Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Brain storming is a process of throwing all ideas into the stew and coming up with solutions or improvements. For example, one famous one is where a guy suggested they put gun powder on the walls under paint so that they can blow the paint off. That lead to the paint removing chemicals.

I will be making a list of all ideas put forward in this thread, the "good" and the "bad." Maybe they will serve as inspiration. Okay to start off.

Sentry drones
- that can be left at gates, ore deposits or worm hole entrances. They would report activity to the owner before someone can cloak but they can be shot and therefore information can be limited. You also wouldn't know when they left. They can also be set to report back if it is red, war target or neutral.
Player jump gates
- gates that can be built, destroyed or made covertly (like the smuggler ones we find in missions and would need to be scanned down) You need to go to their system and destroy their gate to stop them launching into your system and vice versa. They could have trouble retreating. This will allow for "divide and conquer" of the big alliance in null sec.
Worm hole outposts
- people live in them permanently and like high sec, have no interest to move to null sec. What harm would it do to let them build a bigger base? It isn't like they can control a region of WHs because the links keep changing.
Null sec stealing
- some mechanism to steal resources or ISK off player controlled stations and outposts.
Null sec no local
- self explanatory
Covert POS
- Built in an anomoly and needs to be scanned down,
- has a cloak, which is disrupted for a minute when people warp in or out of it.
- cloak only extends 2km beyond the shield so if you don't tuck your mods in close they will be found.
- very limited on power grid so you can't have many POS guns but you can have ECM.
Remove NPC report
- people can tell if others are active in a system by the number of NPCs reporting back. Concord isn't meant to be in worm holes or null sec so why are these reports being made?
Malfunctioning gates
- like POS guns, they can be incapacitated and need to be repaired in hull, armour and shields to be usable again. Helps disrupt movements.
D-scan
Make it auto but penalise it like auto-pilot, i.e. slow.
Let us ignore particular results by right click, similar to when you are probe scanning; so we don't have to read through all the friendly stuff each time.
Make it scale thin, I only need the ship names in a long list, not 1/6th of my screen used widely.
If you don't give auto scan - at least let us drag the button to the modules hot bar so that we can mindlessly press F1-F8.

Something about too many ideas in the first post?

Your idea is rather large and on the first page so going to leave it there. Bots can be detected, they tend to be rather exact in their patterns. Timing and such, humans are too messy.

... right so ... coming through via Cyno or worm holes you don't appear in Local?

I would like to suggest a player created defence force instead of sentry drones. A group of fighters that reacts to players that make hostile actions against the alliance the outpost belongs too. Give it a capacity of maybe 20 drones, or 4 active targets.
And only available in systems with outposts.

The agressor will have the fighters on him/her until he/she is either destroyed or changes system.

What do you think?

Until there's some sort of alternative intelligence gathering system, no.


No. I see no point to it.


What, pilots aren't using enough server-side CPU as it is?

I like your first idea and have though about similar before -

"Sentry drones
- that can be left at gates, ore deposits or worm hole entrances. They would report activity to the owner before someone can cloak but they can be shot and therefore information can be limited. You also wouldn't know when they left. They can also be set to report back if it is red, war target or neutral.
"

I would prefer a deployable Sentry Gun that could be deployed anywhere to keep watch. It could have agression settings like a POS.
Different versions for different things, Like a Sentry cannon to assist in POS take downs.
A smaller version to watch over a gate, or belt or whatever.

Sentry drones giving free unearned intel? It was a bad idea in October and it's still bad now.

Stop trying to break wormholes. We don't need an easy button, we don't need outposts.

You're making it too easy. Taking away the risk. Frankly, that would suck.

Right now, when you first warp to a hole that's fresh there's absolutely no risk... the hole doesn't spawn a K162 until you start to warp to it on grid. So, you scan it down, start warp and get your warp to zero bookmark, hop in and see what's there... from that point, you either need to actively keep an eye on things or risk someone being able to come in while you're not looking or even paying attention.

You make it too easy, reducing the humen error element. That's a really major nerf in and of itself. Wormhole living DOES NOT NEED to be nerfed/ made easier. Stay in your empire cities, leave the frontiers to the people that like 'em that way.

... because hitting D-scan repeatedly and having no counter for a covert warp to ship is excellent game play?

You are deliberately excluding all the worm holes that PVP people will be opening into your system while you are mining or ratting.