Player Features and Ideas Discussion

so let me get this straight
you wrote a book on the forum?

First and foremost, I bow to you.
The details and the overall design sounds promising (although I would have done the salvaging part a bit differently).
Having those mini professions is half of the fun I have in New Eden, and I would very much like to see something like this to happen :)

As well put before me, sometimes your thoughts are wandering around the things, trying to explain on things which are quite obvious to anyone. This makes your stuff a bit too detailed. as if you want to explain your thoughts to little children. (Or it just my digital mind, that can't really cope with it :D )

If you don't mind I share some of my thoughts on the topics as well :
- Salvaging : During a fight not always the same parts of a ship/module that gets destroyed. A tribe specialized in salvaging would elaborate on that fact, and retrieve parts (Engine/Armour/Shield generator/weapon mount/ reactor/ mainframe) damaged. A decently skilled engineer would be able to use those parts to build one that functions up to 90%(depending on salvage quality and engineer skills) of the initial stuff.

- Mining : I really like the idea of the scrap metal floating in space polluting the roids, but couldn't it the other way around as well? In a clean/abandoned system, where no one touches them, couldn't they react on the solar flares and other cosmic events to randomly (with a tiny chance) grant something purified ? Like a gem could be found within the veins ?

- Hacking : I would have thought about hacking to serve three different fields :
- Sites/abandoned wrecks etc : I love your approach
- Hacking other's stuff to gather intel : I would go with the full spy approach, and not combining it with stealing. That is getting dangerously close to RL hacking. When someone cracks a character password, and sell their stuff etc.. would be really hard to distinguish what has happened. While the idea is appealing at some level, it would grant too many rage quits by newbies, who don't know/care about firewalls. Or missing out on the skills to protect themselves from a goon players.
- EWAR : I would love to see this as an EWAR option. Like you need to approach a ship to be closer than 2km (or even closer), launch a grappling hook/nanobot stream, to upload a virus. Eg could stop active modules, turn off engines etc... of course skills/modules on both sides to be applied.

Once again, good, detailed work! - If at least 1% of your work make it to Eve, it would make me very happy :D

+1

New depth, new layers.
Less I press durh button get dur lewt

CCP could find inspiration from this, I definately approve.

Your posts are impossibly difficult to decompose into actual game mechanics. You need to write up a page that explains each section without your lore wrapped up in it, that actually describes how the mechanics will function to players. Writing lore is trivial to writing game mechanics. You're suggesting complete reconstruction, thus you need to show that form.

Additional ships that you list aren't terrible, but the entire nature of this process sounds like taking the rats out of sites, and instead, making it come across as mining with more effort. Probing is an example of how you can turn a mechanic into a micro "mini-game" that actually yields results. Find a way to make the professions more similar to probing, and you'll see it turn into something engaging.

Almost everything in EVE is built on the combat interface (You're mining by shoot lasers at rocks instead of red crosses/boxes.) and probing is one of the few interfaces that do not operate as such, while still being in space. (Emphasis on being in space. I'm exempting traders/manufacturers who only do station work here.) Find a way to make these professions operate like probing, and you've "won" the game.

Is Nova still working on this?

yes just college is getting in the way.


Current plans redesign all ships to be in line with current tiericide. This includes graphics.

Anyways figured out a role for the utility ship (SOE's version of the noctis)

An Hostile Environment Disembarker. A ship that will increase the abilities of the avatar based exploration.

That will be one of my goals. I have to sit down and rearrange things though first. Give me some time please.

thank you for the TL;DR. +1

my thought would bekeep mineing as it stands cause hacking and archiology seem ok to a degree cause atleast if you keep the professions to spesifics it dosnt tread on the toes of others but scanning can benefit them all scanning can find the "hidden" mineing sites with the larger roids and lower security ores then normally found in the peticular security you mine in as well as ladar (gas) sites which can be used to make powerful boosters.

iv only limited knoledge of hacking , pritty much a case of kill/tank rats while hacking the cans (might be different outside wormhole space) and i dont think i have any knoledge of archiology so i cannot comment on that part.

so my tldr is basically, scanning is only rewarding when paired with something.

Bookmarking this for later reading, I'll chime in again once I've read it all but I'm already all for expanding on these proffessions.

I am sorry I promised updates but college is getting in the way, obligatory bump to prevent locking.