Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How do you scan a wormhole? You fit a probe launcher into your ship and... oh, wait.

Not really. Drifter jumps wormhole and ends up in a regular system.

Alt flies to that system and scans down regular wormhole. Fleet together and start moving.

But you dealt with that by not allowing any regular mechanics being available for the drifter characters. That would prevent this. Is a complicated set of unique rules.

As I said, the inspiration was the Vampire mechanics of Elder Scrolls, specially those from Morrowind. It was fun but seriously crippling as the sun would kill you and most characters would refuse to talk to you, plus some NPCs would try to kill you too, and the buffs weren't anything that much special IIRC.

Being a Drifter would be somehow like being a NPC... but with a will. Maybe being hunted and shot down would be a relief. Or maybe some would enjoy being niche within a niche, sacrificing game progression for uniqueness.

Ways to play as new races would be fun, and I quite like the idea of being able to do it for short bursts for entertainment rather than for profit. Your mechanics seem to be describing a closed dungeon zone though and I'm not sure whether you expect players to purely interact with NPCs or other players in Drifter ships and NPCs?

If its soloplay vs NPCs I'd rather not see instanced style mechanics where people are locked away from each other in artificial closed world environments. If you're describing group play, what happens when 100 people from a single alliance decide to abuse the crap out of the mechanics you've layed out and make it unplayable for everyone else (think 500 scrubs camping spawning areas)? Even random spawn sites can be locked down with a bit of planning unless you create unique rooms for everyone.

You seem to have put a lot of effort into working out how to get people into godmode ships with superweapons with no risk or effort so they can run around pwning stuff. For what? They may as well just sit on the test server DDing people in the face on the undock.

How about the reason you cannot move from said system is the fact your connected to the Jove structure somehow. lets call it influence, the influence of the structure only has a certain diameter, exceed that diameter and the host dies

Your idea would obviously need worked on, but i like it, it has potential but most importantly its different an offers the capacity to offer a different play style.

I'd still give the player SP to be gained but introduce a new sp system that does not revolve around weapon/ships etc etc but rather unlocks in what the character could potentially do, IE move out the system, fleet up with other drifters, you get the idea

There is potential an i like it but its a fantasy that will prob never become reality in eve ;)

Fair enough, reread it.

No.

Please do.

I'd be happy to uh, assist you.

No no. Forget about F2P. Seriously. There's a certain etiquette to be followed. A standard to be upheld by all, less we all regress to barbarism.

Add an option to create a permadeath character on your account. That character can only be a drifter. You die as a drifter, the character gets removed from your account.

To keep it on track with your idea: Allow this option after your body has been abducted for gruesome experiments. You then start in Jove space etc.

Drifters on the Jita 4-4 undock. Oh, the humanity...

As was put in the Perma death discussion at the time, it was too easy to abuse, any Perma death will always be terrible and abused.