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Daesdemona
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:10:00 -
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Anyone think they should be a LOT bigger?
if not, battleships should dock externally to smaller ones.
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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:13:00 -
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Agreed, it is kinda funny when my Megathron travels through the docking bay of a station and the "conning tower" or bridge of my ship passes through solid matter, because the bay is not wide or tall enough...
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Daesdemona
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:23:00 -
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looks like magic when you dock to the small oves and you go into a tower that is half the diameter of your ship :)
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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:32:00 -
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Their mass is reduced and phlank (or whatever its called) technology is implemented so that all ships no matter the size can fit in any station...
Lol, its about the only way to explain it I guess. It would be nice to have them dock externally like you mentioned above. It would be quite a sight to see a fleet of battleships docked externally on a station...
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Daesdemona
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:33:00 -
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Edited by: Daesdemona on 05/09/2003 16:33:57
plus, some stations should just be huge, maybe wrapped around planets...
<--Brainfart.
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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:37:00 -
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I wonder how it will be with Titans when they finaly arrive. Will they dock in stations or externally, hmmm  ...
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Daesdemona
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Posted - 2003.09.05 16:39:00 -
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titans canoot dock IN stations I believe.
I read it somewhere, maybe it was on the back of a cereal box.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.09.05 17:06:00 -
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Some stations are wrapped around huge asteroids.
As for the actual size difference that's when your imagination kicks in and compensates, as usual...
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Shock
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Posted - 2003.09.05 17:14:00 -
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Edited by: Shock on 05/09/2003 17:15:24
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Their mass is reduced and phlank (or whatever its called) technology is implemented so that all ships no matter the size can fit in any station...
Stations can use that Plack tech, since that would mean the station would go boom the second an indy with sec cans would dock.
I think the devs kinda designed the stations and the ships in hte wrong order.
One of the Gallente stations even has no exit.
And almost every single one has a too small one.
I think some stations should be 5 to 10 times the volume they have now.
Especially the Gallente and Caldari research stations are too small.
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Daesdemona
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Posted - 2003.09.05 17:23:00 -
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They should also have outposts where big ships cannot dock
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Krowe
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Posted - 2003.09.05 17:43:00 -
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It would be interesting if a station was full and no one else could dock and had to do it externally.
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Winterblink
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Posted - 2003.09.05 18:53:00 -
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I'll bet you one isk that the next peek of the week will talk about the shrinking field we pass through when we dock. Entitled, "Honey, I Shrunk The Megathron"
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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.09.05 18:59:00 -
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I'll bet you one isk that the next peek of the week will talk about the shrinking field we pass through when we dock. Entitled, "Honey, I Shrunk The Megathron"
rofl, good one 
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Arvis Ottoman
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Posted - 2003.09.05 19:01:00 -
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looks like magic when you dock to the small oves and you go into a tower that is half the diameter of your ship :)
The magic of spandex.
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Eurydike
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Posted - 2003.09.05 19:03:00 -
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They already made some stations bigger a few patches ago, that's why I fly through them when docking/undocking...
Very ugly and annoying.
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SkyQuake
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Posted - 2003.09.05 19:05:00 -
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The Gallenete Titan undocked/docked at a station in Beta. I dont think any ship will dock externally in EVE. But it wuld look good and be more realistic.
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Winterblink
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Posted - 2003.09.05 19:11:00 -
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They already made some stations bigger a few patches ago, that's why I fly through them when docking/undocking...
Very ugly and annoying.
Must be nice! I just keep bonking into them and sticking like they're magnetic with a surface of fly paper.
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Eurydike
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Posted - 2003.09.05 19:15:00 -
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The "hanging" at a station only happen at this one Caldari station type for me.
That's why I activate my AB's and bring some space between the thing and my ship before initiating warp.
Still annoying, but less annoying than crawling alongside its wall until I'm free. :/
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Tim Maser
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Posted - 2003.09.05 19:57:00 -
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It would be nice to make stations bigger, and some that are like a ring around a planet. But a quick way to solve for ships that are too big is just to have them appear further from the station, just outside of the exit tunnel.
But even with a smaller ships, the game sometimes puts my them halfway into the exit floor or roof. Also, the camera is always placed behind the ship during undocking, this is very uggly when you see the inside of a station and not your ship. It should be looking at the front of the ship so the camera isn't inside the station.
Even further it more of an immersion killer when you dock and it fails and you ship slowly will fly through it to the center.
There are so many things to complain about, like even when you are in the exit tunnel, correctly, suddently you'll have a faster ship fly through you from behind.
If larger ships docked outside, then for smaller ships, they should revamp that too. Like instead of the that huge area your ship floats (which would cost a fortune in real life to pay for), have a giant docking bay where you ship and others are there at the same time. Then if you have more than one ship, you should have to pay to rent a larger garrage that shows all your ships and crates to simulate where your items are stored. There'd be a limite to how many ships can store too.
But all this would require a whole new game.
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Yangja Isuko
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Posted - 2003.09.05 20:21:00 -
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i don't think you people talking about a ringstation around a planet understand the sheer scale of something like that. and i very much doubt it would fit into the eve universe, what with economics being such a big role. a ringworld type construction, even if around a planet would be a MASSIVE undertaking, far bigger than a fleet of titans, and there would really be no point since there's 5000 starsystems out there that can easily provide the output of whatever that ringworld would be producing a millionfold.
got it? good
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The Wretch
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Posted - 2003.09.05 20:54:00 -
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Ah another good point. Space station need to be at least 10-20x bigger then they are now.
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Tigrana Blanque
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Posted - 2003.09.05 20:59:00 -
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Try zooming out. Your ship gets smaller, the station hardly does.
I think the current 'scale' is just foreshortening because the camera drone is (so to speak) right 'next' to the ship so the perspective tricks you.
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Tim Maser
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Posted - 2003.09.05 21:12:00 -
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Well, it's not the postion of the camera drone since what they are talking about is the ship actually being bigger than the exit of the station, so it starts clipping into everything.
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Alexia Te'Len
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Posted - 2003.09.05 21:34:00 -
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I wanna fly around in the stations. 
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jello
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Posted - 2003.09.05 21:41:00 -
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docking should be made tougher.
Anyone remember elite???? travelled for miles and the smash your ship into the side of the station.............wow was it frustrating!!
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HKZ2
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Posted - 2003.09.05 21:45:00 -
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Edited by: HKZ2 on 05/09/2003 21:51:21
Edited by: HKZ2 on 05/09/2003 21:48:35
How about making ships warp to a certain point 2k to 6k from a station entrance so instead of having to warp directly towards the targetable center of the station you reach the gate entrance then auto docking can continue aligning your ship and bringing it cloes to gate, a procedure you can cancel hitting "esc" if you want to save time or disabling it from the menus, all that could make station interaction look more realistic by making the ships avoiding to pass through those objects with the help of the client. It would look more realistick until they design a collision avoiding model in future for large orbital objects at least it wouldnt make me care if the station is large or not. And what about those huge stations it seems you have to get very close in the center of them to dock like 2,5k while the stations are really huge and show no entrances, its ridicullus they havent got rid of those yet.
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docking should be made tougher.
Anyone remember elite???? travelled for miles and the smash your ship into the side of the station.............wow was it frustrating!!
Im all for that kind of elite-like interaction, but should be able to deactivate it from the menu or else the frequent station visitors would get mad. As for us hardcore space funs, it wouldnt matter at all if there was no turn off feature
Now let the ussual rant follow..let them implement the serious issues first..yada yada yada..like they ever going to do that..ehh whatever..
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KhaelOfAnubis
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Posted - 2003.09.05 21:45:00 -
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"Some stations are wrapped around huge asteroids"
 Can i mine those  , but seriously it would be better if the stations be made bigger.
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