Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Feature Idea Staff Officers

In place of subsystems on tech 1 and tech 2 ships offer slots on ships for Staff Officers positions.
Staff Officers boost one attribute of your ship by 1 -5 % depending on there rank.

Frigates + Destroyers
1 Staff Officer Position

Cruisers + Battle cruisers
3 Staff Officers Positions

Battle Ships + Up
5 Staff Officers Positions

Actual Staff Officers positions and the aspects they affect
Coms: CPU + EWAR
Astrometrics: Sensors + Probes
Engineering: Shield, Cap + Grid
Gunnery: All weapon systems not just guns
Armory: Hull, armor etc

Only one of each Staff Officer for each position on the ship.

You higher them from factions then they stay with you. As long as they’re assigned to your active ship they learn their position. Each starts off with a base improvement to one stat of the ship of 1%. After one month of training they will have trained up to their next rank. When removed from there Staff position they do not loose their progress nor do they loose their current rank over time.

Since Staff Officers come from different racial factions and will boost certain aspects of ships in order to have different Staff Officers of different factions you will need the corporation skill inter racial relations to get ones from multiple factions and assign them to a ship.

An example of different factions effecting certain aspect of staff officers look to this:

Amarr Engineering Chief -> Cap recharge -1-5%
Minimitar Engineering Chief -> Shield Boost Amount +1-5%
Gallente Armory Chief -> Armor Repair amount +1-5%
Caldari Engineering Chief -> Shield resistance +1- 5%

You get the picture something for every aspect of a ships stats.
Can be traded via the contract system.
If your ship gets destroyed your personel go down with the ship.
Like research agents Staff Officers will give you daily missions that will in increase their training multiplier.

New station service and Star base object.

A new station service will now be added to all the “school” stations. Flight school. Just like blue print ME PE research, instead of letting a Staff Officer stay idle after you remove them from there ship send them to school. They will continue training in what ever field there in. People will be able to build education centers and anchor them at there pos and send there Staff Officers there, as I can assume if this feature was implemented those schools would fill up pretty fast.

Some one mentioned it might be neat to walk out on the bridge of your ship with your avatar. This would actually give you a reason to do it. Yes I will admit that’s sort of bio ware ish to let you actually talk to your Staff Officers, but if that’s how you talk to them to get your missions that’s great. As long as you can’t form relationships with them I don’t think its TOO bio ware ish.

I also think if you want to do this you should only be able to do this if your ship is docked.

Ive posted alot of zainy Ideas today I promise this is the last one.

Theres nothing wrong with implants they work great.

This idea came from the fact that when your fitting screen loads it briefly shows the subsystem slots greyed out for your ship if its not a t3

I feel as though this idea combines that with several other already existing mechanics in game to further ship customization and upgrades.

Currently if you use an implant it doesn't get better over time. These would. Also a mini profession would be training these staff officers and selling them via contract, which would be similar to researching me on bpo's and selling them.

You cant do that with implants. Again theres nothing wrong with that, but I feel this mechanic does distinguish the two.

Tech 1 ships and tech 2 ships do not have subsystem slots.

I was merely stating the fact that briefly they appear in the fitting window before they are grayed out.
There certainly not usable.

In fact if a change like this was implemented tech 1 and tech 2 ships technically still wouldn't have subsystem slots
they would have theses staff officer positions.

At no point do I claim that tech 1 and tech 2 ship have subsystems that are indeed usable.

If you think I have then you are either misconstruing something I have said, or taken it out of context.

Tech 1 ships and tech 2 ships do not have subsystem slots.

This is not a troll its a feature suggestion.

Well.

I figured all the ships before t3's were developed before capsuleer technology.
All t3's were built afterwards, which meant they were developed with capsuleers in mind.
Capsuleers dont need a staff to operate their ship so a T3 wouldn't need a staff.

I feel t3's might be op with them.
My reason for not having them are completely lore based

Bumping this thread, I really think it has potential. Time to get the input of a different crowd/timezone.