I would like a bar where you can sit down and share stories with other pilots, maybe play some betting games like pool or poker, and meet new people.

But I would rather like to be able to customize and do more with my ships, instead of play barbie with my toon. Since this is a game about...you know, Space Ships!

... and market manipulation, and intrigue, and politics, and betrayal, and corporate organization/security, and scams, and any number of other things that have little (if anything) to do with space ships.

Yes, space ships are one of our primary tools for interacting with each other and the universe, but hardly the only one. There are distinct advantages for having more.

I would like a bar where you can sit down and share stories with other pilots

You mean like on the forums?

How cool would it be if you took your ship to amarr, jita
And dock up walk out of your ship and see tons of ship
In the dock bay of other characters ship and walking in
The space station while you can greet other characters.
Try to picture it just like you see your character walking
In the hanger but in a huge stations where you see shops and other
Players walking around. Like a huge mall where you can go shopping
For clothes ship modifications, luxury ships for style or even walk
In to meet your friends in a bar station and have a drink.
That to me would be phenomenal game experience in eve and attract
New players because of the social out come of it.

I know that will never happen but I think if it were to happen
More ppl would get highly addicted to eve online.

What do you think and what are your thoughts on that?

Or chat?

Both of which are impersonal. Talking to someone face to face seems better to me. Plus huddling around a table while a guy tells a story (that most likely he made up or has exaggerated) has more atmosphere.

Both of which are impersonal. Talking to someone face to face seems better to me. Plus huddling around a table while a guy tells a story (that most likely he made up or has exaggerated) has more atmosphere.

And it would allow more possibilities of initiating small talk and meeting new people. I mean, sure you can do that in local chat but it's hard to do it unless you're in a system with lots of people like Jita but those places have tons of spammers filling up the chat so I mostly ignore local there.

So, go to a real bar and do that, or, go play second life if you have the overpowering need to get your "virtual" freakishness and role-playing groove on.

There's nothing "personal" about interaction when you are pretending to be someone in a pretend bar via an Avatar.

Yeah you're starting to get into creepy territory. I'm personally not into this idea.

How cool would it be if you took your ship to amarr, jita
And dock up walk out of your ship and see tons of ship...

Gee Alice. What do you think ??? Shall we ?

You know what would be great? A mechanic that allows you to murder and steal from other capsuleers in stations.

more social elements could definitely be nice in this game. WiS, easier corp creation/hiring, etc. it would not distract from nullsec in any way, CCP is going to throw money away on other things regardless, whether it be DUST or WoD or WiS. Might as well make something that will attract more people to EVE, to keep it going and being the primary focus of CCP.

How cool would it be if you took your ship to amarr, jita
And dock up walk out of your ship and see tons of ship
In the dock bay of other characters ship and walking in
The space station while you can greet other characters.
Try to picture it just like you see your character walking
In the hanger but in a huge stations where you see shops and other
Players walking around. Like a huge mall where you can go shopping
For clothes ship modifications, luxury ships for style or even walk
In to meet your friends in a bar station and have a drink.
That to me would be phenomenal game experience in eve and attract
New players because of the social out come of it.

I know that will never happen but I think if it were to happen
More ppl would get highly addicted to eve online.

What do you think and what are your thoughts on that?

Agreed, but i should also have the opportunity to steal your shiny ship from right under your nose.
I just walk to your hangar and jump in, undock it and fly away.

I'm just saying we spend most of the time in spaceships (capsuleers and the players) and yet we can't even give our ships a simple paint job or put decals on them. I care more about what my ship looks like than what my guy looks like since I will be staring at my ship for 99% of the game.

To me, that is more important than walking around in stations with more character customization and emotes I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have more WiS stuff, I'm just saying it's not as important as some other stuff I would like to see.

5 years ago, Torfi made a presentation showing "ambulation". He walked around a station, showed "slots" that could be rented for commerce, corporation meeting rooms where a corp could hire a bot to handle greetings etc. He showed us a bar that had dancers and such as well as 3d minigames with holographic avatars sort of like battle chess. CCP removed all these videos form the website/youtube channel. This is the only one I can find and it is poor quality and does not show all the things Torfri showed.

I think this is more or less what you are typing about... previewed 5 years ago...

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/47959

Heh, they removed them eh. Clever move.

The initial costumes created by artists "were very gamey - although they were cool, we felt that you wouldn't see this in a science-fiction film". Out they went, replaced by a costume designers' work that could actually be made in fabric, accurate down to the stitching. Similarly, the environment designs created by "level artists from popular FPS games" were scrapped for the work of architects and industrial designers, since stations wouldn't be used for combat, but shopping and social interaction

How cool would it be if you took your ship to amarr, jita
And dock up walk out of your ship and see tons of ship
In the dock bay of other characters ship and walking in
The space station while you can greet other characters.
Try to picture it just like you see your character walking
In the hanger but in a huge stations where you see shops and other
Players walking around. Like a huge mall where you can go shopping
For clothes ship modifications, luxury ships for style or even walk
In to meet your friends in a bar station and have a drink.
That to me would be phenomenal game experience in eve and attract
New players because of the social out come of it.

I know that will never happen but I think if it were to happen
More ppl would get highly addicted to eve online.

What do you think and what are your thoughts on that?

You know what would be great? A mechanic that allows you to murder and steal from other capsuleers in stations.