Okay, my last suggestion for this afternoon, I promise! It would be useful to implement some form of in-game character journal system. It could be a button off of the character info screen, or a stand-alone function. It could be single-section or multi-section; single-entry or multi-entry. I'd personally vote for single-section multi-entry, letting it be used for notes and as a diary-type thing.

This could also be combined with an e-mail type system and/or bulliten-board type system, where you can send private messages to people, or post them for guilds or the entire world to see. I know it partially/entirely replicates the function of these very Forums, but it would be useful to have an interface in the game for such purposes.

I think this could also be worked into the storyline and gameplay. Maybe certain events or such trigger additions to your journal that lead to interesting things... Maybe certain events trigger a "death e-mail" from someone, asking you to go check out a certain sector in a certain system and rescue person X from pirate group Y...

I don't know, just a nagging feeling at the base of my skull that it'd be cool to somehow have journal entries work their way into the game/story/mission system...

Actually , thats cool. Adding to gameplay without being utterly obvious is a great thing.

What i would also like it is some kind of history of character. Like when he was born, when he graduated to what levels, when he got killed and killed other players. (not bots please).

Would be good for role playing.

"...when he got killed..."

I'd change that to "...when he was defeated or defeated other...". Think about it, articles which mention when someone got killed are called OBITUARIES. <G> Hard to roleplay a dead pilot, unless we have Zombies here, or we're cloned or something. Personaly, I prefer the 'escape pod' suggestion for our continuing after a defeat. This journal idea is great though, hope they implement it!

Yeah, the "when they got killed" bit would certainly not work well for a character legacy. It would be quite cool to be able to access a thing for a character that had interesting milestones, like "License Combat 1", first PvP kill, first bot kill, first NPC kill, first time in a given sector...

*bump*

I'd like to add my support to such features. I'd also like to add my own suggestion. I was crusing the msg boards and I came across this:

Story: "Watashi no Zai Ai no Yukinari no Tameno"
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/7303

I think this was incredibly well done and is exactly what we need some more of. It adds depth and a way for us players to add our own content into the game. What I would like to see would be diaries, our own stories of what's going on in our own little universes, and have them readable by the general VO community. In as such I would like to see them as webpages ... forum posts that we can browse and read without being in game.

You could have a check box that was "public" which would allow the content to be posted to your own back story.

Just a thought.