Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Shoot me down, or thumbs me up..... either way.... I want it.

I solo game play, but I like being a part of the big picture universe.

Problem:
1) I can't join a player corp and be a good team player due to family life timing. Can't be on a certain time as others.
2) I can't use a microphone because my wife and kids are sitting next to me in our media room making noise and being a family.
3) I like a challenge, but it should be reasonable and have a attempt at balance. PVP as is, is not interesting to me at all due to the random nature of finding a fair challenge.
4) I get bored with PVE content.

Solution:
1) PVP Balanced Missions. (All boosts and fleet adds are void, like Incursion areas. Can't be in a fleet)

a) Single Deadspace pocket. Different Gates and only combatants are allowed in.
b) Different Ship levels. I.E...T1 Frigates, Destroyers, Cruisers, etc.. for different mission levels.
c) You can't get into the pocket with Cruiser, if it's for Frigates.
d) Each player puts up a stake to play. Level 1 = 5m, Level 2 = 10m, etc..
e) Once a player accept the Mission at the station, they have X number of minutes to enter the pocket, once both players accept. If they don't make it in time, the forfeit the pot.
f) Winner gets to loot the wreck.
g) No pod kills or it's concord time.
h) Risk Faction mods if you got them, if that's your thing...just the ship hull is the limiting factor. I won't go in with a ship I can't afford to lose. Level 4 Missions for example would allow any ship type in the gate and have a stake of 50m to pony up. So 100m Pot, plus Loot. level 1 missions would only allow frigates to enter gate.
i) Mission spawn is in High Sec to keep it fair.

This would fix the game for me.

Give me a reason to PVP and I'm in. If I lose, which will be often, I will have a great time and most likely learn something.

I'm not smart enough in EVE to know the Facton Mod mechanics and how much they improve the win, but it would be perfectly acceptable to limit the field to

T1 and Meta mod fits only.

As long as there's an equal opportunity for both players to gear up.

It doesn't take that long to skill a frigate toon to be effective for T1 fits.

I want this .......

It could be fun, faction in the hands of a skilled player (in both senses) do raise his chance of winning. In the hands of a new player they give the sense of invulnerability, which sadly is lacking.
So giving the opportunity for both to fit, is like giving tiger woods a free hole advantage.

If both types of players are limited to basic ships, skills have an advantage, but a smart newer player with good attitude, and one who can adapt and learn quickly, can develop and bloom, and become excellent.
And sometimes win.

If they were like this they would be popular and useful.
If they allow faction pirate and t2 (unless they were limited to both flying them) with mixed types allowed, then they would simply have gankers, those wanting easy kills, and good killing for lootz, not for the challenge.

Lots of pvp corps in lowsec are fairly reasonable about this, most of them post ahead of time whe they're going to have roams so you can plan out your time to perhaps be able to join in. And even if you can't, you can pop in and find someone to roam with.

Push To Talk has solved a lot of my family noisemaking problems. Then I refrain from cursing and such while speaking.

Can't help you much there, its always a job to find a fight these days, although just loading up a AF or ceptor or something and running down to low for a little bit it really doesnt take long to get a skirmish, If I weren't living out of hotels right now (work) I'd say PM me and I could drag you around with my PVP alt to get a fight or 2.

Dont we all.

Seems like you might just join FW to get roughly what your looking for. Yeah its kinda lame right now because of stabbed ships, but scram/disruptoring your ship (1 of each) has great trolling potential from what I'm told.

Solution:
1) Yes, you can. Just do what you can when you're on. The right corp will work with you.
2) Headphones and adjusting the gain of your mic. You talk like you're the only one with a family and a life that plays this game.
3) If it's balanced, than it's not a challenge. PvP is not random. The vast majority of the people who engage you are pretty sure they're going to win, otherwise they won't engage.
4) See 1-3.

Wrong game for whom?

You are a single player looking at the game from your eyes with an understanding of what makes it fun for you.

Adding a balanced PVP solo experience doesn't take away all that you've said for your game style, other than perhaps the fear that players may enjoy the PVP missions more than the random PVP nature that is in current use, and this may somehow effect your fun.

The fact is obvious for the 3 years I've played this game, and that is the HUGE divide between those players who think the game is one thing only, and the rest are wrong.

This game has many, many angles to it.

For many it's a High Sec Game, others it's a PVP Bully fest, others think it's a Market Order Spreadsheet game..

Step away from your current view and add value to an otherwise stagnate solo game, and don't worry that you will lose something dear to you. The only thing that can come of a PVP mission is better and more PVP players emboldened to venture in to more dangerous areas of space.

Does that threaten your game? I imagine there are many areas of this game that you do not participate in, such as mining...just a guess, but others find that a great game! Play the way you want, but don't discourage others from adding new content options.

There are merits to this suggestion.

1 - it could be implemented in High Sec. Entering the arena is agreement to a duel for x time.
2 - It could easily prohibit fleet boosting by checking for fleet membership prior to entry and denying fleet membership after entry.
3 - It could be a regular area of space marked with a beacon
4 - winner is whoever is left "standing" at the end of x time. If both remain after the time limit it is considered a draw and site despawns and respawns in another area of the system.
5 - the site would have dead space effects to prevent people from interrupting the party.

Edit to add:
While the site can control the type of access: ship type, meta max, etc... there is still enough variance between ship types and fitting layouts that the outcome will be variable. The purpose is not so much to introduce 1v1 PvP to non-PvPers but to provide a more even PvP field for players participating in the arena.

Wat? You have an odd definition of the terms 'pvp player' and 'exploit'

There is no 'Fair' in EVE. Maybe you don't like it that way. That's fine. I'll not dictate your opinion.

There are a million other games where you can get an Arena PVP experience. EVE is not the game for this.

It's like suggesting they put MOBA deadspace zones into the game, or space dragons at the end of a 'space dungeon raid'.

It's not that they're bad ideas (though I'm iffy on whether MOBA is ever a good idea) it's just that EVE is not that kind of game.

Isn't this basically what FW is already.

This statement is not correct, since CCP attempts to balance ships and the game in general all the time.... Yes I remember the RLML nerf.

let's look at what you can do in game and see if it's fair.

PVE Missions = Fair (Same boring rats)
High Sec PVP Ganks and Tricks = Fair (concord)
Market PVP = Fair (buyer beware)
Mining = Fair (smashing Rocks, know your variables)
Exploration = Fair (know the risks, get the reward)
Skill Training = Fair (everyone is the same)
Open world PVP = Fair (Don't go there if you can't except the rules)

Balanced Solo PVP = Duel's only at this time and they are not balanced.... let me challenge a freighter for the win.


I was born in this whole and I'll die in this whole..... is that the EVE way?

Come on, you can do better than to just quote the same stuff. Tell us why this will hurt the game, like mining, industry or PVE hurts the game. This idea would most certainly exist if EVE was real... have you ever watched Boxing? How entertaining would EVE open world Boxing be..... let's all just jump the first guy in the ring and call it a win.