Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Great Idea, love it tonnes!

Space IS big, to have it all mapped, listed and explored it silly, like Monty Python silly.

Give us the chance to get lost in space and drift around between systems where we may not see another player for days on end.

Give us the ability to spend 4-6 hours to move from one system to another nearby system without using a jump gate! ( randomized so its not a fixed route )

It would let us find old destroyed fleets from era's gone by, or stumble upon a Serpentis capital fleet by accident.

Make space big and scary !! Right now it is scary due to moro.. gankers who think killing bystanders is 'leet "PvP" in some form.

And above all, ask us how to do it, crowd source ideas for sites, complexes and missions. Let the people that love this game help make it better.

Don't like carebears? If you think genocide will remove the ~75% of the player base that fits that description then by all means go nuts.

+1 for nice post and words although unfortunately I don't see it coming anytime soon, not in that "lost in space" kind of way. At very least you are always in connection with your corp/alliance, chat rooms are OP :)

But maybe at least we will get key binding for "Analyze" button?

So Eve is small after all. If you arn't in high sec, then you are in eg. null system that has it's residents.

Deep space is w-space, I think. If you wander enough you end up into higher C-levels. They are more difficult too, though, and you might bump into someone there.

Try a wormhole with out those map sites. you can feel pretty damn lost in there -_-

+1

The ship

I was messing with some numbers and such on what I'd like to see. I think the Gnosis should remain a unique ship (reference the special edition catalysts) for the anniversay, and instead have a SoE ship dedicated to exploration.

It would be something like this:

Cruiser class, 5/4/5 3T

Skills: SoE level I (maybe III and introduce a frigate for newer players)

Bonuses:

10% to scan probe strength, 99% cpu reduction in advanced probe launchers, they can use a specific probe that can pinpoint those sites. The skill reqs would be intensive, needing astrometrics V.

25% bonus energy turret damage
5% reduction in energy turret capacitor use

I can't really do PG/CPU and HP since...well, I suck at it.. but it shouldn't be strong. It's not meant to PvP in any way, only hold up against NPCs much in the same sort that a maurader can do for missions.

I chose energy turrets because of ammo concerns. Also, there are no real cross race laser ships, unless you include sansha and blood raiders.. sansha ships are shield tanked and blood raider ships rarely even use the energy turret bonus. I didn't want to go with a shield tank because

a) it's already done
b) it would be very taxing on the CPU and cap

The slot layout allows for weapon defense, plus 2 utility highs for probe launcher and salvager. I intentionally removed my original version from 6H because I feel people would fit a cloak on it and I don't think you should be able to hide a ship that's already going to be moderately difficult to find quickly.

The 3T with damage bonus is to prevent this ship from having a whole rack of weapons...I'm still on the fence about this, or making it a 4 turret 6 slot ship without the bonus. Thoughts?

Mids at 5 give room for prop mod, codebreaker, analyzer, and ship scanner/utility

Lows for plate/resist/armor repair amount. Notice it is unbonused. This isn't a PvP ship.

It would have a small sig radius for the size of the ship, however nothing to make it unscannable (this was actually fixed a while ago and no ship can become truely unscannable).

Unlike the Venture which has an inheret warp strength this won't have that. This ship can be hunted down and killed if the pilot isn't paying attention.

It's an armor tanker, because shields have passive regen. If this ship is deployed out there for days/weeks at a time it should be able to repair itself.

This would allow the ship to do lowsec mag/rad sites without a problem, and even null sites with good skills and proper piloting.


Eventually I'd like to see this along with a hive ship, one that can be a portable "base" for a moderately sized corp which can jump short distances and has an SMA/CHA/cone vat bay. The ship would need to reconfigure (think siege) to be used as such though.

The CVB won't work in w-space of course.


The sites


These wouldn't be the usual sites you're used to probing down and running like clockwork. There are no generic cans to look at. They will be dynamic in strength and composition. The dev team can inject lore and backstory into the sites.. some may be dangerous. They may be in a damage-inducing nebula (I'm thinking about the old 10/10 storm plexes), Maybe it's a ship stuck in the doldrums and unable to warp... and now you find yourself unable to warp also... so you need to find a solution, something in the area that could be causing it....or maybe it's a ship taken over by rogue drones that will attack. There might even be sites with absolutely nothing of value at all, or some that range in tens to hundreds of millions. The thing is there won't be a specific name for a specific series... so there's no way to blitz or min/max them.


I'd like to see wrecks of caravans that early pioneers took and fell upon tragedy. Long dead colonies. Talocan sites. Dead rogue drone hives. Fleet graveyards. Random derelict ships.

You will not be able to bookmark the sites.

Many of the sites might lead you to another system, or another wormhole. You might have to go to a specific cosmos agent in empire and talk to them to get more information. They might lead you to yet another system. The price isn't having a pimped out ship, it's not killing rats. It's putting the pieces of the puzzle together and taking the time to figure out the mystery. you might find items or ships logs that are completely useless for weeks unitl another site references them and you think "aha! this makes sense I know what to do!"

The probes


The probes have superior range and can pinpoint low signatures much faster- it would be possible to find these sites with regular probes but would take a max skilled pilot. combat probes could find the exploration ship but it would have the sig of a small cruiser and would take some time to pinpoint. Make these sites well outside the solar system. 100, 200 AU. I'd like it much more but the game itself has limitations.

This won't make the ship invulnerable at all since you can still scan those ranges with combats fairly quickly.


What CCP needs is someone to devote time to actually putting the stories together, coming up with the missions. Shame they're strapped at the moment.

What my friends and I do is we go into a wormhole with a covert fleet, bomb some things, go to the next hole, bomb some more, and keep at it until we find a different exit - usually deep null sec. Then - and this is the crux of it all - we avoid using the map. We have nothing to go on but remembering gate names in the hopes of finding a way home.

It gives you the Voyager feeling, and is really fun.

with Fanfest over and the new minigame revealed, I have to state what I feel are good and bad:

Pros:

Hacking now is interactive. Awesome. I like the way you need to break into the wreck.
The idem you're loking at isn't really a can but an actual artifact. Maybe the art team has multiple models.
Removal of rats from exploration sites. They are always just a nusaince and not much more.

Cons:
The pinata is pointless. I suppose it's to encourage gameplay but it just makes it annoying and requires an alt to "catch them."
A lack of environmental effects.
The site locations are still the same, and with the new system scanner it's very easy to find them.

Utility modules are problematic, I wish they had their own slots probably so that they would not take either pg or cpu.

I missed it. Where did you find this information?