One visitor suggested the idea about dust fights occurring in stations and maybe in inside your very ship via boarding parties. The CCP rep actually did like the idea, but left it to the players to decide on rather it should be persuade. I say it should, and I want everyone to band together and petition for it to be put into effect. Place your post supporting or rejecting the notion. To prevent any confusions as to your position, start your post with either "STATIONS", "SHIPS", "BOTH" or "REJECT" before your post. Show your support and convince CCP to add station combat and ship boarding matches!!!
Petition for station and/or ship boardings!
23 Mar 12
'STATIONS'
Ships will never be worth the effort in taking them (bar the Supercaps and maybe Capitals)
And I have never seen a 'opening' for a lack of a better word
that would allow for the boarding to happen and more importantly having said boarded ship last more than a few seconds tops a few mins if a Capital.
24 Mar 12
STATIONS
Nomethebarbarian is right in the ship boarding, it doesn't fit lore wise and won't be useful at all. The stations though is a pretty awesome idea. I can imagine fighting in a station with a ship shooting thru the glass.
24 Mar 12
STATIONS with chance of draing venting into space through hacking. This would have friendly fire on, meaning they would have to sacrifice players if they could not hold areas that were not vented.This could be ignored. More winning conditions is always fun.
24 Mar 12
Would turn the game into a coridoor fragfest, no thanks can play cod for that sort of game.
Want a proper open battle dont mind clearing a few buildings with tactics but not an entire capital ship or station it would be like tunnel, stair, walkway, repeat,repeat ,repeat.
24 Mar 12
Mush, EVE stations are designed apparently with no thought of minimizing interior space - why else is, for instance, the captain's quarters almost two stories? Why are there these massive open areas? Station interiors are more open than any building I can imagine - which is about exactly what I want; I'm imagining grand atria separated by wide walkways, with intermittent, claustrophobic service tunnels.
The point isn't to imitate CoD - the point is to fight in any tactical environment. CoD has open maps too.
24 Mar 12
Never been in an eve station so nice to be told they are not as I thought only tried a free go a loooong time ago and couldn,t put the time in to get a lot out of it.
I know cod has open maps but you dont need tactics to run and gun something that the console has been lacking for a while in my opinion.
Can't imagine many eve players being impressed by having there pride and joy boarded though unless it was an npc ship.
24 Mar 12
Fuck yes for both. I'm certain there are ways of working in ship boarding without disregarding the lore (e.g, emps,l special equipment to protect against venting etc). I want to headshot me some Eve players, and I'm sure others do too. :D
We are the ship
we don't fear death
we would just self-destruct the ship or get our corpmates to pew pew the ship.
24 Mar 12
STATIONS hell yes!!
And to those worrying that it would all be corridors and rooms..
Stations in Eve are unfathomably large, like the size of London or New York city.. some of the gallente models have domed farmland visible from space.
To give a rough idea of the size we're talking about.. here's a comparison between a Rohk battleship and the Golden Gate bridge...
That battleship can easily fit in a docking bay of any station in Eve, so you could feasibly host full scale aerial battles in some of the "open" areas...
25 Mar 12
Stations (to a degree)
Highsec/lowsec stations: no. There is no way you could take over npc owned stations, for so many reasons that it's almost not worth getting into. The biggest reason though, would be that they're static assets in EVE that are extremely important for players. Also the empires wouldn't let you. Also they have their own defenses and private armies guarding them inside. Also all high-tech weaponry has built in safeguards that prevent it from being fired in a station. Etc, etc.
Nullsec player-owned outposts: YES! You want station fighting, then the outposts are the place to do it. It should be a key point of holding sovereignty over a system.
Ships: IT DOSEN'T WORK. I understand that most of the people suggesting ship boarding don't play eve or have familiarity with eve lore or technology, but seriously: no.
Also, Butler, here's something to think about: Stations are one of the few things that are misrepresented in size within the game. Just like the models for Fighters and Drones are way too big for their actual size, the station models are much too SMALL for their actual size, believe it or not.
27 Mar 12
Darky, i'm not hating.... Maybe a bit overreacting with the "noob" part yes.
But FanFest just ended AND questions were asked about station and Ship boarding.
The answer was that they didnt planned that for now and know that it could be an expectation of most players.
But, they're already planning to release the game and move step by step toward sandbox gameplay. So, boarding stations and ships ? With all the implications in Eve ?
Let's just be realistic...
CCP has hears. I never knew any other dev team that listens that much. So, starting a petition ? I'm sorry but it's rude imo.
And as far as i know. I get to give my opinion.
27 Mar 12
Darky and Caz, what youre both expressing is neither rude. Its great people are able to share common ground. The CSM is essentially a gaint petition system with elected represenatives to voice that petition.
27 Mar 12
Signed.
We must spread like a plague, and become the glorious virus we were meant to be.
It would be really amazing to fight for control or destruction of a massive EVE ship (if possible) or station while another merc team fights on behalf of the pilot or corp to protect the ship or station.
