EVE General Discussion

No. One of the best things about Eve is that it doesn't have that kind of nonsense. I'd prefer to keep it that way.

You make it useful: The grind is mandatory.

You don't make it useful: There is no point in wasting development and design time on it.

So ...

Well heres how the idea when it was discussed in length was presented in final form

Crew was a new recource planetary interaction created via schools and resoruces. This produced various types of crews.

Larger the ship more crew 'quaters' you had.

Crews are actually Crew Contracts basically it simplifies the need 1000 crew members for a carrier down to a mix of 8 contracts give or take. (or however many crew slots devs decide on most of the thread agreed 4 max for caps and -1 for every weight class on down. So 1 Frig, 2 Cruiser, 3 Battleship. 4 Cap.)

Various crews offered various outputs that are very minor to the point they shouldn't rival a cheap implant for cost time effectiveness.

Crews in PVE leveled far slower than in PVP situations

Crews have level caps.

Crews might die if a lucky hit to the ship was made (ie armor below 50% and a critical strike happened)

Crew EXP amounts are only calcuated on session changes. The ship only check thier level for effect of bonus. Thus a leveled up crew will have to wait for the 15 minute timer the cashflow is normally done on or a session change to take effect.

Crews lose massive amounts of EXP when thier ship is destroyed.

Combining like crews from recovered loot containers or salvaged can restore some lost exp. A Search and Rescue ship could specialize in people recovery.

Crews can be 'repaired' but this only prevents larger portions of thier exp to be damaged with the fresh bodies.

Crews when installed become bound to a ship hull. So a Demios Crew will not operate too well on a Thorax and lose more exp when forced to transfer into new ships.

However crews can be sold on open market at a higher tax rate (aka tranfer fee) and any pilot with a matching ship can obtain them to install on thier ship at the same level they where trained up to.

Lvl 1 crew would be easily obtainable from PI and should remain cheap, higher level crews must be trained and cannot be obtained other than training lvl 1 crews.

Yes. It's called Pod death

The idea is not bad, but this game lacks the "Stupidity" skill which some players excel at. It should be a direct-link to the Intelligence attribute, so the higher the stupidity, the lower the Intelligence.

o/

The inflexibility of the SP system isn't as cool as you all think it is and it doesn't define EVE in greater scope at all.

I've been barking about making the SP system less rigid for a while now and I can only see the net positives to it, especially when it comes to potential new player retention.

I think you're talking about perpetuum or whatever it was called, I didn't play it.

Any spoilers on what your ideas are then?

Perpetuum used a similar system to eve, but instead of actually setting a skill to train, you accumulated SP over time that you could assign to whatever skill you wanted. Extreme upside obviously being that you don't have to worry about setting long enough skills to cover absences from game.

No.