Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I remember reading a Devblog or posting of some sort /somewhere/ a few years ago. Mainly about where CCP got their inspiration and ideas from. The Dev in question was commenting about how Firefly came out around the same time EVE went live. At that point its hard to change things.

But, you can still use it as an inspiration today!

A good use for that ship class in that universe is smuggling. A lot of hiding spaces that's hard to find and hard to scan.

This can be implemented in 2 ways in EVE.

First is the most obvious, the NPC pirates want the ability to transport illegal goods through Highsec and the black market. So, a new pirate version of a frigate could be used.

The other is Capsuleers themselves develop the ship, lore wise no one steps up as the designer. I'd say this would work better, and it'll give CCP a chance to release a new ship model that they have. (You guys must have ALOT of ship models buried in the databases somewhere.)

This ship shouldn't be very OP in anyway. I'm thinking a 2H, 2M, 2L, layout with enough CPU/powergrid to make half decent fits. Weak offensive and defensive capabilities.

If anything, give it good speed and maneuverability, slight boost in warp speed. (Wish list idea give it +2 warp strength and bubble immunity.)

The "Smuggler" part comes from its "hidden" cargobay. It won't be a large cargo bay, like 50m3 would be efficient. Anything inside this bay would be impossible for Concorde, and other players to scan and see what's inside.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Combat_Boosters


Legality

All except the synth boosters are illegal in high security space. Those illegal boosters will be confiscated by the authorities once they get discovered in the cargohold of a ship. The pilot then has to pay a fee and will get imprinted by a standing loss. All of the synth boosters are legal.

There is no ship in EVE that can get around this.

If this is idea is actually put into the game, you gotta leave something for the tech II variant!

NPC forces have the IWIN button, used to you could put items in the corphanger and get away with it before that was fixed aswell.
By the description what the poster wants its the millennium falcon

More like Serenity from Firefly...read the OP more carefully!

Putting each aspect in the game, into it's own separate box, seems off to me.

So, in order to bypass NPC regulations, you accept diminished capacity towards other players.
Sounds like a trade-off, not necessarily a bad idea.

I don't think balance wants a ship that does everything well, or nobody would fly anything else.

What does that even mean?

The point is that this is a ship that is designed and built with the sole purpose of interaction with NPCs. There is nothing else like it in the game, nor, as EVE is first and foremost a PvP game, should there be. If CCP wants customs to be circumvented, then they can adjust blockade runners accordingly instead of spending resources across teams to implement this narrow idea.

If you keep on giving new/more abilities to one ship class, then you'll end up with EVE the way it was before the rebalance started. Players only sticking to certain ships, completely ignoring other ships with less abilities.

Why is certain ship types given bubble immunity and others not? The same line of reasoning can be said for every ability, why does different ship classes have abilities that others do not? Why not just spare Development time and money and give all abilities to all ships!

Because it would be a very boring game!

Adding one ability with a new ship model that never existed in the game would be better then "let's save time and give a current ships more abilities."

More ships with unique abilities gives players more options and play styles. Thus, better player retention!

Or, we could just change NPC cargo scanners to be blocked by the existing Blockade Runner cargo scanner immunity.

Problem solved.

Oh please. Let me lay it out for you:

There. Is. No. Depth. In. This. Suggestion.

None at all.

It is a ship purely for a very narrow case of NPC interaction. It doesn't even solve the problem of selling contraband in high-sec, as most of your potential customers still wouldn't be able to undock with the stuff.

And if blockade runners were given the ability to run contraband, how, exactly, would that impact any other hauler? How does it step on the toes of the DST or the Freighter? The answer is it wouldn't. It would be accurate to say that this would dissuade people from flying a Kyros just as much as it would from a Scimitar. As such, implementing your proposal is a complete waste of time.