die outside the pod.

That way you still need to be in the pod to properly fly the ship, but being out of it is not such a big deal.

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