Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So, I had this idea for a whole new type of dynamic PvE content that should encourage some pretty epic and spontaneous PvP fights as well. Hear me out.

A new type of scannable wormhole. It has no total mass limit and only collapse after a set amount of time. It does not allow supercapitals through. Wormhole is generated procedurally, and no entrance ever goes to the same space. Wormhole will not allow anchorable structures of any kind. Wormhole will not have belts, gas, or mag sties. Entrance will collapse after set time (48 hours?) but all ships inside will be allowed to exit beyond that time frame. Wormhole is entered through the scanned entrance, but exiting the wormhole results in being ejected into a random system that changes every 6 hours of the wormhole's life cycle. All entrances and exits are in null or low sec. D-scan and probes do not work in this wormhole, and neither does local.

Alright, so, what's in these new wormholes? Here goes.

Upon entering this new wormhole, a number of anomalies are on scan. They all have names that indicate their purpose and all provide some kind of buff to the rats in the wormhole. An example below...

Frontier Logistics Network - boosts the rats' ability to remote rep
Frontier Data Center - boosts the rats' resistances to electronic warfare
Frontier Staging Complex - adds additional battleship spawns to every site that drop no loot or salvage
(Faction) Command Center - boosts rats' armor/shield resistances
(Faction) Refitting Station - increases the quality of rats' ships without increasing loot/salvage value (makes cruisers advanced cruisers and so on).

Completing all sites will spawn a final site, an npc carrier fleet or some other "boss" encounter.

Site loot/salvage value will be on par with C5/C6 wormhole sites with the final site being DED 10/10 equivalent.

Now, here's the kicker...

All sites are covered by a 500 kilometer in radius warp disruption field that does not drop until all rats are cleared! All warp ins will drop within 20 kilometers of the center of the field. Once you're in, you're committed. It's do or die.


Here's how I see all of this playing out.

Fleet 1 finds a new wormhole entrance in their home system. They form a 12 RR battleship fleet to clear the site and make some mad money. Upon entering the system, they decide to remove the Frontier Staging Complex so they don't have to fight unprofitable spawns. They warp in, land 20 km from the center of the massive bubble, and begin clearing the site. While this is happening, fleet 2 finds the same entrance a few minutes after fleet 1 has entered. They decide to form up with four carriers to clear the sites and enter the wormhole. They also don't want to fight unprofitable spawns, so they warp to the Staging Complex. They have no idea fleet 1 is there because there is no local, no d-scan, and no ability to use combat probes. They drop right on top of fleet 1! Fighting ensues with the rats still in full attack mode. Fleet 2 dies to fleet 1, and fleet 1 clears the site.

Fleet 1 evaluates their losses and decides they do not have the strength left to clear the wormhole. They loot/salvage everything they can, pocket 150 million in salvage/loot from the rats and another 2 billion from the carriers, then warp to the exit. They are ejected into null sec 38 jumps from their home system, 6 jumps from low sec, 11 jumps from high sec. They decided to their most advantageous move is to make a beeline for high sec. What happens next? Who knows?

This kind of system, in my opinion, would generate some absolutely epic and hilarious PvP encounters. If the site rewards are sufficient enough to risk the ships necessary to clear them, I think it would be a great bit of content.

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Interesting concept...but why not have High Sec ejections but just less often than an ejection to Low or Null Sec?

There are "organisations" out there capable of fielding large amounts of players, for instance, the Incursion community like The Valhalla Project (TVP), Incursion Shiny Network (ISN), DIN etc. Capable of fielding over 40 ships at most times of the day.

We need more "Incursion Style" play and more areas where pilots can form ad-hoc fleets to fight a common foe be it completely PvE (Incursions) or PvE with the risk of PvP.

For those that don't like PvP or have never been introduced formally but have been unwillingly "raped" by it it may just encourage them into trying it out.