Lore reason why all ships have same HUD

TheSunGirl

TheSunGirl
As the title suggests, is there a reason in the game lore why all the ships get the same HUD layout?
Is the HUD even generated by the ship itself, or is it generated by some sort of visor or implants.

As a secondary question. Why do all ships have the same controls and seat. why don't some ships put the stick in the center or use a control yoke like an airliner?
Does the Pilots Federation regulate all ships to have the same flight control and HUD system?
 

madbilly

M
I would speculate that it's because Sirius Corp supplies all ship's pilot interfaces, they have a monopoly on this as well hyperdrives and other things.

Your other ideas are cool too :)
 
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TheSunGirl

TheSunGirl
That still doesn't explain why the colour/layout is always the same.
It's 3303 and we can't change even the HUD colour or move elements around. Your 21st century phone can do that but a 3303 spaceship can't. Frontier needs to at least have an in game way of changing the HUD colour.
 

CMDR Percivus Keenblade

CMDR Percivus Keenblade
I think the reason is, rather something like, "why spend time design different chair models and textures, design different controller layouts and generate the player movements etc with it instead of using the same models all over for now when we can be building the base features of the game."
 

drew

drew
I believe an in-game HUD modifier is coming (it's just a low dev priority rather than a consequence of lore).

In terms of the save HUD across ships though. The Pilots Federation is responsible for the software that runs the ships and it is standardised. Some say they may be able to influence that software too...

Cheers,

Drew.
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
Standardisation makes a lot of sense: every pilot can sit down in every ship and know where everything is. Once you move from physical instruments to a fully virtual layout and fly-by-wire (the reason for crotch-sticks is that in directly controlled craft you need a huge lever to move control surfaces, and in helicopters you have the added issue of needing very fine control around the centre point), there's little excuse to not unify the look and feel as far as possible to increase ease of use and decrease the likelihood of pilot errors caused by useless vendor flourishes.

If you look at general aviation (small planes), most of them will have a very similar grouping of six instruments in a rather unified layout, and the differences are taught and trained over a long time for each craft a pilot will handle. Even most cars where nobody really gives a damn about safety aspects will have the basic set of I/O instruments in very similar positions too.
 
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TheSunGirl

TheSunGirl
Imperial ships do have a different chair model and white control stick and throttle. The federal ships have white buttons on the seat panel.
The chairs are not all the same, but the flight controls only vary in colour, and not placement or style.
 

Tess Kirk [HYPE]

T
Maybe the reason all the HUD is the same is because all the ship manufacturers are all secretly part of the same company that we or the pilots federation even know about... ...If this is true this could explain why when you are in what ever ship Thargoids are always able to bring us out of Hyperspace...different ship manufacturers design their ship, but they all might have the same ship internal component manufacturer... Why is it that all parts that stations sell are compatible with (maybe) every ship out there?

Can anyone answer me that?

...Or have I just made up a interesting conspiracy
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
TheSunGirl said:
That still doesn't explain why the colour/layout is always the same.
It's 3303 and we can't change even the HUD colour or move elements around. Your 21st century phone can do that but a 3303 spaceship can't. Frontier needs to at least have an in game way of changing the HUD colour.
Click to expand...


Steady on, now. They don't even have in-game binding management.... Asking a bit much, aren't you?

Z...
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
In early 3190, a series of lymerics dissing various ship manufacturers HUD colours went viral to such an extent that sales of new ships saw a siginifcant drop.

Example of these taken from the archives are:

A commander who's HUD was blue
Wanted something quite new
He tried out red
but scanned ships then said
I'm friendly don't pew pew!

A commander quite serene
had a HUD the colour of green
when driving too quick
he felt quite sick
with a face that looked like a spleen
​

In a stroke of genius the HUD manufacturers all decided to make their HUDs orange since it's a well known fact that there are no words that rhyme with it.
 
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dogsolitude_uk

dogsolitude_uk
Page 32 on the manual alludes to cockpit standardisation:

"Your vessel is fitted with the standardized Pilot’s Interface for ease of use and acclimation between different ships."

And from Galnet News, 29 Jul 3302 https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/579b28f89657ba0d4c598970:

"The Pilots Federation derives the bulk of its wealth from the GalNet data network. Originally a system of ship, bounty and star-chart data, it evolved into an interstellar aggregator of market information and galactic news. By 3300, the Pilots Federation was not only the dominant provider of this information, it was also the main manufacturer of the hardware and software serving this data. Today, Pilots Federation systems are fitted as standard on virtually all independent starships."

So I think Faulcon DeLacey et al build the actual ships, but the networked systems on them are from the PF.
 
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