There is no bridge, you're suspended in a pod filled with jelly.

well observed, no there is no bridge.. thats why i like the idea about a ship bridge, even with the ability to go into the cargo room.
if i am mining or just spinning ship, then why not have a bridge like we have this opportunity choosing Captains Quarters...


jelly, what wrong with jelly.... jelly is easy digestible

Sorry but that's not how MY pod works.

Awesome.

Nice way to speak to a fellow WiS supporter who was relating how it appeals to certain players (like myself) to not be encased in a vat of goo every second we are in our ships.

Awesome.

Nice way to speak to a fellow WiS supporter who was relating how it appeals to certain players (like myself) to not be encased in a vat of goo every second we are in our ships.

CCP says your character is sitting in a metal egg filled with goo, probably tastes like chicken.

Perhaps living in Iceland it is a common dream to be ensconced in a vat of warm goo.

Ive heard before that our ships do have crews on board. A lot of ships appear to have a bridge. If our consciousness is how we are able to see our ship from the outside as we do now, then its not too far fetched to allow us to view the game from with in the ship's bridge. Currently we can zoom in to our hull and zoom out. Id like to view the game (at times of mining, traveling, sight seeing) from the view of the crew in the bridge.

When i first heard of EVE, i hoped it might be a first person manually piloting game. The lack of that level of immersion, i have no problem living without, but I would welcome some further immersion in the game.

There is no bridge, you're suspended in a pod filled with jelly.

Afaik the pod is completely encased in a structure inside the ship, meaning you cant even open the pod in its normal position.
It also means that if you really want to leave your pod it has to be removed from the interface chamber and moved to another room, that sounds like a bit of a bad idea just saying.

Since ships are apparently unable to save the configurations a pilot makes, leaving the pod would mean that all the nice boni from your skills would vanish the moment you disconnect from your ship.

Also just for the records, the CQ we have right now is just so damn stupid from an in character perspective. Its only function is probably to allow ccp to bill the carbon stuff they need for future projects as cost for Eve to make said future projects look better.

Honestly why would anybody leave their invulnerable demigod throne to trip along a walkway with no safeguards and a huge pit below just after regaining your bodies senses?

There is a bridge. Pod pilots are just not on it. Ships that have Pod Pilots still have crews. They just dont require as many people to run the ship as a ship without a pod pilot.

There is a bridge. Pod pilots are just not on it. Ships that have Pod Pilots still have crews. They just dont require as many people to run the ship as a ship without a pod pilot.

Sorry but that's not how MY pod works.

I have a normal captain's chair on a normal bridge with an extensive crew taking care of most of the ship's functions.

It's only critical I be in my chair, where I am plugged in, when a fight breaks out. The pod will surround and enclose the chair when a fight ensues. It still fills with 'goo' as needed to protect the occupant in such a small craft during warp, but I'm considering the technology that makes even that unnecessary.

I'm sorry you guys are still stuck with whatever antiquated technology requires you to be in your pods from the moment you leave station. Get with the times.


(P.S. The whole goo-pod was one of the things that kept me away from this game for years! It's not in any way sexy, exciting, or relatable, and in my opinion a pretty stupid idea outside of being an easy escape route from a rapidly dying ship. I'm sure CCP, knowing you couldn't leave your ship at the time, simply wanted people to feel like they were their ship, the ship was their character, their avatar. Well with WiS (which drew me back to the game - even though it's currently severely limited) and the plans they've expressed for it, where you are NOT your ship, but a real person who walks around and has real relations and a real life, the goo-pod tends to get in the way. Once I realized I could simply write much of the goo-pod out of my own fiction, I found the game more appealing. )

Well I don't recall reading anything about capsuleer ships not having bridges, though I haven't read all the fiction.

I'm going to assume that they do have bridges and if some fiction says somewhere that they don't, then regardless MINE do, and I have much more advanced pod technology that allows me to remain out of pod until I plug in to my captain's chair for a battle at which point the pod encapsulates me & chair should a hull breach seem imminent. I'll even still permit it to fill with a protective (chicken flavored) 'goo'.

Though how I still wind up naked in space after a podding, I've yet to explain.

My biggest concern with including bridges in game for our avatars would be them all looking the same regardless of which ship we are in. I already hate that EVERY empire's docking bays look identical no matter how different the station looks on the outside.

As for ship crews. I did read somewhere the crew compliment of various ship sizes. Capitals can have thousands of crew members to operate such a complex ship. And usually when a ship is destroyed a certain percentage of crew are able to escape in escape pods. Sadly though, the one's who die do not have clones to be reanimated into.