Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With the coming of Dust 514, the regular shootaboyz will be part of the EVE universe. Of course we all know how this will affect our planetary infrastructures but I'd like to discuss something that could be a worthy addition in the distant future: Boarding operations.

Since the dawn of naval warfare it was often a viable tactic to board a vessel in order to capture it. Might it be pirates raiding trading vessel or the Brit capturing some Spaniard vessel at Trafalgar. Hell even the Bismarck was scuttled so he might evade that fate.

So picture this: you alliance destroying a handful of vessels, so far nothing fancy, and capturing one titan and 2 motherships. Of course the profit in this is evident.

But the thing is there s actually a lot of problem involved. Those issues are what I'd like to discuss.

1. The delivery. How do you send a bunch of angry marines in the monster belly? It must be something hard to do but still feasible. Something EVE players could defend against.

2. the effect on the ship. Will the titan stop to focus on it s internal defense or just keep running? I prefer it to keep on running. Maybe they could be partial effects depending on the progression of the battle. Maybe the boarding party could destroy engine and reactors they come across?

3. The timing. How do you time this with the dust marines? Make them wait until a boarding ship came trough the leviathan defenses? How would that work? If this happen in EVE what will happen in dust or the inverse.

4. The end results. Your corp mercenaries won/lost the boarding action. What happen now.

These have to be thought through because it might easily lead to an imbalance in our own eve. For instance, making a leviathan "on stand by" for a whole battle would just make it easy for someone to get a titan completely out of battle when this is not the intention.

And like i said this is about a distant future. Almost fantasy.

(just noticed it's one of the frequently discussed ideas... could some link past post plz?)
http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=755264

I say no.

I am an immortal demi-god whose brain is wired into every sensor of the ship. If I feel something is off... what's to stop me from sealing off the compromised parts of the ship and venting atmosphere?

As for the crew... given my choices between preserving their lives and potentially losing my ship to a bunch of grunts... or getting a new crew at the next station... I choose new crew.

/lolRP

im -1'ing this purely for the fact u havent done ur research on the other ideas that are very much like this,

But more so that u realise its been discussed before many times but cant be arsed to find these discussions yourself, relying on others to do the work for you.

If anything I would be interested in knowing if the Dust beta has implied whether this might be coming to EVE.

This aspect is too obvious not to have already been decided. If they are not advertising it, it probably won't happen on release.

If it is not in release, then it needs to run for a while before seeing any changes makes sense.

I'd MUCH rather see them boarding a POS to capture it after the reinforce timer is out.

QFT >:D