Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is a feature not every player needs, but for those who like it, it should be enabled by choice...

Asteroids are up to now just for mining. Let's change that.

I would love to have somewhere an asteroid I can call my (secure) and permanent home in empty space. Inside or outside of a solar system. Make those lonely asteroids or asteroid belts detectable by probes. Each player can find them but claim only one of them (maybe). The finder can save the asteroid's location for a direct jump from regular space. This, however, requires special technologies, items, and skills.

Those asteroids, as true discovery of a player and only him, are totally safe. Nobody else can find them or attack them. A player, however, can (inside a fleet) bring friends along.

And now it comes:

1.
Depending on some new set of skills, the player can manage up to a certain amount of m3 inside that asteroid. He digs it with special gear, can design about the layout (shape) of that amount of m3 (examples: cube, rectangle, sphere, cylinder, composite shapes, bend long central rectangle with many small side rooms, vertical cylinder with many side cylinders, etc.).

2.
Depending on some skills, the player can create a certain amount of floors and rooms within that carved-out cave. Each floor and each room or hall can be assigned for a purpose, like bedroom, livingroom, office, factory, lab, storage, chili farm, tomato farm, kitchen, bar, treasure room, ship-size and/or man-sized airlock, hangar, and so on. If the player exceeds the amount of m3 based on the own skill combination, he is at risk to break apart the asteroid if things go very bad, and loses this asteroid and has to search for another one. Sometimes, the player might still succeed, depends on how much the skill-covered m3 amount is exceeded.

3.
Maintenance is much lower and easier than for a POS: oxygen, water, food, energy, such things. Or if the player is willing to use up some of the space, (s)he can produce these things on the own, like with specialized algae to produce oxygen much better than any higher plant, growing food synthetically in nutritious liquids, and so on.

4.
All the players who waited since many years for the promised station walk, can get it here, if so set in the configuration. Otherwise, if they don't want to use the station walk, the menu is similar to that of a space station. For me, it would be nice to socialize here with selected friends of different corporations. Remember, due it's large size, such an asteroid cannot be attacked. And only being in a fleet with the owner, they can come.

5.
The asteroids can sometimes contain relicts from ancient alien civilizations or early humans in the Eve space with some forgotten, rediscoverable technologies. They can be excavation sites, as well, on their surface or inside (depending where the relicts are located, if any). They can also contain common or rare ore or other things which can be sold or used in reactions or for ore trading. Due to their size, the vast surface can hold several different treasures. or no treasures at all.

6.
If the Noble Exchange is being continued, it can hold "Items for Personification". Otherwise it should be the regular market. Items like paint or wallpapers or materials 9textures) for different walls and ceilings and floors in the asteroid home, a wide range of furniture of all different styles (retro, ethnic, futuristic, etc., and of each color variations), tools, machines, scientific sets, decorations (plants, cultural items, art, etc.), socializing items (mini games), various lights (from bright to dim, many color shades and effects), stairs and elevators and anti-grav wells, books (to put skills in), all type of cloth (retro, ethnic, historical styles, Hawaii, etc.) and so on. Maybe even life forms which can be designed on a genetic level (plants and animals, but looking better than in EA's game "Spore"). And so on.

Why I want this feature:

I am a player who, sometimes, just want to be on my own. I dream, and even long, for a real own home in space, where I am safe, and can individualize so it really shows my personality. using the enabled station walk, I would love to go around inside or on the surface of the asteroid, and discover and watch the stars or some harmless phenomenons, and even do agriculture of my favorite plants (mini jungle inside the asteroid in main cave, in another cave some chili farms (I can choose the variety), and so on. And sometimes I want to have a selected guest, a friend, and have a good (virtual) time, by serving self-made dishes from self-grown ingredients (some must be imported, though) or dishes from synthetically grown meats and plant material (no animal dies at my place).

Again, this feature is only for those who want an asteroid home. And walking and maybe socializing inside just with enabled station walk. So everyone can decide if or if not to have this. No one is forced to use it. Downloadable as an add-on file.

This would be great. Unfortunately, it would take a lot of code to implement, as well as new artwork, and even new mechanics (there's a reason you can't redesign the ship hulls despite them looking butt-ugly, like the Moa) that would generate terrible overhead.
Which is sad, because your asteroid bases would probably be a welcome addition both for miners and for dastardly pirates.

Thanks for all the vivid reactions, and for the support. Let's see, what other players think about it. Let's look for some more answers!

Sounds a lot like the Sims in space. Can I get lesbian wohooo ?

1. If you show up on d-scan, why couldn't I probe the location of your home down?
2. I can mine it out, right?

This game seriously doesnt need any more space junk, especially this wretched idea. If others cannot find / destroy it, it shouldnt even get a passing glance by CCP devs.

Explain why I should be able to park 500 fleetmates in an unprobable pocket in a hostile staging system.

Because guerrilla warfare and black-book operations are fun, tough to execute, and have proportionate rewards. And he explicitly said that the asteroids should be detected by probes...

As a high-speed down-range operator, I am kind of curious as to how you propose "gorilla warfare" be conducted - you know - in space. Do you honestly expect gorilla's to have any better dexterity or inherent spatial talent than us humans?

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