Jita Park Speakers Corner

It is good to hear that all of you are so heavily invested in the game, and specifically in things that need an overhaul. You guys still have passion for EVE and that in turn makes me more passionate for what I do here. Furthermore, it would appear that Two step, albeit being present at the CSM summit, seems to have misinterpreted what has been stated so far. That said, I want to bring three quotes from the CSM meeting minutes to your attention:

From page 19:

"Unifex: Once we have a theme, we can begin to thread the issues you've identified as needing to be prioritized into that theme. POS's, for example, desperately need some improvement. How do we fit that work into our theme? Maybe we don't do all of the modular POS work at once, but we start by making some modules, solving the hangar problem, for instance. But that new hangar module would also exist to support other new activities as part of the themed expansion. "

From page 99:

"Seagull: We have 4 things that are interacting [regarding the POSes]: the gameplay and design of the POS system, the role POSes play in achieving things in the game (its features), the technical layer (code) then manages all of this (which currently is old and needs refactoring), and art. Regarding art, there is the question of do you want to redo the art, do you want to show individual modules (as opposed to have things inside, like a station), and then you have technical issues, such as what does the rendering complexity of a scene do to client performance?"

"Seagull: The reason there's a “no” to doing [Modular POSes] right now is that it was affecting all of these areas in a way that was too big to do at once. What you're trying to do is try to find a way to get what you want, but what we need to do is go back and look at how we can separate all these layers, and figure out something reasonable, and then have Art do something that's immersive and amazing."

Nowhere has CCP stated that the Player Owned Structure system will not receive attention. Many of you have already pointed out that it is painful to use at best, a huge pile of unusable dingleberries at worst. Some talk about this being the "old" CCP appearing again but I want to assure all of you that the mistakes that happened in 2011 will not repeat themselves. CCP has only stated that THE OVERHAUL CANNOT HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE

I can't make promises for game designers or the people that make content for EVE Online. Please try to remember that. What I can do is assure you that your voices have been heard, the opinion of the CSM has been heard, and the concerns raised in this thread have been heard.

You want a theme CCP? How about dramatically reducing player dependency on NPC stations, introduce new industrial capabilities, increase PVP opportunities, shake up the markets and generally make game life both more manageable and more exiting for everyone?

Introducing EXODUS II; players moving out of NPC stations across the cluster and into new shiny, self-constructed homes. Basing out of NPC stations should primarily be attractive to newbies and when you are away from the game for longer periods.

Some brainstorming ideas (most of these can also be applied to current outposts):

A Player Owned Station (not structure) system that is modular and scalable - serving as anything from a personal home for a single player to an alliance level base star.

A minimum POS is a upgradable Command Module that provides power and CPU, which have a hangar, storage space and a captains quarters. A basestar could consist of multiple linked maximum upgraded command modules which provide massive amounts of power and CPU for a multitude of modules serving different functions.

NPC stations looses all level 4 and 5 agents. Level 1-3 only. Corps and alliances with sufficient standings can install level 4 (level 5 in low/null) agent modules on their POS for corp, alliance or public access. Access to those agents to be determined by standings to the POS owner in addition to the NPC corp operating the agent.

NPC stations looses all 50% refineries and only gets the 35% type. 50% refineries currently found in NPC stations can only be installed on POSes for corp, alliance or public access. The POS owner regulates the refining fees to be paid.

NPC stations keep their markets, but in addition you can install a market module on your POS for personal, corp, alliance or public access, making internal corp/alliance markets possible.

You can install research and manufacturing modules for personal, corp, alliance or public access. All research and manufacturing should be more efficient and cheaper on a POS than in a NPC station.

You can install office modules on your POS and rent them out to corporations (nice with an alliance level installation).The number of office spots at NPC stations should be reduced and rent increased.

If you want to keep your POS location a secret, it cannot contain any public module (market, office, refinery, laboratory, assembly array etc. set to public access), or any agent module. All poses with these services will show up in the overview.

This is what you can do with "generic" capbilities. I haven’t even touched new POS capabilities tailored for lowsec, nullsec or wormhole space. I’m sure there could be quite a few.

You should be able to anchor your POS anywhere in a solar system, making it possible to have thousands of POSes in a single system. You could take this opportunity to revamp the current moon mining mechanic as well.

You could allow players to cloak their POS (at the price of powering everything down) to avoid detection while on vacation for example. If someone has the bookmark to it, it can still be killed though. It’s a gamble. Leave it uncloaked with powered-up defenses? Or cloak it and hope nobody have the bookmark and warps to it while you are away?

The very first thing I want done:


Corporate roles management update:
Make managing Corporate Roles not unlike managing an IT network.

• Permissions to resources are set in categories: "Look at"; "Use"; "Configure"; "Reset"
• Anything which can be done, any corporate action, and role, and resource (such as POS') has permsissions associated with it.
• Permissions can be bundled into sets.
• Sets can be assigned to Groups.
• Groups can contain Players.