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(Ship Proposal) Exploration Ship
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Ryan Kertai
Storm Chasers.
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#1 - 2014-11-26 00:34:37 UTC
G'day Fellow capsullers

This is my first proposal I've made but I'd be really interested in getting people's viewpoint on it and even maybe a reply from CCP :).

I love exploration in EVE I believe it's a core part of any space sim, and I am extremely grateful for the continued efforts by CCP to develop the exploration experience. However I have had an idea if like to explore, exploring in small groups is generally avoided due to the loot levels and the fact that it's quite hard to sneak a fleet around such as a expedition into null.

EVE is all about sharing the moments you have with other players and so I believe that even exploration should be able to be conducted with your fellow pilots.

So witht this in mind I have two ideas:

1) I believe that there should be an exploration jump drive, this would mean that exploration ships would be able to travel vast distances and conduct exploration on their way back home or even just in a new region every day.
Obliviously a cyno would be what everyone originally thinks of, but an idea is maybe for this particular drive place you within let's say 15-20LY from your original position in a random direction with 32% chance of landing in hi-sec, 32% chance of landing in low sec, 32% chance of landing in null sec and a 4% chance of ending up in a wormhole. This jump drive would also be able to let smaller exploration vessels piggy back on the jump so that you can brinan entire fleet of let's say 10 exploration vessels out on your adventure. To be able to utilise this jump drive though you would need a module on your ships which would make there have to be a sacrifice in order to use this capability. My opinion would be do allow the otherwise useless Nestor as the mothership capable of activating this drive or my second idea.

2) rather than using the Nestor, design a exploration capital mothership of sorts, cargo room, exploration jump drive, drone bay (no fighters though) refit capability ship hanger etc. the SOE capital.

Please comment any suggestions

Thanks

O/
Lugh Crow-Slave
#2 - 2014-11-26 00:39:41 UTC
-1 for random jump drive location as well as it being one that makes the least sense out of all i have read


what you have talked about is do able with a blops soooo do that

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Gay Pornstar
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-11-26 03:34:17 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
-1 for random jump drive location as well as it being one that makes the least sense out of all i have read


what you have talked about is do able with a blops soooo do that


Blops cant point to point to any random place in the universe, and thats what he's proposing. That being said, this idea is silly. Would I like it? Yes, if you took out the possibility of landing in highsec and adjusted the rest of the percentages based on the amount of systems they have rather than something arbitrary. This would be super cool because it would actually encourage small-corp/gang gameplay, and thats all im really interested in. Real exploration in EVE is sorely lacking, and something like this could help to break the monotony.

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Areen Sassel
Dirac Angestun Gesept
#4 - 2014-11-26 05:06:32 UTC
Ryan Kertai wrote:
1) I believe that there should be an exploration jump drive, this would mean that exploration ships would be able to travel vast distances and conduct exploration on their way back home or even just in a new region every day.


Go via WH space? That gets you somewhere a vast distance away in pretty short order.
Marcus Tedric
Zebra Corp
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2014-11-26 16:03:48 UTC
As mentioned more than once....

Just give the Nestor BLOPS-ability.Big smile It just makes so much sense...

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Ix Method
Doomheim
#6 - 2014-11-26 16:07:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Ix Method
If you could do it once every x hours and it dropped you anywhere within kspace that could be gloriously, stupidly wonderful.

Travelling at the speed of love.
Tabyll Altol
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-11-26 16:32:27 UTC
Ryan Kertai wrote:
G'day Fellow capsullers

This is my first proposal I've made but I'd be really interested in getting people's viewpoint on it and even maybe a reply from CCP :).

I love exploration in EVE I believe it's a core part of any space sim, and I am extremely grateful for the continued efforts by CCP to develop the exploration experience. However I have had an idea if like to explore, exploring in small groups is generally avoided due to the loot levels and the fact that it's quite hard to sneak a fleet around such as a expedition into null.

EVE is all about sharing the moments you have with other players and so I believe that even exploration should be able to be conducted with your fellow pilots.

So witht this in mind I have two ideas:

1) I believe that there should be an exploration jump drive, this would mean that exploration ships would be able to travel vast distances and conduct exploration on their way back home or even just in a new region every day.
Obliviously a cyno would be what everyone originally thinks of, but an idea is maybe for this particular drive place you within let's say 15-20LY from your original position in a random direction with 32% chance of landing in hi-sec, 32% chance of landing in low sec, 32% chance of landing in null sec and a 4% chance of ending up in a wormhole. This jump drive would also be able to let smaller exploration vessels piggy back on the jump so that you can brinan entire fleet of let's say 10 exploration vessels out on your adventure. To be able to utilise this jump drive though you would need a module on your ships which would make there have to be a sacrifice in order to use this capability. My opinion would be do allow the otherwise useless Nestor as the mothership capable of activating this drive or my second idea.

2) rather than using the Nestor, design a exploration capital mothership of sorts, cargo room, exploration jump drive, drone bay (no fighters though) refit capability ship hanger etc. the SOE capital.

Please comment any suggestions

Thanks

O/

- Capitals are not allowed in highsec so your ship will be destroyed with a posibility of 32% on each jump.
- And we need this why ? If you wanna travel at a special location use a interceptor and time.
- 20 LY is a little heavy don´t you think
- No and
- No

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