Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The main reason PvE is so different from PvP is that none of the current PvP missions require you to fit a warp scrambler to stop an NPC from warping off, at which point you fail the mission, nor do the current PvE missions require you to use certain useful PvP skills like combat probing, safespots, and breaking gate-camps.

The need to fit a point on a PvP ship necessitates very different fitting strategies from PvE ships. The need to use these other skills require very different playing strategies. If CCP wants to blur the distinction between PvP and PvE, or at least use PvE as a stepping stone toward PvP skills, they should add missions akin to these:

(1) An L1 mission where the pilot must fit a tackler ship and tackle a fast-moving NPC target--one that microwarps back and forth across the complex. One it is tackled, he must survive its drones and counter-fire long enough for slow NPC allies to appear and kill the main ship. (At higher versions, like L3, he doesn't have any NPC allies to help kill the ship--he must bring buddies or kill it himself).

(2) An L2 mission where the pilot must maneuver his unarmed stealthy ship through an artificial NPC gate-camp. Once he hops through the fake gate, he has the normal temporarily cloak, but must get away from a dozen or so NPC tacklers in position and trying to get fast locks on him.

(3) An L3 mission in which the pilot has to use combat probes to locate a single target NPC ship in deep space. The NPC ship has three randomly positioned safespots, and it warps between them every 3-5 minutes. He must scan it down and tackle it--if he engages in combat with it untackled, it warps off and creates a new three safespots to switch between.

(4) An L3 mission in which the pilot is assigned a bounty target to destroy. The L3 version is a NPC located somewhere in the same region and on the move. This mission pays a little extra cash so the pilot can use locator agents to find him. An L4 version is one in which the bounty target is an actual player with an existing bounty--but the player has extra cash in the reward from the NPC agent, since that player has -5 standings with the NPC faction for whatever reason.

(5) An L2 mission in which the pilot must scan down and enter a special wormhole in a cloaky ship. Once he enters it, he is randomly kicked out into deep nulsec. He must get out of nulsec and back into high-sec with his ship intact to gain the cash reward. An L3 version might be one in which he can only use non-cloaky ships to complete the mission.

(6) An L2 mission in which a cloaky pilot must maneuver toward and tackle a target NPC mining barge mining illegally in the midst of a crowded asteroid field--one in which the asteroids and other non-targetted NPC ships are moving back and forth. He must keep his cloak and avoid coming within 2 km of objects until he is in tackling position of the barge, then hold it for ransom and /or destroy the barge.

(7) A mission in which the pilot must not only destroy an NPC ship, he must tackle and capture escape pods emerging from them.

You get the idea.

I have a few ideas on how you could improve the captains quarters. this is ofc my personal opinion but i think it would be fun to implement it.

The first thing is to maybe make you be able to choose which kind of CQ you want, for example having three different captains quarters for every race. and, make us be able to decorate it ourselves with plants, more screens etc.

another thing, is that if you enter your captains quarters all of your chat windows, menus etc dissappear, and to do those things you have to go around the CQ to different screens, for example one screen for your mail, one for the market etc. and also you can choose that info you want on the 'big screen. and in order to undock you have to walk to the "undock button".

the last thing i want to suggest, would be to add another room. a door in your cq can open, leading to a hallway which has an "elevator". this elevator then leads to a "club" of some sort where you can meet other peoples avatars and socialize. this could add a new aspect to eve that you can do when not in space. i do realize though that alot of people would hate this idea since it isnt exactly that "eve like". but since you have added the CQ, why not expand it? :) alof in this game includes being "afk" and this would give something that you could do while waiting or something like that :)

If a structure has windows, which means there is a living room behind. So in each structure should be possible to enter and walk inside. There is no possible excuses here. It is logical.

Walk in stations opened a door to create a entire world inside the existing eve world, as well as Dust did. I could not give all my time writing new ideas, so lets see some...

UFC rings. Give pilots a chance to hold and develop fighter's clone and jump clone to it, being able to prove how good he prepared his fighter. May governments accept ufc fights in their highsec systems? And what about fight until death? And what about betting fights? At this moment I can visualize the rings on stations, clones fighting at these rings and pilots betting and watching the game around the rings.

Why not missions? Ok I got a mission. There it says to go to a gurista's space post and capture a wanted mercenary. When I return to station, I realize that I need to give up him in person. Walking into the station, I have the mercenary in chains and we go meet those which gonna pay me. When I talk to the guys suddenly appear some bad guys who want to release my prisoner. So I have to get my laser gun and fight.

I just wish the captains quarters would allow us to be able to walk around in the space stations. That's all I've ever wanted since it was released. Please don't listen to all those complainers on these forums that feel this should be a space only game. I see These same players on message boards and they seem to have this attitude that they own the game and we should all play it the way they do (Space Only) they are elitist snobs that complain about everything in patches and updates and everything else for that matter without any clue how a MMORPG like this is made and how much hard work is put into it. This is a sandbox and sandbox games are all about doing anything you want. THE CQ is a great feature IMO, I pray that you continue to work on it and expand on it. It really has brought a lot of new players to this game. Including myself. I love this game.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers from Canada

wow it's like every new post rip open your buttewounds.