03-15-2015, 10:42 AM
So basically my idea is that instead of pods being containers that you can fly, they're rooms off somewhere else I guess, maybe devote an area of the z-level to pod insides. When you're in a pod, the 2x2 area (or 1x1) that it takes up on your screen is replaced or overlaid with a view of the room. Movement controls still control the pod if you're the driver or nothing if you're the copilot, but you could, ie, punch the shit out of the other occupant, drop stuff on the ground and have it visible and able to be picked up, maybe throw stuff at the edge of the room and have it fly out of the pod like you threw it out of the door. Getting out could be done by a button on the pod controls, maybe one with a kind of buckle icon? Might be impossible, I don't know, but I think it would be really cool if it's doable. Even after the interface rework, pods have always been just a bit clunky and uncertain, I think this would really improve them.