Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have also noticed that there may be some bad feelings right now about that last live event thing that went through gewnspace.

Now I know why noone is commenting.

Certainly this would take quite a bit of time to plan, and would require more than just one or two people from CCP getting together over beers at the local pub :)

If anyone has any comments, suggestions whatever go ahead.

Give me a EoM Apocalypse and I'll do anything for you...

I'd love to see EoM usurp Kuvakei and take over as the incursion faction the way it was originally planned.

You are looking at the next pirate faction. Caldari-Minmatar ftw.

I was with you until you started mixing it in with nullsec sov.

I'd have +1d you for the additional faction idea alone and for new pve content a further +1.

But mixing it with sov? -1 for sure.

Now, if it were to be like faction warfare and have nothing to do with nullsec sov but actually be an area of space which two NPC factions are fighting over (new space preferably), much like faction warfare, that people could join and fight for I would certainly get behind that idea but rolling it all into nullsec sov really isn't the answer.

Personally I've been thinking about the EoM for a long time and I may have even posted some stuff about my ideas for them in the past but I'll let my brain spunk into this thread right now seems as it's on topic:

EoM start to appear inside Sansha incursions. Just a single ship here and there. If destroyed you recieve a snippit of data from it hinting at a live even happening in the future and other data about the EoM plans.

After a while and enough data has been fed to the community the EoM show their hand. They do so during a Sansha live event incursion (remember the old ones when they raided a planet for people to become slaves). During the incursion, which will be in a high sec system, EoM appears and drops a cyno (EoM have aquired tech that allows them to use cyno's ANYWHERE). Sansha use artificial wormholes, EoM use unjammable cyno's. They then bridge in a fleet of carriers and dreads with a sub cap support fleet and engage everyone, including sansha ships, around the artificial wormhole. They also use an advanced science ship to stabalise the wormhole and approach it. They announce that they have came to take Sansha's wormhole tech and approach the wormhole. Sansha escalate by jumping their own dreads through the wormhole and epic combat ensues. Players can support who ever they want or just try to kill everyone. The Sansha wormhole will also become traversable so fighting can occur on both sides.

In the end, the EoM have shown their tech and it becomes apparant that they intend to try and re-open the EvE Gate with the Sansha Wormhole tech. They fail to get the tech from the battle but after the battle the EoM and Sansha call on support from capsuleers to join their cause as both sides declare open war on each other. EoM space and some previously unknown Sansha space (area of space currently not on the map) becomes accessable. This area of lowsec becomes the battleground for the EoM-Sansha pirate factional war (the first pirate faction war).

People who join the pirate FW militia's will be able to carry out normal FW activities for LP and discounted faction stuff from the LP stores. However, they will be aligning themselves to a pirate faction and will receive a permament -10 sec status whilst in the militia (or a permament criminal flag).

EoM also start carrying out their own incursions as they can move freely with their cyno tech. More incursions but a different flavour to Sansha

EoM ships would be active shield tanked snipers with long range warp scrams/disruptors. They would be slow but have excellent tanks and range. I would imagine EoM ships to look like this: link and be Amarr-Caldari based.

EoM and Sansha capital ships become available through LP stores.

So, if this feature was implemented you would get:
EoM incursions
Pirate factional warfare
New factional warfare space
New pirate hulls (EoM frigate, cruiser, battleship, carrier and dread. Sansha Dread)


Most of the above already exists so developement should be fairly easy:
The factional warfare and incursion mechanics already exist and would just need a change in "appearence"
"Actual" new content would only be some new ships and space, however, it would look like and feel like a massive expansion to the game!

Sansha himself has "rewarded" capsuleers for assisting his cause. He even personally reimbursed a players ship (it actually happened) when they tried to support Sansha's cause. I don't think it would be too far fetched for Sansha to create a militia to help fight a new threat.

Faction capitals might be a step too far to be able to get them from LP stores but I think if you put stupid prices on them it wouldn't be too bad. I would like to see a Shield-Hybrid and Shield-Laser based Dread.

Also, FW is probably one of the best working features in the game right now. Sure it needs some love here and there but it works very well and generates a huge amount of PvP.

True but when I was in faction wars I had a great time. When neutrals came in to do some "douchbaggery" I opened my arms and said "whoop whoop! more dudes to shoot at!". This is a difference of opinions between us though and we have digressed but I still stand my ground and say a pirate factional warfare area would be good.

^^^^^^^^

And this is awesome.
+1

Dear Apo, I would edit this out very quickly, not that is has been discussesd without end and stomped into the ground for good reasosn, it will derail your discussion in no time and lead to ad hominum and detract from your rest of the posts. I'll delete this too as soon as you do, so no trace will be left.

I really mean well here.