Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is a fantastically thought out idea, i think you should conquer the CCP HQ and take control!

The POS update thread?

With that, you COULD also have the same crew keep signing on, though you would then think you would eventually get things like 2% more capacitor and whathaveyou.

Something the devs, methinks, is trying to stay away from.

We opted for the "lasts until destroyed" approach. A crew is purchased and fitted / installed on a ship as one would a module or ammo. There was a comment made about hull damage would inflict crew losses and that formed the basis for the updates I'm making to ship crews in the PI2.2 version. What this means is that even if the ship is not destroyed, it is possible to lose the entire crew and would thus have to be replaced.

We purposefully don't want to throw our lot in behind a "temporary" crew mechanic, whereby your crew works along the same lines as insurance that runs out after a specific period. This is a bad idea and must be purged inside the womb... with fire.



Please read over the PI 2.1 proposal in the assembly hall. We have eluded to PI crews being trained on civilian networks and sold as a commodity on markets. Frigate sized crews will be small and cheap, not requiring much in the way of varying inputs to train up. Capital ship crews on the other hand, well, lets just say you'd have to gank your neighbor, cut open his carcass, rip out his kidneys and then hope those are enough to afford one of those crews....



We are very keen on having crews play an integral part in Flying in Space, but we purposefully do not want to assign traditional FiS bonuses to crews. The main reason for this is that you already have modules + implants + skills + ship bonuses and roles that all do exactly the same thing. Make you l33t. TO this end, we figured that ship crews would have to go outside the box and serve functions and add value where implants, modules and ship bonuses do not add anything to your game play experience.

A typical example of the areas where we see crews playing a role in ships would be:
1) Automated monitoring -> crew members checking your dscan for you, notifying you of warp signatures, ship hulls in scan range, anomalies, signatures etc.
2) Serving as WiS NPC guards for your ship in public hangers or starports, preventing other players from stealing your ship when its docked and your not in it.
3) Module assistance -> Crew members could recommend modules for different scenarios, or even activate them for you automatically if you set your crew to do so.
4) NPC escorts on away missions (Star trek, sidekicks and squads in exploration mode... Just think Prometheus and you'll know exactly what we're on about here)
5) Crews could be assigned tasks (Such as maintain the ships hull, redo the paint, refuel the ship when you dock a capital etc).

honestly this was far too boring and long to read through, pi is fine the way it is

obviously the tl;dr version was too long for him to read :P

I'd love to hear from the DUST devs about how feasible it would be to implement a sim city / planet kind of game between or upon the EVE and DUST games. As adding PI to such a large extent within the EVE client would likely be disastrous. Do they prowl or post around here?

Here's a crazy idea. Have CCP NOT build PI.

Instead have them team up with a developer that has experience in the city building style of game play to build a separate game that is tied into EVE/DUST universe .

I was surfing around on Steam today and noticed that the game Anno 2070 was on sale. This is a game that was co-developed by Related Designs and Ubisoft Blue Byte. While watching a review on YouTube I couldn't help but imagine if something like this game existed within the EVE/DUST universe:

Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbPFir1u5g

Tutorial Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFLhADYd3k
Tutorial Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peawl0l856s

There are tons of things that would need to be changed (and include everything that Asuka Solo has proposed). But, if CCP were to start PI from something akin to Anno 2070 instead of starting from scratch I think we'd have something far more compelling to play.

I've just gotten the inspiration for planetary disasters that would effect PI and, depending on the severity of the disaster, threaten life and limb of Dust mercs and Eve ships who dare to operate in such circumstances. In addition, these events would also create environmental effects (similar to wormholes) that would alter the eb and flow of the current game for a limited time or within a limited area.

Expected to add about 3-4 pages to the current draft.

I wholly support this idea, as it would give DUST mercs yet more things to shoot at and increase in severity depending on what space the planet is in, and if there are incursions going on.