Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Fozzie, I've been noticing about 1 in 10 posters mention that the issue lies with exploration content rather than exploration ships. After all, part of the purpose of re-designing these ships is making sure people have a reason to use them (i.e. that there's something fun to do with them).

Perhaps once you've finished the ship re-balancing, you might float the idea of adding to the abilities of Codebreaker/Analyzer/Salvager Modules. Instead of these being "click for loots" modules, there should be some more meaningful content behind their usage.

For instance, in the game Fallout, hacking a computer system involved what amounted to a quick game of hangman.

I'm not proposing that system exactly, but some, similar, system that lets the player's (not the character's) intelligence, skill, agility, and/or experience at hacking/salvaging/analyzing positively influence the outcome (honestly, the process of scanning itself could use more of this... very dull).

Other ideas, like adding more hackable/analyzable targets to the game and making more "sciencey" content, also sounded good (for hacking think: hacking PoS's and other players' ships; for analyzers: running an analyzer on an "Abandoned Mining Colony" could produce links to the wiki lore pages: think CCP Abraxas's project).

One other addition to the content area which could be nice, especially for high sec: Cosmic Signature Bookmark Marketplace. Which could be, basically, a community-built, high-sec infrastructure hub with an upgrade slot for a "Regional Cosmic Signature Database" (or some such) which allows scanners to sell the locations of the things they find to interested parties who hate scanning. It seems like such a shame to let all those signatures I pass up go to waste just because it's hard to share the information.

Hope this isn't too off-topic for you...

I don't know how it affects mobility but the Imicus also has the lowest mass. Does that mean it gets a more efficient use of propulsion mods than the others? Might explain it

Hey Fozzie,

I was just thinking out of the box... why ships need to sacrifice themselfes to open the Cyno? this makes no sense if you think about it... In real life it would make no sense at all.

If the cynosural field generates a so powerfull gravitational field that anchors the activation module in the place, why it is put in a ship, not in a probe? Cientists should have tought about it ... a boms sized probe... It would allow the use of more expensive ships for this task alowing them to drop the probe and go away......

BTW, you are doing a good job on the reballancing!!!

Because in fluff the capsuleers are the "Immortals". They know they have a clone waiting for them when they sacrifice their ships and themselves.

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Ugh, frakking board ate my text. -_-
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The reason why only 1 of 10 are talking about exploration is because you can only pretty much do such exploration sites like radar with an explo-frig in HISEC only. Not only are most sites overrun by Hisec dwellers (ymmv), you can pretty much survive anything with the frigs. It is fun though to do it with a Probe, I'm not complaining about that part.

However, you'll die super fast in Low or 0.0sec in a frig.

One thing I wish would happen would be that certain sites could only be accessed by Explorational Frigate-Hulls (and destroyers, I suppose); raising the need for more teamwork along with Risk/Reward/Fun.

Star Trek Elite Force 2 also had an interesting feature in terms of hacking, where you had to reroute power in form of some "PipeDream" mini game in a very short amount of time.

I also wish Explorational-Professions, from actual Probing to Hacking/Analyzing/etc requiring the brains of a charachter-and-player who really understands the math, the science behind things -- giving us a light version of technobabble - So like having the necessity of somebody who actually skilled deeply into Science and industry stuff.


A bit off-topic;
I wish Science Ships in general would be an independant bracket introduced to the game.
Sort of like Science Vessels somewhere within the pool of the obvious combat ships and the industrial mining ships (Barges, Exhumers, Industrial Ships, ORE vessels, etc).

This however requires a lot more in terms of exploration --
I was thinking of random star systems that spawn/despawn with various goodies and dangers in style of the Wormhole star systems - BUT in normal EVE space. This would require however a non-cyno variant as well as some sort of true Hyperdrive FTL fluff, jumping from A to B.

Science should not also just be about staring at a BPC cooking clock either.

I will make a seperate thread regarding ideas, even though it is likely to die out, but at least things will be said.

Go me.

No.

It generally is, but drone focused ships are sometimes exceptions. That being said with the slot changes we can probably adjust the relative mobility of the ships a bit.

Fozzie - if exploration is getting changed up in the near future (Re: Incarna stuff), have you spoken to Team Avatar about how current exploration content, including the ships you are designing, fit in with those changes/additions.

Even if (as I suspect is the case) the new content planned is both a while away, and an addition, not a replacement, it is something you should collaborate on to make sure the pieces fit together.

Q: Have you talked with Team Avatar, regarding the currently mostly-unannounced exploration content. Has this affected your own plans at all?

The only information we have on the Incarna changes say it's going to be exploration content - surely you guys know about this?

THAT. But on a slightly larger scale, if you please: )!
Would prefer a star system that must be "explored", rather than just a site. You know, scanning for how many planets, moons, etc.