Player Features and Ideas Discussion

this is pretty cool, huge and sprawling but awesome. You could even use it to allow for player created maps for dust.
Come one where's my collaborative sci-fi simcity?

This is an awesome job Asuka, thank you for sharing your awesome ideas and for how you gave those to us.

+1 for everything, some points I'd might have a slightly different opinion but over all, excellent.

CCP, you should take this guy seriously.

Edit: ho this is one of the reasons I still play Eve: see and profit of such an awesome platform (single shard universe) that waits nothing more than to become greater and better, share it with far more friends to shoot at or fly with.

Amazing!

Bravo!

I vote for stripping PI 1.0 out of EVE online and having CCP build a 3rd game linked to the EVE Online and DUST Universe that implements these PI 2.0 features.

...and if there is an issue with CCP having enough resources to do this then I say:

1. Put this effort on Kickstarter and see how the EVE Online community responds
2. Hire Asuka Solo

perhaps both there Serpensor

This is a magnificent concept.

+1

You mean to say that you want to introduce an aspect of EVE that would allow me to build a planetary empire?

I think I need to change my spacepanties...

This topic now has my full support and interest, please carry on.

Can we add planetary drug labs?

Perhaps, in the event this hasn't been proposed, some manner of ecology monitor to measure overdevelopment versus planetary preservaton, naturally focused toward terrestrial worlds and post-terraforming worlds? Perhaps such ecological destabilization would impose penalties until reterraforming or scaling down one's facilities? If the planetary overlord even cared about the health of the denizens or the environment of their worlds, perhaps riots or rebellions or plagues or natural disaters or any manner of awful, terrible things?

Oh, golly...I'm getting excited.

I think this is a quite interesting topic, but it does need to link into DUST 514 to make it truly meaningful.

I would suggest that this could be achieved relatively simply -

Each planet has a given population figure. Each player with operational PI infrastructure on the surface would then hold a share of control (political influence) over that population. e.g. 2 x players = 50% influence each. Naturally the higher your influence the more productive your PI processes are (and arguably enable the production of increasingly advanced products or mineral extraction up to and including traditional moon goop or modules).

Influence would be modified +/- by the placement of 'structures' each of which relate to a given DUST map. EVE players can then create standing contracts for the successful capture or defence of given structures which is realised through DUST games.

There are naturally some difficulties to overcome - DUST would need sufficient relevant map types for example. Equally players 'ownership' of given structures would need to be held in a database format somehow and that might be problematic.

However it is realised some form of competitive relationship between PI players for higher tier rewards could conceivably work, and still be overlaid the existing PI system (i.e what we have now is the bottom of the chain of production capabilities on a planet).

C.

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well I'm glad everyone else is actually reading the first 14 meaningful posts of this threadnaught and overlooking other ****'s dustbowl comments.

Asuka, I think I need to change my pod fluid. There's this salty-sweet taste to it.

Seriously, this is awesome. I'd love to have what amounts to a city sim in my EVE. I've long had a dream for a game that is multi-layered like this. And I can tell that this is designed to be granular, people can go as deep into as they feel comfortable with.

About the only suggestions I can think of is to add the possibility of Sleepers attacking PI2 cities in the higher-class wormholes (C4-6).

Actually, I had another thought to add: Your idea for capsuleers and mercenaries to interact on the surface of a planet is great. It would be very cool to expand it to where, say, a capsuleer could be on the planet and suddenly is caught in the midst of an attack by enemy mercst. It could be very interesting to have capsuleers using sidearms and stealth to get back to a ship - and the safety of their pod - while immortal mercenaries defend their benefactor.

Going from there, I think it would make sense for the security status of the system a City is in to affect the building models - Cities in hisec would have buildings that are very open to the street (large windows and doors, etc.) and with little in the way of visible security. Buildings in owsec cities would have, for example, smaller windows and recessed doors as well as things such as bars over windows. Nullsec and wormhole cities would have buildings that are practically bunkers.

Adding to that, each sub-network of a City (that is, the parts owned by individual players - Boroughs, perhaps? Or would Districts work better for tying into DUST?) could have different building models depending on the race of the Borough owner. Though this would also be affected by the ownership of the system - systems that are owned by capsuleers (or in the case of wormholes, nobody) could have Cities with a mix of differently styled Boroughs, while Cities in Amarr space for example would only have Amarr-styled buildings. In losec, building style would also depend on system ownership, with the exception of FW systems - in these systems, Borough styles would be dictated by what empire owned the system when the Borough was constructed. We could even go deeper and tie the style of each individual installation within a Borough to which Empire owned the system when that particular installation was placed. So, for example, if I built a Factory in an Amarr owned FW system and the next day it was owned by the Minmatar, that Factory would still have an Amarr building model while anything I might build that day would have a Minmatar model.

Just my two cents. This is really getting more into quality-of-play stuff than actual mechanics, but vOv

(Also, where did you get that awesomely skimpy shirt?)