I realise this is probably going to be way down Frontier's list of things to do, but with the new ships such as the Krait Mk2 and the Mamba having such fantastically well detailed looking cockpits, especially in VR, this has only thrown into stark contrast how plain, bare and low res some of the older ship interiors look now by comparison.
When you see inside the new ships like the Mamba with its little consoles with animated screens and all the little details down in that little nook, and then of course there's the great detailed interior of the Krait Mk2, so that it actually feels like the flight deck of a ship. Compare that to the older ship interiors, some of which were never up to much in the first place, and there's a big difference in styles now. A lot of the older ship interiors are just big empty spaces by comparison, with a few chairs stuffed in them for multi crew purposes. Take the Anaconda bridge for instance, it looks like a floor in a vacant office building, not the bustling purposeful bridge of a frigate class multirole ship. Same could be said for all the big ships actually, a few chairs up by the canopy with acres of empty space behind. Even the smaller ones don't fare much better on the whole. The AspX and T6 probably have the 2 dullest most boring cockpits in the game, being just big empty bubbles, closely followed by the Viper Mk3&4 in the minimalism stakes. They could really do with being enriched with a bit more detail now.
I often get the feeling, like so much stuff in ED, that the cockpits of many of those ships were largely unfinished and rather placeholder in nature, with more planned for them at a later date. Largely due to the fact that at the time the vast majority of players couldn't really look around their cockpits anyway, and so there was no point for the extra work. Then along came VR and of course we now also have the camera controls so that everyone can have a snoop around their cockpits and take screenshots etc. So some of these cockpits could now really do with a well deserved facelift.
So yes, exactly that, can we have a revisit and spruce up of the older ship interiors to bring them up to the same standard as the most recent crop of ships have been given. Please!
When you see inside the new ships like the Mamba with its little consoles with animated screens and all the little details down in that little nook, and then of course there's the great detailed interior of the Krait Mk2, so that it actually feels like the flight deck of a ship. Compare that to the older ship interiors, some of which were never up to much in the first place, and there's a big difference in styles now. A lot of the older ship interiors are just big empty spaces by comparison, with a few chairs stuffed in them for multi crew purposes. Take the Anaconda bridge for instance, it looks like a floor in a vacant office building, not the bustling purposeful bridge of a frigate class multirole ship. Same could be said for all the big ships actually, a few chairs up by the canopy with acres of empty space behind. Even the smaller ones don't fare much better on the whole. The AspX and T6 probably have the 2 dullest most boring cockpits in the game, being just big empty bubbles, closely followed by the Viper Mk3&4 in the minimalism stakes. They could really do with being enriched with a bit more detail now.
I often get the feeling, like so much stuff in ED, that the cockpits of many of those ships were largely unfinished and rather placeholder in nature, with more planned for them at a later date. Largely due to the fact that at the time the vast majority of players couldn't really look around their cockpits anyway, and so there was no point for the extra work. Then along came VR and of course we now also have the camera controls so that everyone can have a snoop around their cockpits and take screenshots etc. So some of these cockpits could now really do with a well deserved facelift.
So yes, exactly that, can we have a revisit and spruce up of the older ship interiors to bring them up to the same standard as the most recent crop of ships have been given. Please!
