Player Features and Ideas Discussion

HIGH SLOT MODULES

Small Time Gurista Pirate Lord

"Hes no one really. Just a thug off a backwater world. But hes got ambition and some friends."

Fits into a small hideout high slot
increases upkeep to require certain pirate themed goods to your hideout
Spawns 1 small pirate anomaly per downtime cycle
[Choice A] If anomaly is not destroyed in 10-15 minutes pirate themed goods are transferred to your hideouts cargo.
[Choice B] If anomaly is not destroyed in 10-15 minutes owner of hideout receives Small Pirate LP which he can then use to purchase goods from the Small Time Gurista Pirate Lord
[Choice C] If anomaly is not destroyed in 10-15 minutes owner receives LP towards a certain faction.

2 Pirate frigates guard the hideout.

Spunky Cop

Fits into a small hideout High slot
increases upkeep to require certain themed goods.
[Choice A] Spawns a concord frigate to defend a random celestial once per downtime. Either a gate / asteroid belt / poco / station. Concord frigate lasts for 10-30 mins and then warps off. Concord frigates stats to be decided at another time
[Choice B] Gives player Small Spunky Cop LP which he can then use to purchase goods from the Spunky Cop.
[Choice C] Owner receives LP towards a certain faction once per downtime.
[Choice D] Themed goods are transferred to your hideouts cargo once per downtime.
[Choice E] Owner's security status goes up slightly once per down time cycle.

2 Concord frigates guard the hideout

Amarr/Caldari/Gallente/Minmatar Small Time connection

Fits into small hideout High Slot
Increases upkeep to require certain themed goods or isk.
[Choice A] Gives player some LP towards a random LP store connected to the selected faction once per down time cycle.
[Choice B] Gives player a small reputation boost towards selected faction once per down time cycle.
[Choice C] Player receives a small package of goods from the selected faction once per downtime. Something like meta 1-3 small weapon modules or ammo represented by the faction. For example caldari could give 50-100 missiles, Gallente 50-100 hybrid ammo, or Caldari could give a meta 1 missiles turret or Gallente a meta 1 Hybrid turret.
[Choice D] Player receives a random frigate from selected faction once every week until hanger is full.

2 faction specific frigates guard the hideout

Experienced Miner

“Mining is this man's life. He served aboard a Venture his whole life, and know his way around a mining crystal. Be careful though, he goes into a fey mood from time to time…”

Fits into a small hideout High Slot
Increases upkeep to require certain themed goods or isk
[Choice A] Provides player some LP towards the Experienced Miner LP store once per down time cycle.
[Choice B] Provides player with a small cache of ore once per down time cycle. Ore gained is relative to what system the hideout is in. Ore is gained until hanger is filled
[Choice C] Player receives small boosts from the hideout while he mines in the system where the hideout is located.
[Choice D] A small mining expedition anomaly is spawned once per down time cycle. If the miners are not killed in 20-30 minutes a small cache of ore is gained. Ore gained is relative to what system the hideout is in. Ore is gained until hanger is filled.

Two battle hardened ventures guard the hideout.

Small Business Owner

Fits into a small hideout High Slot
Increases upkeep to require certain themed goods or isk.
Allows the owner to place 5 sell orders from the hideout.
Acceleration gate becomes static and advertised as a Trading Station in the overview for 1 - 3 hours per day. Time can be selected by owner.

Guarded by 2 generic frigates.

Small Time Mad Scientist

Fits into a small hideout High Slot
Increases upkeep to require certain themed goods or isk
[Choice A] Allows player 1 research related job Que.
[Choice B] Gives owner a small cache of research related goods per down time. Like one datacore or something.
[Choice C] Gives the owner a copy of a selected BPO once per down time.

Guarded by 2 generic frigates

Hardened Tinkerer

Fits into a small hideout High Slot
Increases upkeep to require certain themed goods or isk
Allows player 1 manufacturing related job que

Guarded by 2 small towers

That sounds like it could ruin the EVE economy!

Well, I totally understand the need to balance anything generated from the hideout. I have included a required upkeep for the hideout in its base form, and each High Slot adds more upkeep. That increased upkeep could come in the form of certain PI goods, or just plain ISK. But like I said, the time put in to ISK out could be balanced towards a PI level. For example, the bigger the station in more dangerous space the more you would get out of it. But bigger stations would be vulnerable to more hacking / entosising to generate a timer for the owner / or straight out destruction of the hideout. But the small hideout would not be able to be entosised or destroyed as it would serve as an entry level sand castle to the player.

But what about muh content?

Here’s one of the best parts. Since the acceleration gates act similar to a FW plex, it would create scenarios for attackers and defenders or neutral parties. For example the small hideout acceleration gate would act like a novice plex from lowsec. If a player tries to hack the hideout to get sweet goods from inside it would draw aggro from the two guarding rats and make the hacker have a suspect timer. The player could defend his hideout or a 3rd party could. But the player would not always be able to be there to guard his hideout. You could link the faction high slots to turn your zone into a FW activated zone. If an enemy militia member just enters your hideout area it automatically gives him a suspect timer. If you have the trader high slot, it could create a great place for you to sell to others a small bit of goods. Or have the trader high slot automatically link the goods to a selected station in system at a higher tax rate. You could have pirates wait nearby cloaked ready to try and jump on suspected buyers or sellers. You could have increased anomaly activity created by how many and what kind of hideouts are in the area. You could have it so people can attack certain parts of the station that would bring down their function until repped back up to health. Possibilities are there.

How do you limit how many hideouts can be in one system?

you could either have soft / hard caps per system. Or you could give it diminishing returns, the more hideouts per system the less each one gets? The bigger hideouts could create more diminishing returns to the much smaller hideouts in the system? Have it so that each player can only create 1 hideout per character? It could be done.

I want to build / smash a sandcastle!

Yes! that's the idea behind the whole system. Give players the ability to not only create more sandcastles in this giant sand box, but the ability to smash them as well! Well thats my suggestion for more “content / fun” generation for eve. What do you think? What kind of modules would you have? What kind of hideouts would be interesting to make in high / low / null / wh space?

Will do


Hopefully that boiled it down enough... Don't exactly know if its 100% accurate to exactly what the whole main post meant, but I think it hits the main points.

Take away the acceleration gates, and how is this any different to what we know about citadels?

Mostly because they are meaningless as an addition to MMO part of the game, what's with being instanced locations with nothing to do there. More like WiS rather than OP's idea.

dumb.

Thank you for all the feedback!

The main idea behind the post is just to brainstorm one idea of how to add more tools for players to have when it comes to the sand box that is eve. We all like to build things and destroy things in EVE!

What are some of your guys ideas for stuff that can be built by players that would be fun to both to build and have and to destroy?