Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I really dislike the concept of NPC couriers. Why on earth would you add this when there are already courier corps? Logistics should be a player solved problem.

For getting stuff out of a station perhaps expensive emergency mooring and storage containers could be built. In the event of a station going down the mooring jump bridges itself and any ship moored to it to a safe spot and cloaks up. The jump drive would need to be fuelled up to operate and would only be a one way jump to a pre-determined set of co-ords or a random location stored under planetary launches. On arrival the mooring would cloak or simply not be visible on d-scan but still visible if someone happens to fly near it.

This gives players a means to save their stuff if away from the game but at a cost. The location would be stored in their planetary launches tab to allow a player who is away from the game to go back and grab their stuff. Other players could locate their stash by tracking down the player in space.

Problem is there is no ship in game that can scrrop a capital ship that was in the hangar and was spilled into space!

There is no way to solve it with current mechanics, unless you allow peopel to board things that are inside a container.... but I bet ccp do not want to implement that.

To me it looks like 3 or 4 days. So if I'm a guy who plays only on the weekend, I could come back every time to a pod floating in space with all my assets gone. Nevermind if I take a few weeks or months off from the game.

It's a lot like my "space elevator" idea -- secure items on planet surface, insecure items at the orbital structure, and some substantial delay involved in moving assets between the two. My idea also has the benefit of giving the DUST players something to see on the horizon.

I do not like the idea of limiting the time that players have to rescue their stuff after a station has been destroyed.

There are many players, like me, that leave and return to EVE after months or even years. Sometimes we are torn away from EVE suddenly unwillingly because of RL. Like when my my first child was born with medical complications that necessitated him/us living within a hospital in another state for 8 weeks... (He's perfectly normal now all because we were able to relocate him to a center of excellence for his condition. Had we not done that, his life would have been plagued by health issues and never have been able to play athletic sports because the local (cowboy/hack) doctors would have left him with hips only capable of waddling...) Also think about people in the military who sometimes have to leave for long periods with relatively short notice.

Aside from that, I know there are a lot of players that leave and return to EVE sporadically. I STRONGLY suggest you research subscriber statistics before implementing anything that has a timer.

My brother came back a few months ago and found that his 0.0 player built station, containing a large amount of assets, had changed hands multiple times. He was at least able to jump clone into it and sell most of his things on the local market. Even with a mechanic that permanently relocated his items somewhere in the solar system (like a deep safe), he would not have been able to get to them for a long time because he no longer belonged to a corp. Even if he did, he didn't have station access so he would have had to spend weeks cautiously ferrying (losing) some his stuff on the way to high-sec (through wormholes if he was lucky). He's told me that he would not be playing anymore if he would have lost a large amount of what his 10 year old character had accumulated/stashed there. When he left, stations were invulnerable. What if he came back after the upcoming structure patch to find his stuff completely gone due to some timer he'd never heard about?

Though personally moving your stuff should be possible, I think that you should at least be able to pay a PLEX or something to have your stuff relocated to a chosen station. To prevent abuse the transfer service would have to only be available when the station is destroyed, otherwise rich people/alliances could use it to safely move trillions of isk/items very cheaply.

We want more people and content in 0.0...

I was talking about this bit from the dev blog under Market and Office Hubs:


Very artificial and takes away player roles. Bad.

Edit: I've posted in the correct thread now. Sorry about that.

My suggestion is:

Upon structure destruction, put every user and all their items into a "fortified escape bunker" and warp it to orbit the nearest planet. Send out an in-game mail to everyone that has stuff in the bunker that their stuff will be destroyed in a week unless they pick it up.

Give them the option to extend the duration by another week or two by paying storage fees based on the value of the stuff they have (this can be an ISK sink or a payment to the owners of the solar system).

Let anyone dock so they can pick up their stuff or set up contracts or fire sales to get rid of their stuff, but with a limited number of visits, contracts, or market orders, so that the bunker isn't used as an alternative to a regular station.

The idea is that people who have stuff inside get a reasonable amount of time to get their stuff out, with the option to pay to extend the time a little, then the bunker explodes and it's all gone.

Why would people bring large amounts of wealth to a destructible station? Strikes me as a silly decision.

you are in CODE...a nd kill people that fly by with lage ammounts of wealth in fragile industrials while in auto pilot.

And you still asks that?