Player Features and Ideas Discussion

maybe drone are in cahoots with sansha nation?
the gate to high sec would be kewl. would help get ships down for counter attack or taking over.

activity level occurances.
at say 19%-15% you have frig drones harrassing everything.
at every gate, at every station, belt, poco, pos...everywhere. nothing is safe from the drones.

at 14%-10% cruisers come in and start hitting your poses and poco's dropping shields.

9% or lower, drone bs's show up and start hitting the station servies and can shut a station down for normal use.
poses start getting reinforced, then start dropping if not attended too. after 5 days, the drones start taking sov.

at frig level, its just harrassment. at cruiser or lower, they start webbing/scramming.


fleets will have to organize to come "defend their space" or sov drops.
in order for a new group to take it, they have to defete the drone incursion and drop sov stuff.

frig level-you have to defete frigs plus a few vangaurds. this will bring attention to the system. after 3-4 days, they figure you want your space, cut their losses and leave.

cruiser level- 7 days of hq level incursions and harrassing frigs/cruisers everywhere.

bs level- 7 days of incursions then you have to defete the sansha super.

this will result in very high activity in this system.

now, imagine this over 15-20 systems. no pi, no ratting...

use it, or lose it.

One idea I had, before I shot my own holes into it, involved something like Faction warfare.

One of the problems with doing incursions in null sec, is the Sansha gate camps - people can't trickle into the system, you need to form your fleet up, and then move into the incursion system.

I thought: what if you could sign on with Sansha, ie join a Sansha militia if your standings with Sansha are high enough.
Then you've got NPC cover to go bash POCOs, form POS bash fleets, etc, all while protected from hot drops.

You could find a gate with a Sansha camp, and get your small gate there to reenforce it, fitting more tackle and letting Sansha do the DPS.

The problem is: the null sec alliance would just have pilots join up with the Sansha militia, and then the Sansha incursion becomes meaningless except for the penalties (applies equally to both sides? both sides are immune as militia?) and the cyno jamming.

I don't know if that can be fixed somehow by tweaking the idea.

+1 use it or loose it. byebye unused systems

although you can badly influence this with cloakycamping in a system for some weeks. i like it :D

Bumping for further attention and consideration

Isn't there some lore type aspect of sleepers somehow communicating with rogue drones and possibly sansha through implants?
Btw nice idea +1

Theoretically any NPC organization could take the 'drone' spot, I do wish they'd end the sansha incursions and turn what they've learned into a more mixed and open incursion system.

I must suspect your understanding of the concept is less than perfect.

The drone gate itself is not friendly to the space it appears in, nor does it benefit those sov holders who allowed the system to slide into disuse.

It specifically gives easy access to players who would otherwise be held back by the effort and distance involved in accessing the system in question, as well as generally breaching the defenses of the sov holders.

Far from a gift to logistics, it would be a nightmare.

I thought this thread might have something to do with Richard Nixon and a tape recorder.

Imagine my chagrin.

How about considering this, as a potential means of spurring activity in what are possibly the less active systems to be found in null?

Those unused fields tend to grow wild, when neglected....

+1!

A very enthusiastic +1!!!

This is used with references to a gate, but really it simply needs to be a game element not subject to either delay or limits directly.
It could be something entirely new, and will certainly look different.

It would be perfectly fine to have a group of players attempt to camp this, but they would find themselves on an escalating set of encounters.

(Encounters would mostly be on the side where the mobile gate was, to prevent gate camps from securing that space against well deserved attention)