Make PE 100% customizable?

[Starfinder]

Im wondering, why not make PE more or less 100% customizable?

I would like to see a type of client where participants can customize everything from the HUD to the possibilities in it..

Some might think that this is an impossible task.

There you can have a "special HUD" all depending on your race or profession.. All player made..
MA could offer a set of "plugins" for the HUD..
Like,
"Map logger for miners"...
This plugin could draw a little dot everywhere you have placed a bomb in the current session...

"Hunter stats"
Check how much decay, ammo spend vs loot on mobs and so on...


General plugins as well:
How many people are on your server now...
What is your ping now...

You get the idea..

Those plugins would be something people with C or C# knowledge, as im sure thats what the client is written in, could integrate into the client..

Prehaps people could even make their own plugins..
Like "Order a pizza plugin" ... Heard of that before

But the "important things" such as the bank facility plugin or the trade interfaces plugin would not be customizable...

Basically... I think MA has to move away from the "set bounderies" of the HUD and let their participants "help" them to design what the individual participant want to be able to do via the plugin.. I know there are a lot of the functions in the HUD I NEVER use.. and I miss a lot of plugins.. such as the ping plugin...

MA should, ofcourse, offer the plugins via their webpage so we can be sure that MA has checked the plugins for mallisous code...
It would then be so that you, as a "developer", could download the diffrent plugins you wanted in your "client".. Then.. program it..or more accuratly script it... and upload it to MA's webpage for verification...
Then.. as a user.. you could browse the diffrent clients and download the one that suits your needs...

This would truely bring your profession more alive.. since a miners HUD and a hunters HUD would be two completely diffrent looks....

Anyway.. just think... wouldent it ROCK??..

(Marco.. come on.. make it.. I'll send you a birthday present then!!!!)

 

[Hally]

would be cool and have been suggested more than once before and Marco kinda shot it down on EP once but we can hope with time ...... least simple macros and stuff should be allowed

 

[Wolf]

Nice idea! I really don't think it would be that hard to do. Especially if they allowed the community to assist to a degree.

 

[MindBuster]

I would like adjustable view distance, as it is now a city pops up when you are five meters from it, i would like to see it from far away.

I mean, if a players PC can handle it the option should be there.

 

[Dirk]

I dont agree.

I mean, I agree that the PE interface should offer much more. Full control over graphic's settings as MindBuster says, for instance. But player written add-on's ??? No.

MA simply need to do more and more work on the client to make it more usable and to bring it inline with what is expected of a game these days. The current lack of options and locked down controls makes it feel like what it is - a game that's almost 10 years old.

More work by MA - yes. Downloadable plugins like some kind of winamp - No.

 

[wanda]

nice ideas, rep for you.

One problem i see straight away is that MA would never allow 3rd parties to develop stuff - purely because of security reasons and the real money aspect.

I think the entire hud needs re-developing. When you look at online systems such as eve with the slide out side bar etc PE begins to look very clumsy - simple (which is not a bad thing) but clumsy all the same.

for instance? Well, there is lots of unused space - why not put a decay bar near the ammo part to show the condition of your weapon? Same with armor, we have those options in the inventory view for health etc - why not put them to use by showing armor health?

 

[Gruye]

the actual hud itself is drawn client-side anyways so why not be able to make your own hud by editing bitmaps or such? also, make it so you can drag the different parts of the bar around the screen, basically make it modular

 

[Hugo]

oh yes make my ui better

in fact, its one the things that annoys me the most about PE, its the lack of customizing, that can be done.

.. but plugins ?!, that might be a too big a camel for MA to swallow, maybe even giving away too much knowlegde of the game mechanics if players start writings plug-ins ... (?)


/me goes to dream of scable windows, moveable radars, list-form inventories, different game resolutions, and 10k hof's

 

[Gruye]

/me goes to dream of scable windows, moveable radars, list-form inventories, different game resolutions, and 10k hof's

exactly

yeah i dont like the plugin idea, unless MA made them... but no community-made plugins (except maybe if they are tested and approved by MA first)

other resolutions would kick ass..

/me dreams of playing PE in 1280x1024

 

[Einstein]

You mean like a "Second life" version of "Project Entropia"?
Don't really like the idea, i would rather like to see us be able to kinda create our own stuff ingame (for instance paint paintings, make statues, etc etc ).

 

[Skyrider]

Im wondering, why not make PE more or less 100% customizable?

I would like to see a type of client where participants can customize everything from the HUD to the possibilities in it..

Some might think that this is an impossible task.

There you can have a "special HUD" all depending on your race or profession.. All player made..
MA could offer a set of "plugins" for the HUD..
Like,
"Map logger for miners"...
This plugin could draw a little dot everywhere you have placed a bomb in the current session...

"Hunter stats"
Check how much decay, ammo spend vs loot on mobs and so on...


General plugins as well:
How many people are on your server now...
What is your ping now...

You get the idea..

Those plugins would be something people with C or C# knowledge, as im sure thats what the client is written in, could integrate into the client..

Prehaps people could even make their own plugins..
Like "Order a pizza plugin" ... Heard of that before

But the "important things" such as the bank facility plugin or the trade interfaces plugin would not be customizable...

Basically... I think MA has to move away from the "set bounderies" of the HUD and let their participants "help" them to design what the individual participant want to be able to do via the plugin.. I know there are a lot of the functions in the HUD I NEVER use.. and I miss a lot of plugins.. such as the ping plugin...

MA should, ofcourse, offer the plugins via their webpage so we can be sure that MA has checked the plugins for mallisous code...
It would then be so that you, as a "developer", could download the diffrent plugins you wanted in your "client".. Then.. program it..or more accuratly script it... and upload it to MA's webpage for verification...
Then.. as a user.. you could browse the diffrent clients and download the one that suits your needs...

This would truely bring your profession more alive.. since a miners HUD and a hunters HUD would be two completely diffrent looks....

Anyway.. just think... wouldent it ROCK??..

(Marco.. come on.. make it.. I'll send you a birthday present then!!!!)

I posted this same idea almost a year ago on EP ... let me dig up the link. Marco said that might be possible in the future.

 

[wanda]

You mean like a "Second life" version of "Project Entropia"?
Don't really like the idea, i would rather like to see us be able to kinda create our own stuff ingame (for instance paint paintings, make statues, etc etc ).

This is a nice idea too, but people-being-people, the first thing that will happen is rude slogans, website adverts and crap renditions of porn.

 

[Starfinder]

Einstein: Are you saying; if MA make the HUD customizable there will be no possibility for custom items?

Sky: I actually thought of your HUD image when I wrote it

 

[Everman]

It would be nice with plugins!

However, I think it is a way to big task to make it secure. As soon as you can plug in something that shows up in the game window there will be a whole industry of people figuring out how to make fake trade interfaces etc etc.

Is there a possibility to hack...it will be hacked. Is there a possibility to exploit..it will be exploited. Thats the sad truth.

But, a more adjustable hud I would greatly appreciate!

 

[Einstein]

Einstein: Are you saying; if MA make the HUD customizable there will be no possibility for custom items?

I don't think i said that?
I just said I didn't agree with your idea, i rather agreed with Dirk, and I launched another idea myself

This is a nice idea too, but people-being-people, the first thing that will happen is rude slogans, website adverts and crap renditions of porn.

Perhaps that's why there is an EULA you have to agree on every time you login?
They can easily lock/ban people that create stuff like that.