Hah! Reading on my tablet, totally missed that part in the OP about being forced to listen unless you attacked it. Now thats just lol. No dev in their right mind would do that. Even the brief example I mentioned you could just dissable the stream. Forcing people to listen to it... yep it's up there among top bad suggestions ever assaulted against GD.

Er, not sure this argument works well Sol. Screeching at the frivolous proposal stage indicates it's a great idea. Watch now, it'll get ninja added to the Crius Release (aka 'The Highsec Apocalypse'). New ambient noise sound effect 'wailing' background noise.


*cough* tooltips *cough*

see my above reply to Solecist.

Any easily scannable object that has some kind of purpose and meaning to the person that anchored it can make a good PVP driver, even if you had an 'off' switch for that damn trance crap he's broadcasting.

You really only care about yourself hu?

In space nobody can hear you stream.

In case you missed the reply I was referring to.

how it affects the human

It would just be another way of socializing with people that share your passions while you're both playing the same game

The horror.

See my sig to make a complaint on humanitarian grounds... we outsource all that now

This socialising can be done less intrusive,
simply by talking in local and linking to the youtube vids of your music.

A good mic and solid TS connection and I can do this for free without bothering people in local

Not really, no. I was thinking for example of jumping into a new system while solo roaming, hearing music that you like*, then chatting with the dude that's broadcasting it. Way to meet new people.

I don't usually type 'any [insert huge list of artists since I personally love good quality music of all genres] fans in here?' in local of every single system I jump in. And I also enjoy discovering new artists I've never heard about yet.


*Because I'd have the option turned on, you'd have it perma-off obviously... ah, boring details...

At its core, the point is to give players a powerful and easy-to-use tool to creatively influence the social space around them (corp, fleet, grid, system).

The tool could be freely used ''for good' to enrichen a corp or fleet identity or create a pleasing ambiance for everyone to share, or 'for bad' to blast intimidating war-music into the enemy fleet's ears or even just to plss-off the locals, daring them to warp to the music source and shoot it down.

Possibilities would be endless, though sure you may find them obnoxious or distracting to core EVE gameplay. But just imagine your favorite movie without its soundtrack.

And who streams the music? CCP?
They don't have unlimited bandwith.

Seriously, you can have this already by starting your own community for it
and advertising for it. No need for CCP to get involved at all.
Needs a bit of coding, though.

Can you tell us even more?

That's it - pretty simple actually.

Was hoping somebody would be inspired by the concept and improve/build upon it.

Not much enthusiasm so far TBH, but we'll see.

Imagine you could listen to your own personal playlist while playing EVE... Yes that's what mp3 players are for BUT...

Imagine you could broadcast your playlist to all your fleet... Nice, huh?

Now, imagine you could broadcast your playlist to everybody on-grid with you, say via a 'SpaceAmp' utility highslot mod... Ride of the Valkyries, anyone? Or maybe airhorn Wrecking Ball if you're in PL...

What about broadcasting it to the entire system, with a 'SpaceAmp' deployable? Make your home system rock! Or funky, or classy jazz...

Just imagine travelling through New Eden and listening to a different musical style in each system... And praising (or disapproving of) the locals' tastes in local chat...

Do you prefer your space slient? No problem, scan the 'SpaceAmp' and shoot it down! Then maybe replace it with your own, possibly playing 'The Sound of Silence'...


If CCP made a deal with any music streaming website that allowed you to create your playlist out of thousands of songs, developed a simple EVE-client interface (also handling the in-game broadcast 'rules') and let the partner handle all the streaming (no additional EVE server load), would you pay PLEX for the service?

For the sake of discussion, say 1 PLEX gave you 20 hours of streaming 'rights'. You get to decide all the songs, when to play them and who (if anyone) to broadcast them to, also using in-game tools to interact with other players (modules, deployables).