Cosmetics are missing something important.

I want an old Chevy Chevelle dashboard with analog gauges and such. I want to see the engine blower sticking up above the cowling on front of the ship. I want to see space bugs splat on my windshield.
 
I’ve never really understood the point of the hologram image of the ship sits in the middle of the shield rings indicator. It seems to serve no functionality.

I’d like a hologram rendering of COVAS. Of course, it would serve no functionality but it would be better than look at the rear end of my ship.
 
They're missing a trick (and quite a bit of cash / arc's) with the cockpit ornaments.
Previous, popular suggestions included:
  • packet of cigs

Nope, can't do that. Someone will be offended and there will be urine and vinegar in all our salt. Cigarettes are socially evil now days.
 
I would love to completely change the whole HUD. Maybe they would add cool new styles for it, etc
Agreed on the HUD styles. I'm getting awfully bored of the same ol' HUD design. As simple and effective as it is, it's getting a little tired. Needs a re-fresh and more telemetry options.
 
Used to drive a python loved the ship hated the cockpit, asked several times if there could be a buy a new cockpit section added to the shop. Now I drive a Cutter because in VR your surroundings matter more then when you play on a monitor.

I would also like the crap in game stick and throttle to be swapped out with reps of my Warthog Kit, this would greatly increase the realism of flying for me, I also use pedals so that twisty stick they have in use really annoys me.

Just my view but then I’ve just added two new revenue streams to the game, for very little work.

Call it £5 for a cockpit and £10 for the stick and throttle replacements
 
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Not quite sure why you'd want to pay to have somebody come on board and throw litter all over your ship, but it takes all kinds. Personally, I'd rather the trash accumulated naturally over time, so the ship looks more and more "lived-in" the longer you actually live in it and don't dock somewhere. An exploration ship just back from the proverbial five-year voyage should look as awful on the inside as it looks on the outside.

But a semantic point on the above: the trash isn't going to "roll around at your feet". Your ship is in zero G whenever it's not accelerating or sitting on or near a planet. So it won't "roll around on the ground", it will "float about the place". Which could be anywhere from mildly annoying to disastrous, if it happened to randomly float up and obstruct your cockpit view and/or instrumentation screens.

Though that could be an answer to the "reverski problem": if accelerating backwards made all the trash in your cockpit fly forwards and land on the cockpit in front of you, obstructing your view.
Ships aren't zero G. Trash will roll around. Evidence: coffee cup in the Krait, everybody's hair.
 
This whole thread is just......amazing!
(Mind blown multiple times - likes all round!)

FDev should just make a whole 'cockpit DLC' out of this thread......I mean.....Money! Seriously! 🤑
 
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