Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You know sometimes you just need to get from A to B right?


Can interbus be made to actually ferry people (not items, we already have that) or is it possible to have a player run ferrying service.


Buy yourself a ticket on the interbus and voila! your now on your way to your destination.

The OP hasn't stated specifics. Use your imagination.

1. It's "noob friendly". So I assume the PT would only exist in high sec - I don't think Interbus npc's would got though low/null just to move people around.
2. Jump Clones can take you to places Interbus cannot go (see above), not to mention medical bays. If needed (for balance reasons), the PT could instead have a finite set of routes available to passengers.
3. PT's would take time to travel. Jump Clones are instant.

so you want a risk free afk way to move around? how about no, use a shuttle if you want to afk it put the thing on auto pilot. If you don't want to risk auto pilot stay at your key bored.

Guess I can see the value in being able to logoff and arrive somewhere else, as long as it costs decent isk and is slower than an autopiloting shuttle.

Ok, so assuming that this service would not be risk free and it would in fact take time to travel between point's A and B, how would this differ from using an autopiloted shuttle, as has alrady been pointed out?

Since it is Interbus, does this mean we can kill it freely like their POCOs and thus kill any passengers?

There isn't a purpose as such, it was just an idle thought that I decided to bring to the forums.

It struck me that interbus have been around for a long time yet actually do very little.

I have no idea if an actual bus service would be of use to capsuleers but seeing as we are playing the epitamy of emergent games that is eve online, I'm sure someone somewhere would find a crazy use for it ;)


I also pointed out that it may be something capsuleers could run, amulti capsuleer passenger ship for example. Heck you could even extend it to multicapsuleer combat vessels (though I suspect Valkyrie is heading this way).




I guess a pvp aspect could be worked in somehow, you could design an entire mission line around the idea of running escort for passenger liners. Level 1 missions in 1.0 space, 2's and 3's in 0.9 to 0.5 and level 4's/5's in lowsec.

This might give people reason to do missions as a group rather than blitzing all the time and also promote PVP, assuming the escorted vessel has something worth stealing by other players ^^.

You would also open an opportunity for younger players that can't handle level 4's in groups to contribute to their corporation.

OP's theory from what I gathered:

Jenka a lowely noob in Kisogo, mining in a venture. You stock ore up and get lots of ISK. Sadly, he still gets aggro in high sec. The most common of all. Wife aggro.

He quickly takes the interbus hauler for 1.25$ and it takes him along a route which he does not know. (New to bus)

It ends up in jita to his luck. While he deals with wife aggro, he sees where it stopped and quickly gets off at the undock to Jita 4-4.

With all that ISK he saved. He can buy some spirits and dancers (your preference) to cheer him up!

He waits for the next interbus ride back home to his vessle. He knows he has had too much. Its safer than being crammed in a shuttle and rear ending a charon. (Concord are ticketing almost anyone now'n days)

He arrives and cant wait to get back to mining. Having celebrated the occasion, he makes more isk to go back on his jita-spree.

Jenka is a happy little miner.

I could only be on board with this if the interbus was a player flown ship, and if that ship is destroyed, you (the passenger) lose your pod/clone immediately.

Yeah that would be a given, though outside of pure RP or general silliness I can't think of an actual advantage to my idea lol

At least not one that would prompt people to use such a service.