Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Here's an idea;

How about introducing a new EvE race - sucks for Bitter Vets like me but noobs will have great new opportunities for race selection.

Technology is based on Bio Mechanical symbiosis.
Weapons are BioChemical or perhaps Organic.
Introduce a new range of modules to compliment that race (with related skill set) but also allow for integration into current ship tech and vice-versa.
Maybe have similar concepts to Electronics and Engineering with a biological slant. Perhaps "Bio Mechanics" & "Organics".
This may open up a whole new angle on fleet doctrines.

Discuss...

Babylon 5's Minbari White Star had a Vorlon Bio-armoured hull.

Lets get what we already have in a balanced state before we add that much to it at the same time.

While it would indeed be nice with a new line of ships and weapons and ewar (and command modules) to train for, the increased balancing headache would be horrendous…

You sound like it would have to be you to balance this


Also:

Ones man's pandas are the other man's dust bunnies

Actually it wouldnt be gamebreaking in the slightest or hard, not now that all the races are virtually identical minus looks stat wise. Sleepers and Sansha and Jove would be the obvious 3 right off the bat.

Either that or just expand the races to include the sub races of each empire as "new" playable races and then carve up the 4 empires into their sub racial lines. Theres immediately 9 new races or else you can do the Khanid, Thukker, etc ship line races as new additions. Could give either low sec or NPC null a new "race" as well as militia style FW options. Would be a HUGE boost to NPC null to have the NPC races as "playable" at least in some way. And players have been screaming for ages that they wanted to help "defend" the sansha and that the standings for these null sec NPCs are useless minus L4 mission LP whoring out there anyway.


So theres lots of good options that wouldnt actually cause too much of a rift and could add lots of gameplay options should CCP look into it.

And with DUST coming out NPC null could use a bit of loving to create some sort of "home turf" other than the leading powerblocs. And a FW style gameplay, though it wouldnt matter in null, would matter in low or high sec logistically and territorially. Allies with the low sec factions perhaps? Like the 8:5 and 5:2 standings sort of allies of the current Empires. Add in some bonuses or nerfs to PI be it PvP related or maybe a FW style taxation for those who control the space beyond goo as a replacement (given the moon goo nerf and ring mining introduction) and then have a sov or FW sov like mechanic to show space beyond just the POCOs thats taxable on a "space held" level. So youd have to ultimately hold both null and low or at least have friends or allies in both and rewards.


But now Im getting OT and Ill die if I dont pay attention.

On the sub racial divisions just a side note....

Create a racially wide "alliance" style chat channel that you dont leave unless you get into a corp with an alliance or perhaps ever so that you have a large group of people to interact with that are on a "family" sort of level, much like the unused constellation channel thats just a bigger swath of local. Possibly if you have, as a corp or alliance, someone set to negative youd block them instantly and vice versa, though this would be a headache. And I can see it being metagamed around anyway.

But providing a bigger player interaction platform but now a 4 race, this would divide it into 12 channels, might be a good way to get alliance level interaction even in empire with a common "pub" channel.

EoM should have its own server of bots to smite.
/troll

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