Player Features and Ideas Discussion

+1 to this idea.

Also, just to throw this out here - science says it's possible real wormholes might lead to other dimensions.

So maybe these anomalies could go to alternate universes where even the physical laws might be different. Where lasers might not work, for example. Nastier versions of wormhole effects. Or they go to a New Eden that's been overrun by sleepers.


Just throwing that out there....

Fantastic idea, definitley a way to add gameplay to a group that seems left out. Small to medium corps

They are probably letting us argue out the kinks before they say anything

No. This is not YouTube.

The more I read the more I like.
+1

This could use a mobile base of operations.

I will leave others to hash out what makes sense for capacity and capabilities, but here is an idea I tossed to someone else about how they might try to handle the portable aspect of it.

Maybe this can be a useful starting point to something that will fit into this idea.

A freighter sized ship that deploys itself. (Becomes a port-a-station)

Requires anchoring 5, etc. (It stops being a ship once deployed)

Noone pilots it. (what?)

It is effectively a big drone. Huge freighter sized thing.
The person who owns / unanchors it is automatically in a fleet with it, and guides it through intra-system warps with fleet commands. For use of jump gates, it will always attempt to jump after the controlling pilot.
Cannot jump except by jump gate.
Cannot use jump bridges.
Cannot shift from base to mobile mode with pilot's online and inside. (Offline pilot's will come back in the last ship they had selected as active, at the location near where the station is currently, exactly as if they had logged off in space.)
(They were auto-ejected into space by logging in during transit)
Moving this thing will be dangerous, and if the controlling pilot's ship gets destroyed and podded, it drifts until the next pilot claims it.

Option: Possibly limit which ships can act as controller to move it.

Even Better or easier, a WarOrca that to be boarded requires a password, and can haul maybe 3 or 4 fitted battleships inside and has some utility slots on it. and bonuses for that.

There's a lot of good ideas in this thread, but a lot of them are far out and will never be implemented. In the spirit of the OP I'd like to suggest a way for more systems to be added in the easiest possible way for CCP, i.e., no new wacky game mechanics or ship classes.

The Outlying Systems
Accessible by normal stargates with many entry points in lowsec and NPC 0.0 and of course wormholes
Each system must be at least 14.626 ly apart (farther than the jump range of a max skilled carrier)
System mechanics are like WH space but with no bubbles allowed
Each system has the resources of -1.0 truesec: best ore, anoms and the chance for officer spawns
Every pirate faction can spawn in belts and their anoms in every system

The back story would be that the pirate factions have been exploring systems on the edge of the galaxy (explaining the long distances between systems) and putting up secret stargates between these systems that have just been discovered (the stargates). Due to the logistical challenge of the long distances involved, no one pirate faction has been able to control any system, and they all are fighting to control all the systems, hence why you can find all pirate factions in each system. You can kill serpentis in a belt, and then the next wave of rats could be blood raiders, etc.

The draw to go to these systems is a chance at -1.0 truesec systems. The challenge is that there will be no local, and logistics will be much more difficult since you will have to live out of a POS if you want to stay long term, and jump freighting will be impossible due to the extreme distances between systems. No bubbles so that its harder to control a system, and many entry points to these systems so that its hard to camp choke points like the current entries into 0.0. You can of course build capital ships in the system, but its a dangerous proposition using capital ships in a system without local that can be accessible via stargates. I can only imagine that once capitals are spotted in a system there will be many more people scouting them to pop them.

BAM, its a parallel idea to the OPs, but much more easily implemented with the current game mechanics.

TL;DR get a longer attention span

This is an awesome idea.

How about activating warp drive, and you enter warp. You would be able to move around normally, like you would out of warp. You'd be able to approach other players in warp, ie locking onto them with your scanners, outrun them/ match their velocity, in order to scramble their warp drive and bring them out into normal space. This way you could even build ships based on velocity, say you have a ship going 6AU/s, you'd be able to outrun most "normal ships". An interceptor going 13.5AU would hunt it down quickly etc.

I was also thinking, how about another fitting slot ie High, Mid, Low slots and an additional Warp slot, where you could introduce new modules that increase warp speed, but also increase capacitor usage. Something to increase your acceleration, longevity etc. For example a ship going at 8AU is trying to hunt down a ship going at 9AU, the ship going 9AU would require a lot more capacitor than the ship going 8AU. It wouldn't be able to catch up to it straight away, but the 9AU ship won't be able to hold 9AU constantly, and would have to slow down eventually, in which case the 8AU ship built for longevity would be able to catch up.

I kind of like this concept because it stop the "once in warp you're invincible", if you get into warp they won't catch you etc, they'd be able to hunt you down as well, and you'd have to outrun them.

Additionally how about having no warp scrambling at all? You've found a target, he's ill equipped for combat but he's got a decent warp drive, he might be able to get away from you, if it drags on a bit. But at the same time your ship's defences would be less in warp than in normal space. Also how about your warp drive would be disabled if your ship is damaged below a certain threshold, say less than 90% structure or something.

Let's say you win the encounter but you're down to 60% structure, you'd have to repair your ship(Though this would be stupid because no one would carry a hull repair conventionally). However let's say you could put your ship's crew to work and have them slowly repair your ship, say .1%/second or something, which could be improved with skills. In that time span, you could be jumped by someone else, your ship's shields/ armour could hold off the enemy until your crew's repaired the structure, unless they get through first.

I'm also not in favor of manual warp control. If it has to be redone, IMO it should be pick a direction, distance, and go. No dropping out of warp early or maneuvering. Once you go, you've passed the point of no return, just like warping anywhere else. Being able to choose your direction and distance of warp would be something exclusive to this region of space.