Player Features and Ideas Discussion

With all due credit to a Meta Show idea a couple of weeks ago, what about an Administration Hubs upgrade that introduces wormhole-like effects system-wide? It allows sovereign space to be customised around the owning alliance and introduces opportunity to break the global meta.

Let's say hypothetically there's a very commonly used ship doctrine based around shield-tanking and long-range missiles. A defending alliance about to be invaded could fit their Admin Hubs with system-wide effects that negatively affect shield HP / missile damage, and/or effects that boost their armour-based fleets / EM damage weapons.

This further opens up new room for strategic options or new ship roles on both sides. For example, an attacker could nullify the effect by bringing a Titan along in their fleet, or temporarily disable the structure at a key moment. Defenders could swap the effect unexpectedly and pick a complementary fleet composition.

Love the new structure idea.

Coming from a POS industry point of view.

I am not looking forward to having wasted 3-4 years’ worth of research on the existing POS gun turrets, missiles, ecm , shield hardeners and warp / web modules and redoing it all with any new structure modules.

Is it possible for CCP to think about reusing the current POS gun turrets, missiles, ecm , shield hardeners and warp / web modules as the new modules to be used in the new Structure fitting process.

The material can be changed as needed.

This will save refunding all the blueprints, and all the existing modules, for all the existing POS guns / missiles etc.

This will also save pilots from having to buy all the new blueprints for the new structure modules and spending time researching them.

I accept the fact that the existing POS tower blueprint and modules will be removed and replaced with all new structure, but to minimise the transition it would be nice to reuse as many existing POS modules as possible.

Cheers

What is the benefit from security changes?

I can only imagine the hilarity of allowing players to advertise on giant billboards.

"Welcome to Paul's Giant House of Cocks! We've got tiny cocks, giant cocks, all the cocks you could ever want. Left at Dodixie, and across from Lena's ***** Wagon Wash."

It would be cool to have the ability to quickly anchor / unanchor these things. Long-term advertising is nice (i.e promoting a buyback program at the undock), but the ability to just plant a flag short-term, say for when you're gate-camping, would be cool aswell!

What about the validation process of player-made content? Will it follow the same rules as alliance logos? Or will we be limited to a set of CCP-made images?

So these are coming on Tuesday (Tomorrow)? RIght? RIIIGHT? *RIGHT*???

If the billboards could play videos, would be awesome (obviously CCP approved)

Can I put these structures in my wspace system?

What will be the effects in wspace?

Will it name my system or add some info to a map/api?

Can it control what type of structures can be anchored personal / corp / out of corp?

iHubs - Currently the military and industry upgrades don't help the low end sovereignty systems very well. Partly it's due to the security status limiting quantity and quality of PVE / mining sites. What if the iHubs moved the quantity in a linear fashion but quality was still metered by true-sec?

This would mean a level 5 upgrade would make, say 50 PVE sites / 5 Mining sites, no matter the sec-status. Better systems get access to escalations and higher quality ore while low end systems can still support a population of players. Due to escalations popping up everywhere low-end groups have a chance to try and steal from the high end groups whenever the escalation brings them to their space. This already happens in Fountain and other places where NPC stations are a thing.

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Advertisements - I want a 'Body collector' that can be placed on grid, it collects corpses and shows a nice pretty readout of how many red / gray / blue corpses it's collected, just a fun way to show how a big fight is going that's too slow to be of tactical relevance but could make for a good screenshot at the end. Once done I can move its cargo to the warning monument at the entrance to my space where people see how other travelers have fared.

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Allow marketers to advertise their products / services with caned images and some text on the structures, they maybe rent billboard time from the owning alliance, right clicking gives access to their sales orders/contracts or at least an eve-mail.

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Don't want to read to much into that, i know you guys are just starting, but could their be any thought about replacing anomalies with sov null mission agents of some kind.

Anoms were basicalyl press-ganged into being the center of the Dominion Sov system's military upgrades, and while I am a constant anom farmer, anoms are horrible for this.

They spew liquid isk (great for my wallet, horrible for the game), are predicable and semi-afk-able, and only a few of them are good. The good thing about anoms is that they escalate sometimes, forcing a player to leave a system for a bit is they want better rewards, but this is also a problem because those escalations are now farmable because of the change to escalation chances meaning the rewards are worth less as time goes on.

Missions (even FW style missions with visible beacons) would be soooo much better over all, it would require pilots to do more than "warp to next anom, deploy drones, turn on ecm burst to keep aggro off drones, watch local" and people could still do anomalies just they wouldn't respawn and if you wanted to farm anoms you'd have to go to a new system once the natural ones in one system are gone. Missions also make you fly through gates instead of how anoms let you sit in one systems the whole time unless they escalate. Missions could help the economy because the LP they pay could be an additional isk sink (and i think SOV null agents would have to be 'new' not just empire faction agents transplanted to null).

It could also help null grunt income because missions , unlike anoms, could be blitzed meaning better mission runners would make more than average runners would, as it is now there is very little difference between a skilled player in an afktar and a dude who just trainined an ishtar lol, their income is about the same.

While this might be beyond the scope of what y'all are doing, i hope some of this is being considered at least.