Player Features and Ideas Discussion

TL;DR: this is a pipedream proposal to allow "snatched" capsuleers resurrect as Drifters with severe limitations to duration, gameplay and profits.

Let's roll this... as usual I had the base idea in about 0.2 seconds, and elaborated it for a while (some 30 minutes). Here's the pipedream:

Becoming a Drifter:

- Player is podded by a Drifter. The body is snatched and the player resurrects as a Drifter rather than in his clone.
- after being snatched once, the player can choose not to become a Drifter. That damages skill learning, reducing SP gain to 0% initially and recovering 3% per hour until 100% of original rate.

Drifter atributes:

- no skill queue (player stops gaining SP)
- no access to any assets, money, nothing, zero, nada. No access to markets, to contracts, to corporations... can only be a Drifter and play as a Drifter
- Drifters have no pods, they're one with the ship. Losing the ship is death. Player returns to a regular clone after dieing as a Drifter
- (added) Drifter ships cannot be fitted, they're standarized as issued by the Tyrannos.

Drifter movement:

- Newly born Drifters spawn in a random station in (formerly) Jove space. Can only travel through drifter-wormholes randomly spawned into W-space and K-space. Cannot use gates, bridges nor any other Empirean interstellar technology.
- (added) Drifters can travel back to their home system and cross the drifter-wormhole again, which will lead them to a random new system.
- (added) Drifters are subject to a jump timer (10 minutes) after exiting their home system. Also have a 15 minutes engagement timer in case they've engaged in combat.

Driter ships:

- armed with Lux Kontos and the superweapon, with same stats as NPC Drifter ships
- physical damage to Drifter ships can't be repaired. Any damage to armor or structure is permanent and may disable one or more Lux Kontos. Drifters can reincarnate as a brand new ship through gameplay.
- (added) Player Drifters can't fire the superweapon unless they've taken physical damage to their ship's armor or structure.

Drifter gameplay:

- Drifter ships enter Drifter wormholes and ravage the (randomly picked) target system, attacking shipping, anomaly sites and Sleeper sites. In a first phase, Drifters look for bodies, which can be snatched. Bodies provide Battle Tags to Drifters, whch can be traded for a new ship. Capsuleer corpses are worth 1 battle tag (BT), fellow Drifter corpses are worth 2 BT (friendly fire is always off, of course), Sleeper corpses are worth 3 BT.
- a new Drifter ship can be obtained after harvesting 50 Battle Tags (subject to re-evaluation). Any acquired Tags are lost upon death.
- further gameplay can be added as CCP sees fit, this is just a pipedream proposal. (added: FAI, salvaging hardware from Jove Observatories)

Drifter gameplay rewards:

- none beyond Battle Tags to swap a damaged ship for a new one. Being a Drifter leaves no reward to the capsuleer once he returns to his normal self.

And that's it. The whole concept is remotely inspired in becoming a vampire or werewolf in Elder Scrolls, but EVE being EVE, any advantage as a player would be abused. So the only advantge of being a Drifter is being unleashed for carnage. And firing the superweapon.

Wrong forum, features and ideas discussion for this.

Because having players run around in super fast battleships with doomsdays is exactly what this game needs

yeah no, 1 massive group would do this and siege the area from people that aren't them

2 htf do you resurrect from a frozen corpse and after the fact your brain patterns have been sent else where to your new clone.
unless they can stop the pattern scan then you permanently die and have to make a new character, so lets do it and thin out eve. also this isn't mass effect.

The superweapon wouldn't be too susceptible to abuse if it came with the restriction of it only automatically fires at the ship that took down your last hit point of overshield. The heavy hitting floaty turrets on the other hand.....

And it sounds like you're giving players a way to have free murderous reign in high sec. That'd be a no go.

Don't really see a point for this.

Honestly, something like this sans the superweapon could actually make for a fun gameplay device if people wouldn't absolutely abuse it.

But seeing as it would absolutely be abused, I'd rather love to see, time to time, a new drifter type with the appearance of a body collected by them but "Tyrranized" (:P) A long shot, but it would be a lot of fun to fight a Uri Tyrannos

Dude,

2 guys would play as drifter, the rest just stays permadocked to say they're in Jove space.

At least put a timer on it (like 24 hours) and create a penalty for getting caught by The Borg / Drifters in the first place.

I think Drifters are the perfect opportunity for a permadeath character as was hinted at last year, but not like this.

The Drifters would be spawned randomly and wouldn't be able to exit system but to go back to their origin. CCP could control when and where would Drifters spawn (and likely that's a decission they've made already)

Game of alts, assuming they could form a fleet with another character.