Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Eve-online Universe is a huge space. Everything is the game is logical, elaborately and known. Just imagine it was reality… The gargantuan space, where in hidden from the eye corners of the macrocosm, in systems with security status 0.0 or even below, the control over law and order is so low that anything can happen.

Everything in Eve-online is investigated and known. Even if the client does not have enough information, he always can find it on forums. That is really great, especially for the beginners. But what should experienced gamers do? The system is stable, permanent. Every time is the same even the most extreme mode PvP is predictable because everything is explored. The enemy has foreseeable ship with almost guessable fit. Ask yourself “What can amaze you?”. Actually the reinforce of your POS/station/clime would not surprise you much as it is expectable due to gameplay.

My suggestions
In such a global game about space the surprise effect should surely be. And besides, everybody has to feel it. Something extraordinary should happen moreover nobody should know any information about it.

1. technical script. CCP selects creative personnel and keeps secret with the purpose to save the idea and the surprise effect. It means that there is no any information about this project at all. It could be downloaded small patches on a server in several steps in order not to arouse suspicion and provoke guesses on forums.

2. feature script. At any given point in any system (solar system), which is on the edge of the Eve-online galaxy map opens the wormhole. A huge invasion of UNKNOWN forces from UNKNOWN civilization starts (I can take a part in the script writing, creating models of aliens, ships ect.). The invasion is so powerful that captures the constellation in two days. Players will be compelled to retreat to safe areas for regrouping, assemble a large fleet, conduct reconnaissance on the invasion territory evacuate civilians in a safer area. Alien ships are much stronger, for example 1:10. The Alien ships are classified in already know categories in overview – frigate, cruiser, battleship, car etc. The alien artificial intelligence level should be raised to the level of players. It makes fights fierce and unpredictable. Otherwise this will lead to the destruction of nation Sansha. NPC continues to capture the territory, they fly in format fleet, make an ambush around the star gates and different objects in solar system. In order not to contribute the imbalance we can allow the full destruction of the ships. The ships of aliens should have the weak point to the some type of weapon.

At the moment of the invasion the Concord creates promotion Fund that encourages the gamers for destroying of unknown civilization. The system of wages should be elaborated taking into account not only the interests of players who live in seized territories, but also any player in Eve-online.
The history of Eve-online would be written by real people in real time.

For example:
Some unknown form of life consists of plasma (including ammunition and weapon) and shoots with the same plasma. Lets say blue glowing plasma. The alien ship can be designed in the form of plasma clouds to make writing of ship models easier. They can be divided in some groups (frigate, cruiser, battleship) according to the size. The all captured objects can be marked with blue plasma. The gate of the captured systems is damaged with blue plasma, the gate throughput deteriorates. Flashes and discharges coming from the gate visually show the boundary of incursion. The aliens should have protective cordons and also logisticians which supply the new plasma (probably not remotely but directly when docking). Aliens also have the mothership. Its size corresponds to the possibility to create new support ships (approximate length 40-50km.) The committee proclaims player a “hero” and “defender of the Universe” if he destroys the mothership. For example the lifetime pension can be given to such player. The big DPS (app. 10 Titans) is needed for the mothership destroying.
As mentioned above, the destroying should be without wrecks in order not to overload unnecessary actions and game server.
And one more thing… the sounds coming from the aliens should be changed as it is the unknown civilization. So I do not suggest introducing a new kind of NPC, I offer to add something psychologically groundbreaking – “the surprise effect “, as it was said.