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So I was sitting bored at home thinking on what CCP could create that could both increase the playerbase, generate them some more $$$, not make the playerbase rage, bring back old players, attract a different demagraphic of players and would allow people to play eve when they're away from home.
There is something like three times as many cellphones in the world as computers so this was the obvious path to follow. I know there are applications people have made that let you manage your skills and stuff, but I was thinking that a complete app from CCP that allowed all the administration functions of your normal accounts plus a few new games/ mechanics would be a great start.
Obviously the problem with phones is the diversity of power available, so any new mechanics or games would need to be pretty basic so that a wider range of people could play.
Ideas
- Main Account Character Administration
- Ship Crews
- New Science, Research and Manufacturing Oppurtunities
- Pod/Fighter Racing
- Gambling
- Ingame Chat and Eve Voice
- Ship Spinning and Item Database
- Eve History, Roleplaying and Eve Novels
Character Administration
View and manage your pod pilot bios, skills, mail and mailing lists, chat channels, corporation, corporation roles and bio
View your pod pilot's Market Orders, Science and Industry jobs, Pos Status, Shares (Not sure if you'd want to allow people to be able to manage these)
Talk in your pod pilot's corp, personal and alliance chat channels
Ship Crews
The idea behind this feature is that you get a satisfying but not completely insane spreadsheets in space on cellphone mini game to play when you're away from eve, either at work or on holiday and away from an installed client.
Access to this feature would be from cellphones, tablet pcs/ ipads, or via a normal web browser.
Depending on your skills trained, you could have a limited amount of characters (10 maybe per account?)
Crew can be fitted onto ships/ pos/ labs/ command centers and give bonuses and/or penalties depending on their skills and class.
Each Ship, POS, Station, Lab and Command Center would have a limit to how many crew that can be fitted, relevant to its size and what it was.
Crew start off as a particular class and get skills specific to the type you chose, but they'd be able to cross train or specialise just like pod pilots do in eve now.
If you have a crew member fit to a ship you're currently flying, and its in the first slot, your voice notifications would change to match the sex and race of that crew member.
Base Crew Class Types and Skill Catagories + Bonuses/ Penalties
- Command - Gang and Corporation Management
- Engineering - Capacitor and Power
- Electronics - CPU, Electronic Warfare
- Offensive - Gunnery and Missiles
- Propulsion - Speed and Agility
- Defensive - Shield, Hull and Armour
- Research & Industry - Research, Science and Manufacturing
Primary income for ship crew (other than selling items they've made or researched, isk they've won from gambling or racing) would be from wages recieved from renting them out to crew other people's ships or their pos/ station/ command centers/ labs.
While you'd not be able to actually see whats happening to the ship they're currently flying on from a view like in the eve client, you could have some prerendered interior shots aswell as relevant notifications and news + map tools. Having a crew member on someone elses ship would also give you the oppurtunity to sabotage that ship, or to gather data from enemy forces.
New Science, Research and Manufacturing Oppurtunities
Introduce new levels of manufacturing, both final items and parts of manufactuing processes - T1 Blueprints, Learning Skills, Implants, Dust Items etc.
Crews can be fit into POS, PI Command Centers, Labs and Stations to either research, invent or manufacture these new items.
Pod/Fighter Racing
Mini game where you can use your crew to pilot Fighter Bombers, Fighters and Drones and race for glory and isk, either in station arenas or on planets.
Gambling
Incrimentally introduce gambling extensions that would allow you to gamble away your isk.
Ingame Chat and Eve Voice
The ability to communicate in ingame chat channels or with eve-voice outside of the game, logged in with either with you main characters or your ship crew accounts.
Ship Spinning and Item Database
Spin ships on our phones, in browsers or on tables/ ipads, because it would be cool.
Access to all the items in the database via a device that isn't your pc so that you can save screen realestate.
Eve History, Roleplaying, Eve Novels, News and Devblogs
Give us Access to everything in the title from this app.
Footnote.
This idea doesn't include anything you'd normally see with the ships in space full client, atleast not in the traditional 3d mode. Fighter racing and ship spinning would probably be the only things that would be rendered in a 3d engine until phones and technologies caught up. Everything else would be 2d.
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Originally Posted by t'amber
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