This is a suggestion that will change the way we interact with our ship and his systems, not changing any game mechanic, but changing the way the information is presented to us. It will also add some more immersion to the experience of living inside of a ship, and in a scifi environment in general.
I present you two options to interact with you ship or station Core Computer, a personal tablet like thing, and a display block. The tablet is a personal item, and can be used outside of a ship. To interact with it you'll use the "T" key. The display block is something you will need to put down in your ship, wherever you want, and interact with it using "R".
Depending on the place you're at (in space, in a station, in a ship), the info presented to you'll change.
When you enter the display block or personal tablet, you're entering an Operating System automatically connected to the ship or station you're in, and you can do anything from there. This could work like a android or iOS device, and have applications to control every aspect of your ship/station. (I'm suggestion it to work as a tablet OS because it's more hightech that way, and very intuitive, even a baby can use an iPad.)
This is what you can do now, and will be able to do in the future, with these Operating System. I'm separating it by Applications for the sake of simplicity:
- Ship App: A complete detailed info of the ship you're in. Mass, size, power regen, shields, total weapons power, acceleration details, blueprint price, etc. It will also enable you to control every single computer on your ship. Antimatter PC, Missiles PC, Turrets PC (suggestion thread here), Docking PC, Drones PC, etc... For each one you have a detailed list of items, and all the options can be changed from here.
[only available if you're in a ship]
- Station App: A complete list of all you faction or personal ships, with detailed info about each ship you own. You can also control all the catalog options from here, check blueprints your faction own, etc. In this app you'll also be able to manage plexstorage access options.
- Social App: With this app you can check players info, factions info, send emails, etc. You can also edit your character details, change appearance (skin), etc.
- Market App: Check prices from the shops around you (with a limit in range), check you personal shop info, auction house, etc..
- Production App: Check the detailed info about you faction or personal factory (what is it producing, production rates, check resources imput, etc). Check the info on your faction or personal shipyard. (current ships progress, resources input needs, etc)
- Universe App: Check all the information about the universe you want to know. A full 3D map, with detailed info about system names, faction home bases, etc... Use it for navigation, to add bookmarks for places, set waypoints (for fleet navigation), etc...
(As you can see I'm not getting into much detail, because I'm letting it open for development and game improvement over time. Also, getting in full detail will create a Wall of Text, and I want to avoid that, because I know you're lazy... )
All this apps need to have the most high-tech look as possible, and be very detailed. I see it getting really used, so it needs to be easy to use and pretty to look at.
They also need to interact with each other. For example, if I'm in the Social App, I can select a faction, and automatically change for the Universe App to check location details.
Discuss!
I present you two options to interact with you ship or station Core Computer, a personal tablet like thing, and a display block. The tablet is a personal item, and can be used outside of a ship. To interact with it you'll use the "T" key. The display block is something you will need to put down in your ship, wherever you want, and interact with it using "R".
Depending on the place you're at (in space, in a station, in a ship), the info presented to you'll change.
When you enter the display block or personal tablet, you're entering an Operating System automatically connected to the ship or station you're in, and you can do anything from there. This could work like a android or iOS device, and have applications to control every aspect of your ship/station. (I'm suggestion it to work as a tablet OS because it's more hightech that way, and very intuitive, even a baby can use an iPad.)
This is what you can do now, and will be able to do in the future, with these Operating System. I'm separating it by Applications for the sake of simplicity:
- Ship App: A complete detailed info of the ship you're in. Mass, size, power regen, shields, total weapons power, acceleration details, blueprint price, etc. It will also enable you to control every single computer on your ship. Antimatter PC, Missiles PC, Turrets PC (suggestion thread here), Docking PC, Drones PC, etc... For each one you have a detailed list of items, and all the options can be changed from here.
[only available if you're in a ship]
- Station App: A complete list of all you faction or personal ships, with detailed info about each ship you own. You can also control all the catalog options from here, check blueprints your faction own, etc. In this app you'll also be able to manage plexstorage access options.
- Social App: With this app you can check players info, factions info, send emails, etc. You can also edit your character details, change appearance (skin), etc.
- Market App: Check prices from the shops around you (with a limit in range), check you personal shop info, auction house, etc..
- Production App: Check the detailed info about you faction or personal factory (what is it producing, production rates, check resources imput, etc). Check the info on your faction or personal shipyard. (current ships progress, resources input needs, etc)
- Universe App: Check all the information about the universe you want to know. A full 3D map, with detailed info about system names, faction home bases, etc... Use it for navigation, to add bookmarks for places, set waypoints (for fleet navigation), etc...
(As you can see I'm not getting into much detail, because I'm letting it open for development and game improvement over time. Also, getting in full detail will create a Wall of Text, and I want to avoid that, because I know you're lazy... )
All this apps need to have the most high-tech look as possible, and be very detailed. I see it getting really used, so it needs to be easy to use and pretty to look at.
They also need to interact with each other. For example, if I'm in the Social App, I can select a faction, and automatically change for the Universe App to check location details.
Discuss!
