Player Features and Ideas Discussion

IMHO, the future direction of EVE is "rampant consumerism." Consumerism occurs when you have to buy things to stay relevant. The opposite of consumerism would be ships and modules that never cost anything after you buy them (i.e. no crew salaries, no feul costs, no depreciation from "wear and tear", etc.)

In the old days, we had had ships and implants to replace on a periodic (daily?) basis, but even then that was relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.

Nowadays, we have seen powerful ASBs that require cap boosters (i.e. consumables), AARs that require nanite paste (which requires paying NPC/player taxes,) and very recently we've seen an uptick in "deployables", along with new "everything overheats and requires repair costs (and if you don't overheat, you're been nerfed)!" proposed module changes. Additional examples of things that require consumables are invention, mining crystals, etc..

It is obvious that CCP has (finally!) realized that a) blatant, crass, unbridled greed, microtransactions annoyeth the playerth baseth mightedly-eth, and b) that consumables are the new black microtransactions but without the Jita Monument vandalism.


Let's help CCP out here. What are the activities that you do currently that can benefit from "rampant consumerism"?

My ideas:
* scripts are used like ammo in things such as TCs, i.e. they're disposable one-shot items (*cough*disposable diapers*cough),
* disposable scripts for hacking/archeology,
* ship crew with benefits (and by benefits I mean bonuses, you pervs!)
* module wear and tear (you need to pay to keep your modules at 100% efficiency),
* mission agents that take you for granted and start to lower their payouts because it would take too much effort to switch agents,
* a CSPA charge to post on the forums, (grr! forum whores unite!)
* docking/undocking fees, (Scotty needs to wet his beak too!)
* Bastion module requiring fuel of some sort (seriously, is CCP even aware of the MARII Paladin for Level 4s?)
* ammo for drones, especially sentries!
* plex for beer.... (but only because my wife made me order and then quickly drink a Long Island Ice Tea before leaving because the kids were starting to melt down the restaurant, I should marry my wife, oh wait)
... what else?


Bad ideas:
* Logistics in minutia, such as
** ships requiring fuel,
** crew requiring food
** getting crew into wormholes to crew ships


/ow!_my_liver

inb4 MISSIONS.


If a miner gets ganked several times, loses his ship (and concord shows up each time) concord will stop showing up after the 5th gank sending this msg to the player:

**** Tyrone, Get It Together!

OR
Disable concord

Concord Script: On illegal suicide gank concord will seek retribution (just like now)
cost: 500 million or 1 Plex, must be kept in ship bay to be used.
item drops.

Forum Script: enables one forum post
cost: 1 Plex.

It's not just consumerism you forgot to mention the fact that we will all be so busy micromanaging these things we won't be able to do anything else. Because I really enjoy sitting in lo-sec in a mission fit ship trying to finish off a plex managing my drone agro, managing my ships agro, all while hitting the d-scan constantly to make sure someone isn't trying to sneak up on me.

So I'd certainly love more things to micromanage like overheating my TP just to get the same effect I used to get before the nerf. Or overheating my other modules and applying nanite paste every cycle. Sounds like a great plan and wonderful future for eve. Micromanagement online. Woohoo! Sign me up!

Or of course, CCP could be listening to the part of the player base who wanted the ability to overheat such modules. And it's not rampant consumerism, but healthy economy to have consumables that are cheap as a part of combat.

But the real crime here is that I can't pick the brass up from my autocannon and take it home to the reloading bench, because argle bargle this is a stupid thread.

Actually, only shuttles and some choice frigates require no crew for capsuleers. Anything bigger than that still requires crew. It's in the Eve lore wiki.

That said, the Eve books are filled with capsuleers flying ships with no crew. In Templar One, a Gallante capsuleer flies a damn Dread with no crew.

I'd run mission all day, every day.

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