Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Marauder, a name to designate a raider or attacker.

What if it let you conceal your identity, or assume a specific alter ego?

Example: Bob Ratsalot skills up his Marauder, and when he activates the conceal function, his name and identity become Blackbeard the Pirate!
A seperate corp identity could be placed, like a villain's mask to conceal the identity.

Oh no, it's the dreaded Blood Nebula fleet!


After all, this is a sandbox, and creating more options for play honestly is really good design.
(You may be a hero to some, but never to all)

Lead the double life, be a Marauder.

Update: I left out one of the key parts of this, mistakenly forgetting I had posted it in a different location.
TY Mike Voidstar for jogging my memory on this!

Specifically:
The price for this? In the event the ship is destroyed, the pod is NOT ejected, but destroyed along with the ship. This preserves the anonymity of the pilot.

I get it, something that you have on a jump clone perhaps, so that when you JC into it you effectively change identities.

That is another potential path for this, true.

I am looking to add functionality to the Marauder class specifically here.

Their could be more than one way to do this.

I'd like to be SpongeBob SquarePants.

This idea may have legs.

EVE is a conflict driven game, on many levels.

Accountability, on the other hand, extends the consequences of your actions into an unforeseeable future. The opponent you attack today may gain unexpected means to counter you later.

We want this to happen, but we do not want a monogamous relationship from it.

We want the people you upset to become psychopathic serial killers, bent on attacking anything that even vaguely resembles you.

For this, we need a degree of uncertainty all around, a desire to launch preemptive strikes against everyone you don't trust.
Because you know you can trust a smoking wreck to not shoot you. Make them all into smoking wrecks, and be safe.

So, if we deny the people you attack information on your specific identity, they then can be released from the obligation of debt to strike at you specifically. They can enjoy striking at everyone in general.

I'm really in two minds about this.

On one hand, I really don't like anything that allows people to avoid the consequences of their actions.

On the other hand, it could actually act as a counter to the ever increasing size of corps and alliances and the prevalence of numbers winning wars. If the larger you got the more likely you were to have what amounts to anonymous awoxers it could limit the speed of growth and also the max number of people you'd want in your corp. It might. I'm not saying it necessarily would.

If you could extract the real identity of the character from their corpse I think that might be sufficient counter. If someone preyed on their corp/alliance a lot they would eventually get bait trapped and killed which would end their reign of terror and allow their corp/alliance some defence against continuous and unknown awoxing.

And yet, with all the secure havens there are, fights of all sizes still happen and the underdogs still win some.

I understand what you mean regarding allowing small groups to attack larger groups without fear of reprisals but I simply don't agree with it. The consequences should be considered prior to initiating aggression against another entity in EVE. You want to poke the bear with a stick you should expect it to eventually turn round and tear your head off.

This is why a fair number of nullsec entities actively don't take sov. It's so they can poke those bears as much as they want and melt away into another area of space. They have nothing the bear can stomp on and so have considered the consequences of their intended actions and mitigated a large amount of the risks.

This is what EVE is currently and in my mind should continue to be. Risk and consequence.

Removing the consequence will cause far more bad than good for the game overall, in my opinion.

That said, if the identity could be discovered some way, even if only with a slim chance per meeting, I'd see it as more of a valid addition. With absolutely no way for anyone to know who the character was it would be a very negative change for the game. Full and complete anonymity isn't something I could condone.

Hmm... Yes, I hadn't taken those points into account with the weight that they deserve. They do somewhat mitigate my concerns although I do think there should be at least some risk to using an anonymising system. I really do think there should be some chance, however small, that if you get killed your corpse's anonymity is lost. Even if its 1% of the time (on pod death) it means there is an element of risk and the possibility, no matter how remote, of there being a potential consequence.

Counter to this statement: Pandemic Legion.

There is actually a way to change identity in eve - alts is what they're called.

Sorry but I had to poop on your party.

Oh, no worries mate, that did nothing to diminish the idea presented here.

Frankly the concept is obvious to the point of my questioning why you would bring it up, even?
We can all make alts, CCP even urges the use of multiple accounts.

That has nothing to do with this concept, which is the use of a character without exposing it's identity.
This means you can have no recorded credit, nor claim sov, through the actions made when thus disguised.

The price tag, for this version of identity concealment being the use of a ship in the Marauder class.