Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Its a good idea in any case. +1

So I was thinking a bit about the Edge implant set. Currently it reduces the negative effects of drugs you take, however if you are in a situation where you are taking drugs, say exile or drop for example, you don't care about the penalties because you are likely to lose your ship if you don't take the drugs.

This tends to make reducing the negative effects of drugs completely unneeded especially when compared to any other pirate implant set, or even something as basic as genolutions. So instead of decreasing the negative aspects of drugs why not have the Edge set increase the positive bonus of drugs instead? This would bring them to the level of snakes, slaves, halos, etc as well as give people more of a reason to get strong drugs.

Crystals would still be better for pure boosting that Edge since crystals increase the base amount of boost and Edge would only increase the amount of the drug by a few percent. Crystals+blue pill would result in a stronger boost than Edge+blue pill though edge would also increase the effet of other drugs you may be taking, such as drop, crash, frentix, soothsayer, x-instinct, exile, mindflood.

Sadly, they would still be inferior to normal sets. Edge still only works when you are chugging boosters, snakes/slaves/nomads/etc will always provide their bonuses and without the constant cost of operating you'd get from constantly chugging boosters.

Edit: Edge implants would also wind up only being useful in low and null, and then really only desireable in a few select applications like a triage archon popping mindflood and exile. The only way it could truely beat any current set is combining blue pill with those modified edge implants on a shield boosting capital.

That would certainly be a nice change!

This should be on the front page.

This is true.

+ 1

As a denizen of syndicate I support this proposal!

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuump!

This might be not the topic I want talk about exactly. But I want to support the ideas in general.

I'd like to call it "The New Conspiracy". It contains a set of new items and the whole new profession... the smuggling.
Why conspiracy?
A set of factions and groups have come together in order to undermine the empire. The best characteristics of all factions and groups come together, in order to form professional equipment.
- Intaki Syndicate
- Interbus
- Thukker Tribe
- ORE Corporation

The EvE lore allows a cooperation of all them to create something new. Maybe an interchange of LP between them could become possible.

- Smugglers have not to be Pirates. They won't have bad standings with empire factions automatically.
- Smugglers are outlaws, if they got catched. Suspicious flagged but not criminal.
- Smugglers are sneaky guys. It's better not to be seen, than to be armed hard. Ships should be light weighted, extremely fast and nearly invisible.

What smugglers need:
- small, fast faction ships (up to cruiser size or small industrial) - bonus for Gallente/Minmatar skills (Gallente and/or Minmatar ship models could be used with new paint)
°Slotdesign could be close to industrial type ships. Less high slots and Gallentean ships with a lot of med slots and some low, Minmatar with a huge amount of low and some med slots for instance.
Ships become more defensive than offensive. Offensive ships are available enough in my mind.

- fasten up common ships using a new set of implants and a new set of modules.
- i.e. light jump bridge generator, can jump into highsec using fuel, modules for sig-reduction, stealth armor modules, faction cloak device without sub-warp speed penalty, factional expanded cargohold (meta 6), cargohold scan hardener, factional warp stab, scan resistant cargo containers
- Factional ORE gas-harvester modules for barges (incl. gas harvesting upgrades and rigs)

- black market in high and low sec (POS equipment?) - ability to "hide" POSes
- options for SOV to declare legal or illegal stuff (if not already in place)
- ship to ship trade at celestial beacons (beacon creation by players) -> create a temporary places to be
- Barely legal distribution Agents :)
°Smuggling Agents provide distribution missions from 0-/low-sec to high sec. They give a very good reward in LP and payout compared to common high- or lowsec distribution agents. They ask not for illegal stuff always.
Agents for exploring (rare stuff acquisition), salvaging, hacking, etc. with no time limits for fullfillment.
More missions for exploring career agents, which prepare for lowsec better (including tutorials).

- courier contracts with a signalling of illegal stuff