I think that in stations it would be cool to have your character get out and walk around the station and be in different rooms, like the commerce room, or the missions room, and so on. It would be a way to make the character more... realistic.

I'm developing a sinister envy of turning badmouth on things like that.

Yet, I resist. Although by the skin of the teeth.

While I manage to not go postal, all I can say is: yeah, a novel idea, made a few times already. Please do come up with more suggestions, but do reffer to the PLEASE READ PRIOR TO POSTING A SUGGESTION thread first.

Have fun in VO.

I suggest you have a look at the thread of stuff already suggested. This has been discussed on-depth already.

It's touched in this thread, for example.
It all comes down to that this is a space game, not an in-station game, and a menu-based station covers the needs of the game, at least for the foreseeable future.

I'm sure any new additions to this that you might have will be very interesting, and I'm not saying it is a banned topic, I'm just suggesting you might want to read up on what's already been talked about on the subject to avoid re-visiting the same stuff over and over.

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dammit mouser! You beat me to it!

Besides that it has been already suggested, I never liked this idea. I prefer to allow my imagination to fill in the gaps about station life. The game is more realistic and immersive when it's just a bunch of people flying around in ships. FPS-type in-station character control would just cheapen the look and feel of the game IMO, without adding anything.

Both the poster's nickname and the contents of his posts seem exceedingly trollish to me.

Hahahahaha. Good one, diablo. You Funneh!

Buy Knights of the Old Republic and alt tab into it when in station. Have fun!

Let's create a VO station in Second Life. We could then redirect the noobs in there.

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HrmÉ speaking of wich, the developers of 2nd Life recently announced their server going open source.

how about an observatory?

Making the menu (optionally) into a 3d (or even pre-rendered) representation of the internal spaces of a station (a la Freespace, vega strike etc) might be nice...? Point-and-click sort of thing where the door to the bar opens with a nice swishing noise when you over the cursor over it?

Uggghh... reminds me of educational games......

noooooo... not vendetta...

Walking around in stations should look like this:

/me calls pinky. roda can be pac-man (his mouth always seems to be moving, get it!)

Oh man i crack myself up. Ya'll better lock this one quick....