Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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I've always wanted to see joining CONCORD as an option, but this is the first reasonable proposal I've seen for it.

I'm not sure how you envision capsuleers helping the already omnipresent and infinitely powerful CONCORD ships. They don't need our help and turning over responsibility for catching criminals in high sec to capsuleers would become exploitable in a heartbeat.

Also anyone 'working' for CONCORD should never be allowed to pod someone. CONCORD doesn't pod you, so neither should their mercenaries.

High sec is covered. The only interesting addition, if balanced properly, would be capsuleer assisted policing of low-sec space. CONCORD only has gate guns there and might want to outsource actual patrols to capsuleers. This is already possible for the most part if you enjoy some roleplaying. In a game mechanic sense it might actually pop up a beacon to CONCORD capsuleers to easily track criminal activity in low sec.

But even then, turning over any CONCORD function to players is extremely hard to balance, if it's even possible.

NPC pirates don't pod you, either, but players sure will. I like the idea of that balance.

You raise a good point about mercenaries. That's what beginning CONCORD players would be, simply working CONCORD missions as they might for any other corporation. Only when the player builds sufficient standings would s/he be able to draw a mission with your name on it, or join in a CONCORDokkening through whatever mechanism seems appropriate.

A really dedicated CONCORDian player might stalk a notorious player pirate/criminal, but only when the target aggresses or becomes KOS could that CONCORDian engage in high-sec. That might turn out to be before the NPC CONCORD ships show up--but then it's just good ol' PvP, which the pirate was ready for anyway.

Criminals spice up our lives. On occasion, a player should have a chance to return the favor professionally. :-)

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Eh, the Zeitgeist currently is moving away from more NPC mechanics of any kind, and with good casue - they do not promote player involvement.

Already plenty of ways you can essentially fight for the bad guys and profit immensely from it.

I saw this as players running into losec to enforce CONCORD kill orders, since the police already provide this function in hisec. You would potentially get adhoc fleets of CONCORD capsuleers fleeting to take out the bad guys...Any capsuleer who turns rogue and pops a pod or aggresses against someone unfairly ewould be subject to a massive CONDORD response for a looooong time...

I was thinking anyone who breaks the law has their details presented to Concord pilots in a way similar to the storyline missions: the mission is offered in the journal and the player can either accept or reject it. When a player kills the target - wrecks the ship or pods it? - the mission expires for everyone. Not sure how much of a coding problem that would present to the game designers.

Would need to avoid the situation where a LOT of infractions jams full peoples' journals with mission offers. Maybe present the mission only to pilots who are not already on a mission?

If we could end up getting the CONCORD Police ship line ships through this, I think it'd be amazing- after all, we could already fly the CONCORD Police Cruiser

Seriously though, this is an amazing idea for a new playstyle.