3. Ability to assign passengers to your captains quarters. (They would come with assorted props and would change various places around the captain's quarters with each visit.)

5. Ship crew evaluation. A section within quarters or the station for customizing crew/potential crew, varying per area of space and standings with the corporation owning said station. A prior thread containing more veteran players' recommendations for crew ideas is be located here. Personal opinion: Crews should be able to affect an implant's worth of benefits to the ship. (These mechanics may open doors later for boarding actions, another idea that has been tossed around.)

(Could not find a topic on brainstorming captains quarters improves/character customization/lore integration and after posting some of these ideas in a few other topics, decided to bring them here. Now with a few more ideas included:)

DISCLAIMER:
EVE is forever a game of internet spaceships. And thanks to CCP those spaceships have gotten better and better, balanced, and fixed. With much more to come, time-dilation has in many ways fixed server stability from when Incarna first came out. They've done an amazing job catering to starships and fixing issues. Nine years playing and forever a PvPer, I can vouch.

But what they haven't catered very hugely to has been the players' characters mingling in the overall world:

Nine years and there's still a wall between the players and the massive lore-filled world that is EVE Online. In fact, there's been a decline of the characters' ability to express their uniqueness since Incarna's new character editor, especially within key racial features.

Yet we were finally able to venture outside the capsule. However, we're never allowed to show face beyond the captains quarters. The door leading out has always been the bane of internet spaceships' existence and so we've not prospected beyond.

Would love to set the mood toward expanding (slowly) into revisiting the world beyond the capsule, especially now that EVE Online truly is in a better place since Incarna. Would love to see other players' opinions and their own ideas yet also the critique of if these ideas will take away from the game.


PROPOSED IDEAS (will remove or add with enough feedback, bare in mind there are possibly topics already out there for certain ideas. Be sure to check the Rules of this forum for a list):

1. More character customization. Specifically toward the differences of the other races. (As in more wartat options with Minmatar, skimpier wear with Gallente, etc.) Would be interesting if included sub-racial exclusive items. (Khanid Cyberknight wear, Brutor deactivated slave collars.)

1a. Ability to sell racial specific customization items (provided within LP stores) to other races.

1b. Drug-induced/over-use appearance effects. (Would imagine in a menu following "Scars")

2. Ability to interact and get to know NPCs would be nice. (Such interviewing assets of missions, such as the militants you just scooped, the damsel, the freedom fighter. -could possibly open doors for alternative mission ending options, where instead of completing the mission for your corporation, you cater to another questionable party. [Could allow a slow building of standings toward other factions/corporations while taking a {skill modified} hit to your own corp's.])

2a. Ability to interact with your agents face-to-face, especially if from a place of dominance and fear-inducing. In time with enough standing, you could modify this reception to something more friendly.

3. Ability to assign passengers to your captains quarters. (They would come with assorted props and would change various places around the captain's quarters with each visit.)

4. Ability to further customize planets you've set up base on, even having standings with that world. Some improvements suggested may empower (/personalize) the world more than actually help the capsuleer out, yet improving standings with the planet and overall efficiency of the P.I. interactions.

5. Ship crew evaluation. A section within quarters or the station for customizing crew/potential crew, varying per area of space and standings with the corporation owning said station. A prior thread containing more veteran players' recommendations for crew ideas is be located here. Personal opinion: Crews should be able to affect an implant's worth of benefits to the ship. (These mechanics may open doors later for boarding actions, another idea that has been tossed around.)

6. Emotes for your character. Preferably ability to switch idle animations. (ex. /happy shifts idle animation until leaving quarters to character being overall happy.) (Would not appear in chat as /me is the current command used to imply an emote via chat.)

7. Corporate war rooms. (Integrates DUST characters.) Accessed remotely applies an occasional flickering animation to the character, implying your character is being holographically projected. Similar mechanics could be used for inviting players to capsuleer quarters.

8. Additional actions within captains quarters. (Everyone's wondered why you can't lay down in your own bed.)

9. Buyable props for captains quarters. (Preferably a trophy case of your favorite [account-linked?] DUST merc?) (Perhaps a display [/freezer] case for an assigned frozen corpse?)


More to come within monitored replies, expressed support, or enough hate.

personally i think its not logic to have a crew an a capsuler ship, because nobody would hire on when the captain of the ship doesnt care if it gets blown up as long as it doesnt hurt his isk balance to much.

Beatable games!

Chess
Draughts
Poker
Blackjack
Hell... Snooker and Pool
Freaking Dominoes!
Even one of those crappy Bioware betting games.
Better yet, rip of Magic The Gathering but spaceify it with Eve themes. Buy trading cards on the market to build your deck, winner takes the isk plus one random card from your deck.

Anything that you can conceivably put an isk bet on you winning vs someone else. Perhaps allow 3rd party betting, but mainly for the players involved. Any amount can be bet fror 1 isk to 10 trillion isk but both players put down the same amount. I know several exist outside game, but put them in stations.

I'm not sure if I missed it but I'm surprised nobody mentioned having the ability for multiple players to be in the same room together. Board room meeting? Card games with gambling? Or just hanging out in the corp office?

2. Ability to interact and get to know NPCs would be nice. (Such [as] interrogating assets of missions, such as the militants you just scooped, the damsel, the freedom fighter.

Supported!

Would be cool if one could have slaves in the CQ. Just my two cents.

Bumping for great justice!

EDIT: Updated with #10, the golden pod featured within collector's edition.

We shouldn't have to ask for this. This should have been a given.

CCP - If it's not done half-assed it's not done at all.

I gave up trying to get support for WiS/CQ, in fact it seems no matter what the customer
base asks for, POS/SOV/WiS/ etc etc, they seem bent on doing anything BUT what people are
asking for.

CCP gets these ideas, launches half finished features, then before they finish them they get
all excited about another great idea leaving us with a bunch of half finished features. Then
they come back to these features years later,, throw some cosmetic changes on them
and call it and "expansion"

Supported. Anything to get some attention back on Avatar gameplay. CCP have been ignoring their player base for too long.

As I was told in another thread, the WiS-wanting player base is "me and the 2 others" .. that's how CCP sees us I am starting to think.

WiS has a new name babe.

Its called Star Citizen.

And its awesome in the making.

Jesicasica Alba - I hear that WiS Player base is "me and just two others" crap also. I know CCP were hurt after Incarna. But there were posts from me, at least and others, back then supporting what had actually been done, but the vitriol after that was gross.

It's a shame. WiS was great. It just wasn't what the majority of people thought should have been in that expansion. So they vented on it. It in and of itself was great. There was a band wagon though - and the wagons message was different and not subjective.

But now that the bandwagon got their ship balancing, and a few years have passed. . . .Just maybe we can revisit some of the WiS stuff? I doubt it though.

TBH. The way the community blew up. If I'd been a programmer or designer working on Incarna. . . It would be with huge bitterness if I ever went back to that stuff. People lost their jobs at CCP because of the community reaction to WiS. And you really don't hear much from Hilmar anymore. . . You did before. Maybe he'd needed to move along and try something else - and tried to take his game with him. . . . But wasn't allowed. . . So he moved on and left the game behind - he's the CEO so that's telling - anyone for disinvestiture?

I'd love WiS to happen moar. I wish the reaction to Incarna had never happened. I hate people generally.

WoW - that actually really all came out there :O

It's going to be a long day.

But the one thing that narks me. . I'm still here. . I wonder how many of the hangers on who did burn Jita and all that still are? I'd feel better if there were still here. But the cynic in me thinks maybe not.

1. More character customization. Specifically toward the differences of the other races. (As in more wartat options with Minmatar, skimpier wear with Gallente, etc.) Would be interesting if included sub-racial exclusive items. (Khanid Cyberknight wear, Brutor deactivated slave collars.)

1a. Ability to sell racial specific customization items (provided within LP stores) to other races.

1b. Drug-induced/over-use appearance effects. (Would imagine in a menu following "Scars")

1c. More augmented limbs. (A trending request from Crime & Punishment)

2. Ability to interact and get to know NPCs would be nice. (Such interviewing/interrogating assets of missions, such as the militants you just scooped, the damsel, the freedom fighter. -could possibly open doors for alternative mission ending options, where instead of completing the mission for your corporation, you cater to another questionable party. [Could allow a slow building of standings toward other factions/corporations while taking a {skill modified} hit to your own corp's.])

2a. Ability to interact with your agents face-to-face, especially if from a place of dominance and fear-inducing. In time with enough standing, you could modify this reception to something more friendly.

3. Ability to assign passengers to your captains quarters. (They would come with assorted props and would change various places around the captain's quarters with each visit.)

4. Ability to further customize planets you've set up base on, even having standings with that world. Some improvements suggested may empower (/personalize) the world more than actually help the capsuleer out, yet improving standings with the planet and overall efficiency of the P.I. interactions.

5. Ship crew evaluation. A section within quarters or the station for customizing crew/potential crew, varying per area of space and standings with the corporation owning said station. A prior (and much older) thread containing more veteran players' recommendations for crew ideas can be located here. Brief personal opinion: Crews should be able to affect an implant's worth of benefits to the ship. (These mechanics may open doors later for boarding actions, another idea that has been tossed around.) (Present crew stats in lore, as provided by CCP, and link to one of CSM's recommendations of their use.]

6. Emotes for your character. Preferably ability to switch idle animations. (ex. /happy shifts idle animation until leaving quarters to character being overall happy.) (Would not appear in chat as /me is the current command used to imply an emote via chat.)

7. Corporate war rooms. (Integrates DUST characters.) Accessed remotely applies an occasional flickering animation to the character, implying your character is being holographically projected. Similar mechanics could be used for inviting players to capsuleer quarters.

8. Additional actions within captains quarters. (Everyone's wondered why you can't lay down in your own bed.)

9. Buyable props for captains quarters. (Preferably a trophy case of your favorite [account-linked?] DUST merc?) (Perhaps a display [/freezer] case for an assigned frozen corpse?)

10. Collector's Edition Pod actually visible in CQ. People paid for it.

Only after all ships, modules and items in Eve are worth using. Maybe then WiS can be made as additional content when the core game is 'completed' to a respectible degree where you see and have to adapt to all sorts of spaceships.

because different groups of devs are not able to work on different things.

CCP is more than just CCP Fozzie and CCP Rise..

Incarna was a good idea but badly implemented :(

What i would see fron Incarna and Walking in Station:

1. I need to be able after docking in station, to walk from my room to a hall /maybe some huge glass wall to see the beauty of space/, and i wanna go to a casino or a bar. There is your isk sink CCP think about it.

2. Nullsec space stations, a place where my aliance and corpmates can gamble or spit at eachother, or just sit at a window to see space... or we can knock on door locked for us with previous neutral owners of that station.

3. If a station is attacked then i wanna see a emergency light going on, red flash lights, a siren maybe, and i wanna hear the sound of the shooting how it lands on station.

4. Would be great if, after a great ammount of damage to station, maybe on the second timer, the stations hull could make some really scary sounds as hull will get breached, and hullbreach could lead to vacuum sucking avatars into space. Hellfire at station should do hell for occupants inside station too.

5. As for station games... When you get a fleet to kill your enemies, and in high sec or low sec they simply dock up and pvp chating in local, I wanna be able to dock in that station, find out where his Captains Quarters are, and by shooitng the exact point where he is, to force him to undock or be sucked out into space cause of hullbreach!

Well i know its not a simple task what im asking for, but hey.. Just for a second imagine the pure horror of the inhabitants of a station...
We would get an entire new game phenomenon. New kind of gameplay and what is best... we could tell stories of a station kill with hundreds of pilots sucked out of a station into space...

Oh how i would like to spit on some of you :)

Supported, altough wh dwellers wont enjoy this as much as k-dwellers

supporting it again

+some points

1st crew is still screwed so they need to get atleast lore that would make it reasonable for them to hire on
2nd Incarna WIS was totally scrap because u only had the cq and that was all. WiS isnt the main topic of eve but a great extension so ccp should release it over time maybe one feature per expension and the rest is focused on spaceships.

Aren't crews already heavily integrated into the lore? Even capsuleers doing interviews of them?

Really eve is *not* WiS and stuff to add to that is simply a different game all together, and quite frankly a waste of dev time.

Yet another 8 months old noob lecturing and dictating to everyone else what EVE is and is not

yes they are but be reasonable would u hire on to a captain who doesnt mind that his ship gets blown up because he doesnt die but the crew especially on subcaps gets blown up with no chance of a 2nd life

People are gonna hate me but, instanced station environments.
1000s of people can be in a station but a client will only load 50 to 100 avatars

priority for loading avatars would be:
corp
fleet
alliance
positive +100 standings
positive +50 standings
on watch list
+/-0 standings (neutral)
negative -50 standings
negative -100 standings
Blocked (never loads this avatar)

instances to create:

corp instance (office in station required for this instance)
alliance instance (alliance executor office required for this instance)
trade instance (instance promenade like instance for trade/relaxation)
personal (invite only) instance (used for missions and the like)
fleet instance (must be in a fleet)

People are gonna hate me but, instanced station environments.
1000s of people can be in a station but a client will only load 50 to 100 avatars

Can we get the clothes featured in Rubicon advertisements?

Still waiting for news of Avatar content, as usual.

If i was to ever walk around a station. I would do it in my pod!

Really eve is *not* WiS and stuff to add to that is simply a different game all together, and quite frankly a waste of dev time.

If WiS or something similar became necessary I would desub that very day.

Can we get the clothes featured in Rubicon advertisements?

Pssst, OP: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=249158

Supported, altough wh dwellers wont enjoy this as much as k-dwellers

How about captains quarters in mobile deployable structures or ship maintenance arrays so we can change or refit ships and enter field offices and war rooms to oversee ops with the added plus of making you more vulnerable away from the ship and pod.

I support the whole WiS ideas here.

It should be important for the whole Wis Experience to become a succes that you can not only do the same things as while ship spinning, but there should also unique things that can only be done while WiS.

Things that spring to mind are casinos, social interaction, pit fights, walkways, warrooms, corporation headquarters with stunning view of the spae/moon/ planet outside.

Introduce an smuggling economy that takes place inside shady areas of stations.

Outside stations, walking in ruined spaceships or stations searching for salvage could be a great replacement for the archeology minigame, which is now an exact copy of the hacking minigame but with different loot.

Work on it CCP! It has great potential!

Read the thread and couldn't find any gameplay-related ideas?

I'm not against WiS, quite the contrary, but implementing it in a way that is somehow connected to the current New Eden gameplay is the the hard part.

Try to think of the average EVE player, who subs to the game so he can fly awesome spaceships with his mates. He socializes primarily via voice comms and chat channels while doing stuff in space. Now to make WiS successful, you need a reason for these guys to dock up and stop playing the game as they currently love to play- what is compelling and awesome enough? How does it tie to the existing game universe?

I support the whole WiS ideas here.

It should be important for the whole Wis Experience to become a succes that you can not only do the same things as while ship spinning, but there should also unique things that can only be done while WiS.

Things that spring to mind are casinos, social interaction, pit fights, walkways, warrooms, corporation headquarters with stunning view of the spae/moon/ planet outside.

Introduce an smuggling economy that takes place inside shady areas of stations.

Outside stations, walking in ruined spaceships or stations searching for salvage could be a great replacement for the archeology minigame, which is now an exact copy of the hacking minigame but with different loot.

Work on it CCP! It has great potential!

ill just say this now... WiS will not be comming for another year or 2 as there is still the rebalance to finish, possable new ships, fixing SOV, fixing low/null, "fixing" POS's.. and much more