Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was reading a thread today, and i actually missed my time as a director for a small fine PvP corp in the once so great V alliance.

As i remember we had the most fun patrolling the space in small roaming gangs, we usually had a few corps forming small fleets and went patrolling the space for red's or neutrals, if there weren't any, we roamed into the neighboring alliance space and wreaked havoc.

Sometimes we also escorted industrial pilots, or cleared entry's into our space to other people safely could fly new gear in to fight in, lots of team play, but sometimes a little more traveling around than we wanted.

Today my RL does not give me enough time to dedicate to EVE, so i'm merely just using the game to keep in touch with old friends, making billions to spend on whatever comes to me sometime. I would like to go to null again, but i have no real role there, and can't seem to figure out what to do there.

To be "safe" in null you have to know people, knowing people is normally done by getting into a corp based in 0.0, but they expect dedication, you have to be active, you are expected to play as a team, you can't bring your lazy casual play style there, and expect to have success.

Being in a 0.0 based corp gives you access to Intel, and a blue tag on the overview, that's simply enough to avoid being killed for no apparent reason, you will get killed for a lot of other reasons, but most casual actually players don't mind that.

To solve we need some kind of ingame system to give foreign players the two things they need, a blue tag and access to intel/coms.

i propose a deal/pass system, you make a deal with the corp/alliance and a long as this deal stands you are green (of some other color) on the overview to every member in the alliance, the deal can be anything written in text, everyone in the alliance can see it, and request a leader to void the deal, when the deal is voided you immediately loose your color and access to intel/coms.

This solved the hard work of communicating to the alliance members who are friends and should be left alive or even assisted, and in a short time an alliance reputation would state if they keep their end of the deals or not.

For casual players they will be able to go to null and bring some enrichment to the space, filling the marked with nice ships and gear, rat a little mine a little, if that is a part of the deal.

For null players they get more targets to interact with, they can kill players that void their deals, patrol that they are actually sticking to their deal, or protect them from hostile roaming gangs.

For the null in general, it means more life, more gear on the market, more clever targets, as some will be making the deals just to void them, and some will not get them done in time.

This could be applied to low sec as well.

- Ulrik Lunddahl

So generally I understand that as a "time limited standing / pass" based on a contract or something?

Interesting approach ...

So people could become green to every nullsec alliance and rat/plex anywhere they want in complete safety?

I think this will lead to two things. People will leave their alliances so they can become green to all alliances and carebear anywhere they like without risk of being attacked by hostile alliances. People will leave their alliances so they can freely kill all the new greens that think they will be safe carebearing in nullsec.

As an example i actually have a lot of stuff laying around in i a system in M-MD3B in Great Wildlands, i could figure out a few ways to get that out risk free, but since it has been there for more than a year, it's probably to boring/time consuming to get it out.

I could propose a deal with the locals wreaking everything in the 7Q-8Z2 border system and the 3 jumps further in, i could simply just take a hauler and haul it out.

A resonable payment could be 50 million, or even better i could bring x ships + fitting in the hauler as i'm flying there anyways, a win win situation, but without some ingame mechanics to make it all happen it's not very likely to happen.

The system should let me make a pass/deal/contract for the other guys to accept or decline, so that they don't have to dream up all the ways to make this happen, the alliance simply don't have the time to make all sort of programs, so why not let guests propose why they should be invited.

- Ulrik

This is not the worst idea I've ever heard, go post it to the right section.

Making you ask, will we ever see Tracking enhancers with a missile bonus? next patch, next patch.

9 years of flip flops and rope-a-dopes.

The point is, OP it has all been said and we get sold a bill of goods.

Welcome to Features and Ideas.

Nice idea, kind of like a temp alliance membership.
I think it wants some kind of history like employment shows, so people can track these types of agreements.

+1

And THAT is why I think it needs a history.

Preferably something that can act like a reference, so people don't extend contracts like this to the AWOXing types.