Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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With Rhea coming along, I thought we should revive the idea.

Collect up the corpses then try to salvage implants (some are destroyed on death, some are "destroyed" with a failed salvage)
Obviously, there would need to be a skill line and tools for this.

I like the idea of a market where player's bodies are being traded to those with the skill. Necro-[somethings] digging around in people's heads. Implants appearing on the market again.

This would help those Null trade hubs that CCP keeps wanting. The staging station, where people hand in loot to the FC (for SRPs) would have replacement implants again. There would be a diminishing supply as they get destroyed twice over but some would survive.

Edit: Even better would be if the salvage implants had a few specs of organic matter on the graphics and a link back to the player they came from. Would you want the implants knowing they had been in someone else and who or would you want to get fresh ones?

Edit 2: Would a fleet hang around long enough with the reduced numbers to pick up the corpses or get out of there before a larger fleet comes along? Say the larger fleet does chase down the smaller one, the locals in the system with the original battle could come out to pick up what is left. Always the chance of some slave implants or such. Might be worth the risk if you are quick.

Edit 3: Maybe make corpses something that has to be smuggled into high-sec? Using particular ships, skills and implants?

Get random snippets of conversation in Local from the people that owned your implants from time to time, "voices in your head"




One problem also seems to be implant layout in the market, I suggest:

Implants and Boosters
- Implants
- - Standard Implants
- - - Slot 1
- - - Slot 2
- - - Slot 3
etc
- - Slave Implants
etc
- Skill Hardwiring
- - Ship fitting
- - - Slot 6
- - - Slot 7
etc
- - Turrets & Bays
- - - Projectile
- - - - Slot 6
- - - - Slot 7
etc
- - - Hybrid
- - - - Slot 6
etc
etc
- Reclaimed Implants
- - Mirror of above
- - Reclaimed Hardwires

True. So the question is whether they would be contract only material or not have those features?

I have a bin somewhere full of bodies.

This is a genuinely good idea! Why would a corpse lose all the implants in its head? Why can't someone thaw it out and hack into the skull?

While it wouldn't be necessary to destroy randomly some of the implants when the pod goes kaboom, I think the success rate of hacking the head without skills needs to be zero. Training the new Surgery skill will improve this by 3% per level, with maximum skill givng a 15% chance of retrieving an implant. This is similar in concept to training reprocessing skills.

The actual operation can be performed in the reprocessing window, with the new surgery function available only in stations containing a med bay. Putting the corpse into the window will show the implants it contains, like minerals are displayed for ore. The player will also be able to see what chance there is of a successful extraction. Hit the reprocess button and the chance is rolled for each implant, with a successful roll depositing the implant into the player's hangar.

Using the reprocessing window allows the player's standing with that corporation to play also a part in the success of the operation. It will also require minimal new code to implement the feature.

As to there being a market for these corpses: don't allow anyone to see what implants a corpse contains prior to purchasing it. Even trade has its creeps; ask people in Jita.

When your capsule is breached your brain is turned to scrambled egg by a high powered laser to transfer your consciousness to a new clone. I'm pretty sure this would cause all sorts of damage to delicate nano-structures buried in said rapidly nuked brain...

Reading your consciousness from the brain would not be a destructive process due to the multitude of synaptic links in its structure. Destroy even a single cell and you destroy multiple associations, lobotomising effectively the capsuleer. It ain't a digital computer.

The chance of a successful salvage would be only 1 in 7 per implant. Imagine their desperation to get back that king's ransom of an implant. "... and how would Sir like to pay? "

Added to OP, I like how you out line the implementation.


There are always new innovations.

1> Dig into your brain and retrieve those things that have been attached surgically to your brain? Good luck with that.

2> All of your JC are alive; only one contains a consciousness.

1. yeah agreed

2. I forgot to type (or imply) that I'm willing to murder that clone.