Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It would be nice to have some decent exploration for once. Exploration as in exploring a.k.a. wandering around an uncharted area with the potential for cool sights to be seen and rewards. Not exploration as in playing the same minigame over and over and over again.

Great Idea! Many +1's


General ideas
- Different clouds hamper certain sensor types of the four races so you should cross train / work with others or fit compensation modules. ( Rats can be hampered as well )
- Should spawn at least 1AU away from other things as not to block all warp routes away from a celestial / Gate
- When warping through one, it should drop you ~5-50 km inside the cloud, like skidding in. (neat PvP Trap)
~OR~ you should drop 15KM away from the edge because your ship saw it coming and e-stopped. ( easy to run away)
- Cloaks should be allowed, but random decloaks happen (5 - 45 mins)
- NPC ambushes based on the size of your fleet ( or ships within 30km of each other)
- The small damage bubbles should knock out the shields on most frigates and insta-pop drones.
- New short range, high power module adds ~500km to the D-scan
- E-warp does not work, no logging off in the cloud ( maybe...)
- Corrosive areas that put out 10-50 DPS you must tank ( fast vs tanky )

The Mobile jump unit ( coming soon )
- You can line them up like a chain to get slow moving ships around fast.
- Everyone else use it too unless you defend certain points or leave a trail to an ambush ( player or NPC )
- Someone can destroy your route out if they want ( see defense above )

Adding ISK to the 'Cloud'
- Add random spawn Officer NPC's inside with 5x bounty and chance of officer module drops
- Higher chance of Tags4Sec rats appearing
- Bounty placed on NPC structures
- * My favorite * Add NPC Ship maintenance arrays with pirate faction ships to steal ( Heavily defended of course )
- Random Ice belts of all types ( maybe based on racial sensor dampening above )
- NPC Structures can drop high value goods ( PI, Research, Moon goo, etc )
- Black ops agents that offer short time frame missions in the cloud
- Escort/Rescue mission to take Civilian NPC's out of the cloud ( damaged ship etc )


Make is so people WANT to go in to the cloud for glory and riches and shiny shiny loot

Make it so even a large well organized group has to be careful not to pile too many in at once or a large NPC counter fleet may appear to fight you.

Make it so to explore in a fast / safe manner, you need to drop your combat effectiveness ( Ie module based )

Make it so you need to have multi-race support so fleet doctrines will make a massive difference in clouds


The more I type the more I LOVE this idea! EvE needs this, it needs something that cannot be mapped, planned or documented. EvE-Survival will have to write guides, not reports on what to expect.

One more +1 for luck

could i suggest that like the environment in recon part 3, some areas of this "briar patch" causes damage by virtue of you being there, death being the result should you go afk and allow your pod to die too.

This may be an odd spin, but why not have currents?

We are already using aquatic type physics in many ways with the ships.

Call it a stellar wind, or any fancy preferred name, but designate areas where all ships and objects inside it are treated to a movement modifier in a specific direction.

Example:
Bob is in his ship, and enters a current's path.
His ship immediately has it's relative speed modified to include a 200 m/s motion directed from point A to point B, length and width of current depending on circumstance.

Any ship within the range of this current being also affected, targeting systems would need to compensate out this motion, and slower ships not capable of moving fast enough would be effectively blocked from moving 'upstream'.

A big enough path of such currents could prove a challenging obstacle, as well a dangerous trap for ships ending up where the currents dump them, where something nasty might be waiting to ambush visitors.

Just a thought.

+1 for an awesome idea.

+1

best.idea.ever.

You would have to be at the centre of a 5000Km site to not be de-cloaked instantly. Maybe better to allow cloaks to work but they 'flicker' in and out so that people can see they are present in local space (i.e. in the menu list of targets/objects) but can't lock them without quartering the area to de-cloak them. Would really keep people on their toes and think of the tension when another ship appears intermittently in the list...

I actually do not see a problem with cloaking in those sites.

Every non cloaky explorer could use his MWD to zip around at incredible speeds and find his sites, while the fastest cloaked covops frigate (the cheetah) can reach only speeds of roughly 400 - 500 m/s with activated cloak. So it either has to slowboat around and hope to find something, or it's zipping around, too but very visibile to everyone else.

Bombers are a lot slower, and everything else with an activated cloak is even slower.

And lets not forgett, the main reason why lots of people do not like cloaks is the possibility of a cyno gang just waiting to jump the unsuspecting victim and if I got the concept right that possibility should not exist within the Dinsdale Phenomenon cloud.

Also, if it were possible to populate that kind of space, especially the places were the nuggets and exitement would be found, with all sorts of rock clutter collidable structures etc. in a way that a cloaked ship would have to plot a far more complicated course to it's target (just to stay cloaked) than a non cloaked ship, that might further increase the game play experience for everyone rather than jus flat out deny certain ships or ship configurations access to that sites.

I hope I wrote all that in a remotely understandable way, cheers.

But probably the devs handlign server performance might not like it.

The general concept it good. PRoblem is how ccp can implement it without costign too much to be worth doing.