Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This feature could easily be connected to the Fiction Portal or the EVELOPEDIA, the Epic Arc Missions and of course “Faction Warfare”. The idea is that people venture out into the deep space of HiSec, LowSec and NullSec in order to collect information regarding the history and lore of EVE Online. The information provided by using the exploration tools of EVE should be regarding both, player made and fictional History of EVE. In the following I would like to give you a picture of what I mean and hopefully it will find a few of you who are going to support it.


The idea behind the idea

We’ve been told that 49% of all of us players are residing in High Security Space. Most of them have most likely little or no incentive to leave their cozy environment. What we also know is that war drives the economy in EVE Online. If a ship gets destroyed ore must be mined, blueprints must be researched and the ship must be rebuilt and sold.

But if 49% of us are sitting in High Security Space with just losing a ship on and off the economy is working just about half it’s potential. Despite that those 49% of us are missing most of the fun it creates to do the more risky things. So why not giving them and of course everyone else another little incentive to do drive the economy a bit more and maybe find the fun in the game.

This feature is for everyone: Carebear, PvP’er, Ganker, Griefer , Sov Holder and so on. But this feature can do just a bit more than that. It picks up the smaller groups of people, the ones who play EVE with a different but quite fascinating perspective. People like “Travelers, Explorers and last but not least Role Players” Even people who are just after new exciting stories and details regarding the lore and/or history of EVE could be given the motivation to do something more. So – here – we – GO!

The Origin again:

*When having selected a solar system on the star map I've already been before, why not letting me zoom in into the solar system map.*

The following idea:

*Motivate people to venture out by letting them collect information.*


Possible advantages for EVE Online:

• People would be given an incentive of venturing in Low or even NullSec (especially for Care Bears or HiSec-Corps)
• People would be given an overall incentive of traveling around EVE and exploring unknown space
• People therefore would have something to collect and spend their time on. (instead of ship spinning f.e.)
• More fleet movement all over New Eden
• The incentive of venturing to Low or Null by smaller Corps (could lead to more Sov-fights)
• Tactical advantage for future expansions of smaller corporations or alliances
• Pretty decent addition for the “Faction Warfare” feature and all the role players out there

The minimum requirements for this feature:

• Frigate sized ship
• Probe Launcher / Core Scanner Probes
• Triangulation Signal Device (New Item)
• Directional Scanner

The Process of collecting information PART 1

• Entering a system


• deploying a minimum of three triangulation signal devices throughout the system
(need to be anchored (terms of seconds))
(doesn’t show up in the overview but can be scanned down by scan probes)
(will appear in the directional scan (bigger incentive for people to make more use of the directional scanner))
(the wider the devices are spread the slower the triangulation process but the less directional scans will be needed to complete gathering)


• More triangulation signal devices mean faster triangulation


• After anchoring the triangulation signal devices they will be onlined and triangulation will start
(Duration depends on distance between triangulation signal devices and the amount of them anchored in space)


• After anchoring three triangulation signal devices directional scanner is used via directional scans to get the rest of the celestials triangulated to the star map database
(Amount of needed directional scans depends on the size of the system, the amount of celestials and the amount of triangulation signal devices anchored)


• After the system is scanned out the triangulation signal devices can be unanchored and picked up


• Scanned out systems have a daily chance of spawning a storage container containing a database information shard


• Scanned Out Systems can be zoomed in to from the star map

to be continued...

The information itself (the beating heart of EVE)

The Information contained in a database shard could be really anything from pictures with a certain description about sleepers over to a well saved secret of one of the factions or just a plain news article to one of the numerous events that have happened in the player driven history of space.
CCP, THIS IS YOUR TURN! This idea could bring EVELOPEDIA and the whole Sandbox with all of it’s players to a lot healthier life.

Just a few examples for information about players or people in general who have truly made an impression over their time being in New Eden: Chribba, Goonswarm, RED Alliance, Ev0ke, Mintchip, Kirith Kodachi and so on so on so on.

Imagine you finding a little piece of background story about the CSM and their first election maybe told by the Chief Executive Officer Hilmar Veigar Pétursson.

Or a short EVEiography about Mynxee.

The great heist between Band Of Brothers and Goonswarm back in 2009 would also be a truly amazing part of History to be testified and found in the far reaches of space. Told by the Alliances leaders of that time and implemented by CCP. Try to contact those guys and interview them for the EVELOPEDIA.

There are such extraordinary lot of things to tell. This could really be a goldmine of good ideas, background information and motivational stories for newcomers and veterans alike. This would bring EVE Online and all of it’s player driven content to life, could testify it’s amazing community and it’s history.

Just a last example of what could be a part of it: The riots in Jita in 2011, told by some of the employees of CCP who were directly confronted with the problem in the first place. Or just a short article from the guys of the economy department of CCP to hear from the effects this event had had.

OK….I’m getting a bit lost…back to topic. (I honestly hope you get the idea.)


The Process of collecting information PART 2

• Accessing Information


• Notification of a spawned storage container appears in the ******* window


• Leveled accessing of the Information within the shard:
(Venturing to the system the container is located in)
(Entering the site where the container is located, defeating the guarding fleet)
(Hacking the container in order to get access to the database information shard)
(Analyzing the shard in order to upload the information to the player’s star map database)


• Loot the field and leave

Additional ideas for this feature

• To give incentives to revisit a system’s locations appearance of POSes or other sovereignty structures should be limited by time


• This feature could be used for lore hungry people if ccp could fill maybe the system name f.e. with a bit of lore information (wars, events, people etc.)

What this feature shall be or not be…

This feature idea is far from being complete, especially when it comes to the connectivity between all the involved parts of EVE. EVELOPEDIA, Fiction Portal, Faction Warfare, Exploration, Sovereignty, PvP, PvE, you name it. But I hope I could get you a picture of what I mean. Hopefully there are several more like me who find this kind of idea interesting, even exciting, maybe. I’m pretty sure that I’ve missed a lot of parts that would need quite more detailed information how things could be done but therefore it’s just an idea for now.


fly safe,
Leela Sirene

No Leela, while your idea has merit, collection of info on player corps and past events related to them makes no sense. I know many are interested on history of sov battles in Eve, but for all others that are not interested in sov corps and null and their politics, its just boring. It also dont fit into CCP fiction well. Keep in mind that player corps aren't the focus of game fiction as created by CCP.

On the other hand, scouting could be made somehow a profession or addition to explorer profession. As both NPC and player corps compete against each other (if we look from fiction point of view), intel gathering as profession makes sense. Making it work well, however, to not be useless, but not be OP and gamebreaking either, is entirely another matter.