Player Features and Ideas Discussion

if I were dead, I would really miss me

Ok here is a way around your stupid idea

don't upgrade clone past 90 m sp then get podded and train new stuff.

done.

Eve is like ******* Clone Wars and you think our characters should just be ended when their bodies go frail? You do realize you can biomass them, right?

C'mon you guys. Give that griefing OP some consideration.


I don't think it's a good idea really. Does not make much sense. Perhaps a limit on how many times you can be cloned perhaps, or maybe a "copy of a copy diminishment' approach meaning your SP build rate slows down the more you get killed.


Such are ideas or modifications of the original idea that are based more on consequences. The OP thinks it would be realistic if we didn't live forever, but we can basically due to the cloning. But should there be consequences? Certainly. Everybody who plays the game and likes to wear "EvE is Harsh!! Go Back to WoW if you don't like it!!!1!!" on their sleeve cannot deny that consequences are what the game is all about, right?

So getting killed too much might be a more workable approach.

The consequences I like the most are the ones that are derived from giving a decision-maker more than enough rope to hang themselves. I apply this concept when designing combat simulations for RL training.

For example, I would like to see a "Live Fast Die Young" option on character creation. This should be an option whereby you have your SP and clones, as usual, or you have a "hyper-SP" capability but because of that you are not clone-capable. This would give new players a shot at taking a gamble: go for accelerated SP gain but if they get podded, that's it. Hudson: Game over, man, game over!

There is nothing stopping you from deleting your character at 100M skill points. I suggest you do this, and lead by example.

It is a shortcoming of eve (and other games with similar xp mechanics) that someone can become overpowered simply by hanging around long enough. It is the trade-off we get for not having xp grinding in the game. It's why I like the economic and political game because it is one of the only places I can be stronger than someone who has been playing for many more years. (not advocating for the OP's proposal here. Just understanding the motivation).

I for one support that characters should require taking some drugs to retain their high skill points, or skills for supercaps. Brain capacity is not unlimited.

For example drugs cost you 1m isk per month for retaining SP higher than 10m, while drugs cost you 1000m for SP over 100m. Supercap skills require extremely expensive drugs that individuals can hardly afford.

This can reduce cap population and make their number reasonable, make supercap feels more like it sounds and make newbies feel that they have a chance to catch up.

This is a really good idea, hope CCP implements this and gives the OP 100M skillpoints as a thank you gift.

Nice Troll, now biomass your character before you hit 100m sp.. go on I'm waiting.

No Sir, I don't like it.

How about this for reality: Your character will die when you die.

Actually, it will probably die before then - when CCP turns the servers off.