Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Good question...I would think you would appear like you do now but the anomaly would stop the warp as if you had warped into the cloud as discussed before. Depends on the effect the anomaly has on the warping within it.

Ideas anyone?

So the default 1,000,000 Km woould end up being outside the cloud from the first presentation of the possible cloud size, so I would imagine you would warp back to the cloud on your heading to the original location and then the warp would be disrupted as you entered?

I think that would work.

Yeah, pretty much.

Say you crashed / had to head to work.
You log off, you just stay in place for whatever existing timer mechanism keeps you on grid.
Then you simply drop from the game.

When you log back in, as you said, you warp from 1,000,000 km (pre-determined by the original calculation, even though you never warped there) in a straight line to where you actually dropped from the game, and yes, the cloud would stop you on the periphery of the cloud.

Not perfectly immersive, but functional.

Kil2 played this game and would probably be all over this thread. CCP Rise logs in only when there is camera pointed at him. And rest of devs doesn't seem to play either.

Don't lose hope, you never know, maybe you have described core functions of CCP's new space, causing much spluttering and anguish that the secret may be out!

The idea is just so good, that I really cannot imagine it being ignored.

Keep the faith.

Excellent idea.

Some thoughts:

1. "Zone" these clouds similar to wormholes. Outer layer is equivalent to C1 and center is C6.

2. To discourage hiding fleets, give the clouds gravity that sucks ships toward their centers.

3. Going somewhat with 1 and 2, make cloaking less effective on the outer edges and pretty much impossible in the centers due to density of the clouds.

4. Allow D-Scan and overview to "flash" periodically to give players a look at potential carrots and dangers in the cloud. This could serve to keep players interested enough to not give up when lost. I know if I spent an hour or so just seeing a cloud, I'd get frustrated and/or bored. That flash would be enough to keep me going.

5. I like the idea that CONCORD can pursue a suspect into the cloud but they cannot provide any enforcement to anything happening within the clouds.

6. Allow clear eddies in the cloud. This would give you the Wrath of Khan feel you initially mentioned. In these eddies, overview would show everything outside of the cloud.

7. As a casual, solo player, I'd like a method to at least get out at the end of my session. Allow warp out. Maybe drop a warpable beacon to save progress but I can see how this would be exploited so could live with out it.

8. High-intensity D-Scan module that has a very short range and puts alignable objects onto the overview for 30 seconds per "ping". The downside is that the pinging ship shows up on everyone else's overview for that amount of time, too. Range 500km? This would provide for a really cool "Run Silent, Run Deep"/"Hunt for Red October" feeling style of game play. Very cat and mouse and very much in keeping with risk v reward.

CCPs silence on this topic does not indicate that this is a dead idea.

on the contrary i believe their silence is more indicative of his idea being similar to an idea already in the works. moreover, if this was a dead idea then the thread would be locked, as it is its still active and still attracting comments.

my 2 isk worth

Look, I haven't reported the thread to be locked - therefore it can be concluded that the thread itself is of value and that I agree with it as well.

What kind of logic is that

If you are referring to me ... I was just dismissing the logic of the assumption, not the thread. I actually support one of the more defined offspring threads of this where Planets mass and radiation shadows create hard to scan areas that technically can make certain things unprobeable and distort d-scan to just a mass and lacking further specification.

about time to resurrect this

Come alive Non-Scannable locations in space