Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think the term you are looking for is "Recovery Salvage".

A neat idea, though I can see it being incredibly hard to code and implement. The problem here is just the massive amount of programming needed. How would raised ships behave? I would not want a raised tachyon-fit Oracle to MWD straight towards the enemy, for example!

I do see this as being highly applicable to PvE though! You could simply have the raised ship behave according to the script it did before, but now it aids you instead of shooting at you. Maybe make this apply only to NPCs?

It's a neat idea, but it's not all that good for the game.

Ships need to be lost. In fact, if anything, they need to be lost in larger numbers than they already are, particularly in highsec. Unless each resurrection comes at a cost in materials that pretty much equals the cost to build the ship to begin with, it's directly harmful to industry and to the economy.

The hope is for the "ammunition" to be on the scale and price of, say, bombs. And also, this isn't economically harmful at all because these ships are not being restored, just given a short extension of action. This would actually create additional construction because if more items were lost on a second destruction, there would be less to loot from the wreck.

I think a fair duration for lifetime might be... 5 minutes untrained, 15 minutes with max skills. Something like that.

Ok, this would require the Necro-Ship to fit a lot more than a one slot module.

I am thinking the ship would need to compensate for lost CPU and powergrid. These are expected to be damaged beyond control.

Think more along the lines of Necromantic Possession... your little frigate must integrate itself into the hull of the ship it is animating, in order to support and augment the lost or damaged systems the wreck has remaining.

Maybe call it a Ghost Frigate, or something, since in stories ghosts can possess bodies.

The risk vs reward factor could focus on:
RISK, you are gambling your frigate that you can use the wreck zombie to your advantage.
REWARD, you have something expendable to fight with.

I figure the frigate could repower shields, forget armor and structure, and regain the use of any weapons or other subsystems that survived.
Rigs would be a unique benefit, in that they would always be there. The same thing that makes them lost if replaced, and never salvageable, would mean they always would be available to the wreck zombie.

The wreck zombie could never undock in an outpost. The pilot would have to choose between extracting the Ghost Frigate, or fully restoring the animated ship, consuming the frigate in the process.
(Modules used by the wreck zombie would still be mounted in appropriate slots.)

The cost to restore the ship should be the same as a repair bill if the ship docked with no armor and 1% structure.
(For expensive ships, this could be cost effective as a way to get ships)

It would also make wreck retrieval a priority in fleet engagements.

I also like this idea because it requires maintaining a lock on your marionettes and also the enemies you want to attack, making targeting range and multitasking a key factor and something worth fitting in regard to.

The idea of expanding on this makes me giddy.

Oh, dear, no... we don't want to spread zombies around and cause a panic or anything.

This sounds like something a Rogue Drone might do. Maybe a faction "Hermit Drone" that can be used to Re-purpose the wreck into a weapon or salvage the wreck and retrieve the cargo.

The launcher charge could carry a power core with it (explaining the limited time you can raise a wreck).

Also, it's not terribly clear to what extent ships are made inoperable. You kill the operators, you destroy the power source, you destroy internal connections between systems... there's actually very little destruction that needs to be done to make a ship stop being able to shoot you.