Missions & Complexes

Hello, pilots and devs.

For some new mission ideas, one could expand upon some of the lesser known or involved factions, such as the Equilibrium of Man (usually found in Gone Berserk Level 4, Amarr-based ships with shield defenses, hybrid turrets, and a really sexy black paint job!).

Another idea I had was to have the player warp in and support an NPC fleet against another NPC fleet which actively and visibly shoot each other. Some missions offer this, but it might benefit us to include more of these types of missions rather than pitting 1 player vs an entire horde of enemies. Make the player feel as though he or she is involved in a battle on a more grand scale.

I could picture a mission where an R&D lab is testing out a new prototype module and wants to live-fire test it. All the ships in the mission would have the same unique module that they use... such as lasers that do explosive damage... or a super wide-area but reduced damage smartbomb or MIRV missiles that do 4X more damage but travel at half the speed.


Weird things like that that aren't available as actual modules.

The player would simply kill all the ships in the room and pick up a data recorder from the last one to complete the mission.

There's already a long list of mods over the years not implemented, because they cannot possibly be balanced.

Recycle them in on a per-mission only basis, and suddenly missions are a lot more interesting, without threatening Winmatard superiority as far as balancing goes.

Well yeah, it would obviously have to be balanced like Fair Play currently is (i.e. basically pre-determining how many and what kind of wrecks are going to be left on the field, outside fo your assigned targets). You tend to pull out a few tags and a few low Meta BS modules if you're lucky. It's a good payout for the mission, but it would be a lot more impactful if the action happened with the fleet rather than well outside of the fight.

ETA: As far as the bounties, I would think you would only get the bounties for the stuff you kill, like normal. You're not really in a fleet, after all.

Just that the value of tags is closely linked with people not wanting to kill faction rats. A sizable fight between 2 faction, especially 2 empire faction, could generate dozens of high level tags, from both sides of the conflict, without damaging standing much.

I know i would go get half a dozen lv IV agents, cycle them through till I got this mission, then farm them during day for tags, let the mission reset at DT, and continue until a day or 2 before they expire. End result: a few hundred million isk in tags w/o any real effort or standing loss.