Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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I can't think of any bad that increased immersion would do to the game, honestly.

yeah, mining, trading and exploration are all competitive. that makes it PvP. even ur wallet balance is PvP because ur competing with other ppl for buying power. it is that which then leads to inflation. however, it is so abstract its understandable that most ppl wouldn't class it as such.



butt hurt much?
i like chronicles and i read them too. but do u realise how little of the entire eve experience they make up? so little that i've never spoken about them in game. i'm under the impression that only a small amount of the player base reads them. CCP abraxas is the main writer for chronicles, and this is his main job within CCP. other chronicles written by other devs are like side projects, other chronicles might be outsourced work. their creation does not take from in game development. implentations like the OP's suggestions would take major dev time up.


thats fine...i was just wondering why we needed it. why not kick over or build on other players' sand castles instead? at least they would react like individuals rather than robots, and it would be far more interesting just for that.



are all these events where devs (human players) took on control of the ships? if what ur asking is something more automated, then the AI would have set behaviour. they wont think like u or i, they would never adapt like human players, they would become predictable and boring. Incursions were very cool, until u knew exactly how they behaved and could run them so easily it becomes a grind. the same thing would happen with anything that depends on NPC AI.

immersion is fine, but why cant u join a navy faction and play the navy ship hunting pirates?
why cant u and ur friends be the mining expedition? and have to defend urselves from other players?
surely that would be more immersive. why such dependance on NPC's?
most ppl in eve dnt think of the game with a pre-built universe and history, they think of it as an environment where the players make themselves the story.
Eve's history is the delve wars, historical scams, the jita protest, burn jita, hulkageddons and other such PLAYER events

MC Tortuga
goons
Burn Jita
Dronelands war
R+K Clarion Call
First ever combat titan kill
Hulkageddon

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Delve war?

NPC's arent interesting, even ur idea is boring, but thats opinion.

dynamic content? u mean entities with preset behaviour that spawn at the role of a dice? thats not dynamic. it does not adapt and it does not change. it is just randomly selected preset spawns. once u've seen every spawn, each one after it will be identical. Incursion spawns are 'dynamic', even mission spawns can change, but u'll hardly notice. sleeper spawns in WH space will spawn more battleships if u bring a carrier into the site, but of course we know that already and can predict it in such a way that it isn't a surprise, or even threatening. the only thing that raises ur heart beat and actually makes u start paying attention in a WH is an unknown PLAYER on D-scan.

i'm not against adding content, even NPC content, save for when i think dev time could be better spent.

if u could tell me the actions/reactions that this idea could lead to that cannot be already better achieved through player interactions then i may change my mind.

as for ur alek jaalen site, it was so crucial to the game, i dnt even know what it is. and neither do the vast majority of players. a quick google search of 'alek jaalen eve' shows how insignificant it is. the players more interested in such content are a minority because this IS a PvP based MMO sand box game. its not really designed around ppl who want to team up with their friends and shoot NPC's. it prefers players to team up with their friends and shoot other players. in contrast to the alek jaalen search, google 'delve war' 'hulkageddon' or 'burn jita; without even adding in 'eve' and look at what u get. ur friends might have the right idea by just not playing a game that they know isnt for them.

most players probably realise this thread is going no where and skipped it over. i've been trying to point that out, and why, but meh...

Exactly what would dev time be better spent on? The Apocrypha expansion has been one of their best with changes to exploration coming in the Odyssey expansion.

A small example is you probe and run a combat site in highsec, the expedition dialogue comes up and you are given 3 leads

1. follows a pirate to lowsec (chain of events which depending on choice could take you to 0.0) chance for good loot
2. a pirate to highsec (chain of events which may lead to lowsec) chance for mediocre loot
3. follows a neutral npc (chain of events possibly leading to chance to aid npc or to kill it, gain suspect flag if you kill it+ (site becomes visible on overview) standings gain/loss+chance of average loot)

PvE on the whole is a very 'static' affair with a high percentage of the player base ratting, running missions or anomalies within a very tiny cluster of systems with exploration and PvP being good reasons to move around and even then a lot of players focus their PvP in a very small cluster of systems, with exploration this isn't usually the case. Exploration expeditions usually come in chains but no choices, storyline missions could at least follow the trend, even the illusion of choice would break gameplay up considerably and add to the already present skinner box of eve but more importantly would get players moving around the universe in search of better rewards.

In short, the more players moving around the more chance for player interaction.

Pos, overview, Balancing ships. There's a bunch of stuff that needs fixing.
Check this link, they were talking about it yesterday... They don't wanna make PVE focused content because it most likely mean you're doing it alone.

http://da.twitch.tv/ccp/b/388692587

awsome idea

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So you've never lived in w-space yet you feel you have the experience to talk about it? Well done.....

if u could be more specific and quote the part where i wasw talking like some WH guru it might help. cause right now i have absolutely no ******* idea about what ur bashing ur chest about.