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Way back in 2010 I suggested something I would like to revisit now, freaking 16 years later!
It is an incredibly simple concept - imagine if every Show Info window on a spaceship in Eve Online included the name of the Corporation that built that ship.
One of the defining foundations of Eve Online is that everything in our universe is created by the blood, sweat, and tears of actual players. Every ship has to be forged by intention. Created by another human player, purpose built. And whenever Fenris has stepped out of that foundational principle they've gotten nothing but pushback, if not outright revolt. If you don't remember the 2022 "Free Ship" controversy, then click that link.
There are few ways in which the economic power inside of Eve Online can be expressed in a public way. Thousands of players toil in the background, mining, ratting, looting. processing, transporting, and building the economic power that fuels everything we do as players. These unsung heroes deserve a small modicum of respect and I believe one small way of doing that - would be a single line added to the Show Info that designates the origin of the ship you are flying.
This concept is so simple and so obvious that I'm not even sure what more needs to be said. We could debate exactly what information is included and I think that debate would be valid. I'm not exactly the world expert in building spaceships - so I'm smart enough to leave those details to players that know more than I do. I would think Corporation/Alliance would be pretty standard, but maybe the actual player name as well?
Could this be done? That is a question only FC can answer. But I would think there are already "born on" data being generated at the time a new object is entered into the game and that adding a very small additional data point wouldn't be that challenging. But again, I'm the idea guy.
I think this is a no-brainer. If not this exact concept, then something very much like it. Hopefully more Eve players will latch onto the idea and help support it. Or it could be another 16 years before I write another blog post about this.
What are your thoughts?
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