Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The title is a reference to two different movies, where pilots / drivers went on a challenging trip that overcame local obstacles as well as local residents who tried to mess with them.

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Create a newby mission, possibly with variations available for more experienced players, where the objective is to travel in a group to various locations outside of high security space.

To instill the likely numbers wanted for this, rather than a solo event, have this launch at regular intervals, such as an hour or two.
At least once per major time zone.

The prize would go to whoever reached the target grid first, and everyone would be given a single bookmark with which to travel by.

(Would they avoid riskier systems, safer travel in exchange for longer trip time?)

There are no other rules, except you must use one of the ships provided for the event itself.
(a selection of frigates oriented towards either stealth, speed, or durability)
These ships have their own terms of use, see NOTE* section below.

The frigates are racing vehicles, operating with a master kill switch controlled by the racing council.

Once the first racer reaches the target BM with the ship, the prize package is awarded to them, and all ships in the current run have their self destruct timers activated.
(If a player logged out in one, they come back online in just their pod)

NOTE: The ships themselves do have operational limits, as described below.
The self destruct timer is also activated when a pilot other than the mission runner takes possession of the ship.
The ship may not be stored in a hangar of any kind, including outposts, POS storage arrays, and capital ships.
The ship may not jump between systems, except by using the public gate system. No bridging or jump bridges.

Edit: Thanks to Fer'isam K'ahn for pointing out this was not clearly stated
The ships themselves are a game mechanic aspect, having such limits in place.

While the mission COULD be exclusively automated, and as such limited to the servers, they could also be used in player generated content along similar lines.

It could be simple enough to do this, but the mechanic of transforming / manufacturing the racing ships needs to be inserted first.

Aeh, as a mission ?

This belongs to community forum and Live Events, it is a community event, not a tech / game mechanic issue.

Otherwise I am always up for player driven events, but nothing prevents anyone from doing excatly what you propose.

+1 for idea

0 for dedication (to invole yourself into the community)

-1 for implementation (via game mechanics)