Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's been said that PVE in EVE needs to be redone for a long time now and below is my Idea given the addition of the Scope Network. I wouldn't expect anything soon but perhaps after the structures are all out of the way.

I'd envision a Window that would open up like the Scope network but it would replace Missions / Agent Finder / Militia / Incursion / Journal windows in their current form. The window would have multiple tabs for the various PVE info and act as a one stop shop for PVE.

General Outline

- Basically for lore purposes it would be organized as "Contracts" between the player, corporation or alliance and various NPC entities.

- Players, Corporations and Alliances would "contract" themselves with a Empire's NPC corporation in the same fashion as joining Militias today. They would only be able to contract themselves with one NPC corp at a time. If they left the corp then standings would be saved however standings would diminish over time or if they begin working for a rival empire's corporation.

- Once contracted with a NPC Corporation there would be a tab on the window that would display 4 different "objectives" based on the type of NPC Corporation the party joined. Combat / Trade / Mining. Existing anomalies could be used as objectives aka "Destroy 10 Gurista Pirates for 100 LP" / "Take down 5 Gurista Den's for 500 LP" / "Mine X Amount of Ore" / " Pick up x here and deliver there " other objectives could of course be added.

- Every 2500-5000 LP's a "Expedition aka Escalation" would pop up and they would be the missions everyone is accustomed to running under the current mission system. Though they should be upgraded to make them more inline with current escalations that players get when they run anomalies. This would help to break up the grind just a bit.

- "Contracts" with corporations within an Empire can only be ran in territory owned by that empire or its pirate equivalent. Aka no running Amarr Corporation's contracts in Minmatar space. However Amarr "Contracts and Expeditions" could be ran in Sansha/Blood Raider territory.

- This would mean that Null sec Alliances could "Contract" themselves with Empire NPC Corps to gain LP's while running null sec anomalies residing in their Null Sec space. However they would have special rules applied to their participating in NPC Corporation contracts. See #2 below in PVE based PVP.

- High sec "Objectives" and "Expeditions" are found in High sec space. Compared to current agent missions lvl 1-3 / High Sec Anomalies / DED Sites

- Low sec "Objectives" and "Expeditions" are found in Low sec space. Compared to current agent missions lvl 3-4 / Low Sec Anomalies / DED sites

- Null Sec "Objectives" and "Expeditions" are found in Null sec space. Compared to current agent missions lvl 4-5 / Null Sec Anomalies / DED sites

*** So that is the basic outline for my idea on how to revamp the mission system. Does it sound grindy? Sure it does but it's already grindy BUT under this scheme players wouldn't be confined to any one system and would be free to move around constellations and regions within their Empire or Pirate equivalents control. This means a more dynamic system that allows players, corps and alliances to decide where they want to live generally and makes it more challenging with regards to finding targets during high sec wars. Speaking of wars.....

Incursions : The great isk facets of High Sec

I dunno you think of something. I feel they should be shut down as they are a disincentive to migrate to null sec in the same way as lvl 4 agent missions.

Perhaps convert them into week long PVP events where they occasionally happen say once a month each time a different pirate faction not just the sansha and allow the "outlaw" faction listed in the below PVE based PVP section aid in whatever pirate group is trying to steal people or resources in exchange for lots of LP. Have the drops at the culmination of the event be for their various Pirate Titans / Super Carriers or rare capital officer loot.

For your first post, I think that:

1. PVE players may like walking up to an agent and getting a mission. IMO it's better than a one-stop-shop window with everything. It's more roleplay-ey, more realistic, and because we can refuse a mission from each agent every 4 hours and can refuse "storyline" missions, it has more options.

2. We also like to be able to pick what we want to do, rather than being forced to grind opportunities or objectives or whatever in order to get to the missions, and then not be able to pick / decline / re-request the missions. I hate the Shadow of the Serpent event **** they recently introduced; it's a pointless grind with no rewards. Don't want to be forced to do it, in order to unlock access to the old types of PVE. If you want to do it the other way, do 50 missions to unlock access to SotS events, by all means go ahead, but I'd rather not force this kind of content blocking on anyone.

3. Accumulated NPC standings currently do NOT decrease over time, in EVE or any other MMO game. You want a major nerf if you're asking that they decrease due to inactivity. And also a major nerf if we can only do 1 NPC corp at a time. Keep in mind that everyone will pick Caldari Navy, because of Jita taxes.

So your first post is a suggestion for a one-stop-shop complicated window, and for that "convenience" you're asking for a nerf to standings (they now decrease), and less choice in what type of PVP we can log in for half an hour and do. So, no, thank you.

No, standings with corps stay unchanged if there's no activity.

Empire standings, however, are affected by the relationships between the empires (Amarr hates Minmatar, Gallente hates Caldari, etc.), so if you do Amarr missions and then you do Minmatar missions, your Amarr standings will decrease with each Minnie mission. Also with each Gallente mission (cause Amarr hate Gallente too, just less than Minmatar).

If you follow the Show Info trail by clicking the logos of corporations and then empires, you can see the exact love/hate multipliers.