Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know, this sounds like a stupid Idea, and honestly, I doubt it myself. but here goes my 2 cents.

EvE needs oort clouds.
In short, the oort cloud in our solar system is a HUGE cloud that contains millions of billions of tonnes of space rocks.
There are many.
They are unstable.
They are far, far away.

each system has an oort cloud, and anyone can warp there any time. the cloud will be about 250 AU away, so visitors will be seldom to none. Most of the time, the oort cloud will be empty, vast space where the sun can barely be seen., however, these clouds have new mechanics.

sovereignty: all oort clouds are sovereign to three factions: Sansha's nation, Concord, and ORE.
Concord rules all hisec clouds
Sansha's rules all lowsec, and WH clouds
ORE rules all nullsec clouds, but this is changed.

BadEffects:
- Delays: all chat is delayed 25 seconds, no matter who is sending a mesage
- Unverification: bounties payed by concord for rats are split between all players within 250km of the rat in time of elimination, even if cloaked.
-Distant: concord reactions are delayed 13.5 seconds
-Instability: In low sec and below, the clouds do a constant 75 DPS of Kinetic damage from collision, and 10 DPS of explosive damage. This is occasionally complimented by a rare large projectile that deals 1,000 omni-damage. (this is how lowsec systems are decided)
- Sensor jamming: Multiple small objects cause D-scan radius to be cut in half.
- Traversal Electromagnetic well: If you bridge into or out of the oort cloud, the shift in magnetic field will cause all ships to take 50% of their shields, and armor in EM damage (resists are useless)
-Rats: Rats, from the peasants to the awakened general, they are everywhere in the cloud, salvaging.

Good Effects:
Zero Refrence: you can warp 1,000,000 km in any cardinal direction, any time
Dwarf planets: Celestial planets can be scanned down. These planets are special in the fact that they can have 4 POSes anchored to them at once.
Bountiful: astroids of every kind can be found everywhere.
Deadspace: the oort cloud is treated as a deadspace pocket, meaning that people have to scan you down to find you.

I'm all for more terrain in eve too, and we'll be getting some soon. 101 brand new wormholes that, I think at least, are going to a lot of fun. After that, who knows?

If you really want to push your idea, you should review it and think of what the potential benefits, downsides, or exploits could exist with them mechanics you propose. If things could be potentially broken, or unintentionally exclude a group of people from participating it might be a problem.

Great idea +1

sansha owning w-hole oort cluds makes little sense to me since sleepers are found in w-hole space

also you shouldn't be able to warp through it even though its going to out of the way

What she said!! ^^

Set it up as procedurally generated and kill the tracking outside each grid.

Why would you get any damage dealt to you in the Oort cloud? It's like 99.999999999999999999999999999999...9999999999% empty space.

And yes, I do have a problem with asteroid belts. Why do you ask?

For basing an idea off of scientific reality you sure seem to be abandoning it with e.g. DPS gas.

I like the idea in general, a sort of outskirts/no-mans-land on the edge of each system. But DPS clouds are just a pain.

Everyone says every new idea will be a programming nightmare. Most of them probably don't know the ups or downs about how much effort/resources it would take.



That's the point

Make three or four objects then use the sky box and particle effects like they are going to put into the asteroid belts.

Do we really need more places where you're effectively hidden/ignored and its easy to farm shiny stuff?

Don't mind the idea as such but the implementation is horrible. There was a similar suggestion on here a year or so ago that important types went apeshit mental over, kinda space within systems you could genuinely explore, find **** and even get lost in but still not be safely eleventy billion miles away from even the hint of prying eyes.

Maybe it's already in development, who knows but the discussion is well worth digging out if you want to kick this idea into shape. Ironically it might even have been a Dinsdale post.