Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Now that our gorgeous and fabulous overlords in fair Reykjavik have given us the Drifters as an entity to contend with some ideas are required to help us live in this new reality.

For that reason it is proposed that a ship, the Styx, be created. The river Styx, in Greek mythology, is the river that separates Earth from the Underworld. So, let the Styx be a ship that fills that role. Capsuleers will be able to trade corpses they have acquired, through any means, with the Drifters, at a fair price obviously. The Styx is a ship specifically designed to keep the corpses fresh and in stasis while they are being prepared for The Afterlife.

I believe that, as part of the preservation process, any module lodged into the skulls of capsuleers should be harvested and be given a new lease on life (bad pun most definitely intended). It should be made clear that these are 'repurposed' modules, to give that bit of extra dimension to the awkwardness of the process involved.

The ship itself would require some modules and skills, to be determined, to fulfill its part in the developing story of New Eden. It is not the intention to create something stronger than an average industrial.

This is different from the Sansha, who take live bodies and 'transform' them. The Drifters have the common courtesy of acquiring bodies no longer being used. It is a sorely-needed touch of civility in an otherwise brutal universe that is not naturally given to catering to personal sensitivities (a point I'm fairly certain you will prove shortly).

We have been asking for years for a game mechanic with regards to the corpses harvested from the cold depths of space. I believe the Drifters are a great pretext to offer a new mechanic that will help us immerse ourselves even deeper in this, our favorite, morally murky online reverie. Those among us who like illicit trading should enjoy a new commodity to reap even more filthy lucre.

I would not expect all corpses to be traded in this fashion. I have one that I'm never selling, at any price. You know who you are, buddy. I love you, man.

Thoughts, comments?

So they "buy" the corpses, whereafter they kill you... Why would you do this? Drifters a.k.a Sleepers hate us all.

If the drifters hate us all why do they not attack everyone of us whenever they get the chance? I have flown by them many times in combat and non-combat vessels and have yet to be hassled by them.

ED: Also the big bad monsters are already here. They are capsuleers.