Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's been brought up I'm sure, but why not have some random comets that fly through the universe that can cause wormhole effects in The constellations they go by.

Lets say Chibba's comet flies through the syndicate region for 2 weeks, during that two weeks, it causes the effects of a wolf rayet. It's effect amount specific to where the comet is in the constellation. After two weeks, the comet moves to the next constellation, taking its effects with it.

3 months later another comet (let's call it comet socksfour), comes into that system, causing a pulsar effect.

It's essentially the incursion mechanic, but more outlined and track able (you can calender mark when these comets are coming to the systems.

It's simple, adds a little randomness, causes people to swap ship doctrines from time to time, etc.

Yea it'd be crazy to fight some ships under certain wormhole effects, but some change can be useful.

Call it wishful thinking but that is one of the only realistic delivery mechanisms to cause system wide effects that move from constellation to constellation. Its a moving massive planetary type body that travels the universe, exerting a influence in the systems its in.

As to why.... there needs to be a small input of variety, change and mystery put back into Eve. Everythings static and never changing. We all want more driven content in the eve scape, be it live events, ccp run events, player run events, etc.

We see this every so often when it comes to a incursion that randomly spawns into a lowsec and nullsef area, causing a derailment on plans. The same can be done with these types of effect comets, causing people to either change a ship doctrine, do an invasion (if the effects are preferable), or just cause some random chaos.

Some variety in these systems can be welcome, even if it only comes once or twice a year.

Essentially. That happens whenever incursions come into a system.

Its that, with different effects. It can be via comet, or whatever anomaly. I went with a comet as it physically puts something into the game that people can point at and say "Yep the comets in our constellation this week".