Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Originaly Posted HERE

The Plan

Crime
Security Status is no longer percentage based, but ticks up and down in discrete amounts.

• -Performing a criminally flagged act will instantly drop you 1 point of security status

• -Performing a suspect flagged act will instantly drop you 0.1 point of security status

Sec should be straightforward and intuitive. Get rid of the four digit decimals, the rounding issues, and the percentages that make it hard to see how much you will get punished for various actions.

Punishment
CONCORD care about criminals. The Faction Police care about people with low Faction standings.

• -The speed in which CONCORD responds to a situation is based on the security level of the system AND the security status of the individual performing the crime.

• -The Faction Police only shoot enemies to their Faction.

The primary point of locking criminals out of highsec is achieved –and more accurately and efficiently so. Consequences for crimes will directly impact the ability to further commit more crimes.

However, the problems that arise from locking players from high-sec are eliminated. Players can freely visit trade hubs, (though they still bear the risk of being shot by players since they are still perma-flashy) and can freely shoot legal targets in high-sec, such as wartargets. This will open the door on a vast amount of legitimate consensual pvp that is currently being deterred due to risk via NPCs.

Regaining Security Status
There’s no perfect way to do this, so I settled on solving one key issue:

• -Players shouldn’t have to travel to null-sec to pay for crimes committed in low-sec and high-sec.

Furthermore, I think that a player regaining security status is an opportunity for unique, interesting, and fun gameplay. While I’m not explicitly against ‘tags for sec’ or other such notions, I think we can do much more.
How about:

Level-less CONCORD agents scattered, in-space, throughout low-sec and high-sec. These agents would offer missions, each of which give a player 0.1 security status.

• -The missions would be similar to FW missions in that they pop a public beacon when opened, are relatively easy, and require some traveling

• -Agent locations would be prime places for players to ‘camp’ –both other pirates and anti-pirates.

• -Players could hunt pirates inside the public missions

• -Regaining sec may incur pvp in and of itself, as opposed to mindless grinding in null-sec

Guess OP's idea is:

Even you are negative 10, you can still fly your ship through hs freely. (No faction police aggressing, but any pilot is free to shoot you without concording)
(Maybe in concord system concord faction police will engage you?)

The moment you commit a crime, the concord will show up in 1 sec, and blow your ship up.
If you are negative 9, the concord will spawn be 2 sec,
If you are negative 1, the concord will spawn in 10 sec

As for negative 10, basically you can't successfully perform crime in hs anymore. That kind of "lock out"?

The thing is people can already shoot anyone -5 and below, without Concord intervention. Also his idea wouldn't stop me commiting a crime. It simply makes life in high sec easier for me. Which is why I'm not getting it.

I probably should have given basic info about current mechanics, as there's a lot of confusion as to what actually happens to pirates.

Right now, if you are -10, you are NOT CONCORDed going into highsec. The Faction police shoot you, making it pretty much impossible to actually roam and etc. in HS. However, it's not impossible to run around in thrashers and such.

(Note: the Police shooting you as a pirate is not the same as the police shooting you as FW pilot either...)

Anyone who commits a crime get's CONCORDED, no matter what your sec is.



The confusion surround this is one of the reasons I'm suggesting a change. I don't know how many people i've talked to who are utterly convinced that being -10 automatically get you CONCORDed when you go to highsec.

Why would the fact, that some players are unable to read about or do not want to understand game mechanics require a change to those mechanics?

part of the idea of the whole sec status thing is that as soon you are an outlaw.... well you are an outlaw.

outlaw -> GTFO highsec. If there would be no penalty or you would have to fly missions in highsec to get the sec status back... it would totally miss the point of the sec status system.

I tend to think CONCORD is omnipotent enough. You have 100% guaranteed death for criminal activity in hs already, and it's already so rapid that you have to carefully plan ganks and whatnot, run some numbers, etc in order to be successful, not to mention invest some isk that you may or may not make back from the gank.

I also don't really like the idea of losing the same volume of sec status for shooting at a ship as I would for killing it, shooting at the pod, or podding the pilot.

And consensual pvp... yeah, I want to consent when someone wants to pvp me, because I'm selfish and want the odds always stacked in my favor. But I don't think the game really needs too many more mechanics that add to consensual pvp and reduce the ease of non-consensual pvp, because the possibility of suddenly being attacked or being able to suddenly attack someone, just because I want to or don't like them or whatever (or vice versa), is very much amongst the main attractions of the game for me.