Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm down with anything that lets players interact with the world. Anything that brings players together who normally wouldn't have known the other existed is good. I don't think new PvE content should just bring players together in an adversarial context, though. It should also allow people to encounter each other as allies (and, of course, allow for betrayal in said context). There's nothing springboarding noobs without connections into the social world of EVE. Having something that turns the lore of EVE from a painted backdrop into a way to interact with young and old players is good. It would certainly be better for new players than grinding L1 missions alone. The adventurous noobs will go out and adventure regardless, the connected noobs will use their connections regardless, but the solo noob looking for friends and guidance has next to nothing in-game at their disposal. Noobchat and NPC corp chat are occasionally helpful, but more often than not it's just a headache. The corporation recruitment tool is impenetrable if you're brand new to the game and barely understand the terminology it's throwing around.

If done right, this feature could hit a lot of different player wishes -- more content and reason to interact for the hiseccers, more/better rewards in various parts of space, and an easy transition from the NPE epic arc to something that will bring them in contact with other players.

I do think that bringing more life to the NPC factions would be a good thing, as it can support player created roleplay content as well as give a stronger first impression of the game to new players who haven't become exposed to or engaged with EVE's meta game yet. Plus there will always be players who like to play the game 'solo' at least some of the time.

At those times when you don't see much player activity going on, the game world can appear lifeless. More visible and interesting NPC interactions could deepen the feel of the game, although obviously player interaction will and always should take precedence.

Good idea.

I have my own addition that I think fits in here: tie this NPC activity to player activity. The more missioning, ratting, trading, mining etc that players do in an area, the more NPC forces are drawn there. Even add NPC corp security forces to stations, so high-activity stations become safer to operate out of. This would be a great opportunity to improve the highsec>lowsec transition, and it involves players themselves in the world shaping.

I really like this addition.

Awesome ideas I always thought that making the universe more alive would be a great thing. I hope npcs would have a different gate flash then capsuleers though

some of the ideas are genuinly good like the miner noise and NPC patrols in their space

but most of what im reading is "hand me content on a plate" which i dont want, eve is about effort*risk=reward
basically.. you get out what you put in.

very good ideas!
supported +1

bumping for more discussion!

First and probably only post, but this thread deserves it. so +1

I approve of everything this thread is about. I would love to see NPC miners for example. Ore has to get it's mess some how right? They could be out at standard belts. NPC pirates could spawn specifically with heavier equipment to "gank" the NPC miners. What if the miners could call out in local for help? What if saving a miner could lead to a escalation? (What if we could actually have the game be true to the "chaos theory" trailer?) What if we could make the game function like there are actually other beings in the game that function aside from the Capsuleers? I mean come on, you see transport ships undocking from stations all the time...what are they doing? Put some realistic, unorganized, real time content into the game to make it live and breathe.

Why can't we also have factional warfare? I mean REAL warfare. Like the Caldari vs. Gallente event; but correctly (Amarr surely would have warped in to assist the caldari and to burn the Gallente. maybe not a big force but something.) I want to see a wormhole from gallente space open up and have a Gallente incursion in the Domain region or something. The basis for it is already there with the launch of the incursions, just change the factions around. Make the game dynamic. It's been sitting static and stale for 10 years. Kick it up a notch already. Forget prettier warp animations and camo ships that are exact copies of what you just nerfed. Give us PLAYABLE, rewarding, immersive content that will benefit everyone; not just the PvP-ers or the care bears. Not just for one sec status or another. Not just for fully organized corporations/alliances. everyone...

bump!