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Mana Shian
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-05-29 06:27:59 UTC
Why do wormholes get to have all the fun?

I say all systems throughout New Eden deserve some degree of Magic Space Weather. They don't have to be the system-wide buffs/debuffs wormholes provide, they could simply be random celestial events that occur every once so often in a system.

Perhaps a solar flare and accompanying Coronal Mass Ejection?

A strong burst of solar wind maybe?

A proton storm?

What if the system passes through an interstellar cloud?

Perhaps they could damage ships, help or harm shields, or even simply apply a tint to the lenses of your camera drones.

Just a nifty idea I thought might increase immersion or interest somebody.
Jade Blackwind
#2 - 2014-05-29 09:33:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Blackwind
+1 for Space Weather!
Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#3 - 2014-05-29 11:12:25 UTC
Mana Shian wrote:
Why do wormholes get to have all the fun?

I say all systems throughout New Eden deserve some degree of Magic Space Weather. They don't have to be the system-wide buffs/debuffs wormholes provide, they could simply be random celestial events that occur every once so often in a system.

Perhaps a solar flare and accompanying Coronal Mass Ejection?

A strong burst of solar wind maybe?

A proton storm?

What if the system passes through an interstellar cloud?

Perhaps they could damage ships, help or harm shields, or even simply apply a tint to the lenses of your camera drones.

Just a nifty idea I thought might increase immersion or interest somebody.


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Wedge Rancer
The Rogue Space Force
#4 - 2014-05-29 11:20:47 UTC
+1 This would be a great idea.
w3ak3stl1nk
Hedion University
#5 - 2014-05-29 11:24:07 UTC
Good idea but I thought servers were struggling as it is...

Is that my two cents or yours?
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#6 - 2014-05-29 11:47:24 UTC
I've always been a fan of "space weather" in some form or another... but as I've played EVE over the years I've also become leery about making things TOO arbitrary.

So two ideas come to mind...

1. Localized weather: getting too close to a star would result in continuous damage across all damage types... by percentage rather than sets values so one ship class/type will not be favored over another (but certain tactics and fits would).

2. I'm more hesitant of this one... but I've somewhat liked wormhole system buffs/debuffs... except in k-space it would be a little more random and short lived (hours long maybe?)... and the numbers would be small not to make anything overpowered or crippled (2 to 5% or less)... just enough to give a slight edge or disadvantage.

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Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-05-29 12:10:25 UTC
Many of the stars in New Eden are beyond 25 million years old... Would be cool if one would go supernova or become a black hole...
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#8 - 2014-05-29 12:39:44 UTC
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
Many of the stars in New Eden are beyond 25 million years old... Would be cool if one would go supernova or become a black hole...


Well I don't want to spoil anything but 25 million years is just another day at the office or a star. If you get close to 10 billion year you might witness a nova.

But don't disappapointed most of the 'brown dwarf stars' wont go boom and just bloom a little and become even smaller brown dwarfs.

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Auduin Samson
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2014-05-29 13:28:52 UTC
elitatwo wrote:
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
Many of the stars in New Eden are beyond 25 million years old... Would be cool if one would go supernova or become a black hole...


Well I don't want to spoil anything but 25 million years is just another day at the office or a star. If you get close to 10 billion year you might witness a nova.

But don't disappapointed most of the 'brown dwarf stars' wont go boom and just bloom a little and become even smaller brown dwarfs.


If we wanted to get really technical, stars that go supernova live fast and die young. If a star lives to be 10 billion years old, it won't go supernova, but instead condense down like you said. Supernovas are all very young stars, in comparison to our own sun.

That being said, wormholes get space weather from unrealistic scenarios. I don't see why we couldn't apply that elsewhere.
Juan Thang
Optimistic Wasteland Inc.
Fraternity.
#10 - 2014-05-29 13:31:22 UTC
I suggested this once, and then the thread mysteriously dissipated into the eather... cpp -_-
Ix Method
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-05-29 13:57:39 UTC
Yes.

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Mana Shian
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-05-30 00:06:14 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
I've always been a fan of "space weather" in some form or another... but as I've played EVE over the years I've also become leery about making things TOO arbitrary.

So two ideas come to mind...

1. Localized weather: getting too close to a star would result in continuous damage across all damage types... by percentage rather than sets values so one ship class/type will not be favored over another (but certain tactics and fits would).

2. I'm more hesitant of this one... but I've somewhat liked wormhole system buffs/debuffs... except in k-space it would be a little more random and short lived (hours long maybe?)... and the numbers would be small not to make anything overpowered or crippled (2 to 5% or less)... just enough to give a slight edge or disadvantage.

I enjoy the idea of localized weather. I would prefer for there to be places other than near the sun for effects to occur though.

I never ruled out the idea of buffs/debuffs in k-space, but I do believe they shouldn't be of the same magnitude or of the same type as Wormholes.