Player Features and Ideas Discussion

In EVE star spanning empires and capsuleer organizations control cast amounts of resources and manipulate energies on astounding levels. We possess Von Neuman Machine manufacturing, decoupled consciousness and accelerated clone growth (perhaps it is actually a 3-D printed body?)

We harvest moons, planets, gas clouds, asteroid belts and formations and ice. We even harvest our own wreckage and that of our enemies.

I say we should also harvest the stars themselves!

Idea - Stellar Harvesting Array

Products
- Helium-3
- Hydrogen -2 (dueterium), 3 (tritium) and Hydrogen 4->7
- Neutronium
- Isogen 5

New Dangers - Certain stars would output damaging radiation (turbulent blue's for example might be able to tear the shields off of most ships short of capitals without logistics and harvesting arrays might offer a small respite as a heavily shielded structure.

Perhaps sleepers/drifters might fight over control of stars that offer Isogen 5 harvesting and neutronium for even more advanced hulls and components.

What would these resources be used for?

- Next Gen Tech 3's (beyond cruisers and destroyers)
- Player Built Implants
- Citadel Upgrades
- Special DD Fuel for Citadels
- Additional Research, Reverse Engineering and Alchemy bonuses
- % Consumed by the structure itself unless players upgrade to a T2/T3 version of the structure (T2 offering superior harvesting of 1 or 2 types including advanced materials like Isogen 5 and Neutronium) or T3 offering T1 levels of consumption but with an additional resource slot for broader consumption. ORE of course should have their own version that combines t2 and 3 benefits.

The Structure:

Massive - like an XL citadel in size once deployed but taking up very little cargo.
Appearance - many inter-linked solar sails and instrument clusters and a shielded area filled with pressure tanks holding the material. Small shuttles whiz in and out of a couple landing bays ferrying the needed crews and supplies constantly (similar to what we see at POCO's but with more alacrity)

Perhaps an arboretum is also a part of this. Environmentally the area near it should be unstable and damage ships unless they are in the physical shadow of the structure.

Making the stars a more inhospitable place but also offering great opportunity for enrichment and content to me seems like something to look at as an improvement.

It is late I need to go to bed. flame on.

Image Above Taken from an Iron Man comic

CONCORD would never allow harvesting of stellar material given that EvE star miners would probably min/max to the point that they snuff them all out like so many candles in a typhoon.

The only thing that would be acceptable would be planting a station nearby and using large solar arrays to fuel modules. The downside would be having to plant you station in a very obvious place to benefit. The solar array would be a module to offset an amount of fuel use thus trading service/defence slots for reduced fuel consumption.

No. Can´t see any need of this.

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why? i can think of a ton of other ways to do your suggested uses for star matireal and not add another passive mining income, which i am against all passive mining anyway. so -1

I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but looks like another automine (in addition to existing moon goo automines) that doesn't involve people flying spaceships in order to make it operate. I think it's something we're slowly going away from, so...

Vulnerability is only a part of the problem, another one is that apparently there must be player activity in the system in order for materials to be generated. Defending it is sorta occupational thing and people won't be doing that without something to do in the system meanwhile I suppose, so it kinda works, but then, chose collectors are as well defended as anything else in the system really, which means that it's still free addition to material generation without people actively involved into specifically making it operate.

I don't know actual plans for "passive income", so there's that.

it doesn't actually produce isk. concentrate it maybe but not produce it. Having some player action on it to make it work of course is optional as long as it isn't like having another job. people work IRL so interacting with it once a day or once every 2-3 days would be fine (perhaps it fills up and the material is bulky) Hydrogen is notoriously hard to keep compressed and it tends to wander through metal like it isn't there. Give it a loss factor over time even.

Sure we do! - but more like having a POCO that you have to maintain without having to put down the PI infrastructure!