Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My Proposal is simple: allow Cosmos agents to be used repeatedly with a 12 month wait between each time, as in Epic Arcs.

I haven't tried any Cosmos missions - I hear you can do them once, and only once on your toon. If you don't do them in the right order, you can't do all of them, ever, on your toon.
They are the only source for most storyline items.

I think this is a bad system, and its why most storyline items are completely unavailable for purchase.
The storyline items that are generally available for purchase are the ones that come from Epic Arcs - which as I understand it, you can do every 6 months (it hasn't been 6 months since I did the Gal Epic arc, so I don't know for sure, but the availability of the items on contracts suggests they are).
This is presumably to prevent farming or grinding for faction standing increases.

Storyline items are generally on par with Meta 4, or T2 (on rare occasions they are better), it wouldn't be game breaking if they became more available.
I've looked at some guides, and it seems they are typically given as 3 run BPCs?

They are also given out more frequently during the COSMOS arc than in the Epic Arcs.
So, I suggest increasing the delay from 6 months (as with Epic Arcs) to 1 year.

I think the problem is less the historic items itself.

First of all, the ressources needed to manufacture them are only gathered in a very limited number of places. Allowing to replay the missions would be less of an impact to the other items, but would result in a very competitive situation at these sites, leading to the problem that those who want to play the missions being most of the time blocked out because the required NPCs are camped permanently for bounty (which is higher than usual) and ressources (needed to build the historic items).

Second the faction rewards gained on historic missions are quite higher than in usual missions. This again would lead to those who are in need of faction to play the missions for just this reason. Leading to competition and several other instabilities regarding the faction system loss and gain between the empires.

Third the higher availability of historic items would cause an undefined impact on the t2 market.

I think that those points above overall would cause some impact which is not really easy to be foreseen in what exactly it would result. As the financial system in Eve is very critical for the fun and in that case directly responsible for the population of the game, CCP will not do changes to the historic items and missions.

Though your points are absolutely understandable and i agree nearly in whole to them, as i played the missions and i really enjoyed the difference to the common mission running at stations. I would prefer to have more such "storylines" like the COSMOS in the game, rather than to play these intersting missions only once and then its gone.

Cheers