Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to introduce the idea of a militant unknown species that will not communicate, but only wants to destroy us. One possible name is Space Larva (SL). This would be a robust project that would require intensive commitment, but would greatly expand the usable area, possible missions, and complexity of the game. Some suggested traits:

* Some ships were brought in by an unknown type of cosmic strings and scattered in our area of solar systems: hisec, lowsec, null, and in wh space as well.

* Any of the ships can go into a “Queen Bee” mode and produce all of the others given enough time and raw material.

• Each class of ship (frigate, cruiser, battlecruiser, battleship, dread) has 6 distinct stages: Hatchling, Fledgling, Juvenile, Adult, Veteran, and Elite. A lone frigate hatchling is easily killed by a 1 week old capsuleer, but 3 veteran or elite frigates would need a small seasoned fleet with some advanced skills.

• SL tend to congregate in 1, 3:1, 9:3:1 or 27:9:3:1 groupings of frigates, cruisers, battlecruisers, etc. Battlecruisers would have more adult-veteran frigates and juvenile-adult cruisers while battleships would have veteran-elite frigates,

• They grow in the Oort Clouds of solar systems.

• Scientists NPCs develop module plans over time so that capsuleers can 1) scout Oort clouds for SL bases, factories and ships, 2) capture full spectrum fight and communication data, 3) drop off “SL Comm Jammers” that tend to keep a solar system clean of SL infections for a while, 4) specialized weapons that work better against Space Larva, etc.

• More types of missions available: Newbie fleets of 4-5 to go kill a loose hatchling frigate or three, and larger fleets to kill more advanced ship groupings, scan an Oort cloud, deploy a SL comm jammer.

• NPC scientists will buy pieces of SL ships.

• Can have live events of SL large fleets, even in hisec.

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Edited to add weapon systems


Engine Leech - This missile like weapon does not explode, instead it seems to attach to the ship and instantly inhibit movement above 15% of max. Luckily they do not specialize in this much. All ships so far have had at least one of these.


Feeding Tube - First it bypasses some shields and directly attacks armor, hull, and even modules. The raw material can be used to repair itself, but it also takes pieces of ship back to the central factories. But the scary thing is that it can inject a Capsule Larva directly into exposed portions of the ship. This larva burrows through the ship and tries to invade the pod even before the ship is destroyed. Larger and more advanced ships are more successful in these attempts. All ships have these.


Grappling Hook - Some scientists and engineers believe this is used to latch on to ships or ship pieces and drag them back to the SL factory for raw material or even investigation. About one third of all ships have these.


Quantum Imploder - This vile weapon bypasses most of the shields and directly attacks the armor and hull on the quantum level, releasing the raw atoms from each other. Some claim that it has caused so much armor damage that entire armor plates have been released from ships. One third of all ships specialize in this weapon.


Shield Violator - This violates all of our known physics rules. It nullifies shields, then it nullifies the ships energy. One third of all ships specialize in this weapon.


Drones - These drones don’t have propulsion, but it seems that any SL ship can move them. They are very tough for their size. Some do AOE target jamming or propulsion jamming. Some seem to target only 1 or 3 ships. One capsuleer claims that it put out an ink cloud and blocked all sensors from that area. Our scientists would like to study a variety of these in detail.

What your describing is not that different from the rogue drones.

Why? The current "story" of humanity, it's offshoots (like the Rogue Drones, Jovians, and Sleepers), and the possibilities within them have not been fully fleshed out. Why detract from it?

I believe suggesting a new menace is NOT detracting from possibilities, but rather multiplies possibilities.




If not countered in a timely manner, then they would infect a whole constellation, and every system that connects by a wh.

OORT CLOUD / KUIPER BELT

Science
For reference, Pluto is 39 AU from the sun.

Outer Oort Cloud is spherical in shape and is estimated to be 20K AU to 50K or even 200K AU. It has several trillion objects larger than 1 KM, and billions larger than 20 KM, but they can be tens of millions of KM apart.

The inner Oort Cloud or the Hills Cloud is donut shaped 2K AU to 20K AU. (Assume that the Hills Cloud also includes the Kuiper Belt and the scattered disk.) It has tens to hundreds of times as many objects as the outer Oort Cloud. Additionally, it is estimated that there may be 200 dwarf planets in the Hills Cloud and up to 10K beyond. There is some evidence of a gas giant in this area as well, but it has not yet been found.

Even if only the inner Hills Cloud is included, and even if the scales and quantities are greatly reduced, there is still a vast area where many things can be hidden and/or exploited.


Eve Gameplay Proposal
I propose that a portion of this area be incorporated into game play. This would be a perfect spot for one man outposts for mining or pirating. The hollow asteroid base with a limited cloaking field is one possibility. Space Larva could easily hide here and then come inward to cause trouble.

Nariya Kentaya

imho this opponent will help to reveal the nobility of mankind, without detracting from the other conflict.

• It will enable new missions for newbies to level 4, but with an emphasis on fleets.


• FW could take the lead in stopping the menace in space.


• It will open up new space to explore in the Oort Cloud.


• It will open up a reason to have new modules for offense and defense without an escalating power creep.


• It will, or could, allow small gangs to exist in the outer reaches of each system.


• It has a built in hook to Dust: If the bad guys reach a temperate planet, then they start hatching opponents like that of Starship Troopers, but a bit smaller.

I see this as an escalating problem:

The menace would be unknown and minor at first.

• Then slightly disruptive, then more so.
• Full spectrum recording and analysis of fights and comms would be requested.
• SL ship parts would be requested, time marches on.
• Comms and ships are analyzed. Preliminary modules and tools are introduced, data and tools are refined.
• Modules are updated.
• Scanning tools for Oort Cloud are introduced.
• Requests for covert ops ships to deploy covert recoding devices to watch the SL factories and fleet.
• Further analysis of battles, comms, ship parts and factories will be made.
• Modules will improve.
• More items will be discovered in the Oort Clouds as scanners improve.
• Big fleet ops can be set up for a live event or three.

I am proposing a major addition that would affect all aspects of eve, across the board. It has the seeds of being epic, no scratch that, make that E P I C !!!

lol forgive me and dream on

want to play with tyrannids, wh40K is that a way ------->

Or at least pick a sf alien race not carbon copied to death in space sci fi. Tau for example. Tau versus gallente would in an odd way be interesting. Lets see what happens when 2 races for the greater good bash heads in to see whose greater good is better lol.


if you are gonna "borrow" the their fluff....does dust get Space Marine deathwatch kill teams? As long as you grant me no power armoured smurfs....I'd actually consider +1'ing this (do not like ultramarines, I see blue the +1 is off).

Never played Warhammer so I am not familiar with Tyrannids or the Tau, except for what I just saw on the wiki.

My inspiration for this was a mixture of many sci-fi books, a dash of Starship Troopers, and the organic aliens "Night Brood" of the spaceship miniature game "Sudden Death".

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