Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Thats right, comets.
I have never heard or seen of any comets in any system in eve.
Why not add in these amazing things?
I propose the following:

Comets be added in. They will arrive from the outer edges of a random system (maybe a set amount of systems each day at start up), and over the next 1-2 weeks time the comet will travel into the system, slingshot around the star, and eventully fly back out into the edge of the systems space eventully disapearing from site.

For a bit more fun, every now and then (say 1% of the time) a comet will have a path that will bring it into a crash with a planet (or posibly even a station, or even pos) within that system. The effect of a comet hitting a planet (or station/pos) would naturaly be disruptive and disasterous. On a planet one could expect all the PI's to be destroyed, and likely a station or pos would be destroyed as well.

To counter that bit of chaos, it could be made where those comets could be probed while in the system, and then mined just like ice and roids are in belts. If a planet or something else important would be in the path of a comet, its even posible if enough miners would get together they could mine up, or even simply destroy the comet before the impact. To destroy a comet ccp could simply make it where you can fire on a comet, and it would take damage, but have huge amounts of structure to it, probaly taking even fleets several hours or even days to totaly destroy.

Of course, that would also open the door for ones who would not want the comet stoped, for whatever reason they want it to hit its target, so they could take all sorts of actions to drive the miners away from the comet (suicide ganks anyone?).

Finaly since ccp has the incursion system already in place and running, a simple change to the system made for the comets could have it work the same way. After all, if there is one new comet at each downtime, and it takes 1-2 weeks for them to leave a system, naturaly there will be about 10 comets at any given time in as many systems.
Using something similar to the incursion system would simple let people know where this "event" is taking place, and encourage players to work together for common goals (for good or ill effects of course).

As an add on the idea of destroying a comet via weapons, perhaps the comet can even fragment due to damage from weapons (or naturaly from mining), and become several smaller fragments of comets.

Either way, i think adding this in would add another feature to the impressive universe of eve :)

Suggestions? Comments? Like? Hate?

Kharmha

Very creative thinking, but in highsec and lowsec this will never work.
People will only fight for what is theirs to protect.
In highsec nobody will care if a comet hits a planet, so you wont get numbers probably.
Unless there is good isk to be made by destroying the comet, then people will join probably.

I like the idea of comets but disagree with them crashing into planets or stations. Their trajectories are predictable and with ships like titans the populace of EvE certainly has the ability to stop this from happening.

Comets in general I like though.

Then turn them into weapons from pie-wats trying to smack stations with em.

no to hitting planets/poses. comets should be random, and simply be a play you can mine moon minerals with mining ships, maybe throw in ice as well if you so choose.

CCP will do something like this soon.... read the CSM meeting minutes.... but It will be a gravimectric with some dust, rocks and ICE...

Nothing incursion like event....

But this small change will give autonomy to many small alliances!!!

It was a good Idea!!! Keep thinking!!!

I have some comets for sale if you need some.

I think CCP mentioned Comest in one of the fanfests, but haven't heard of anything until the last CSM which kind of resembles a Comet, it's a good concept IMO

interesting thought. but the comment that it would wreck stations really shows that you don't know much about the actual backstory of eve. the station that got blown up by a supercarrier would have been pretty much fine if it had its shields at full strength. I think a comet would go *ting* and people inside would think that someone dropped a handful of change if they noticed anything at all.
as to POSes, those might have a hard time. and on planets, it would only take out about .001% of the things on the surface, so you might lose a module in your PI, but it would not all suddenly disappear.

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