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CCP, please do this ASAP.

+1

I support this proposal fully. +1

This is very close to how I imagined PI should be...

If this will ever be realized (slim chances, but we could hope), EVE will gain entirely new dimension, that will make its universe much closer to ultimate SCI-FI game ever conceived.

And if it will be done, it could / would lay great foundation for next-generation gameplay - flying in planets atmospheres, and maybe even walking or driving on planets surfaces first person... (Dreams, dreams)


EDIT:
This gave me another idea.
CCP has been able to merge (read: bought) White Wolf Company. So, why not do same with Mindark, who produced great planet based game (Entropia Universe), and then use their system for planetary based gameplay?
Just food for thought, but worth trying...

I fully support an expansion for PI, which will lure more people to the game.

But I have two issues with the whole concept:

* I disapprove of terraforming in any way, shape or form!
* The increased supply of PI would have to be negated by using more and more PI in tech II (or tech IV, whatever ccp has to work out) manufacturing

This is best idea I've seen on this forum ... ever .

definitely +1


This will allow extend game-play to planets - from harmless PI structures and outposts to extremely expensive (and build-ed trough many months/years) planet-size cities overgrowing poses and stations in size and capabilities (with defenses breaking titans like matches) + armies of dust mercenaries fighting for corporations interests ... this will be game changer for EVE, no doubt.

Ownership transfers have been included. So players can sell and transfer cities to other players/corps/alliances if they were so inclined.

And I believe its Coruscant.

Yes, I hope it would take quite a few months/Years to grind a city into a planet sized city spanning all PI grids on the surface. Then again, such a city would make Techmoons look like small change.

Bump, because this is pretty epic.

as i am an industrialist at heart, and i do see the benfits of a PI revamp (especially the focos on team and corp activities got me hooked) i think this change would drastically alter the game itself.

eve is already called "excel in space" by a lot of people. its probably the most complex MMO-game out there.
and adding to that with such a drastic "improvement" would make it even bigger, but not necessarily better.

maybe i would have to read and re-read it again, but as of now i think they should make PI more worthwhile and team-oriented, less tedious.

making it into a complex game itself while having appeal , will most certainly cost too much time and money and drive focus away from improving the core of the game: ships in space and the interactions they create between space and each other. its not a planetary simulation...

dont get me wrong: its probably the most rounded out idea ever presented.
for that alone you guys deserve props.

+1 with terraforming version B or a modified A

In it's current state terraforming makes no sense. So you have a class M world, you destabilize it... and suddenly you have other minerals present that wheren't there before to mine ?! It does make some sense if you go from barren to lava (because volcanic activity brings new stuff up to the surface)... but if you go from barren to storm it makes no sense that there is new stuff just pops in. Neither does it in reverse, that if you make a barren world into an M class you suddenly loose access to minerals you had access to before... the change ain't that radical.

Additionally I would propose a system for tourism/migration for the npc's in the civilian PI part:

For example if your colony is "great" aka: low pollution, low taxes, nice beaches => a lot of people would like to live there so people on other planets would put up contracts to be shipped there.

Opposite, if your place is a stinking slum, then the people living there will want out, and would put up contracts to be taken out. You can try to lock down migration like the dictator you dream to be... which would only increase the demand to leave Cuba.

Players can then make ISK by "stealing" your population which wants to leave and shipping them away. There is much room for the idea to be more fleshed out... think: covert landing to get out fugitives, dock-master catching you... locking you down... contraband in slaves or in refugees... many possibilities.

Best mind-frack eva!

You have my support

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Bump