Player Features and Ideas Discussion

DISCLAIMER: While this is an idea that I came up with independently, I do not think that I'm the first one that thought up of it. If there is a similar topic somewhere on these forums, please link me to it.

I'm still in the 'planning' stages of this idea, so I'm open to adjustment.

So, while Lowsec doesn't have CONCORD response, I still feel like there should be something done to pirates there. The reasoning is from a consistency perspective; lowsec is Empire space. Why are pirates allowed to perform criminal acts without anything more than a slap on the wrist (GCC)?

Sure, it should still be a viable career to be a pirate, and the purpose of this proposal is NOT to shut down piracy as a viable career, but to make lowsec piracy more interesting (and possibly more consistent with the gameworld).

Basically, this proposal is one for CONCORD to be introduced in lowsec, but in a form that has been drastically nerfed.

These are the basic ideas I have so far:

-This is the most important part of the proposal; IT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE TO EVADE/ESCAPE/DESTROY THE RESPONDERS. They will NOT chase you down if you warp off (provided you don't warp to a stargate, station or anywhere else that might 'report' your position), and they will 'give up' after the GCC ticks down. The Empire Police are not CONCORD.

-Police Navies will deploy and engage more slowly than CONCORD, and quite frankly suck compared to CONCORD: at speeds that are consistent with players, and fight with Tech 1/Meta 1-4 modules. Empire Navies would take the form of the NPC ships that are consistent with NPCs found in Empire missions; so if you get GCC in Caldari space, you get Police'd by State Katana, Bushi etc.

-The difficulty is inverse of NPC Pirates; the lower the sec status of a system, the more punitive the response. Piracy in 0.1 would trigger frigates and cruisers at the most, while 0.4 piracy would trigger a response that involves battleships for the 'biggest' response you'd see. Basically, piracy would turn the asteroid belt into a security mission site. This is so that piracy can still remain an effective career in lowsec, and in lowsec an even more lucrative one (farming the police responders).

-Police will only deploy in certain systems: one with a Station in the system, more so if if the system has a station run by corporations that have armed forces (Caldari Navy etc.). Systems neighboring highsec will also give a response, with the police spawning from appropriate stargates. If you're in a system with no stations, surrounded in highsec... that's a pirate haven right there.

-Standings with the corporation that would deploy a response will influence it. A pirate with good standings with Caldari State (regardless of Sec Standings) will see no response, provided that they don't attack someone with better standings with the Caldari State. This will also extend to Corporations/Alliances. Might also introduce mechanics involving paying off the local/nearby Security Agents to make them 'hold off' or otherwise ignore your acts of piracy.

-Of course, 'resisting arrest' by destroying the Empire Police would give you a standings hit, but at the same time increase your standings with the Empires at war with the Police you killed. So piracy in Amarr will bump up your standings with Minmatar Republic/Gallente Federation, while also hitting your Caldari standings.

Like I said up above, police would only deploy in space that they are capable of policing, such as having a station in system. I mean, I don't see the sense of having a Federation Navy station in a system, but no actual Federation Navy.

Also, because of that, a decent chunk of lowsec will not have police coverage. The bits that do will become a filled with corps looking to make a profit out of lowsec (mining, ratting, PVP...) and thinking that Empire Police would be as effective as CONCORD.

I foresee a lot of wardeccing and ganking for people looking to claim that slice of lowsec.

Fun times will abound.

Why didnt you just say, lets put a police force in low sec, so people and pirates cant pvp at all without having to go to null.

2/10 for effort though.

Please...PLEASE go away... If you wanna PVE, stay in hi-sec! Low-sec is ruined enough as it is without having to deal with this redicolous PVE!
If anything get rid of gateguns and let us be able to use Frigs on gate to faster lock and kill people with suggestions like this!

LOSING something lowsec is different than BEING in lowsec. : )

There are already gate/station guns that shoot you. What is wrong with those?

You Sir must be a troll or complete idiot.
Next time you have a "brilliant" idea of futher nerf to lowsec, just do us a favour and see this picture again and again untill your ideas stop.

If you think tanking gate or stations guns is easy just take your ship and try to solo kill a Drake or Cane on it.

EDIT: Lowsec isn't empire space. It's pirate's space. Our home.

Please don't give ideas if you are fresh in game (2012 character). Play it 2 or 3 years first cuz you know nothing bout Eve online yet.

I think we have a feature in game similar to this already..Its called"Get a fleet together and go fight the pirates"

So what you want is the original CONCORD for low sec.

Can you fell the mass disapproval? Think lowsec as some places in africa or south america, where there is an army base... They don't care about happens to you there, they are there for their objectives...