Ship Builds & Load Outs What happened to the choice of cockpit?

[IAM GROOT]

Can anyone in the know from the early alpha/KS days tell me what happened to the cockpit customization? I definitely remember a picture of a sidey with different makes and styles of cockpit.
Just the ability to add decals and a paint skin isn't anywhere near realistic enough, back street garages should be brought in with the ability to customize your ship to make it really feel like yours

 

[Asp Explorer]

I think those were mainly concept art pieces. I remember the Sidey with the big soap bubble cockpit. I don't think any of those made it to modelling stage.

 

[IAM GROOT]

I think those were mainly concept art pieces. I remember the Sidey with the big soap bubble cockpit. I don't think any of those made it to modelling stage.

That's what I'm afraid of, thanks for the info. That soap bubble one was pretty stupid looking though, like the original Jupiter 7 from Lost in Space

I must have misunderstood, I thought all the different styles of engines and cockpits were custom choices for us to be able to make down the road for our ships. It would help the staleness of the game to be able to customize your ship, for example lose an internal compartment to upgrade a hard point, different cockpit, spoilers different seats etc
I know I'm reaching though, we can't even name our ships yet, that one I'm still surprised at.

 

[Asp Explorer]

We can only hope the devs will introduce such things in the future.

 

[Cody]

Ah yes, concept art... remember the orrery? <sighs wistfully>

As for naming our ships... we really need this! <grumbles>

 

[Dawkins]

Yeah really, since beta up until now they haven't added too much in terms of customizing the visuals on our ships, besides the things we can buy in the store. And I can't even buy one for my Diamonback

 

[tlc421]

Hi, does anyone remember "Edge of Chaos" with a sober cockpit and a helmet where all the info was visible on the visor? I would definitively use this if I had an Occulus R.

 

[Broud Ulrik]

Yeah really, since beta up until now they haven't added too much in terms of customizing the visuals on our ships, besides the things we can buy in the store. And I can't even buy one for my Diamonback

Fair crit regarding the Diamondbacks....when I had one I looked in vain for some customization for it. Some other form of customisation would be cool....I've seen some good-looking cockpit shots on various YouTube vids, where the fascia lights are blue rather than orange; much better on the eye imho. But, is there a way to view our ships from the outside? There must be, otherwise there would be no point in all these cosmetic modifications

 

[newman1702]

I'm kind of surprised they're not trying to cash in more through the store via side content, such as skins and (hopefully) cockpit customization. I guess on one hand it's nice that they're relying on revenue from the main product more, but I think most companies would have tried to profit more from purely cosmetic micro content in their shoes.

Perhaps we'll get interior customization options when they let us walk around ships. As for why not at least have a few skins available for each ship until then... that one is kind of weird.

 

[Ceekay]

But, is there a way to view our ships from the outside? There must be, otherwise there would be no point in all these cosmetic modifications

There's been the debug camera view for several months check the control options menu it's usually a shift or control + some key (I've changed mine so I'm not sure what the default is)

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

David Braben said in an interview, that he would like upgradeble interiors (payed game extras), so i guess we will see this as soon, as we get the ability to walk around in our ships.

 

[Motherhood of Bran]

I'd like the ability to add some detritus to my cockpit - you know, coffee rings on the dash, the odd food wrapper, perhaps an air freshener - maybe even a picture of a loved one tacked to the window somewhere...anything to make the space I play in feel like 'mine', and not a sterile mass produced enviroment. Even a set of fluffy dice hanging from the front window are looking good right now. Hell, even one of those bobble-heads they used to have in the...was it Alpha? I don't remember.

I just did the whole Sag A thing, and after spending that amount of time living in my ship, my cockpit would definately be a wee bit messier than 'just rolled off the factory floor'.


...and let's not get me started on the naming your ship thig.


This game needs more opportunities for the players to be creative - slapping a new paint-job on my ship (which I don't see most of the time) doesn't quite cut it.

 

[TG Spetsnaz]

I've spent about 50 hours in the game now, and I wouldn't be suprised if over 99% of this time has been spent sitting in the cockpit. Being able to customize your cockpit feels like it would be HUGE addition to the game, or just adding more interesting features to the current, frankly quite boring cockpits (panels, buttons, screens, etc.). Maybe even integrating the possibilty to change UI color in the same panel (in-game to the right under functions) as UI brightness?

 

[Zenow]

+1 on this, all of it - we want more customisation, and I'm even willing to pay for it. And yes, I'd love a paint job for my Diamondback Scout.
Also, I'd love to see paintjobs for:
- certain 'professions' (fuel rats, those that only do medicine runs, etc) that you can earn (and lose)
- factions/powers. Why are there no standard Empire paint jobs? Aren't commanders proud of whom they serve? The only group of people with a custom paintjob, are the pirates! (And a great one, at that)
-more decals! Come on, I want a Cobra MK IV with a shark smile! Silly texts and/or drawings! And of course, I want the ability to actually fly my ship with an outside view so I at least can enjoy my own paint jobs.

Interior design: I can't see a reason not to add this, besides it not being a priority. No interior has to be shared with other pilots, it's purely a user side adjustment. Would be great.

Anyway, I can appreciate the fact that improving the actual game is more important, but at some point, this would be awesome.

 

[D6Damager]

This might be coming with the new crafting system. They did mention that some crafting would be "cosmetic" and some would be more than cosmetic.

 

[XxYy]

There's been the debug camera view for several months check the control options menu it's usually a shift or control + some key (I've changed mine so I'm not sure what the default is)

But, is there a way to view our ships from the outside? There must be, otherwise there would be no point in all these cosmetic modifications

Its called something along the lines of secret/classified camera, in the depths of the control menu;

It was, for me, originally unbound

 

[Hank]

When I first started playing, in pre-release beta and when I was poor I played through the Hauler and Adder. Those ships have some good features but their view from the cockpit is terrible and there was some talk like the OP mentioned to be able to buy a "bubble" shield to improve field of view.
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Some of the new ships could use cockpit upgrades too. I recall really liking the Adder but I could not get over that restricted view.
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Have a nice day and GL