Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Honestly, your idea makes no sense. Rigs are like modifications to a ship that trades something for something else. Its not like you can just stick human body parts to a ship engine to make it work better. That said your idea isn't entirely without merit. It would be cool if you could salvage an implant or two from a clone, perhaps with a penalty at times (say a HG implant becomes a LG implant or a +5 becomes a +4 and so on).

And from what I'm reading, this trades a large amout of calibration that could be used on other, more important rigs for a pseudo capsule interface to link up with a corpse and utilize some knowledge from the other person's cold, dead brain in order to make your ship perform better... but again, only if you already had the skill in question injected. The only free ride here is the one where you skip training the skill up to V. And even then, that's only for the specific hull in question, so if you lose the ship in the future you'd better have the skill trained up or another corpse with the required skill/level.

I can't personally see myself using it unless I want to pretend to be a reaver, but I don't see any particular reason not to.

While there are lots of arguments both for and against, I'd like to ask: Isn't this kind of suggest too macabre for EvE online? I don't know how this would fit into the story of EvE.

I mean sure, there is a lot of stuff that involves modifying one's own body, and of course there's the whole slavery thing with the amarr/minmattar, but there's nothing in the game at the same level of strapping or some how assimilating a dead body into the ship, like cannibalism for example. Although i could be wrong about that last part.

My addition to your suggestion would be to that if its made as a riggable item, it would be considered an illegal good in High-sec space, that would be its disadvantage, for the sake of balancing.

But I think in this case, it would be more than reasonable to be able to "self-destruct" your body so that an enemy doesn't get it and while this might defeat the whole point of your suggestion, I think that logically speaking within the context of story and game, if you add the zombie mechanic you should also add the self-destruct mechanic.

Maybe give the self destruct a timer that you have to hack like the exploration mini-game, once you disable it then you can rig it, that way this system won't be abused. Kind of like a captcha for zombie rigging :P

Lmao, for one, most people on that post seem to agree its quite dark and not psychologically stable.

Plus, the flash-freezing doesn't have any background, it could just be a cryogenically stored body for use as a clone later.

Well, what you could argue that since implants are hardwired and destroyed when removed, the only way to access them without destroying them is to take out the brain and then connect it to a Brain-Computer interface and hack into it.

As for the skills, I don't know. I mean when you cut, you cut, there isn't anything left behind. I guess you could get past that by making it a percentage. So every time you have a corpse you want to hack, there is a chance that you can't recover anything from it, and those chances are skill based.

So for example adding a skill like this:

- Infomorph Transferance: Every level gives a 15% chance of successfully transferring Skill psychology. With a maximum of 75% at level 5.

I'd also say that there should be two things that need to be 'hacked'. One to get the skills and another to get the implant, with a skill based chance to succeed. So adding another skill:

- Brain-Computer Interference: Every level gives a 15% chance to successfully rewire an implant to the ships systems. With a maximum of 75% at level 5.

Of course, I don't need to say that you would already need to be able to fit that line of implants or have that line of skills to be able to do either one.

I'd also like to mention again though that there should be a counter-balancing mechanic. For example adding a skill that decreases the chance of somebody else hacking your skills or implants. Or even having the self-destruct thing I suggested earlier. Maybe make it so that if you fail to hack successfully, you take damage to a module or to hull/armor. That way there is a risk-reward system.

But THOSE Corpses were all very skilled armor tankers...

They would work better agains lasers since they'd just evaporate on a hit and the resulting cloud would fracture the beam... before it hits the actuall armor...

Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.

EDIT: I must be drunk to have written something like that... o_O

I guess those Blood Raiders were on to something after all weren't they?

Three: this takes up a minimum of one slot that could be used for a Trimark to further ensure the Titans survival. Depending on calibration this could mean even two Trimarks that wouldn't fit.

But it'll all be worth it. Why you may ask? Because Reavers. Motha-******* Reavers.

It is morbid to us, since we live in a world where dead body always means someone's life has ended.
Dropping the association this naturally has to us, is like telling someone afraid of spiders that they can have a pet tarantula. Sure, it is true they could do this, but the associations in their mind do not simply go away that easily.

The cost to get one of these in EVE means someone is inconvenienced, and quite possibly upset over costs to replace a ship and upgrade a replacement clone.

You can even experience the creepy in new ways, by getting one of your own bodies. Maybe you could have a funereal for it, or offer it to Joe Linux for a date.