You character is in a pod - he can not walk around...

Do you think CCP should ever create interior cockpits for each ship? So you can walk around and mess about while warping and such? I personally think it would be awesome. Thoughts below!

Lies! I have slaves carrying my pod around all over my ship!

I would rather have corporation offices first so I can see my friends and salute them. Aslo your character is normally inside a pod of goo being "god like" when in their ship.

I answer to the OP, no, although I admit it would be cool. The problem with the pods is that we are, of course, stuck in them the entire time we are flying around. I have to wonder if, had CCP a chance to make the game all over again, they wouldn't just find another way that didn't involve pods. That way, we could view our ships as conventional, space-lore based vessels, where we stride pridefully around our bridge while fighting these titanic space battles (only to miraculously make it to an escape pod shortly before the vessel explodes) rather than locking all the characters inside these little metal eggs.

To be honest, though, my subconscious tends to imagine my character walking around on the bridge anyway, even if I know it isn't the case.

I answer to the OP, no, although I admit it would be cool. The problem with the pods is that we are, of course, stuck in them the entire time we are flying around. I have to wonder if, had CCP a chance to make the game all over again, they wouldn't just find another way that didn't involve pods. That way, we could view our ships as conventional, space-lore based vessels, where we stride pridefully around our bridge while fighting these titanic space battles (only to miraculously make it to an escape pod shortly before the vessel explodes) rather than locking all the characters inside these little metal eggs.

To be honest, though, my subconscious tends to imagine my character walking around on the bridge anyway, even if I know it isn't the case.

You character is in a pod - he can not walk around...

CCP has been pushing away from the pod concept for some time now (chronicles mentioning capsuleers walking around inside the ship during flight, pod-less consciousness transfer, emphasis that capsuleer ships have a sizable crew, disappearance of the decanting process in WiS, making you leave your pod every single time you dock at a station, ...) , imo it's only a matter of time until they'll get rid off the concept entirely (and redefine "pod" as "your ship's escape pod which you only enter when things turn bad").

"you spend almost all of your life are floating around in a dark capsule full of jelly with lots of cables plugged into your spine that feed you information from camera drones and ship sensors" just doesn't sell well.

"you are some bigshot ordering people around on your ship's bridge" does.

All you would see is goo and darkness, it's like the matrix type deal.

So there is no cockpit.

This is contradicted by most of the ship models, which clearly have a bridge (and some have multiple bridges).

This is contradicted by most of the ship models, which clearly have a bridge (and some have multiple bridges).

Holographical avatar projection systems built into the bridge. Great for face to face crew communications, ship status visualisations and scaring the crap out of people by walking through walls. Not to mention voyeurism on a scale unheard of by man.

CCP has been pushing away from the pod concept for some time now (chronicles mentioning capsuleers walking around inside the ship during flight, pod-less consciousness transfer, emphasis that capsuleer ships have a sizable crew

It's boring being stuck in the pod all the time. What would they do in this novels? Touch themselves all the time?

It's boring being stuck in the pod all the time. What would they do in this novels? Touch themselves all the time?

Lies! I have slaves carrying my pod around all over my ship!

I think it would be cool to board a friend's ship and operate a turret or something, aluminum falcon style... they're doing it in that Star Citizen so I guess we'll see how that is. Maybe it'll light a fire under CCP's a**.

It would be interesting to know, of the percentage of players who give it any thought at all, how many imagine themselves sitting in a metal egg full of goo on these ships, and how many imagine themselves standing on a command deck barking orders like something out of Star Wars/Trek. I belong decidedly to the latter camp, but I've been indoctrinated by years of sci-fi to think that way. I guess we'll never know.