Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In no way is eve a bad game, but certain mechanics have, in part, lead to very stale/negative gameplay. Now negative gameplay (scamming, ganking etc.) isn't a bad thing, but great games balance this with an equal oppositional force (positive gameplay). In my opinion this is where Eve is severely lacking.

In Eve there are very few of these positive gameplay mechanics that players can utilize, and those that do exist, such as bounties/killrights are essentially broken (e.g. 50 million isk activations on KR). To fix this, and to cater for a larger audience, CCP should start focusing on adding/fixing positive elements of the game.

For example I would create a joinable concord police corp/alliance. All killrights within eve (from negative gamplay) are sent to this corp (instead of the player) and added to a hitlist. These killrights could be freely activated by members of the corp/alliance. Upon the destruction of the target, Concord LP and sec status would also be awarded, in proportion to the isk value of target kill (to prevent abuse of the mechanic). This is just one suggestion I have, feel free to debate or add more positive gameplay solutions below :)

in my opinion these are money making mechanics :P and are not afilliated with being good or bad.

in a way yes, but they are also for griefing/lols.

Any player with a half working neuron will not fall pray to scams.

You must be american

Bounties and trading the right to kill someone are in your opinion "positive gameplay"

get out

nailed it, dose industrialised Retribution sound anything other than american?

Now, where have I heard this before...

Oh, yeah; here.

Being able to turn kills into money is always an exploit. Never doubt that this mechanic would be used first and foremost by goons killing themselves to cash in their bounties.

so I have 1 char be a bad player and get concord alliance after them and a good pilot in the concord alliance then kill them?

If the lp returns are there, this is what would happen. The beauty of this setup is I know exactly when to login the bad char so I get the kill. I would login the good char first, not see blue in local then login the bad char to pop him solo.


You would counter probably put in based on ship killed in and such. Which kills this idea. As based on all the whining of late of easy ganks in empire dessies are popular. So if legit gankers are sporting throwaway dessies...killing the legit ones would be waste of time if scaled to ship killed in.


How to make eve more liveable for a player. If you can't kill your ganker or scammer yourself....let the water run under the bridge. You got got, claim your killright in combat pvp setup or just move on. This is why I never saw the point to bounty. If I bountied avery cheap shot killer I met I could not counter myself I'd be broke. Can't take them...well then remember the name and be wary of them when in the area the next time.