Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Before I head back out into the rain in Reykjavík for some grub and the party (awesomeness ahead!), I had to just note some thoughts having watched T0rfi's presentation and Hilmar's "one last thing" at CCP Presents! I'd hoped to run into T0rfi afterwards just to see what the existing thinking was; I don't having anything concrete as such, but this may provoke some discussion that will be. Unfortunately, I didn't see him but never mind and enough with preambles

So to start with ring mining--which is a pretty cool idea in itself--the last scene of the video showed a small ship amongst giant asteroids and a dense haze, beaming lights against the rock; scanning, perhaps. T0rfi intimated that this activity, trawling in a small fleet through a ring hoping to happen upon r64 and the like, would be inherently dangerous and I'm sure there are ideas around what those might be. But the scene itself immediately painted a picture of reduced sensor strength, blindness and vulnerability. Somewhat in the same vein as wormhole space. And it made be think: what a perfect place for an ambush! It couldn't affect local (probably not, anyway) but might kill or limit the directional scanner. It might even affect the grid and detectable range without some extra piece of kit fitted to ships, both those that would inevitably need to escort such trawling fleets, and those trying to track them down

I know there are those crying for a reduced or eliminated local. To bring a "chase" element to PvP within a system and this just occurred to me as being one possibility

The second thought related to avatars is perhaps less workable. I'm not certain. To an extent it may depend on how Dust 514 works out, but also how far CCP really wants to go with the idea from the Future Vision concept at last year's FanFest of giving guns to capsuleers. I'm toying, in my head, about the very idea of exploring derelict sites personally. There has to be dangers, clearly, and indeed becoming trapped, cocooned in a hulk of decaying, twisted metal with limited air due to the actions of another New Eden immortal is one. But what of being shot in the head? Maybe by a guardian Sleeper AI, a rogue drone starting to create a hive, or indeed another capsuleer. Or maybe, blurring the lines between Dust 514 and EVE, a mercenary strike team

Perhaps this is taking a step too far. I have been playing a lot of Mass Effect 3 before flying out here. But contracting mercs for protection in these hostile environments is plausible, albeit quite a leap forward.

The final thing, related to the same video shown at the end by Hilmar, is perhaps more a request for an explanation rather than a suggestion. Specifically, the audio references an "end to the war" and not "allow[ing] one nation to control it". This is presumably prime territory for additional lore and factional warfare material, but is there anything definitive in mind (either from CCP or others reading this), or just an intriguing sound-bite

Along with CREST (shout-out to Cobra Kai!), these are interesting times!

-GK

Thanks for clearing that up!