The idea that somehow adding random crap is going to help is nonsense. Walking in stations level nonsense.
(Disclaimer to the fine folks at CCP, im going to say some harsh stuff, I mean no harm but I see this as the truth)
CCP doesnât DO âimmersionâ. The one thing, the only thing that CCP has ever really excelled at was providing an environment for people to play in and tools for them to use to manipulate that environment (and each other).
EVERYâŚSINGLEâŚATTEMPT⌠to do something other than that, to âimproveâ and âexpandâ the game and the company have failed. Walking in stations, atmospheric flight, DUST and the DUST/EVE link, WoD, making the game âeasy to learn, hard to masterâ, sparc and many other side projects, maybe even Valkyrie and âproject legionâ that no one even talks about anymore. ALL of it failed or floundered.
But the basic in environment, and tools to manipulate it? Thatâs still going strong 15 years later. EVEâs PVE, meaning the PVE people actually do is all âenvironment and toolsâ with very little immersion value other than that which an engineer experiences when deep in thought about new ways to make and break things.
Anomalies and missions and things like FW missions and plexing are the most popular PVE despite being lower paying on an individual basis (you can make way way more doing burners, or farming incursions, or blitzing lvl 5 missions) than other content because they appeal to sandbox players who generally donât give a damn about âstoryâ and âimmersionâ but who appreciate âsimpleâ and âsoloableâ.
Same with mining and exploration. Nothing is more boring than mining, yet a full 1/5th of people playing EVE will do some mining while logged in, because while mining sucks, building a mining operation or using minerals gained by mining to do industry doesnât suck, itâs fun.
Nothing in your idea hurts anything I guess, but itâs useless and CCP shouldnât be spending time adding random crap to things because people are bored looking at the same scenery. If you want immersion you should probably be playing a different type of game made by a bigger company with a track record of providing immersive content.
CCP canât provide you what you want even is they wanted to. The past proves this.