Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The idea of having memorials to commemorate Player deaths (not character deaths) has arisen again due to the death of Vile Rat

The proposal is to have a cemetery at the Eve Gate system. As Bizzaro Stormy so eloquently put it:


Details
It would be in the Eve Gate system.

It would be a deadspace pocket accessed via an acceleration gate. This would avoid cluttering the Eve Gate system.

Permanently anchored memorial cans would be placed in the cemetery. The memorial cans do not expire. Obviously something nicer than a secure can would be preferred.

A petition would be needed to request a memorial can to prevent abuse.
* The memorial can's name would be set to the name of the Player's main character.
* If a petition has enough support, a epitaph could also be included.
* A GM would place the can, preferably in a grid pattern. Meaning, randomly placed memorial cans would be tacky.

Wishlist
Pretty graphic for the memorial can.
Ability to store player messages in the can that can be read by the public.

It sounds like a good idea, until the "popularity contest" factor sets in and certain people get preferential memorials over others, which will inevitably create further and ultimately avoidable drama within the community.

EVE is a sandbox, if people want to memorialize someone within the game it should be on the players to do it, not CCP.

Than again, something like this isn't without precedent.

This sounds like a good idea.

Memorials have existed in games like this for a long time, so I don't think anyone would object to it.

+1

It's a great idea.

Would be nice to have a sign with the character pictured or better yet something like they did at the end of Serenity.

Have each marker more than 150km appart too please.

I support this, Although I could also vote for an alternative; a "Memorial can" item that is spawned on the market by NPCs, which has, when being anchored, the option of including RL name, Character name, and possible short quote. On the overview or when selected it simply shows "Memorial Can < Name >", but when Show Info is pressed (Also possible to select from D-scan results maybe?) the details would be shown. This way, abuse would be not quite as easy, or simply pointless, and nothing would be overly glorified or made pretty. Just a simple, small memorial can, which is only noticed to it's fullest by people taking the time looking at it.
Possible limitations for this would obviously be only in lowsec systems (no hub flooding or the like, and EvE gate and surrounding systems are lowsec anyway), and maybe only if the placer and memorized character are each other's blue's or something.

Either way, if it gets implemented, overglorifying would only lead to annoyance of people who don't know the person in question. This may seem respectless at first, but if you'd see a constant flood of them you'd get annoyed by them eventually.

this would probably be more fitting. far easier to do too.

Doesnt belong in the sandbox game. And what would happen if someone would morbidly do the opposite and spoil it - inquisitions? or CCP should create a police and enforce code of conduct? Again if someone wants it can be done by 3rd party.

Just make the cans have 100% resists like CCP does for every ingame structure they don't want players blowing up. If people desecrate it with can or some such, then players that care can clean them up.

Actually, I'd suggest an entire system dedicated to it. One where aggression could not occur, and nothing ever vanished or faded out provided it was put there for the right reason.

No tombstones please, and it should be more accessible than EVE gate. A nicer venture I've never made even if I happened to head that way once or twice, and one that is generally quite unlikely to result in players arriving at there destination and returning in anything less than a clone.

It's a gank route. Players make runs out there with little or no experience, and other players with more experience do the same, and either way, they all just become targets in the end because everyone knows they will get travelers on the route.

Even if you're a legitimate sightseer in EVE, they will just call you a spy and pod you. If you name your ship RIP, they'll say you're a spy and pod you, If you're in NPC Nullsec, they'll just pod you. If you put something like that way out there, they'll camp it even more, and they'll even know when to camp it.

Who are they? We'll never know and that remains to be seen, but "..if you build it; they will come."

Right, I'm being a little cynical and maybe exaggerating a lot because I have no idea if it's camped regularly or indifferently or what, or even by whom if anyone.

Actually, a simple small beacon would be nice. NPC supplied on the market and/or something you can make. Set it up like a secure container, but you can set the name and lock it and it will stay. Maybe this could be anywhere, but all should be confirmed by a Senior GM or something before they are made permanent.

At the very least, the name and permanent 'inscription' would be reviewed, and the account connected to that character would be monitored for activity for awhile then made inactive permanently barring a player returning from the dead and requesting his account back while providing the right security details.

Anyway, I like the little Monolith idea; a beacon to preserve the memory for everyone to see. I don't really like the idea of a lost and inaccessible graveyard; or even ordered neat row of tombstones or monoliths where you'd never be able to find the one you were looking for. I'd say just make them indestructible and permanent monoliths in space that don't take up much room and gravitate towards the nearest orbital body and out of the way of immediate traffic.

Would be a cool idea, and I'd support it.

*My ideas and such tend to change a bit in the telling/conceiving of them, so don't mind the differences from the first line to the last, just take from it what you will.