Natya Mebelle
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.12.01 22:48:54 -
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You can skip the first part that is only idle rambling and continue reading after the horizontal line.
Quote:While hulls donGÇÖt sag or fatten over the year, they should present visual marks of longevity. They accumulate dust, dirt, and detritusGÇöa general accretion of filth earned by nothing more than the simple process of existing
I am seriously glad that you added the option to "clean ship" as a simple button press without any extra cost associated to it. But I still want to voice my opinion about your dirtyfication.
First, could we please get an option in the settings that says "auto-clean every time you dock" ? Because that would make sense, you know? If I am docking, I expect the station personnel to take care of my ship. The ship is being resupplied with all kinds of stuff and [insert other elaborate plausible reasons]. I like my housekeeping.
Even aside that, honestly, I don't quite understand why a ship should accumulate dirt over time at all. I mean, first there has to be dirt (space dust) around to begin with. Our ships don't fly on planets, and we also don't have a lot of material floating around in hard vacuum.
So if someone is not flying through dust clouds in missions or along asteroid belts, I question the availability of "space dust" anywhere else.
But hey, let's pretend we are doing plenty of mission running and/or mining in the same ship.
Don't we have, like, shields? And how about anti-adhesive coatings? Because I'm pretty sure it is an imperative to keep the ship hull clean because REASONS. In current existing technology, and even in nature, "self-cleaning" surfaces are a thing.
Sure, people will say "just press the stupid button". And again, I will voice my appreciation that the button EXISTS and it is not an artistic thing that is shoved down our throats. But I still would like to see an option that says "auto-clean ship in station". I do not want that extra click to be needed. I am a capsuleer. I have personnel for that kind of stuff.
Finally, I also hope the dirt does not accumulate over time but instead of time UNDOCKED.
If I undock after sitting in station for several days, and my ship is butt-ugly brown, I'll be laughing hysterically. *hint hint clean in station option hint hint*
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But let me try to warn you before you go to far in your future vision: If you plan to add Battlescars to the hull, please be very VERY careful about that.
I don't want to see a shield tanked ship that never gets a hit on armor to suddenly receive one battle scar after the other on the hull.
I do not want to see my ship littered with battlescars if I armor tank, but never go into hull, and always dock with full armor.
Battlescars should be something that are a reminder of situations when things got really heavy. You managed to get out with low hull and repair up? That should be eligible for a battlescar. But even those should be able to be removed completely with an option. Hull damage is serious business. We're talking about breaches, explosions inside, whatever.
Sure, you can question now how that could be "exploited" but the kill counter can be "exploited" in the same way. So what? It only matters what is in your own memories and those of the pilots who flew with you on all those days.
Cista2 wrote:But now that this is possible, it makes me lament that other thing which is not possible: shipbuilder's name on every ship in New Eden! I know it is not possible because ships are stackable regardless of maker, I just wish there was a way around it. I want to believe this is going to happen in the future. Kill marks and stuff are only the first steps. I'm sure there is a way to retain builder's notice even if the ship is repackaged, and stacks would maybe receive an internal note about which ship was built by whom in the stack or something.
I also look forward to a "who has flown this ship" list which might not live through repackaging, but that's fine honestly.
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in fact, retaining builder's note could even be possible as of now. Think about containers. What is a container? It holds items. If we start to think about a stack of ships as a container that cannot be opened but shows the number of the type of items on the outside (only one type in this case) then we should be good to go.
if builder's tag ever happens, I'd like to see a difference between personal (pilot name) or corporation (corp name if built with corp funds) |