Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm living in Drone space.

Drone Mining Outpost - This is a mining outpost constructed by drones, it spawns with 3 different versions. Small Outpost
Medium complex, Large refinery. This outpost will have a small to large stockpile of ore or minerals and will vary in difficulty.

Small mining outpost
-Easy enough for a cruiser or BC to take out.
-small ore payout 1k - 30k m3
-MEDIUM TO HIGH chance to yield a medium outpost.
-can sell the medium for 5 mil

Medium Outpost 27M-45M
-This is a medium mining field that's heavily guarded. A battle that will take a battleship 45m to 1hr to complete.
-The miners remain in the field mining while you take out the spawn. Kill them last
-containers yield 50k-150k m3 raw ore.
-Defeating this yields the chance that you will get a large refinery mission


Large Refinery - 250m - 350m
Sentient Guarded
-Large spawns Big bounty payout
-Silos may contain several loads of raw ore and processed minerals to be hauled out.
-While activated will increase the number of sentient spawns and hauler spawns and may yield the mission key to another player.


Drone Research Lab -
A central hub of Drone research and development. This is connected to data sites that spawn in connection to it. These sites will build up research data cores, blueprints and blueprint copies , research grade special equipment. The key to having a drone research lab is not just to know it's location, it's knowing when to strike that is key. This mission requires you to have stealth recon to know when to strike.

- The main data site will have 4 stages of growth in 3 to 5 days. The data sites that spawn in systems around the missions location may yield a key to the mission sites. The mission site has a research center that is in use and in some stage of development. The key to this mission is to study the site stealthily , or the scientists will scramble to stash data in sites and it will degrade the hub. When a medium hub turns to a large hub a sentient spawn will be guarding it. This is the time to strike.
Then you've got to pop as many scientist frigates as you can as they leave the hub.

Small research hub
-yield data cores
-20m-50m

Medium Development hub
-Harder spawn
-yields t2 blueprint copies
-yields data cores

Large Research & weapons project.
-Sentient spawn
- Catch the research spawn before they get away. Killing frigates as they come out and try to run away. Each will be carrying part of the loot from the research center. From Stashes of scientific data cores to research grade weapons and equipment.
-Yields research grade equipment or faction equipment (rare blue mods)
- Having this expedition will spawn extra data sites around the mission location.
- Data sites offer bonuses, and key mission information. It may offer the mission key to someone else who found the site during this phase.


Invasions -
I love this feature - But I haven't enjoyed a invasion yet.

Drone Moon invasion.
This is a site that the Rats have staged to attack a moon installation. They've been siphoning off moon minerals and have used them to build a sentient army. A complex so big your corp needs to setup a POS and Defend it from rats. This is the kind of complex your corp can get together and work together on killing swarms of ships.

-POS kills a rat spawn that edges too close, or a pilot sees them approaching and kills them. These shipwrecks contain the key to a massive site.
- A long battle large enough that the corp can work together on it.


Loot- Expeditions such as this can yield 500m - 1.5b in bounties loot and salvage. The sites will also yield a considerable amount of processed or unprocessed moon mineral, or T2 components.



Since ratting can be the funnest part of the game, and the most profitable.