When I started playing I was dismayed by the lack of a first-person view as well, but you'll soon come to appreciate how important the third-person view really is and realize how disadvantaged you'd be with a first-person view. I'd give the game a chance with at least one month of regular subscription before you give up on it. Everything becomes more immersive the more you start to understand about the space portion of the game.

door.. that way... we wont miss you

Hmz. I agree. If this already really annoys you, then EVE might not be the game for you.

As for why cockpit won't work, get into a real fleet fight and your limited FoV will heavily limit you.

MECHANICS - You cant see anything from a cockpit.

Kinda like asking why they use lightsabers instead of samurai swords in SWTOR, but not being interested in storyline related replies..

EVE is simply not a first person twitch space sim, period. The server engine ticks at 1 Hz, ie. any kind of twitch combat is nigh impossible at the moment. Lot of us like it that way, the combat is much more tactical plus it enables large fleet fights with up to 2k pilots involved. Something that would be very hard to pull off were it first person. Plus you would not even be able to appreciate the full glory of such an engagement.

1.) I came to EVE from the X-series. I love the X-series but EVE is nothing like it other then both are situated in space.

2.) Your post about the hectic battles in the X-series are just minor PvE engagement in EVE. Battles in the X-series can't be compared to PvP battles in EVE.

If in EVE you had a cockpit / bridge FoV and the FC would say to shoot pilot "x", all players in the fleet first have to turn their ships around to find that pilot. If you are talking about 200 vs 200 battles that's a lot of ships to look at and then find that one pilot you need to shoot. Current system (3rd person view + overview) works great in battles.

3.) I suggest you (as I did) approach EVE without the X-series mindset. I love space games, so tried EVE out. But I did it with a clear mind so I would see the great things the game had to offer me (and never regretted I did it).

What I find odd. Only after 90 minutes you already decided that you don't like EVE. I would suggest to at least play out your trial account. Give it 14 days to learn a bit about EVE and how it works. Maybe at the end of those 2 weeks you might have changed your mind.

Basically a front-first-person view would be useless or actively detrimental in a large % of Eve combat situations. The places where it would contribute to combat would be relatively small. CCP deliberately doesn't want Eve to be run like a fighter sim. So no cockpit view, sorry.

Cleaned up some posts that weren't on topic.

Also if you want a feature to be added or looked at and discussed please take it to the Features & Ideas section.

OP seems to be the sort who would walk onto a hockey pitch and demand to know why he can't use a baseball bat.

Picture FPV being allowed on frigate class vessles (or fighters...thinking outside the box), then imagine the full scale of immersion you would get while pointing and orbiting a capital ship (which would look HUGE in FPV) with your tackle squad, while your fleet is bombarding it from afar.

I'm not here to censor (unless I have to due to rules violation) i'm here to keep order and things on topic. If you feel a post should be looked at please go ahead and report it and we will take a look at it.

Not to my knowledge but if the topic goes that way I will have to put it in the proper section for that type of discussion. Since Developers do read the forums and I know a few do read the F&I section best just make it easy to find the "EVE Should have XYZ" threads instead of hunting all over the forums for them.

Eve will not have first person flying.

Deal with it.

Your the kind that will cry at everything

enable the advanced camera settings, press cntrl + F9. you will get your blissful flying. or you can learn eve and pvp and have a lot more fun. but to each their own, I'm not judging.