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Enriching Eve's fiction: Players to join major NPC corporations
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Bob Niac
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-01-19 07:02:34 UTC
Imagine a new team @ CCP. They are paid to run NPC corps, and follow a script of sorts. This is not an RP thing, mind you. Not purely anyway. Let's call them the Direction Management team, or DMs for short.

Try it out for the new player corps. DMs show up as Directors of the corp. Yes, player roles. Why not? DMs are in charge of organizing player events and showing them the ropes. Players are then given a referral to another npc corp. Or they apply. I don't know.

The point is that this is undiscovered territory. Being part of the Fed Navy, not just fighting along side them. Joining the one of the Giristas corps. PVE content through immersion of PVP interaction.

[u]I <3 Logistics:[/u] Pilot of all  T2 logi and my shiny Archon [deceased.] Also a Chimera which may or may not be horrid. I don't make games, I play them. I get that ppl are passionate about change. I post here to plant seeds. You see your idea as is? Holy **** you win! So let's post, and see what the DEVs and our peers use.
Fey Ivory
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-01-19 07:09:42 UTC
Its a good idea, it dosent only need to be for PvP purposes, but also organising mining fleets, moving resources, ewen creating Stations under the guidance of these "organicers" ... still alot of people will want to run their own game, but i think it will help organice more people... CAS as it is works really well, and several oldies there do what they can to get things happening
Bob Niac
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-01-20 19:52:49 UTC
I could have a lot of potential for minimizing the "learning cliff." Actaully having scripted events in specific corporations... I would love to see that. It doesn't even have to be all the time.

[u]I <3 Logistics:[/u] Pilot of all  T2 logi and my shiny Archon [deceased.] Also a Chimera which may or may not be horrid. I don't make games, I play them. I get that ppl are passionate about change. I post here to plant seeds. You see your idea as is? Holy **** you win! So let's post, and see what the DEVs and our peers use.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2013-01-20 20:27:48 UTC
Encourage people to play an MMO by, erm, having them pretend they're playing a single player game?

We should be giving people incentive to join player corps, not NPC ones.
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-01-20 20:44:40 UTC
Danika Princip wrote:


We should be giving people incentive to join player corps, not NPC ones.

I agree with this.
Beta Miner
COBRA Logistics
#6 - 2013-01-21 04:19:17 UTC
Danika Princip wrote:
We should be giving people incentive to join player corps, not NPC ones.


Already there are too many people that hide out in NPC corps.

AFK Cloaking? An afk cloaker has never ganked me. In fact a cloaker at his keybourd has never ganked me either.
Dolorous Tremmens
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-01-21 04:27:50 UTC
Danika Princip wrote:
Encourage people to play an MMO by, erm, having them pretend they're playing a single player game?

We should be giving people incentive to join player corps, not NPC ones.


Yes, Player should have a good reason to join player corps, and not just because of advantageous tax rates. That is, they should be provided a good reason.

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