Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello CCP
Maybe this has been suggested before but who would like to see it happen?

I know that you have been busy in the last couple of years with Dust-Eve integration but has this topic ever been brought to the table within the CCP office’s an Eve spin off RTS game?

I have since day one playing eve what if CCP brought out a RTS type game were all the ships in game would be player able in the RTS game, as some of you know that the command and conquer franchise is huge, and that they have been releasing these games for years.

Well let me just put over to you my dream, you start the game either select campaigns of all four races, the fifth Jove would be unlocked to play once you have completed all the other four races campaigns, the Jove campaign wouldn’t need to be as long as the others as most EVE players would love to be able to play the Jove could allow them to be played in skirmish mode as well.

Once you select game mode the level would load upon opening the thrown into space, it dark, there’s fog of war, the words “welcome you are immortal” you only have a couple of frigates and a battle ship, whichever race you chose would be the ships in game.

You start by revealing some fog of war looking for resources could be ore and ice, (ice will yield higher resources) ok so you have found an asteroid belt being guarded by drone, angel, blood, sansha npc’s so you select all the starting units and attack them allowing you to harvest the resources but you haven’t got a ship to do so, so instead of skill points you have a Tec tree in the RTS you can select a mining barge but you haven’t got a ship assembly array in your pos so you select a building unit, could be a new (ORE) ship.

So you selected to build the ship assembly array and now have a t1 mining barge you get it harvesting the incomes coming in nicely but still not enough to build a grand fleet of ships, so you decided to upgrade your harvesters, but you cannot until you have attained an outpost which is a upgraded pos, but you still need moon material to be able to upgrade the barges to hulks! ISK is rolling in and you start building a grand fleet from frigates to titans 1 titan per level as these things are beasts.
You go exploring in a covert frigate and come across the npc’s base must be a second one or a recon outpost as it has no defences so you save up some isk and build a couple dreadnaught and go to take their pos down upon lighting a cyno for your dreads the npc’s fleet jumps in with an Avatar class titan and the battle commences you lose terribly nothing survives you have the one covert ship remaining you return to your pos to begin the process again.

But this time you have been mining ice you have tons of isk, you build a large capital fleet of your own you have been sending out covert ships and found there main base, you uncloak light a cyno and the capital fleet has jumped, fighters everywhere ships being blown to smithereens they jump there titan onto you but we are ready and jump our own the battle commences and the enemy titan is taking hull damage, were winning the titan goes down with a blinding flash of light we engage there pos. We have wiped them out
Mission Completed

I won't try DUST 514, but an RTS would have to do pretty bad for me to not buy it.

Right, one reason I'm so sure I won't play it.

Would it be linked into eve? Would it be a standalone title?

I would sure as hell buy it if it were a standalone, but i don't think it would work linked into eve.

maybe once they finish dust they might have more time to finish the rebalanceing and stuff.. and then an EVE minigame/rts could be an idea.

Ever wonder whats going on behind those missions the Caldari navy sends you on?
What are the NPCs doing in the mean time? Just where do those illegal stargates lead, and how many acceleration gates remain unfound?

That would be the perfect place to do RTS. Combat between what's normally the NPCs, and trying to control deadspace pockets in various systems where players control non-capsuleer ships. It would link into EvE by providing a chance for EvE and the RTS players to fight during certain missions.

Hello

This would be a standalone game, I to don’t think it would be able to link to eve, directly.
To quote another post above, would the game be like StarCraft when has EVE been a friendly place as the Op stated you are thrown into dark cold lonesome open space no chokepoint’s maybe a bit of debris so it’s not to deserted a couple of npc’s facility’s for you to take control maybe bonuses would be available once you have cleared the npc's out but nothing were you can place a fleet and the npc’s could never brake your blockade I’ve played Homeworld and it would be built pretty much like that.

In Homeworld your mother ship is your base of operation in the EVE RTS your pos is, once you have attained enough whatever you can upgrade it into an outpost, as for the Supers in eve in the RTS maybe you could build some small units from its hull but nothing in comparison to your pos.

To quote marVLsI love the idea of the RTS based game play to take down pos’s and use Dust players also but I don’t think this would be able to be done I could be wrong. And EVE is already being integrated with Dust maybe it should be released as a standalone game.

I’m loving the reply’s keep them coming.