I dont know how low hanging this is, but the ability to chose our avatar class on the log in screen would be pretty immersive.

Not everybody is a Scout. Have the racial Scout, Medium, Heavy avatar to pick from.

3 more racial warbarge images to choose would be also be a nice touch. Min, Galente or Amarr. I'm sure we could even have a user art contest to design a kick ass warbarge, if not just a 2D image of racially apropriate eve ship. Just add the UI in options. CCP does have the artists to make a good looking image, instead of the dissapointing one we have right now.

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Yeah she was very interesting and frankly I'd have liked to have seen her develop more before her death perhaps doing something rather interesting that could have told us what kind of Empress she would have been for the Amarr....

Peacemaker and breaking the mould of the Sarum Family, or War Hero who reignites the need for the Reclaiming and starts the 25th Reclaimation....

Instead she gets hit by 95-ish Drifter Doomsdays in a cut scene without even allowing players to get stuck into a fight with the Drifters.....

Either way we will get to see the Succession Trials next year in April and the investiture of a new Amarrian Emperor (most likely a male as 4 of 5 Heirs are male).

I want Lady Catiz Tash-Murkon to claim her place as the Empress. We need an intelligent and canny leader with the vision to bring the Amarr into a new age and release it from the traditionalist tenets that prevent it from achieving it full capacity.

I would love to see more lore related battles in the "other" section (now that we know it actually does have a use sometimes!).

CCP doesn't have to go crazy making new assets, just give us some text and an agenda and let us pick sides for the duration.

Hell they could be their own events.

E.G

Amarr + Caldari Assault on Minmatar + Gallente outlying systems. Give us a bit of lore about the who and the why's and then let us pick a side or something I dont know.

It is probably best to start moving away from Allied thinking as I suspect very very soon that the four factions are going to start fighting against each other.

I hope it is going to be another event like Battle for Caldari Prime.

I doubt it. Caldari Prime took eight months to organize and it took both teams working cohesively to make happen. For what was only a few hours, that is an insane amount of dev budget to utilize.

How about an in-game encyclopedia that works similarly to the Codex from the Mass Effect series? New entries would be added as players explore the game, detailing the history of New Eden and provide information about the four main factions, their sub-factions, pirate groups, technology, etc.

Dear CPM2 member.

Is there not something else you could be wasting your time with?

What I'm trying to say is, for example 'a medium minmitar skin' does not need a 500 word description when an accurate description for it would be 'a dull uninteresting brown skin for minmitar medium suits'

Nice attempt, straight out of the IWS school of pointlessness though...

Aeon's actually more polite than I am, so I'll say it.

This piece of feedback is about as useful as a football bat.

No, it is about as useful as a one legged pig in a horse race.

Jeez man, you guys wouldn't give a cripple crab a crutch >_>;

It's alright Aeon, some people just don't know friends and lore are the only thing this game has going for it. Keep up the good work!

I don't know the plausibility or feasibility of this but I love the idea either way. Maybe an in-game link to the Evelopedia, at the very least.

This thread is being made as a request toward the community to pull together low-level ideas for Lore and Immersion in Dust 514.

To put it clearly, some things are obviously out of our scope. This thread is looking for the low hanging fruit. Ideas that can be easily accomplished with minimal development input. An example of something that could be feasible would be adding a description to the 'Brutor' Minmatar SKIN's that explain, briefly, who the Brutor are.

So rather than seeing "This SKIN only applies to Heavy Minmatar Dropsuit frames!" you would see this:



An example of something that is not as valuable is something like, "I think that we should have full character customization with all the different races and blood lines" as this is a very high development goal that would pull away from other tasks with higher priority.

Any opportunity to fill in other-wise dead space with informative, immersive aspects of the Lore will be good suggestions here.

Is it possible for CCP to add the ability to title change between the ranks/title we've 'earned', that show up when we kill someone on the kill board, and possibly a new rank signifying our blood-line choice?

I'm a fan of that I like [Sergeant] Sgt Kirk :D.Depending on how Rattati responds to more titles in-game I'd like to shoot him some ideas to boot back up the possibility of FW ranks, if not for every rank every other rank.

I'd like the Title system being something that really means something to the player, especially to FW guys.

We have no friends after all. My only friend is the federation.

Indeed, i figured it would be a very small work-load that could possibly add a deep level of immersion into your character.

But i fear CCP trying to cash in on it and make titles AUR puchasable - but how cool would it be if you could use LP to purchase special faction titles?

I'd kill to be called an imperial or Templar <3

I don't think they'd do that with FW titles honestly.

The LP Titles shouldn't be bought with LP either because you already earned it by reaching that level.

If someone got 612 wins to get to level 10 for a Faction they fully deserve the title they are given by their own merit.

If I could throw in my two cents on Immersion factors, I would suggest making the corps you fight for in Public Matches be a bit more focused, and help drive a "player-centric" lore angle that is so important to New Eden.

To do this I would propose the following steps:

Reduce the number of corps that can be "drawn" as the Attacker and Defender to a much smaller pool. (For instance, only Quafe, Core Complexion, and Effir And Co)

Potentially differ these pools by game type. (So different corporations will be drawn for attacker and defender in Acquisition than in Skirmish)

Keep track of which corp wins and which corp loses. (As far as we know CCP already keeps a track of win / losses for matches, so adding a collection metric based on the actual corps should not be too difficult)

Finally, add in some lore snippets and news based on weekly / monthly statistics, with a bit of lore explaining why Quafe is so fevered about hiring mercenaries to go kick the teeth in of Core Complexion, with these news segments including some data on win / loss ratios, and "MVPs" who were essential in the operations.

Even potentially tie in some rewards or store items based on these outcomes. (Example, Quafe suits going on sale, or Core Complexion introducing a new SKIN)

The idea here is to make the world feel more alive by having lore created around player action, rather than lore being independent of player action. Having those corp tags pop up on public matches should give players a reason to care about them. The idea has a low impact development cost (as it mostly involves slimming down the possible pool of corps to pull from when making contract sides and keeping track of metrics we likely already have) And the lore / news updates do not have to be that involved or frequent. (Weekly at max, monthly at min)

Is it actually possible to link the game to an internet browser?

True, but this time they know better, at least i hope.

I can see the Amarr going on a crusade to avenge the Empress, or like you said, all factions rampaging each other. I want an event like Prime, as in, we can actually play in it. Not just, "oh yea, this just happened, mmhm, yeap, we are going to **** you and let just the capsuleers do it; you are going to just be stuck doing same ol same old. Silly dust bunny, events are for those that matter"

BFCP may have been a wash, but that doesn't mean that it should be the end of events like those.

I would just kill to see channel info like motd and other such. This game is more interesting to rp than play.