EVE General Discussion

I just realized permadeath could be a way to implement Jove.

http://now.eveonline.com/post/108091485623 this is a link tweeted by Asayanami Dei. I'm pretty sure that's part of a Jove suit. Read the Crossing Zebras article, and tell me if you agree there's room to say the Jove have shown up to help us fight the sleepers. (you know, the ones that are poking around and have begun podding us now).

Well thanks... now I have a voice of Vin Diesel in my head saying "Necromongers"

Will these players characters be perma marked on the overview to be able to tell these clones apart from a normal one?

Does this mean that killing one of these players would default to a killmail of 1/3 of a plex?

That'd mean no suicide ganking ...
... or literal suicide ganking, which could wreck the game.

Hm.

Btw... that mouth ... lips ... awesome!

That's rather short .......

Would mean a change of the character creator,
if CCP sticks with it ... and they'd get their own clothes because of that.

Hm...

I hope CCP goes with my old idea. A "live fast die young" option.

Figure this: imagine a mechanic whereby you can select something like a "turbo brain" which lets you skill up very fast, but that big fat huge turbo brain cannot be cloned (too complex or something) meaning you fry you die.

From a business viewpoint, this would bring in the "quick gratification" crowd who will want to be UBER in 2 seconds so they'll select turbo brains AND possibly even buy and sell PLEX too so they can get the faction/dedspace/officer bling.

From the viewpoint of the existing player base, the poddings of these quick gratification players will be epic complete with maximum frothing rage and tears.

(I'm not into harvesting tears but this MUST be admitted, there will be tears when Little Timmy IWantItNow gets podded)

The only drawback of the turbo brain concept is that EVERYBODY will now go and have a "never undock" alt for industry and market and this kinda screws it up. Might as well at that point make industry and market available for everybody, kill the skills for them and refund the SP at that point though a turbo brain alt from a business perspective would amount to "buying all of the industry or market you need " just by having that second account with the never undock alt.

So I can see controversy and tears if that ever happens. Otherwise I hope they don't come up with a kind of permadeath for existing players. As harsh as that would be, and as much as the "hurf blurf this is Eve HTFU" would make a lot of "leet PVPers" put their money where their keyboards have been all these years, I would not want to the task of implementing permadeath.

i'm not sure about this. it depends on how they do it. For example, removing the clone penalty, they could give you the option to buy a perma death clone. For a plex if they want to be dicks, or for isk. Upon your next death, you clone into this body. Its a jove body retaining all your skills you then can get access to maybe a special jove ship, but only one. You can JC out of this body, but it might have a penalty. Anyway, this body would be perma death, and have some type of advantage, like faster skill training. And if you die, that it, dead.

People would not suicide, cause you risk your char, they would love to gank these players though. And if you add a penalty that you lose your name for xx time... might make people not do stupid things with it.

would add an interesting level of game play though

Now that's take-home-to-momma material right there I tell you !

Sign me up!

I'm getting a Sleeper vibe tho...