Player Features and Ideas Discussion

been pondering on this for awhile, and come up with a simple system for ship crew experience, now this is a base suggestion, so it is offcourse up for modification, all ships need a certain number of crew points...

Frigate 1p. Destroyer 2p. Cruiser 4p. Battlecruiser 6p, Battleship 12p, Carrier/Dread 24p

Crews gets experince only for the time its undocted, Crews Start out as Green, after a X amount of time they become Regular, after 3X time they become Veteran, and with 9X time they become Elite.

To make things simple, as long as crews is in their ships and undocket they gain experience, the training timer stops when docking, and would start again when undocking. If a crew point is moved outside of a ship, The experience time reverts back to its gained level. Crew points can be added, split apart, as long as its of same experience level. but moving a crew outside of a ship, if its half way between for example Regular and Veteran, would make it needed to start timer all ower from Regular.

So what would the crews do, well a green crew wouldent do anything, a Regular crew would get 2points to place in the fields below, but no field above one, a Veteran crew would get four points to place in the fields below, but not more then two points in anyone field, a Elite crew would get 8points to place in the fields below, but not more then three in anyone field. how much or how little these field would influence, ill leave unsaid, but my personal feeling is that it should be alittle like hard wires, alittle extra, but not anything massive, also it give each capsular, the ability to tweak their ships alittle, focusing their crews on difrent tasks

Defence
Drones
Electronics
Electronic warfare
Engineering
Logistics
Offence
Navigation
Mining

This would also create a market for crews, they can be trained, and then be sold on the open market, creating anouther money sink, or a gain for those that takes the time to keep them alive. The system is fairly simple, but adds flavour and abit more flexibility between ships, also it give abit of realism to the crews that are with us in the ships, we might allways get back, but our poor crews mostly go down with the ship and is lost

Well, its a idea, flame away

It's been heavily discussed in the past. No thanks.

It sounds like you'd enjoy playing Star Trek Online. They have less focus on the player and more on the crew compared to EVE.

no.you got the ideea from world of tanks,and in world of tanks to have an elite crew you gonna need years to grind xp for them.so no thx

My point, which i think you have slightly missed, is that this suggestion lends itself to generating something of value while being online and active in space... but it does not need human input. Thus instead of logging off, its more beneficial for every player to leave ships in space (cloaked or tanked and orbiting a station, etc)

While this may be great for CCPs players online statistics, it does not lend itself to good gameplay.

In New Eden humans are ressources.
If you lose your ship, you are angry that you lost millions of isk.
with every exploding battleship thounds of men and woman are dieing, but we dont care!

We are Capsuleres, we are semi gods...
A Crew that matters does dont fit into this universe.

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