Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My favorite part is the "voting" possibility.

Like that will work any better than, you know, voting for CSM. I can just imagine how much fun that would be. Wouldn't even have to DDoS people anymore, the "prison" system will do it for us!

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Posting in stupid Harry idea thread #213. Seriously man, take the hint. People try to tell you nicely(by eve standards) but you won't consider what anyone else has to say.

I think about it for obious scam mechanics nown in the game, if somebody uses those then the opposite party gets a voting right against that player like a killright you receive when shotdown in nullsec

at some point those voting rights (maybe more than one needs to be used) could be used to send a scammer to prison, maybe a week is much however it should be depending how much votes that player gets

if a player scammes billions after billions, I'm fine with one week prison and just beeing able to mine there and do some basic stuff, its consequences all are waiting for... he can play but in boundaries, it gives more to scamming as well, at the moment they do not have to fear anything, scamming would be much more implemented and exciting

at the moment there are zero consequences for scamming, thats just boring

Nice, I forsee yet another mechanic ripe with corruption, scams and exploitation.

Welcome to Eve, off to the gulag's of Rura Penthe for you.

Mine too.
Has infinite exploit opportunities.
Figure, you may arrange with friends and send innocents in some mining detention camp :)

The fun thing about that other PvP game I played was that players could assemble a posse as a police force to not only protect themselves, their cities. Since the game allowed people stealing, and if you didn't travel with friends to collect what you dropped when you die, you lose...everything...including all the gold you carry...that isn't bound (and only a few things could be bound, and they're not permanent. There's wear timers too, you will not even own the item forever). No nonsense, free loot to any passerby if you die (real meaning of only going out in a group!).

Unlike mercs you hire, it's volunteers with a specific mission -- having fun at thieves expense. Pick up the bounty and go hunting. There wasn't any prison, because the "law" was harsh, the criminal is to be executed and his head mounted on a pike before a city gate (with a vivid description of the dude's name, crime and note on his fate). Players could do what they pleased to that head, and sometimes were explicit.

But they were big boys and it was part of the fun in the game. Because it was so difficult to be a thief (with the high consequences) the thieves in that game were RP pros. Remember one that paraded outside a city with a big show insulting the powers inside, taunting them to fight him (maxed out toon with RL value $5,000 weapons, actual cost of them. He was like a raid boss). It took three days to finally get his head on a pike.

This is why I consider the epeening in games to be very flat. There's little consequences (look at all the ways criminals in EvE can get away with crimes, even before CONCORD). If players really want to step up with the big boys, there's no hand holding. You can lose everything in game. Even your Jita 4-4 shop in the station can be robbed wholesale.

A posse system would be a good addition to EvE, which isn't a merc corp. It's designed like a raid but on the criminals ingame. Might as well have a bounty system that actually means something. Not criminals who mock their 200,000,000 ISK prices on their heads.

Yeah, no argument about that... The analogy was certainly valid.

*new player logs in*
Newbro > hi guys whats up
Newbro > just joined and likin the game
Notification: you have been convicted by capsuleer vote of crimes including scamming and egregrious bumping. You are restricted to mining or remaining docked for the next seven days (06:23:59:59 remaining). A fine of 1,500,000.00 ISK has been levied automatically.
Newbro > f u guys im out
*New player logs out and goes to play something more fun*

In game prison mechanics must be balanced with in game prison break mechanics.

again the voting right mechanic should be like killright mechanic, linked to an ingame scam, linked to a game mechanic, please read through my suggestions in detail before you start posting something silly