Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I like drones.

Make use of drones like trojan horses in order to damage or have negative effect on the player who loot your abandoned drones or even buy your infected or modified drones from market.

This would make hacking skill more necessary in order to scan drones when you buy them and clean them from negative scripts/virus or explosive charges (engineer and mechanic)

-abandon drones with modified software in a battlefield and when someone loot the drones and put them in the drone bay they will have negative effects on their ship.

-place sell orders with virused, scripted or explosive charges in your drones, designated for your enemies.

Example:

Hacking:
+ hidden script for any drone with [insert here a negative effect on the ship which carry this scripted drone] (example: -25% tracking for the ship which carries the virused drone)
- you can select behavior of the scripted drones , activate hidden script when they are in drone bay or to be passive until they are launched and then activate the negative effect.
- drones will act normal as they should but they will have a negative effect on the ship which carries them.
- can be sold in high-sec.
- hacking skill V required to detect the negative effect of the drone in the drone description.

etc etc

Mechanic:
+ hidden explosive charges for any drones [insert here amount of damage done to ship hull and/or drone bay space and/or on other drones stored in the dronebay]

- imagine a fighter bomber going nuts in the carrier drone bay [if it gets there somehow undetected, by buying it or placed by a corp member who is a SPY!]

etc etc

I will explore the idea more if you like it.


Also see:

Launch Drones Animation. Next expansion idea, EVE Online: Throng

New ship idea: Destroy drones using flaks

yes you would need players with high hacking skills to "unhack" your drones and some modules (must think about what is acceptable);

Astrometrics:
+Solar Positioning System modules [you see the location of the player who has the modified drone with SPS module, marked with a colored dot, range limited to solar system, cannot warp at it]
- Oldie but goldie, almost forgotten, now being used by hackers. The SPS module is placed secretly in drones which are sold to the player you want to spy.
- You can select standings on which players, corporation or alliances can be visible to.

etc etc

Mechanic
+armor termites container [bad nanites which weakens the armor plates of the victim ship thus decreasing armor integrity by 10%]
- Put some small containers into any drone, and when the drone is placed in the drone bay, the bad nanites container open and they crawl to the armor structure of the ship, nanites being controlled by the modified drone. Removing the drone will disable the negative effect on the ship.
- cannot be detected after the nanites have been released so you can go a long time with nerfed armor without noticing.

etc etc
I also can see people just building their own drones just so they sell them infected.

Want more ideas?

Its a cool idea.
But if CCP are to touch the drones issue what so ever, they have have much more important issues to fix first, before adding more stuff. Like fixing the complete utter broken disaster that is called "ECM Drones" that are just a plague of this game. And then add new stuff :-)
Like the idea though.