Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Cool idea and well thought out, could do with some tweaks in some areas, however.

Sounds like a workable idea but should obviously be limited to take place only in lowsec and NPC 0.0.

How does this encourage pvp in hisec..?

I 100% support this idea. As someone who has never engaged in PVP in EVE (Except for running from aggressors, but I don't think that counts), this is something I would feel comfortable participating in (excited, even). It helps organize PVP for players, reduces the risk involved to a very small extent by offsetting it with rewards, offers an alternate means of gaining standings / LP with a faction, and is overall well thought out. Kudos.

Edit: Oh and FWIW I would *NOT* participate in this in low / null, as I'd not want to risk getting blown up as I enter the system in question by those looking to take advantage of incoming traffic. One step at a time, and all. So, in order for this to be effective for the "curious carebear", it'd need to be possible for it to happen in high sec. It would only make sense if, like missions, it offered better rewards in low / null, to eventually entice those who have participated in a few in high sec to get their feet wet, but you have to give people a place to start.

This thread has been linked in "Assembly Hall" and "Live Events". Keep our fingers crossed.

As someone that started EVE as a carebear, I was extremely intimidated, for far too long, by high-low gates. I honestly believed they were all camped all the time.

Once I got over that fear, I learned to love lowsec. If it had more prey it would be my favorite type of space.

My intention here was to have the highsec distress calls be something people like the carebear I was (before I grew out of it) could experiment with to get their feet wet in PVP without (usually) having to evade gatecamps en route or face hostile triage carriers.

The 0.0 ones would probably often be a capital/supercapital playground, and the lowsec ones could go either way - sometimes a small gang will complete them before anyone really escalates it, other times they'll play out like the 0.0 ones but with less pods lost.

And Bump...

that plan didn't work out too well for FW. CCP dangled the carrot of pve boosts and it got the influx of low bears. All about the pve and pvp limited to only have to do.


Also as many player run events in low sec have shown....many get their kicks popping people travelling to and from the event area. With a no empire distress this would not draw in the bears. it be facing the chokepoints that be a big -1.

Another Case in point: low sec incursions. About as fair a pvp/pve mix you are gonna get out of empire. Bored crews with caps or even titans to bridge can't hot drop you for lolz. Even you average incursion fleet should be able to break a small pirate camp and fend off your average sized pirate crews on the site (enough bears with teeth and the fact piewats don't do cta's so they can't muster large crews at once since some piewats I know left 0.0 to not do the cta blob calls) . Yet still these are not run often as the empire ones.

+ 1 for the interesting content. No doubt CCP would make it gutless by they time they tweaked it for deployment but hey ho.